This was sort of the point. The article is simply a cut n paste job of what was posted in that thread. If they simply wanted to quote you, they wouldn't have offered to pay you for it.
A more interesting question would be if they now claim the copyright for your words, so that you were effectively breaking the law by repeating your own words here...
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I think you may be right, this may very well spell the end for the bound-to-succeed portal IPO period. Altavista has a name and has been around for while, but beyond that it has absolutely nothing to offer. Its no longer the best search engine (by far), nor the smartest. The portal services are as glued on, unncessary, and artificial as anywhere else.
In a way I hate to see Altavista targeted like this. It was a very good services around its inception, and though I don't use it anymore, I have some fond memories of first learning its advanced search syntax. Altavista has mostly suffered from being the bastard child in two mismanaged companies that didn't care about it. On the other hand: it is about time.
It's worth noting however that everyone who has predicted the end of the stupid IPOs for anything with a name in Cyberspace has turned out to be wrong, and that this has costed some conservative investors a lot of money. I have been opposed to the portal concept since its inception: I believe that as people get more at home on the Net, they will use portals less, not more (the only search services I use are Google and Alltheweb, both demo services by companies selling search technology), but so far, I have been proved wrong again and again.
I hasn't been a great few years for the devils advocates of the stock markets...
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
If that monitor was a 21 inch, you wouldn't be. Get an old 15 inch monitor and stack it at your parents house instead, its probably cheaper than the price/performance difference between PC and Mac.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
But the single digit finger actually goes back a lot longer than that, giving the finger by desplaying the back of the hand with only the central finger erect was customary already during roman times. I can't be bothered to dig now, but I found a Roman moasaic with a clear picture of someone giving the finger on the web somewhere (yeah, somebody has researched this). It is most probably a phallic symbol.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I was supposedly kidding. There was some movie where they wanted to learn the true name of god so they could say it backwards and undo creation or something.
Exactly which name of god were you refering to anyways? I use pretty much all the different names for god in various colorful contexts whenever something bad happens around here, and no one seems to mind.
I don't think you need to worry, even the most annoyign dogmatics are usually not stuck on that second one. Not at all like when I bring my golden donkey to school.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I think his favorite TV-evangelist got IRSed and was hiding all that money he was just keeping for God (better giving it to God than washington, right!)
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
And,like most communities (or should i say systems?), analyzing ourselves is one of our favorite passtimes.:-)
There is some truth to your concern. If you look at the Usenet which I mentioned briefly, the idiots did pretty much take over and drive almost everyone else out, at least for a while (I'm feeling comeback of it). On the other hand, I think that a lot of the stuff that people get emotional about here is rather important stuff, which is a glimmer of hope in this age of zero motivation. At least the flames are not usually over which editor, star trek series, or game controller is best.
Warhols old cliche about 15 minutes of fame is true on the net. The guy running that site got a couple of hundred emails (I'm sorry, but big deal, my daemons send me a couple of hundred mails a day (What is misconfigured btw?:-) )), because the net made him a public person for 15 minutes. If you set your foot out here, that is risk you take, for better or worse.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
In a suffiently large group of people, there are idiots. Some are true idiots, some are half idiots tipped over the line for a momemnt, and some are just ok people who happened to have a bad day or overeact to a story and act stupidly. Most of us try to control ourselves and think things over before we say them, but some people are better at that then others.
In my opinion, Michael jumped the gun the other day when he started painting id and John Carmack out to be evil, when in fact the lack of documentation on the disabling of the hardware string was just an oversight. He wasn't flaming profanities by any means, but I would assume that him writing for slashdot must mean somebody thinks of him as a rather levelheaded and thoughtful dude. And if even the most levelheaded of us can overeact on issues we are emotional about, should we really be surprised that there are others who do so more often, and with less grace?
I'm sure there isn't a reader here who hasn't overeacted and flamed someone unecesarily at one time or another. A few years ago I made a vow never again to send an email while I am angry because of trouble that had gotten me into. Its a good rule that I try to apply even today (though older and wiser), but not even it is foolproof.
Now onto my real point: given the size of the Slashdot community, and compared with other communities I have taken part in on the Internet, the flames emerging from us have been rather benign. We have been through this with somebody posting the examples of horrible mails they have recieved from Linux users and Slashdot readers a number of times now, and my surprise has always been at how mild the flames actually are. In my Usenet days I once had a person I had been arguing with over some pitiful subject post hundreds of messages to a popular group with subject lines containing explicit sexual insults about me. Just an idiot, they happen, and I certainly did not attack or blame the majority of the subscribers of the group.
The nature of free expression is that stupid things are said. The redeeming quality is that the smart things are more plentiful, more provocative, and more important.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Several hours later, the geek quietly logs out and stands up. It is now 11:30 at night, and he has work tomorrow.
If I didn't know better, I would think that you meant 11:30 PM by that, but of course that would make zero sense in the context (unless the person in question needs to get up at 0400 to go to work or needs more than five hours of sleep). You have to be careful with that "at night" thing, I'm more likely to be sleeping at 1130 than at 2330 as well, but I understand there are people who aren't.
If you stop playing before the sun rises the next morning, you are NOT truly in the grasp of quake. My record is a 52 hours...
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Um, if you had understood one shit about the whole Open Source movement, you would not be here telling other people that they ought to write the sort of software you want. If you want this, write it yourself.
Don't go around saying people shouldn't be developing perfectly good applications. Connectivity is one of the most important things that has happened to mankind lately, and definetly the most important part of computers. Until my computer became part of the Internet it was of little interest to me, now it is the most important tool I have. There are other valid applications of computers (as a student of Scientific Computing, I should know), and if you want the sort of tools you discuss just write them.
consider: how important is a fractal enhancer to photos in my life, how important are my browser and mailer?
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I am a true believer in the wearable PC. Consider what a technologically interested person might carry on him when he leaves the house nowerdays:
- Mobile phone. Complete with email gateway-ed messaging, and possibly wap based web surfing. - PDA with a good interface and a bunch of flexible applications - Portable mp3 player with multimedia capacity and as much as 100 mb (or 4.8 gigs for that new Compaq one) of memory space. - Gameboy for that much needed Tetris fix.
And more are on the way, such as city navigating GPS units, those digital book readers, etc etc. Can one possibly imaging these things NOT going to converg?
What is important to me though is that it is truly a wearable PC. I don't want an extended mobile phone with a bunch of embedded services, but a computer on my person that gives me as much freedom as my computer at home (and yes that means Linux). I don't want to put myself in the hands of hardware makers and other making programs that serve there interest. For example, the new GRPS (packet data over GSM) enabled phones here will be crippled to not allow voice data over ip/grps, since that would be cheaper than using the GSM service per minute fees. And the hardware music players will start limiting what songs I can play by obeying the SDMI iniative.
If someone could combine the virtual freedom of the PC with the physical freedom of a wearable device, that would be a true killer. Go get rich somebody.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
What the fuck good are computers anyways? They are prone to failures, expensive, and wholly unnecessary. Why the fuck are they developing anything for computers? Whats the point with that?
Why not develope some new flavours of beer instead. Computers are just bad anyways.
Are you seriously arguing that they ought not develop network apps because networks sometimes fail are too expensive for some? Is this a joke that I didn't get? Have you checked your perscriptions?
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
The analogy between the Internet and our roads is so sad that I am perfectly ready to question the intelligence of this man: regardless of his merits in the past. I'm completely dumbfounded by how anybody can advocate this, and in the name of openness and freedom to boot.
There are reasons why our society imposes regulations on our freedoms, namely when excersising them physically endangers our fellow citizens. Roads and drivers licenses are a great example of this: we are regulated not for our own safety, but for the safety of other people on the road. If you speeding causes you to crash into a brick wall and die your more than welcome to to it as far as I care, but not so if its my car you are crashing into...
The situation on the Web, however, is the exact opposite. On the web, I can have the freedom to be just about as lame as I want, and it is not going to hurt anyone. I can be annoying, for sure, but since when are we ready to step all over our freedoms to keep people from being annoying (don't answer: I know the sad truth). If anything, the drivers license analogy is the exact reason to keep the web free of all articifial regulation: we do not need to keep the web safe.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I didn't read it online, so I can't link the article I read about it. It is a little disputed, but somewhat true, especially in tropical climates. By a google search I found this page which has overviews of some reports:
Results show that the selected method of time preference is a key factor in the outcome. For instance, with low annual discount rates (1-2%) the global warming impact of the Tucurui Dam is 3-4 times less than that of fossil fuel, but the situation reverses above a discount rate of 15%.
here is an article in New Scientist that touches on the issue as well.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
The preachy layer of populism by which you are covering your political agenda is quickly reaching molecular thickness. The weepy stories of environmental damage and abused workers in the name (but the not the mention) of infringing on the freedom trade and flows of information, are almost exactly like those elements who oppose freedom of speech, and will talk about poor abused children and victims of terrorists until their eyes water.
Bullshit. Tariffs do jack all to protect anybody in the country targeted by the tariff, and for that matter, in the long run, the country imposing them. They are just another form of piss in your pants, isolationistic throwback to a past era of regionalism that have proved to work really bad.
You know what the biggest trade war of this decade has centered on: bananas. Thousands of man hours and billions of dollars have been wasted on a useless battle because the French want to protect a bunch of people growing bad bananas (and I know because we have to eat them now) in the wrong place.
I don't particularly believe in purchasing software what so ever, but I can promise that the effect of any tariffs on software would be me having to pay triple the price for Quake3 because id are dumping the market for Swedish and Greek makers of 100 Euro frogger-clones. Hell, by European 35-hour week standards, the American software industry is one big sweatshop, and that does happen to be the reason that you are doing so much better at it than we are. Tarriffs ahoy to protect the jobs of my lazy ass nationals, and fuck our chances of ever coming back in the long run!
If you truly care about the people of the world you ought to be advocating for greater international cooperation, not jumping on the WTO as something evil in the name of sovereignity of governments (and possibly remember that the party that most argues for sovereignty in this decade is the Chinese government...)
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Well, ask yourself how big government would need to be in that society. If everybody is directly wired to the Internet, would we need a government, or just a really good OS?
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Its out of context, the quote is from the director of the movie, not Jobs.
You are right that penguins can just be pengiuns. We needn't get all corporate about the trademark please ("No, you cannot be called the clan McDonald of Scotland since 862 AD, that is a registered trademark").
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Noop, not true. The release of greenhouse gasses because of the massive decomposition of biomass under the damn is equal to that of a coal burning plant producing as much power.
If we were more rational about the dangers with nuclear power (no in denial like when the plants were first built, but not paranoia like today) it could be enough to tide us over until we get working fusion power.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Slashdot Mirror
This was sort of the point. The article is simply a cut n paste job of what was posted in that thread. If they simply wanted to quote you, they wouldn't have offered to pay you for it.
A more interesting question would be if they now claim the copyright for your words, so that you were effectively breaking the law by repeating your own words here...
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I think you may be right, this may very well spell the end for the bound-to-succeed portal IPO period. Altavista has a name and has been around for while, but beyond that it has absolutely nothing to offer. Its no longer the best search engine (by far), nor the smartest. The portal services are as glued on, unncessary, and artificial as anywhere else.
In a way I hate to see Altavista targeted like this. It was a very good services around its inception, and though I don't use it anymore, I have some fond memories of first learning its advanced search syntax. Altavista has mostly suffered from being the bastard child in two mismanaged companies that didn't care about it. On the other hand: it is about time.
It's worth noting however that everyone who has predicted the end of the stupid IPOs for anything with a name in Cyberspace has turned out to be wrong, and that this has costed some conservative investors a lot of money. I have been opposed to the portal concept since its inception: I believe that as people get more at home on the Net, they will use portals less, not more (the only search services I use are Google and Alltheweb, both demo services by companies selling search technology), but so far, I have been proved wrong again and again.
I hasn't been a great few years for the devils advocates of the stock markets...
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
If that monitor was a 21 inch, you wouldn't be. Get an old 15 inch monitor and stack it at your parents house instead, its probably cheaper than the price/performance difference between PC and Mac.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
But the single digit finger actually goes back a lot longer than that, giving the finger by desplaying the back of the hand with only the central finger erect was customary already during roman times. I can't be bothered to dig now, but I found a Roman moasaic with a clear picture of someone giving the finger on the web somewhere (yeah, somebody has researched this). It is most probably a phallic symbol.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I was supposedly kidding. There was some movie where they wanted to learn the true name of god so they could say it backwards and undo creation or something.
Exactly which name of god were you refering to anyways? I use pretty much all the different names for god in various colorful contexts whenever something bad happens around here, and no one seems to mind.
I don't think you need to worry, even the most annoyign dogmatics are usually not stuck on that second one. Not at all like when I bring my golden donkey to school.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I think his favorite TV-evangelist got IRSed and was hiding all that money he was just keeping for God (better giving it to God than washington, right!)
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
As I understand it, its to safe to say God's true name anytime, should you happen to know it. Especially not backwards, as that will undo creation.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
And,like most communities (or should i say systems?), analyzing ourselves is one of our favorite passtimes.
There is some truth to your concern. If you look at the Usenet which I mentioned briefly, the idiots did pretty much take over and drive almost everyone else out, at least for a while (I'm feeling comeback of it). On the other hand, I think that a lot of the stuff that people get emotional about here is rather important stuff, which is a glimmer of hope in this age of zero motivation. At least the flames are not usually over which editor, star trek series, or game controller is best.
Warhols old cliche about 15 minutes of fame is true on the net. The guy running that site got a couple of hundred emails (I'm sorry, but big deal, my daemons send me a couple of hundred mails a day (What is misconfigured btw?
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
In a suffiently large group of people, there are idiots. Some are true idiots, some are half idiots tipped over the line for a momemnt, and some are just ok people who happened to have a bad day or overeact to a story and act stupidly. Most of us try to control ourselves and think things over before we say them, but some people are better at that then others.
In my opinion, Michael jumped the gun the other day when he started painting id and John Carmack out to be evil, when in fact the lack of documentation on the disabling of the hardware string was just an oversight. He wasn't flaming profanities by any means, but I would assume that him writing for slashdot must mean somebody thinks of him as a rather levelheaded and thoughtful dude. And if even the most levelheaded of us can overeact on issues we are emotional about, should we really be surprised that there are others who do so more often, and with less grace?
I'm sure there isn't a reader here who hasn't overeacted and flamed someone unecesarily at one time or another. A few years ago I made a vow never again to send an email while I am angry because of trouble that had gotten me into. Its a good rule that I try to apply even today (though older and wiser), but not even it is foolproof.
Now onto my real point: given the size of the Slashdot community, and compared with other communities I have taken part in on the Internet, the flames emerging from us have been rather benign. We have been through this with somebody posting the examples of horrible mails they have recieved from Linux users and Slashdot readers a number of times now, and my surprise has always been at how mild the flames actually are. In my Usenet days I once had a person I had been arguing with over some pitiful subject post hundreds of messages to a popular group with subject lines containing explicit sexual insults about me. Just an idiot, they happen, and I certainly did not attack or blame the majority of the subscribers of the group.
The nature of free expression is that stupid things are said. The redeeming quality is that the smart things are more plentiful, more provocative, and more important.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Several hours later, the geek quietly logs out and stands up. It is now 11:30 at night, and he has work tomorrow.
If I didn't know better, I would think that you meant 11:30 PM by that, but of course that would make zero sense in the context (unless the person in question needs to get up at 0400 to go to work or needs more than five hours of sleep). You have to be careful with that "at night" thing, I'm more likely to be sleeping at 1130 than at 2330 as well, but I understand there are people who aren't.
If you stop playing before the sun rises the next morning, you are NOT truly in the grasp of quake. My record is a 52 hours...
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Um, if you had understood one shit about the whole Open Source movement, you would not be here telling other people that they ought to write the sort of software you want. If you want this, write it yourself.
Don't go around saying people shouldn't be developing perfectly good applications. Connectivity is one of the most important things that has happened to mankind lately, and definetly the most important part of computers. Until my computer became part of the Internet it was of little interest to me, now it is the most important tool I have. There are other valid applications of computers (as a student of Scientific Computing, I should know), and if you want the sort of tools you discuss just write them.
consider: how important is a fractal enhancer to photos in my life, how important are my browser and mailer?
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I am a true believer in the wearable PC. Consider what a technologically interested person might carry on him when he leaves the house nowerdays:
- Mobile phone. Complete with email gateway-ed messaging, and possibly wap based web surfing.
- PDA with a good interface and a bunch of flexible applications
- Portable mp3 player with multimedia capacity and as much as 100 mb (or 4.8 gigs for that new Compaq one) of memory space.
- Gameboy for that much needed Tetris fix.
And more are on the way, such as city navigating GPS units, those digital book readers, etc etc. Can one possibly imaging these things NOT going to converg?
What is important to me though is that it is truly a wearable PC. I don't want an extended mobile phone with a bunch of embedded services, but a computer on my person that gives me as much freedom as my computer at home (and yes that means Linux). I don't want to put myself in the hands of hardware makers and other making programs that serve there interest. For example, the new GRPS (packet data over GSM) enabled phones here will be crippled to not allow voice data over ip/grps, since that would be cheaper than using the GSM service per minute fees. And the hardware music players will start limiting what songs I can play by obeying the SDMI iniative.
If someone could combine the virtual freedom of the PC with the physical freedom of a wearable device, that would be a true killer. Go get rich somebody.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
What the fuck good are computers anyways? They are prone to failures, expensive, and wholly unnecessary. Why the fuck are they developing anything for computers? Whats the point with that?
Why not develope some new flavours of beer instead. Computers are just bad anyways.
Are you seriously arguing that they ought not develop network apps because networks sometimes fail are too expensive for some? Is this a joke that I didn't get? Have you checked your perscriptions?
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
If you work in helpdesk, than less stupid people on the Internet would leave you out of a job. Why would you want that?
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
The analogy between the Internet and our roads is so sad that I am perfectly ready to question the intelligence of this man: regardless of his merits in the past. I'm completely dumbfounded by how anybody can advocate this, and in the name of openness and freedom to boot.
There are reasons why our society imposes regulations on our freedoms, namely when excersising them physically endangers our fellow citizens. Roads and drivers licenses are a great example of this: we are regulated not for our own safety, but for the safety of other people on the road. If you speeding causes you to crash into a brick wall and die your more than welcome to to it as far as I care, but not so if its my car you are crashing into...
The situation on the Web, however, is the exact opposite. On the web, I can have the freedom to be just about as lame as I want, and it is not going to hurt anyone. I can be annoying, for sure, but since when are we ready to step all over our freedoms to keep people from being annoying (don't answer: I know the sad truth). If anything, the drivers license analogy is the exact reason to keep the web free of all articifial regulation: we do not need to keep the web safe.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I didn't read it online, so I can't link the article I read about it. It is a little disputed, but somewhat true, especially in tropical climates. By a google search I found this page which has overviews of some reports:
Results show that the selected method of time preference is a key factor in the outcome. For instance, with low annual discount rates (1-2%) the global warming impact of the Tucurui Dam is 3-4 times less than that of fossil fuel, but the situation reverses above a discount rate of 15%.
here is an article in New Scientist that touches on the issue as well.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Its not backed up by economic growth curves however...
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I happen to agree with you on this (too a certain extent, if your job is interesting, living your job is ok by me), but that isn't really the point.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
The preachy layer of populism by which you are covering your political agenda is quickly reaching molecular thickness. The weepy stories of environmental damage and abused workers in the name (but the not the mention) of infringing on the freedom trade and flows of information, are almost exactly like those elements who oppose freedom of speech, and will talk about poor abused children and victims of terrorists until their eyes water.
Bullshit. Tariffs do jack all to protect anybody in the country targeted by the tariff, and for that matter, in the long run, the country imposing them. They are just another form of piss in your pants, isolationistic throwback to a past era of regionalism that have proved to work really bad.
You know what the biggest trade war of this decade has centered on: bananas. Thousands of man hours and billions of dollars have been wasted on a useless battle because the French want to protect a bunch of people growing bad bananas (and I know because we have to eat them now) in the wrong place.
I don't particularly believe in purchasing software what so ever, but I can promise that the effect of any tariffs on software would be me having to pay triple the price for Quake3 because id are dumping the market for Swedish and Greek makers of 100 Euro frogger-clones. Hell, by European 35-hour week standards, the American software industry is one big sweatshop, and that does happen to be the reason that you are doing so much better at it than we are. Tarriffs ahoy to protect the jobs of my lazy ass nationals, and fuck our chances of ever coming back in the long run!
If you truly care about the people of the world you ought to be advocating for greater international cooperation, not jumping on the WTO as something evil in the name of sovereignity of governments (and possibly remember that the party that most argues for sovereignty in this decade is the Chinese government...)
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Well, ask yourself how big government would need to be in that society. If everybody is directly wired to the Internet, would we need a government, or just a really good OS?
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Yes, but the loss is quickly made up for by equally meaningless and off-topic "Wow, this was the first post" type comments...
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
What about scrooge McDuck? He was very definetly not Irish
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Its out of context, the quote is from the director of the movie, not Jobs.
You are right that penguins can just be pengiuns. We needn't get all corporate about the trademark please ("No, you cannot be called the clan McDonald of Scotland since 862 AD, that is a registered trademark").
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Noop, not true. The release of greenhouse gasses because of the massive decomposition of biomass under the damn is equal to that of a coal burning plant producing as much power.
If we were more rational about the dangers with nuclear power (no in denial like when the plants were first built, but not paranoia like today) it could be enough to tide us over until we get working fusion power.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Actually this was my point. Nuclear power is bad, everything else is at least as bad.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.