the idea that you create a temporary monopoly (which seems to get less temporary every day) in order to encourage the creation of arts and technology has costs which outweigh the supposed benefit. for those who actually create, there are ancillary revenue streams which require no such legal protection
its time to completely trash ip law. all of it. copyrights, patents: trash it, all of it
did Victorian England have legions of party workers censoring every little post on internet forums and tracking those who were too uppity? did Victorian England have absolute authority and control over the media?
the industrial revolution gave birth to communism and capitalism in its modern forms. China has adopted the modern forms of communism and capitalism, and then went through the industrial revolution. Combine that with a throughly Chinese obsession with learned bureaucratic efficiency (it's not hard to understand the derivation of the term "mandarin": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_(bureaucrat)), and the absolute power wielded by the grumpy old technocrats in Beijing, and you have the makings of a slave state unlike any that has existed in the history of the world.
China is special, and not in a good way. It takes the worst excesses of Communist and Capitalist philosophies to derive a brutal machine of production. Which is fine if you are rich and live in Shanghai. Not so good if you are a poor slave, which is what the majority of Chinese are becoming. Denied the right to express themselves or speak openly, denied a justice system which has their best interests in mind, and ruled over by alternately corrupt local bosses and ideologues concerned about building a modern colossus, regardless of the human and environmental costs, and you have the life of the modern Chinese slave.
Its not pretty and the machine is growing in power every day. Worry about that. China needs human rights, or soon we won't have human rights.
and considering the reality of china, where the state treats everyone like a slave, i can understand why so many in china would be addicted to video games. i would be too if i lived in china
there exists in china the lives of the rich in the coastal cities, who are able to afford some degree of freedom
but for the rest of the country, the majority, you have some sort of nightmare where the worst excesses of communist authoritarianism combine with completely unbridled capitalist rapaciousness, to produce a distinctly modern chinese breed of hell on earth for the poor in china. the state has no problem abusing you and propagandizing you, and the corporations have no problem working you like a mule, and will bribe the corrupt state authorities to get away with it
it really is not surprising that some workers are committing suicide in flocks:
i have been posting on slashdot for years, a couple times a week at least, hundreds, maybe thousands of comments, and never once have i posted anonymously
i simply don't see the need. i'm not ashamed of anything i say
maybe in retrospect i've said something embarrassing, but at the time of posting, it's my personality to just blurt it out. i've never really been embarrassed about anything i want to say. maybe i lack shame. but there's very little to be ashamed about here, so what's the big deal?
what i am saying is: i don't even understand why anyone would ever want post anything anonymously. its an alien concept to my personality
there's visual utility in a tall vertical monitor. maybe it somehow flows with how the mind organizes visua information, but there's something definitely to it
so don't talk in hypotheticals, just try a 16:9 in portrait mode, you'll see, it just feels better
i put one in landscape mode, then i bought an articulating monitor arm, and i put the other one in portrait mode. the setup looks schizophrenic, but listen up folks:
browsing the internet on a 16:9 monitor in portrait mode is a dream
try it some day. you capture so much of a webpage you are usually peering at through a slit you are constantly scrolling through with lots of unused screen real estate on either side
as a web developer, it helps too, believe me: the landscape mode screen for code/ packet inspection/ debugging/ email, etc... the other screen for a really good 10,000 foot overview of what you are actually putting up in the browser in terms of page layout
trust me folks: get a 16:9 monitor and put it in portrait mode if you browse a lot on the internet. it is about as good as it gets in terms of ui experience
the usa has committed plenty of crimes in this world and is worthy of much scorn and hostility by many people
but what i don't understand is selective outrage: outrage at the usa for maltreatments and crimes that almost every other country in the world is guilty of. such as what you just wrote above
coming into the airport, i had a lot of crap in my carry on, so i decided to reorganize on a bench just inside the airport on a bench by a trash can. at one point i even reached into the garbage can and retrieved something out i had just chucked that i had a second thought about. some little vials and stuff: the freebie ointments and lotions and crap you get in hotels
i was very much hung over, miserable, unshaven and unwashed. my facial expressions were grim. at long last after my strange behavior over the trash can, i decided to furtively move into a corner and twiddle under my clothes: i was applying deodorant, but if someone was looking at me through a security camera, i can imagine where their imagination might have gone
long story short, when i got the screening area, 3 guys eyeballing the whole time i was in line called me over to a special room. the other passengers looked at me like i was a osama himself. i started laughing, because i kind of figured out why i was being singled out, but i don't think sudden laughtewr helped in the suspicion department. they gave ma a thorough screening, asked a lot of questions, asked some of them again later (consistency?), and sent me on my way. they even had dogs sniffing around. i guess maybe i profiled more as drug mule?
go to any average canadian or american city and you will see people walking around with many more pounds on their beltline than your average european
additionally, ukians don't even use pounds, they use a fascist communist terrorist socialist system called kilograms. luckily here in the usa we are still a free country and we use pounds for measurement, as god intended
two guy sitting on horses watched a ford model t pass them on the road, and one guy on horse said to the other: "someday, no one will ride horses anymore and we'll all ride those things"
and the other guy laughed at him and said "If you hold up X as an example, it needs to work as an example"
electric cars are not warp drives or graviton bombs: exotic science fiction. its a damn battery attached to a damn motor. its really not that complicated. we haven't used them up to now, because gas has been so cheap. its not going to be so cheap, ever again
so now you figure the rest of the story out with your boundless imagination as to the future and the role of electric cars in them
you don't have any ability to lead or think abstractly about problems in your own right
you can only wait for someone else to lead, you can only depend upon someone else to do the right thing
why didn't you just tell me up front you think of yourself as a slave? save all the effort. i thought i was talking to a responsible human being, not a lemming
so you go, back in your little box, where everything makes sense and you don't have to think about problems or potential problems
sorry to have disturbed you with, you know, the idea of electric cars, which is obviously some sort of crazy hippie pipe dream that no one, no one at all, is taking seriously
india, china, brazil... they're using more and more oil. the sources are only getting deeper and more expensive
at what point do you see the need for change?
but thanks for the shortsightedness. thanks for the belief that oil is going to last forever and has no downsides. you're mental stagnation and acceptance of a sucky status quo is a huge help. i love well-funded islamic fundamentalist nutjobs and i love choking on fumes
you won't have nuclear reactors with modern technology. france and japan have been relying on reactors for decades. but not in your backyard, no. you know, electric cars, less air pollution, no more funding of geopolitical nightmares, etc.
so instead you'll have thousands of acres of your shoreline turned into a befouled environmental calamity, you'll fund wahhabi madrasas in pakistan through all the money you're giving saudis to drive your SUVs, you'll send your sons, daughters, fathers, mothers to die in pointless wars, you'll fuel global warming, you'll make your cities unbreathable...
but remember, its nuclear power we should be afraid of
read NIMBY's, and reverse your idiotic mental block:
don't you understand you're just pawns for corporations?
if the government is not there to regulate the market, it is dominated instead by its largest players
do you believe a corporation beholden to no one but its shareholders is a superior dominant player ot the government? for all their fuckups, the government is beholden to us. don't you understand that?
you fucking fools see so much with what is wrong with government. but you don't understnad that things would be FAR WORSE without the government there to regulate things
truly, you are libertarians and free market fundamentalists will be the ruin of us all. wake the fuck up from your ignorant idealistic trance, PLEASE
you propagnadized tools of corporations, and you don't even fucking know it
the idea that missteps by the government is the basis for greed in this world is of course, insane
but you give a little to the faux news progandized fools rhetorically, and maybe you can nudge them into giving a little back in terms of examining and maybe even reluctantly accepting the simple obvious truth: we need good regulation, not no regulation
that government missteps, no matter how major, minor, remotely tangentially related, or frame job recharacterized (as with the CRA), cannot even remotely compete with the disaster that results when we simply deregulate the economy. which is exactly what 2008 shows. you would think 2008 would put to bed this debate once and for all
yet these propagandized fools still deny the simple truth, and instead weave an alternate reality narrative in which villains become heroes, heroes become villains, minor tangentially related details become crucial turning points, and other such nonsense. the next step is for the almost religiously fanatical free market fundamentalists to start pointing at conspiracy theories and other last gasp attempts in building a massive wall of denial
rather than accepting the simple truth: an unregulated market is far worse than a regulated market. we need government intervention to keep the market stable and healthy. rock of gibraltar solid truth
i believe the solution is to clean up the government
why do you believe that the solution is to get rid of the government?
bad regulation compounds an existing problem. you believe bad regulation is actually the source of the problem. this is like saying that if the police didn't have corrupt officers that no one would get robbed. hilarious!
you're daft, you're insane, you are hopelessly propagandized
please try to understand that having no regulations is far, far worse than whatever problems we have. really. take your kneejerk blinders off for once and examine the simple truth, please
naturally bubbles and pops, and is naturally prone to manipulation by its largest players
this is not "different interpretation" of anything, this is simple and obvious economic history and truth, despite all libertarian myth making and wish fulfillment fantasy fiction to the contrary
BAD government regulation hurts and must be corrected
but NO government regulation destroys economies. really. study your economic history
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the idea that you create a temporary monopoly (which seems to get less temporary every day) in order to encourage the creation of arts and technology has costs which outweigh the supposed benefit. for those who actually create, there are ancillary revenue streams which require no such legal protection
its time to completely trash ip law. all of it. copyrights, patents: trash it, all of it
did Victorian England have legions of party workers censoring every little post on internet forums and tracking those who were too uppity? did Victorian England have absolute authority and control over the media?
the industrial revolution gave birth to communism and capitalism in its modern forms. China has adopted the modern forms of communism and capitalism, and then went through the industrial revolution. Combine that with a throughly Chinese obsession with learned bureaucratic efficiency (it's not hard to understand the derivation of the term "mandarin": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_(bureaucrat)), and the absolute power wielded by the grumpy old technocrats in Beijing, and you have the makings of a slave state unlike any that has existed in the history of the world.
China is special, and not in a good way. It takes the worst excesses of Communist and Capitalist philosophies to derive a brutal machine of production. Which is fine if you are rich and live in Shanghai. Not so good if you are a poor slave, which is what the majority of Chinese are becoming. Denied the right to express themselves or speak openly, denied a justice system which has their best interests in mind, and ruled over by alternately corrupt local bosses and ideologues concerned about building a modern colossus, regardless of the human and environmental costs, and you have the life of the modern Chinese slave.
Its not pretty and the machine is growing in power every day. Worry about that. China needs human rights, or soon we won't have human rights.
and considering the reality of china, where the state treats everyone like a slave, i can understand why so many in china would be addicted to video games. i would be too if i lived in china
there exists in china the lives of the rich in the coastal cities, who are able to afford some degree of freedom
but for the rest of the country, the majority, you have some sort of nightmare where the worst excesses of communist authoritarianism combine with completely unbridled capitalist rapaciousness, to produce a distinctly modern chinese breed of hell on earth for the poor in china. the state has no problem abusing you and propagandizing you, and the corporations have no problem working you like a mule, and will bribe the corrupt state authorities to get away with it
it really is not surprising that some workers are committing suicide in flocks:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-08/foxconn-says-personal-issues-not-wages-led-workers-to-suicide.html
modern china is a brutal corporatist authoritarian nightmare, the worst of communism and capitalism, mushed together as a hybrid schizophrenic hell
i have been posting on slashdot for years, a couple times a week at least, hundreds, maybe thousands of comments, and never once have i posted anonymously
i simply don't see the need. i'm not ashamed of anything i say
maybe in retrospect i've said something embarrassing, but at the time of posting, it's my personality to just blurt it out. i've never really been embarrassed about anything i want to say. maybe i lack shame. but there's very little to be ashamed about here, so what's the big deal?
what i am saying is: i don't even understand why anyone would ever want post anything anonymously. its an alien concept to my personality
look at the dimensions. that's not random
there's visual utility in a tall vertical monitor. maybe it somehow flows with how the mind organizes visua information, but there's something definitely to it
so don't talk in hypotheticals, just try a 16:9 in portrait mode, you'll see, it just feels better
but mine is vertical and erect while yours is horizontal and flaccid
so my equipment is superior, at least that's what your mom and your girlfriend always tell me
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16824255011
each is 1920x1200
i put one in landscape mode, then i bought an articulating monitor arm, and i put the other one in portrait mode. the setup looks schizophrenic, but listen up folks:
browsing the internet on a 16:9 monitor in portrait mode is a dream
try it some day. you capture so much of a webpage you are usually peering at through a slit you are constantly scrolling through with lots of unused screen real estate on either side
as a web developer, it helps too, believe me: the landscape mode screen for code/ packet inspection/ debugging/ email, etc... the other screen for a really good 10,000 foot overview of what you are actually putting up in the browser in terms of page layout
trust me folks: get a 16:9 monitor and put it in portrait mode if you browse a lot on the internet. it is about as good as it gets in terms of ui experience
http://www.playkon.com/news-2601-How-To-Solo-Sunwell-With-36-WoW-Accounts.html
so that will be three cards please
Russian is better than management!
If you want to be good at over-simplistic thinking, practice over-simplistic thinking.
It was too long to read.
Read the article? Who are you kidding?
Also I think that... wait what? Hold on, I'll be right back
the upside is that a healthy ego can help you navigate the missteps, crises and setbacks we experience in life
the downside is that an overly healthy ego can help create those same missteps, crises and setbacks
the usa has committed plenty of crimes in this world and is worthy of much scorn and hostility by many people
but what i don't understand is selective outrage: outrage at the usa for maltreatments and crimes that almost every other country in the world is guilty of. such as what you just wrote above
people like being trendy i guess
coming into the airport, i had a lot of crap in my carry on, so i decided to reorganize on a bench just inside the airport on a bench by a trash can. at one point i even reached into the garbage can and retrieved something out i had just chucked that i had a second thought about. some little vials and stuff: the freebie ointments and lotions and crap you get in hotels
i was very much hung over, miserable, unshaven and unwashed. my facial expressions were grim. at long last after my strange behavior over the trash can, i decided to furtively move into a corner and twiddle under my clothes: i was applying deodorant, but if someone was looking at me through a security camera, i can imagine where their imagination might have gone
long story short, when i got the screening area, 3 guys eyeballing the whole time i was in line called me over to a special room. the other passengers looked at me like i was a osama himself. i started laughing, because i kind of figured out why i was being singled out, but i don't think sudden laughtewr helped in the suspicion department. they gave ma a thorough screening, asked a lot of questions, asked some of them again later (consistency?), and sent me on my way. they even had dogs sniffing around. i guess maybe i profiled more as drug mule?
who knows. regardless, flying sucks
go to any average canadian or american city and you will see people walking around with many more pounds on their beltline than your average european
additionally, ukians don't even use pounds, they use a fascist communist terrorist socialist system called kilograms. luckily here in the usa we are still a free country and we use pounds for measurement, as god intended
you first need the character attribute of massively blind hypocrisy
this applies to the right, and the left
"do as i say, not as i do" must be your highest credo
then you are a guaranteed success
two guy sitting on horses watched a ford model t pass them on the road, and one guy on horse said to the other: "someday, no one will ride horses anymore and we'll all ride those things"
and the other guy laughed at him and said "If you hold up X as an example, it needs to work as an example"
electric cars are not warp drives or graviton bombs: exotic science fiction. its a damn battery attached to a damn motor. its really not that complicated. we haven't used them up to now, because gas has been so cheap. its not going to be so cheap, ever again
so now you figure the rest of the story out with your boundless imagination as to the future and the role of electric cars in them
you don't have any ability to lead or think abstractly about problems in your own right
you can only wait for someone else to lead, you can only depend upon someone else to do the right thing
why didn't you just tell me up front you think of yourself as a slave? save all the effort. i thought i was talking to a responsible human being, not a lemming
so you go, back in your little box, where everything makes sense and you don't have to think about problems or potential problems
sorry to have disturbed you with, you know, the idea of electric cars, which is obviously some sort of crazy hippie pipe dream that no one, no one at all, is taking seriously
wait for what?
$10/ gallon gas?
or $20/ gallon gas?
india, china, brazil... they're using more and more oil. the sources are only getting deeper and more expensive
at what point do you see the need for change?
but thanks for the shortsightedness. thanks for the belief that oil is going to last forever and has no downsides. you're mental stagnation and acceptance of a sucky status quo is a huge help. i love well-funded islamic fundamentalist nutjobs and i love choking on fumes
thanks for your ignorant complacency dude!
you won't have nuclear reactors with modern technology. france and japan have been relying on reactors for decades. but not in your backyard, no. you know, electric cars, less air pollution, no more funding of geopolitical nightmares, etc.
so instead you'll have thousands of acres of your shoreline turned into a befouled environmental calamity, you'll fund wahhabi madrasas in pakistan through all the money you're giving saudis to drive your SUVs, you'll send your sons, daughters, fathers, mothers to die in pointless wars, you'll fuel global warming, you'll make your cities unbreathable...
but remember, its nuclear power we should be afraid of
read NIMBY's, and reverse your idiotic mental block:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
don't you understand you're just pawns for corporations?
if the government is not there to regulate the market, it is dominated instead by its largest players
do you believe a corporation beholden to no one but its shareholders is a superior dominant player ot the government? for all their fuckups, the government is beholden to us. don't you understand that?
you fucking fools see so much with what is wrong with government. but you don't understnad that things would be FAR WORSE without the government there to regulate things
truly, you are libertarians and free market fundamentalists will be the ruin of us all. wake the fuck up from your ignorant idealistic trance, PLEASE
you propagnadized tools of corporations, and you don't even fucking know it
bubbles and pops and is manipulated by large players
do you deny that?
the idea that missteps by the government is the basis for greed in this world is of course, insane
but you give a little to the faux news progandized fools rhetorically, and maybe you can nudge them into giving a little back in terms of examining and maybe even reluctantly accepting the simple obvious truth: we need good regulation, not no regulation
that government missteps, no matter how major, minor, remotely tangentially related, or frame job recharacterized (as with the CRA), cannot even remotely compete with the disaster that results when we simply deregulate the economy. which is exactly what 2008 shows. you would think 2008 would put to bed this debate once and for all
yet these propagandized fools still deny the simple truth, and instead weave an alternate reality narrative in which villains become heroes, heroes become villains, minor tangentially related details become crucial turning points, and other such nonsense. the next step is for the almost religiously fanatical free market fundamentalists to start pointing at conspiracy theories and other last gasp attempts in building a massive wall of denial
rather than accepting the simple truth: an unregulated market is far worse than a regulated market. we need government intervention to keep the market stable and healthy. rock of gibraltar solid truth
we both agree on that
i believe the solution is to clean up the government
why do you believe that the solution is to get rid of the government?
bad regulation compounds an existing problem. you believe bad regulation is actually the source of the problem. this is like saying that if the police didn't have corrupt officers that no one would get robbed. hilarious!
you're daft, you're insane, you are hopelessly propagandized
please try to understand that having no regulations is far, far worse than whatever problems we have. really. take your kneejerk blinders off for once and examine the simple truth, please
naturally bubbles and pops, and is naturally prone to manipulation by its largest players
this is not "different interpretation" of anything, this is simple and obvious economic history and truth, despite all libertarian myth making and wish fulfillment fantasy fiction to the contrary
BAD government regulation hurts and must be corrected
but NO government regulation destroys economies. really. study your economic history