because capitalism creates inequality which creates unfreedom.
Inequality is the natural state of the world. No two people are the same, whether in their physical attributes, intellectual abilities, or motivations and drives. Most people are willing to acknowledge that, except for those Procrusteans who want to slaughter millions in defiance of nature.
Once you join the Mac Culture, you really have stepped into the Truman Capote Show. Or is it the Harry Truman Show? Either way, it's not reality, it's a marketing world.
The problem with Libertarianism is that it assumes we all exist in a vacuum.
It's called "radical individualism". Libertarians often seem to think that there are only individuals and the State. They don't acknowledge other intermediary ties, like family, kin groups, churches, communities, a society. So, when there are a collection of individual rights, only the State can protect and enforce these rights. These intermediary organizations just don't enter the picture, it's just so "collectivist". So as the rights increase, the State grows. Just what the Libertarians wanted, right?
Still, you gotta wonder why people need to find things to be upset about. I am not sure why this irks me so much, maybe I should drink less coffee.....
It's the general discontentedness of the Good Life. You wonder, "is this all there is? No, wait, if only my Google search tool were perfect, I could be truly happy!"
First they came for the Manufacturers
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Manufacturer
Then they came for the Programmers
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Programmer.
Then they came for the Burger Flippers
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Burger Flipper.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
The heated election environment (not just here) shows that politics is becoming our Holy War. There is a long-running streak of "America-as-Messiah" in our history but now there seems to be that extra dash of religious fervor about Running The State that makes this election a real zinger.
Whoever loses is going to have legions of bitter hardened zealots available to rally four years later.
Garet Garret wrote, in 1938, of the changes in the Republic due mainly to Franklinstein Roosevelt:
There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.
How do you think your Car Analogy in "Command Line" would stand up to/. scrutiny? Would it pass (that is, leave the/. audience dumbfounded in the presence of a Successful Car Analogy), or fall by the wayside like most others as Yet Another Failed Car Analogy (that is, generate about 575 comments pointing out all the ways the analogy fails)?
I think something is up with that purpoted "bush education spending increase" though. I have several friends in education in different areas of the country and all their schools are looking at cutbacks. Not scientific of course, just my gut feeling.
I've heard teachers refer to the "No Child Left Behind" act as the "No Teacher Left Standing" act, as it loads teachers down with more non-academic work.
The Lone Star Iconoclast participates with the rest of the USA in the self-delusion that Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme, and won't inevitably fail. So much for being Iconoclast.
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Inequality is the natural state of the world. No two people are the same, whether in their physical attributes, intellectual abilities, or motivations and drives. Most people are willing to acknowledge that, except for those Procrusteans who want to slaughter millions in defiance of nature.
Once you join the Mac Culture, you really have stepped into the Truman Capote Show. Or is it the Harry Truman Show? Either way, it's not reality, it's a marketing world.
Slashdot. News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters, Failed Car Analogies.
To work with you, you mean?
OpenBSD showed me, security-wise, how crufty and cobbled Linux is. IPtables? Are you kidding? pf rolls it up and smokes it.
It's called "radical individualism". Libertarians often seem to think that there are only individuals and the State. They don't acknowledge other intermediary ties, like family, kin groups, churches, communities, a society. So, when there are a collection of individual rights, only the State can protect and enforce these rights. These intermediary organizations just don't enter the picture, it's just so "collectivist". So as the rights increase, the State grows. Just what the Libertarians wanted, right?
That is absolute codswallop. Big Government is what got us into and kept us in the Great Depression, and War is what got us out.
I won't get fooled again.
So, the Bush win _was_ legit, because the 'Skins lost.
Has it come down to this? A TFlops-size contest?
Yes, if there is hope, it lies with the proles. Thus, there is no hope.
By this thinking, everyone who votes for the losers threw their vote away, except to make it more interesting.
Just like people are tired of going to Red Sox games year after year. It always just one baseball game after another. And you always know how it ends.
It's the general discontentedness of the Good Life. You wonder, "is this all there is? No, wait, if only my Google search tool were perfect, I could be truly happy!"
Where is the Artilleryman Napoleon Buonoparte when you need him?!
First they came for the Manufacturers
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Manufacturer
Then they came for the Programmers
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Programmer.
Then they came for the Burger Flippers
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Burger Flipper.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Whoever loses is going to have legions of bitter hardened zealots available to rally four years later.
Back issues.
How do you think your Car Analogy in "Command Line" would stand up to /. scrutiny? Would it pass (that is, leave the /. audience dumbfounded in the presence of a Successful Car Analogy), or fall by the wayside like most others as Yet Another Failed Car Analogy (that is, generate about 575 comments pointing out all the ways the analogy fails)?
I've heard teachers refer to the "No Child Left Behind" act as the "No Teacher Left Standing" act, as it loads teachers down with more non-academic work.
The Lone Star Iconoclast participates with the rest of the USA in the self-delusion that Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme, and won't inevitably fail. So much for being Iconoclast.
There once was a man driving slow
But he owned a defective Renault
He pushed on the brakes
until his foot ached
And now he's a Slashdot Hero.
FYI, Microsoft is an Unnatural Disaster.
I Buy Macs.