If our predecessors were so wonderful, HOW COME THEY DIED? My feeling is that anybody who builds something gives up his right for its continued existance when he dies. So if you want your creations to last forever, plan on living forever.
Old shit is just old shit. Get it the hell out of the way so I can build my new stuff.
Walmart (and any other non-employee-owned large corporation) couldn't give a rodent's posterior for its employees beyond what they bring to the bottom line.
True! And yet your theory doesn't explain why wages have risen, in fits and starts, over the course of the last four hundred years. If nobody every pays more than they have to, why do they EVER pay more than they did the day before?
If you come up with a theory, it has to explain the facts better than competing theories. Otherwise a synonym for your theory is "wrong".
Wal-Mart has indeed made a policy of annihilating unions,
How is this bad? I mean, some people like unions, but others don't. Walmart happens to not want to cooperate with unions because they think they can offer their employees a better deal directly. What's wrong with that?
if Walmart was humming along not doing anything too bad,
It's not possible for Walmart to not be doing something bad. An enterprise as large as Walmart's will always have bad news: rape, murder, theft, sexual abuse, hirings, firings, new stores, closing stores. When you get so big that you encompass the entire human condition, then there WILL be bad things happening to/by/at Walmarts, and they will be news. It doesn't mean that they're evil; it means that they're people.
Stole or copied? Are you one of those folks who think that every idea should be owned? Did they infringe copyright by duplicating masks? It sounds like not, since it's not 100% compatible. Did they infringe a patent? The EE Time article doesn't allege that. Trade secret? But you can only infringe a trade secret by getting it from someone who has it. You can't infringe a trade secret through independent reinvention. It's not likely to be a trademark infringement. You can say "MIPS-like" or "MIPS-compatible", because both of those terms acknowledge that the product *isn't* MIPS, and trademark infringement requires that you create confusion in the marketplace by using someone else's trademark to imply or claim that your product is approved by the trademark-holder. There's also trademark dilution, but that's harder to prove.
Nokia is very new at this and it will take the organization several years until they get the hang of it;
The bad thing is that Nokia had access to a perfectly fine platform: Familiar Handhelds.org Linux. The good thing is that Nokia has hired the team that did Familiar in the first place, so hopefully there will be a merge between Familiar and Maemo in the future.
How does the failure of Wikipedia to manage conflicting information about a specific LIVING person affect you?
The conflict is over whether he should have a page or not. The answer is "no, you silly idiot, anybody who wants to know about Brian Peppers is navel-gazing. An article about him doesn't belong in an encyclopedia, any more than does an article about Jack9."
Thank God the Brian Peppers article is now available. I don't know how I could have lived for another minute without being able to read about him. Damn those Wikipedia editors for deleting this article about the most famous Brian Peppers, whom I hear about every day, and simply live for to hear about. Famous people like Brian Peppers NEED to have their own Wikipedia articles, don't you see? It's a requirement.
Could somebody explain to me why I should care about this "issue"?
So what do you think would happen if everyone were to enjoy a high standard of living that rich countries enjoy.
There would be a much greater availability of resources, and the planet would be cleaner and suffering less population pressure. Rich people don't have kids anywhere near at the rate that poor people do -- precisely because rich people can expect their children to live.
Population is not a people problem. It's a wealth problem. You misunderstand that to the detriment of your credibility.
Unfortunately, you have no idea what you're talking about. You should actually GO to one of these countries. There's far more environmental degradation precisely because people cannot AFFORD (there's that "underwealth" thing again) to protect the environment. We *can* afford a world full of rich people. We can't afford a world full of poor people.
My understanding of the patent system is that you are required to reveal all prior art of which you are aware. Otherwise your patent is invalid. Er, or something like that. Anyway, not disclosing prior art is a Bozo no-no.
Only to the extent that anybody who has a product that they're selling is a publicity whore. Yes, Geoff did an implementation of wireless email many years ago, and was arguably the first inventor of it. At some trade show I went to, he had hired women to walk around like cigarette girls with a laptop and attached radio to invite people to send wireless email.
Not to mention that MoveON probably sent a whole bunch of them. MoveON has a history of not processing unsubscribes or bounces well. "Let's send every AOL subscriber who has ever been on our list a copy of this URL!" Small wonder that when anyone else sent it, their email was also blocked.
It's amazing how much ignorance about spam, spam filtering, and Goodmail is freely available these days. Maybe somebody should tax ignorance? You say something stupid, "DING!" it costs you ten cents.
Ahhhh, I see, so you distinguish between the people who should live and the people who should die. Must be nice to have been born with such insightfulness. You are obviously one of the group who has value, to understand that you are part of the group who has value. You should become a dictator somewhere, and start winnowing out the worthy people from those unworthy of support.
Or not. Personally speaking, anybody who thinks we have too many people will be the first ones up against the wall. We'll continue shooting them until we run out of people with that idea.
Or course, those two paragraphs are sarcasm, however, people who think there are too many people in the world, and purposefully limit their fecundity, are ensuring that the world will be populated by people who don't agree with them. I know somebody who only had two children "to replace their parents". Of course, the problem with that theory is that they had two girls!
(Re-posting the AC's comment... with the karma it deserves... dude you gotta get an account and log in if you're going to post Insightful comments.)
Matthew, you're suffering from the belief in an incorrect meme that seeks uniform distributions. You're seeking underlying uniformity and sameness through a misconception that such conditions are normal. As nature explains, the only thing that is uniform is that variance is everywhere!
Yes, Japan is concentrated and imports lots of raw goods. There are numerous socio-economic factors for this. Little more than 100 years ago, it had a predominantly agrarian economy (as did the USA). Advances in its educational and economic systems fostered a workforce that could do a lot more than farm in the inefficient, mostly manual methods. After eliminating a legacy feudal economic model that kept the masses from advancing, the Japanese people have demonstrated some of the highest commitment to education and exceptional quality in their production. Rather than send these educated people out to the fields (in classic Khmer Rouge form), they work further up the production chain where their capabilities are needed.
Beware of the uniformity disease. Accept variance in the process and learn to identify why it occurs. Uniformity is not natural and exacts terrible costs on those who attempt to enforce it. About the best you get is uniform misery.
Oh, so Singapore is polluted and disease-ridden? Perhaps we should talk to someone who actually lives in Singapore to test your theory.
Overpopulation is in fact not about the earth as a whole. Overpopulation is about the poor countries. You never see anybody wringing their hands about rich densely populated countries as being "overpopulated".
"Overpopulation" is a racist code-word for "too many starving darkies."
The problem is population increases exponentially, while our resources, alas, do not.
You don't know anything, do you? Actually, you do have one skill: writing a completely wrong sentence. I don't think I could do as good a job as you have done. First, population doesn't increase exponentially without limit. It would be better to say that population expands exponentially to fill its niche. The only reason global population has grown is because we're able to feed all those people. Prior to that, the global population had already hit its limit.
Resources are not measured in pounds, length, or volume. Resources are measured in economic benefit they create. After all, coal is just another rock until it's mined and burned. It takes people to turn materials into resources. The more people you have, the greater the resources available to you.
I'm sorry to be so harsh on you, but, really, posting ignorant nonsense doesn't make the world a better place.
You are correct; this problem is not too little money; the problem is too little wealth, as the title says. I was careless; you spanked me; I deserved it.
Somalia got some attention back in the 90s. It still is a so called failed state.
Yes, and in many ways it's the most advanced of the poor African countries. In other ways, it's not, but all told, Somalia is probably better-off without being a traditional state. The structure of Somalian society is not appropriate for a central government. The fact that statists (feel free to count yourself among them) call it a "failed state" says more about them than it does about Somalia.
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If our predecessors were so wonderful, HOW COME THEY DIED? My feeling is that anybody who builds something gives up his right for its continued existance when he dies. So if you want your creations to last forever, plan on living forever.
Old shit is just old shit. Get it the hell out of the way so I can build my new stuff.
Walmart (and any other non-employee-owned large corporation) couldn't give a rodent's posterior for its employees beyond what they bring to the bottom line.
True! And yet your theory doesn't explain why wages have risen, in fits and starts, over the course of the last four hundred years. If nobody every pays more than they have to, why do they EVER pay more than they did the day before?
If you come up with a theory, it has to explain the facts better than competing theories. Otherwise a synonym for your theory is "wrong".
The problem with including them is that they aren't descriptive of Walmart. They're descriptive of people.
Wal-Mart has indeed made a policy of annihilating unions,
How is this bad? I mean, some people like unions, but others don't. Walmart happens to not want to cooperate with unions because they think they can offer their employees a better deal directly. What's wrong with that?
if Walmart was humming along not doing anything too bad,
It's not possible for Walmart to not be doing something bad. An enterprise as large as Walmart's will always have bad news: rape, murder, theft, sexual abuse, hirings, firings, new stores, closing stores. When you get so big that you encompass the entire human condition, then there WILL be bad things happening to/by/at Walmarts, and they will be news. It doesn't mean that they're evil; it means that they're people.
Stole or copied? Are you one of those folks who think that every idea should be owned? Did they infringe copyright by duplicating masks? It sounds like not, since it's not 100% compatible. Did they infringe a patent? The EE Time article doesn't allege that. Trade secret? But you can only infringe a trade secret by getting it from someone who has it. You can't infringe a trade secret through independent reinvention. It's not likely to be a trademark infringement. You can say "MIPS-like" or "MIPS-compatible", because both of those terms acknowledge that the product *isn't* MIPS, and trademark infringement requires that you create confusion in the marketplace by using someone else's trademark to imply or claim that your product is approved by the trademark-holder. There's also trademark dilution, but that's harder to prove.
There's still hope for SCO to spend $60 million .... after all, they haven't actually LOST the case yet.
Nokia is very new at this and it will take the organization several years until they get the hang of it;
The bad thing is that Nokia had access to a perfectly fine platform: Familiar Handhelds.org Linux. The good thing is that Nokia has hired the team that did Familiar in the first place, so hopefully there will be a merge between Familiar and Maemo in the future.
What about a chording bluetooth keyboard .... maybe like the Chordite.
How does the failure of Wikipedia to manage conflicting information about a specific LIVING person affect you?
The conflict is over whether he should have a page or not. The answer is "no, you silly idiot, anybody who wants to know about Brian Peppers is navel-gazing. An article about him doesn't belong in an encyclopedia, any more than does an article about Jack9."
Thank God the Brian Peppers article is now available. I don't know how I could have lived for another minute without being able to read about him. Damn those Wikipedia editors for deleting this article about the most famous Brian Peppers, whom I hear about every day, and simply live for to hear about. Famous people like Brian Peppers NEED to have their own Wikipedia articles, don't you see? It's a requirement.
Could somebody explain to me why I should care about this "issue"?
Resources are also limited/finite, no matter how you measure them.
Yes, atoms are finite. However *the value we get from* is limitless. You can ignore economics if you want, but economics isn't going to ignore you.
So what do you think would happen if everyone were to enjoy a high standard of living that rich countries enjoy.
There would be a much greater availability of resources, and the planet would be cleaner and suffering less population pressure. Rich people don't have kids anywhere near at the rate that poor people do -- precisely because rich people can expect their children to live.
Population is not a people problem. It's a wealth problem. You misunderstand that to the detriment of your credibility.
Unfortunately, you have no idea what you're talking about. You should actually GO to one of these countries. There's far more environmental degradation precisely because people cannot AFFORD (there's that "underwealth" thing again) to protect the environment. We *can* afford a world full of rich people. We can't afford a world full of poor people.
They knew about prior art.
My understanding of the patent system is that you are required to reveal all prior art of which you are aware. Otherwise your patent is invalid. Er, or something like that. Anyway, not disclosing prior art is a Bozo no-no.
this guy is a publicity whore
Only to the extent that anybody who has a product that they're selling is a publicity whore. Yes, Geoff did an implementation of wireless email many years ago, and was arguably the first inventor of it. At some trade show I went to, he had hired women to walk around like cigarette girls with a laptop and attached radio to invite people to send wireless email.
Not to mention that MoveON probably sent a whole bunch of them. MoveON has a history of not processing unsubscribes or bounces well. "Let's send every AOL subscriber who has ever been on our list a copy of this URL!" Small wonder that when anyone else sent it, their email was also blocked.
It's amazing how much ignorance about spam, spam filtering, and Goodmail is freely available these days. Maybe somebody should tax ignorance? You say something stupid, "DING!" it costs you ten cents.
Ahhhh, I see, so you distinguish between the people who should live and the people who should die. Must be nice to have been born with such insightfulness. You are obviously one of the group who has value, to understand that you are part of the group who has value. You should become a dictator somewhere, and start winnowing out the worthy people from those unworthy of support.
Or not. Personally speaking, anybody who thinks we have too many people will be the first ones up against the wall. We'll continue shooting them until we run out of people with that idea.
Or course, those two paragraphs are sarcasm, however, people who think there are too many people in the world, and purposefully limit their fecundity, are ensuring that the world will be populated by people who don't agree with them. I know somebody who only had two children "to replace their parents". Of course, the problem with that theory is that they had two girls!
(Re-posting the AC's comment ... with the karma it deserves ... dude you gotta get an account and log in if you're going to post Insightful comments.)
Matthew, you're suffering from the belief in an incorrect meme that seeks uniform distributions. You're seeking underlying uniformity and sameness through a misconception that such conditions are normal. As nature explains, the only thing that is uniform is that variance is everywhere!
Yes, Japan is concentrated and imports lots of raw goods. There are numerous socio-economic factors for this. Little more than 100 years ago, it had a predominantly agrarian economy (as did the USA). Advances in its educational and economic systems fostered a workforce that could do a lot more than farm in the inefficient, mostly manual methods. After eliminating a legacy feudal economic model that kept the masses from advancing, the Japanese people have demonstrated some of the highest commitment to education and exceptional quality in their production. Rather than send these educated people out to the fields (in classic Khmer Rouge form), they work further up the production chain where their capabilities are needed.
Beware of the uniformity disease. Accept variance in the process and learn to identify why it occurs. Uniformity is not natural and exacts terrible costs on those who attempt to enforce it. About the best you get is uniform misery.
Oh, so Singapore is polluted and disease-ridden? Perhaps we should talk to someone who actually lives in Singapore to test your theory.
Overpopulation is in fact not about the earth as a whole. Overpopulation is about the poor countries. You never see anybody wringing their hands about rich densely populated countries as being "overpopulated".
"Overpopulation" is a racist code-word for "too many starving darkies."
The problem is population increases exponentially, while our resources, alas, do not.
You don't know anything, do you? Actually, you do have one skill: writing a completely wrong sentence. I don't think I could do as good a job as you have done. First, population doesn't increase exponentially without limit. It would be better to say that population expands exponentially to fill its niche. The only reason global population has grown is because we're able to feed all those people. Prior to that, the global population had already hit its limit.
Resources are not measured in pounds, length, or volume. Resources are measured in economic benefit they create. After all, coal is just another rock until it's mined and burned. It takes people to turn materials into resources. The more people you have, the greater the resources available to you.
I'm sorry to be so harsh on you, but, really, posting ignorant nonsense doesn't make the world a better place.
Sarcasm doesn't transmit well over computer text.
You are correct; this problem is not too little money; the problem is too little wealth, as the title says. I was careless; you spanked me; I deserved it.
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Question everything you hear and all that you read.
Yes, sir!
Somalia got some attention back in the 90s. It still is a so called failed state.
Yes, and in many ways it's the most advanced of the poor African countries. In other ways, it's not, but all told, Somalia is probably better-off without being a traditional state. The structure of Somalian society is not appropriate for a central government. The fact that statists (feel free to count yourself among them) call it a "failed state" says more about them than it does about Somalia.