"since some of the very lawyers who have been representing them have been appointed to the highest echelons of the Obama DoJ."
Sometimes people just need a reminder that there is no grouping of people with less principles than Lawyers. We made the assumption that, since RIAA lawyers were hired to the DOJ, that they would find in favor of the RIAA. But it seems that lawyers are almost always megaphones for who is signing their paycheck.
And in this situation, it worked out in our favor.
Right now, I'd love to start looking at working for a company in Europe, but I'm really not looking to move out of the U.S. I'm young, and single, and the idea of traveling frequently definitely appeals to me, but I really do love living in the U.S. And getting paid in UK Pounds or Euros wouldn't hurt too much.:)
Any tips for how to nail a telecommuting job overseas?
This is why every middle school (or at least high school) should have a class on Wikipedia as standard curriculum. How it works, how to contribute, how to verify, standard procedures, etc.
Wikipedia (or at the very least, open, collaborative knowledge) is not going away. It's stupid to keep complaining about how kids don't know how to use it properly, let's start teaching them the proper way to use it.
... does this mean that if I'm on Orkut, I'll be able to add a friend whose on Facebook, and interact with them flawlessly? If not, then this is just a distraction to what social networking should look like.
The idea that women who would otherwise be in IT are so preoccupied with clothes is total bullshit. Women don't go into IT because attitudes like that.
I'm a nerd. I care about fashion. I know the difference between Burberry, Prada, and Ben Sherman. What the fuck does that have anything to do with the IT industry?
Well, to be honest, most of human history has been people putting other people's balls to the wall in order to do things that were said to be impossible. The pharoah's didn't build the pyramids, slaves built the pyramids for the pharoahs.
It doesn't network existing sites (ala, mugshot), but is a standalone social networking software that has inter-connectability built in from the start.
I've been working on a project called Appleseed for a couple years now. It's pretty far along, the distributed aspects are all functioning and only require optimization at this point, but it's still not quite out of beta yet.
As a proof of concept for distributed social networking, it works. Whether it's appleseed or something else, the idea of walled gardens such as MySpace or Facebook will seem as ridiculous as isolated services like Compuserve or Prodigy were.
I'm in my mid-twenties, and I didn't have sex until the very end of high school, and didn't date at all, and I seriously don't feel like I missed out on a damn thing. Sex when I was 18 was awkward and boring, I can't imagine the kind of horrible flopping around I would have had if I had been 14 or 15.
I know we live in an ephebophilic society where your teenage years are supposed to be when the best years of anyone's life, but let's all be honest here: Being a teenager sucks. You can't drive, you can't drink without having to sneak around, you're kind of an idiot, you don't know what the hell you're doing when it comes to members of the opposite sex, and that's not even starting to mention acne, braces and a bad fashion sense. I much prefer my twenties, and I'm looking forward to my thirties. I'm having a great time compared to ten years ago.
So maybe being smart and not having sex in high school isn't that groundbreaking of a correlation. Why is it so important to have any sex when you're in high school anyways? Shouldn't it be more important to have good sex when you're older? Where's the study on sex lives of single smart twenty- and thirty-somethings? I'd be interested in that study.
P.S. Watch the "abstinence only" crowd use this as ammunition: "See! Smart teenagers choose abstinence!"
You're defending a review that actually states this:
how does he know 18 million people will die this year because they have no health insurance?
Where in the movie does Michael Moore ever say this? 18 million? You mean in ten years we've lose half of our population? I've watched the movie, this claim is never made.
The argument against universally funded health care, that it's not perfect, is such a poor argument as to be absurd. Of course it's not perfect. Of course there's problems. But ultimately, it is a better system, as has been proven time and time again, by economic analysis, by social analysis, by every complete study of the health of nations which includes every citizen of said nation.
And that's the best Kurt Loder can come up with. That Canada, Cuba, England, or France isn't perfect.
I've never been on the side of an argument where the detractors are so clearly bankrupt when it comes to valid arguments, whether moral, social, or economic.
Here we are at two topics that I'm very interested in: The American class system and social networking. The first because of my politics, and my own constantly shifting class background. The second because of my work on Appleseed, an open source social networking web software that uses an open, distributed model.
I have a number of serious issues with this analysis, not the least of which is the idea that social capital is more important than actual capital in determining class relationship. While I grant that social capital is very important, to say that it is more important is to fail to recognize that income and benefits will greatly affect social capital over a lifetime. So, while that $14k a year barrista who reads Engels and hangs out with upper middle class intellectuals may not be working class because they're set to inherit a million dollars from their parents when they're 30, they may just as well be from a trailer park or a rundown city block and simply enjoy reading German anti-capitalist literature. As their life goes on, the experiences they have in relation to the experiences of those who were born middle or upper class will diverge. In many ways, college will become an abheration as the reality of student loans and possibly medical bills and other situations in which non-familial social capital can be pretty useless, sets in.
And as the poster above pointed out, the discussion about class in this greater essay falls into a common trap that, oddly enough, many anti-capitalists fall into, which is the concept of essentialism. That people are defined by simplistic, singular ideas that represent them completely. This is why, in my opinion, bodies of work such as Critical Race Theory have some of the best analysis of the American class system, because it wholesale rejects essentialism as a unified method of categorization.
I also find the lack of analysis of how these walled gardens affect the social relationships to be disappointing. This might even be the best approach to such an essay, since Facebook in many ways represents a "gated community" which has just recently opened to the public. Myspace, for better or worse, represents the seemingly common space, not-so-secretly owned by private interests.
How a distributed, open source social networking system will affect these networks is something that (at this point) can only be hypothesized (given that the Appleseed network is only a few dozen sites at this point), but at some point this will change, and social networking will become like email, interconnecting between servers easily. This allows great potential for sociological and anthropological studies which, I think, will more closely follow society itself.
Or maybe it won't. Maybe it will reflect it's population more than the society they come from. Maybe Myspace and Facebook, with it's privately owned "commons" and it's gated community with education and career requirements (respectively) is more representative of society than a distributed system would be.
They only cost $3 an hour if you DON'T consider they make up the majority of the prison population in southern California, and that their free medical care isn't paid for by taxpayers.
Are you talking about illegal immigrants or are you talking about Latinos? Because unless you have statistics that illegal immigrants now make up the majority of the prison population in southern California, then you're unfairly conflating being Latino with being undocumented. There are a *lot* of U.S. citizens of Latino descent, especially in California (which you do know used to be a part of Mexico).
Furthermore, the idea that illegal immigrants are getting all this wonderful, free universal healthcare that you hardworking, middle-class American citizens are being denied is ridiculous. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get health care, even emergency health care, if you have no insurance? Now, try to imagine your very presence in this country being illegal, and add on top of that that you're still learning the language. Many undocumented immigrants never seek medical care, save for life-threatening emergencies (usually accidents on the job). But to say that they're a strain on this country, when the amount of citizens who don't have health insurance and do the exact same thing is 4x as large. (40 million as opposed to 11 million). And illegal immigrants are going to the emergency room for lacerations or broken bones. Those 40 million are going for potentially severe and chronic ailments that could have been prevented with just basic preventative health care. Putting a cast on an arm? Or keeping someone on life support for a couple weeks until they die because they never got the basic diagnosis and treatment that could have saved their life early on?
Let's talk about health care in this country, but for the love of God, let's not even begin to start ragging on undocumented immigrants until we've sorted out the myriad of problems that would exist even if we built a huge dome to completely lock the U.S. off from the rest of the world.
My project, Appleseed, does just that. All the distributed functionality is in place, and it's at the point of rounding out the functionality, optimization, and then bug testing and cleanup.
It's open source, and uses a custom protocol, which is also open, although I would be open to modifying up the protocol at this point to make it easier for other applications to use
I've already been working on this, and it's nearing completion. Appleseed is the name of the project, and I'm using a custom protocol, but I'd be interested in talking with people who have experience with forming proper RFC's.
Sorry to be pompous, but I think I've read more about political theory in the past two months than you have in your whole life, Mr. Anonymous.
That's all it realy is -- a group of free-thinking individuals trading voluntarily among themselves in a way that necessarily benefits all parties involved.
Nothing about the rise of capitalism out of feudalism and imperialism was voluntary in any way shape or form.
What we have in the US today is NOT capitalism
Funny, that's the same exact defense that many Communists have when you bring up the USSR.
Maybe you two aren't so alike after all. Deluded adherents to failed ideologies.
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"since some of the very lawyers who have been representing them have been appointed to the highest echelons of the Obama DoJ."
Sometimes people just need a reminder that there is no grouping of people with less principles than Lawyers. We made the assumption that, since RIAA lawyers were hired to the DOJ, that they would find in favor of the RIAA. But it seems that lawyers are almost always megaphones for who is signing their paycheck.
And in this situation, it worked out in our favor.
One vertical farm is speculated to feed 50,000 people. So there would be 40 of these per borough, at least.
And no, they don't use soil.
farmland can use plentiful rain water
Cites don't get rained on? News to me...
Right now, I'd love to start looking at working for a company in Europe, but I'm really not looking to move out of the U.S. I'm young, and single, and the idea of traveling frequently definitely appeals to me, but I really do love living in the U.S. And getting paid in UK Pounds or Euros wouldn't hurt too much. :)
Any tips for how to nail a telecommuting job overseas?
This is why every middle school (or at least high school) should have a class on Wikipedia as standard curriculum. How it works, how to contribute, how to verify, standard procedures, etc.
Wikipedia (or at the very least, open, collaborative knowledge) is not going away. It's stupid to keep complaining about how kids don't know how to use it properly, let's start teaching them the proper way to use it.
... does this mean that if I'm on Orkut, I'll be able to add a friend whose on Facebook, and interact with them flawlessly? If not, then this is just a distraction to what social networking should look like.
The story of Jean Valjean predates this story by centuries.
Not at the expense of their career, no.
The idea that women who would otherwise be in IT are so preoccupied with clothes is total bullshit. Women don't go into IT because attitudes like that.
I'm a nerd. I care about fashion. I know the difference between Burberry, Prada, and Ben Sherman. What the fuck does that have anything to do with the IT industry?
How many women want to sacrifice cute outfits
How many men want to sacrifice their absurd, even antiquated perceptions of women?
You're talking like someone whose only conception of women comes from magazines like Maxim.
Well, to be honest, most of human history has been people putting other people's balls to the wall in order to do things that were said to be impossible. The pharoah's didn't build the pyramids, slaves built the pyramids for the pharoahs.
one of the most startling aspects of this plan is that this project is mostly made possible by an American company with solid venture fundings.'
For us Americans, there should be two fundamental questions on our minds: Who is this company, and how do we stop them?
It doesn't network existing sites (ala, mugshot), but is a standalone social networking software that has inter-connectability built in from the start.
Appleseed is a distributed, open source social networking software I've been working on.
I've been working on a project called Appleseed for a couple years now. It's pretty far along, the distributed aspects are all functioning and only require optimization at this point, but it's still not quite out of beta yet.
As a proof of concept for distributed social networking, it works. Whether it's appleseed or something else, the idea of walled gardens such as MySpace or Facebook will seem as ridiculous as isolated services like Compuserve or Prodigy were.
I'm in my mid-twenties, and I didn't have sex until the very end of high school, and didn't date at all, and I seriously don't feel like I missed out on a damn thing. Sex when I was 18 was awkward and boring, I can't imagine the kind of horrible flopping around I would have had if I had been 14 or 15.
I know we live in an ephebophilic society where your teenage years are supposed to be when the best years of anyone's life, but let's all be honest here: Being a teenager sucks. You can't drive, you can't drink without having to sneak around, you're kind of an idiot, you don't know what the hell you're doing when it comes to members of the opposite sex, and that's not even starting to mention acne, braces and a bad fashion sense. I much prefer my twenties, and I'm looking forward to my thirties. I'm having a great time compared to ten years ago.
So maybe being smart and not having sex in high school isn't that groundbreaking of a correlation. Why is it so important to have any sex when you're in high school anyways? Shouldn't it be more important to have good sex when you're older? Where's the study on sex lives of single smart twenty- and thirty-somethings? I'd be interested in that study.
P.S. Watch the "abstinence only" crowd use this as ammunition: "See! Smart teenagers choose abstinence!"
You're defending a review that actually states this:
how does he know 18 million people will die this year because they have no health insurance?
Where in the movie does Michael Moore ever say this? 18 million? You mean in ten years we've lose half of our population? I've watched the movie, this claim is never made.
The argument against universally funded health care, that it's not perfect, is such a poor argument as to be absurd. Of course it's not perfect. Of course there's problems. But ultimately, it is a better system, as has been proven time and time again, by economic analysis, by social analysis, by every complete study of the health of nations which includes every citizen of said nation.
And that's the best Kurt Loder can come up with. That Canada, Cuba, England, or France isn't perfect.
I've never been on the side of an argument where the detractors are so clearly bankrupt when it comes to valid arguments, whether moral, social, or economic.
Here we are at two topics that I'm very interested in: The American class system and social networking. The first because of my politics, and my own constantly shifting class background. The second because of my work on Appleseed, an open source social networking web software that uses an open, distributed model.
I have a number of serious issues with this analysis, not the least of which is the idea that social capital is more important than actual capital in determining class relationship. While I grant that social capital is very important, to say that it is more important is to fail to recognize that income and benefits will greatly affect social capital over a lifetime. So, while that $14k a year barrista who reads Engels and hangs out with upper middle class intellectuals may not be working class because they're set to inherit a million dollars from their parents when they're 30, they may just as well be from a trailer park or a rundown city block and simply enjoy reading German anti-capitalist literature. As their life goes on, the experiences they have in relation to the experiences of those who were born middle or upper class will diverge. In many ways, college will become an abheration as the reality of student loans and possibly medical bills and other situations in which non-familial social capital can be pretty useless, sets in.
And as the poster above pointed out, the discussion about class in this greater essay falls into a common trap that, oddly enough, many anti-capitalists fall into, which is the concept of essentialism. That people are defined by simplistic, singular ideas that represent them completely. This is why, in my opinion, bodies of work such as Critical Race Theory have some of the best analysis of the American class system, because it wholesale rejects essentialism as a unified method of categorization.
I also find the lack of analysis of how these walled gardens affect the social relationships to be disappointing. This might even be the best approach to such an essay, since Facebook in many ways represents a "gated community" which has just recently opened to the public. Myspace, for better or worse, represents the seemingly common space, not-so-secretly owned by private interests.
How a distributed, open source social networking system will affect these networks is something that (at this point) can only be hypothesized (given that the Appleseed network is only a few dozen sites at this point), but at some point this will change, and social networking will become like email, interconnecting between servers easily. This allows great potential for sociological and anthropological studies which, I think, will more closely follow society itself.
Or maybe it won't. Maybe it will reflect it's population more than the society they come from. Maybe Myspace and Facebook, with it's privately owned "commons" and it's gated community with education and career requirements (respectively) is more representative of society than a distributed system would be.
I'm always surprised by the juvenile insistance on using the foul play of others to justify our own unethical activities.
If Columbia has death squads, does that mean the U.S. could have death squads? Because, hey, first stone and all that.
They only cost $3 an hour if you DON'T consider they make up the majority of
the prison population in southern California, and that their free medical
care isn't paid for by taxpayers.
Are you talking about illegal immigrants or are you talking about Latinos? Because unless you have statistics that illegal immigrants now make up the majority of the prison population in southern California, then you're unfairly conflating being Latino with being undocumented. There are a *lot* of U.S. citizens of Latino descent, especially in California (which you do know used to be a part of Mexico).
Furthermore, the idea that illegal immigrants are getting all this wonderful, free universal healthcare that you hardworking, middle-class American citizens are being denied is ridiculous. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get health care, even emergency health care, if you have no insurance? Now, try to imagine your very presence in this country being illegal, and add on top of that that you're still learning the language. Many undocumented immigrants never seek medical care, save for life-threatening emergencies (usually accidents on the job). But to say that they're a strain on this country, when the amount of citizens who don't have health insurance and do the exact same thing is 4x as large. (40 million as opposed to 11 million). And illegal immigrants are going to the emergency room for lacerations or broken bones. Those 40 million are going for potentially severe and chronic ailments that could have been prevented with just basic preventative health care. Putting a cast on an arm? Or keeping someone on life support for a couple weeks until they die because they never got the basic diagnosis and treatment that could have saved their life early on?
Let's talk about health care in this country, but for the love of God, let's not even begin to start ragging on undocumented immigrants until we've sorted out the myriad of problems that would exist even if we built a huge dome to completely lock the U.S. off from the rest of the world.
I guess you believe that the government is more efficient than a company at collecting and disbursing money.
It is, actually. France pays 1/4 the cost per person for health care than America does.
My project, Appleseed, does just that. All the distributed functionality is in place, and it's at the point of rounding out the functionality, optimization, and then bug testing and cleanup.
It's open source, and uses a custom protocol, which is also open, although I would be open to modifying up the protocol at this point to make it easier for other applications to use
I've already been working on this, and it's nearing completion. Appleseed is the name of the project, and I'm using a custom protocol, but I'd be interested in talking with people who have experience with forming proper RFC's.
Islamofascism is the philosophical descendant of Nazism. Hussein was an admirer of Hitler.
Dude, you get a D- if you can just answer the difference between Wahabbism and secular dictatorship, and you still managed to fail.
I think you're just a bit confused.
Sorry to be pompous, but I think I've read more about political theory in the past two months than you have in your whole life, Mr. Anonymous.
That's all it realy is -- a group of free-thinking individuals trading voluntarily among themselves in a way that necessarily benefits all parties involved.
Nothing about the rise of capitalism out of feudalism and imperialism was voluntary in any way shape or form.
What we have in the US today is NOT capitalism
Funny, that's the same exact defense that many Communists have when you bring up the USSR.
Maybe you two aren't so alike after all. Deluded adherents to failed ideologies.
He went to prison for that, was released, and then democratically elected.
I'm sorry, but if you're looking for dictatorial tyranny in the world, why not start with a few of our allies?
If you want to spread democracy, maybe we should start with our friends instead of our enemies?