Actually, they don't come about -- For too many people, the reality is that because the production of drugs is money oriented, they will die a painful and disgraceful death after having lived their decrepit lives without the benefits of modern science simply because we care more about money.
A basic human action is to act to benefit yourself and your family. Typically, that translates into adding value to some materials and selling the value-added product. Your labor and creativity have changed something into something more valuable. If you can't sell/exchange it, you tend to change activities to something where you can make money. This insight completely eludes communists and socialists, which is why communist systems are so wretchedly impoverished (socialists are busy trying to impoverish prosperous systems). Central bureacrats try to decide what is the best allocation of resources, but they can't, because they don't know everything, so they misallocate. This is inherently inefficient. But now I'm rambling...
So should the state coerce people to act for the benefit of others without any reward? That they must give up their time and energy and creativity for the benefit of some unknown, distant, unrelated human, to the detriment of those who are close--friends and family? That is, to be slaves?
No, we don't care about money more than we care about our loved ones, but we don't always care about abstract "humanity", which is what the slave-makers always chant while enslaving and impoverishing and bombing. --
It is NOT an advertiser's legal right to contact you. Foremost among our rights is the right to be left alone.
I agree with you. However, being an American means you also have the inalienable right to be hectored by moralists and immoralists of every stripe and cajoled by an array of hucksters. It's all in the great search for a sucker from whom money is easily extracted. If you are a sucker, you have the right to be found and stripped clean.
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I studied at a well-known eastern U. What the heck, let's name names, Georgia Tech. It's a corporate research empire. Most profs are spending their time writing proposals and trolling for grants from industry and gov't. The profs are paid on a percentage of the grants they pull in. After a coupla years, that is their only income. And the undergrads are always grumbling about not getting good prof time. For the profs that are good at it (i.e., the entrepeneural types), it's a nice cash cow. --
Er.. screwing over customers *without them realising* has always been looked upon as good business sense. Capitalism sucks. Then again, so does communism....
Can't find a not-at-all-sucky system. Find the least-sucky system. Capitalism is less-sucky than communism, because there is the potential for liberty under capitalism. Too bad that potential has been sold out. Plus, the indoctrination of our children into a global corporate state in which they are merely docile consumerist droids is complete.
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It's a blessing in disguise. Now's their chance to really help society, and get the homeless up to speed on technology. They'll learn Java! They'll set Google as their default search engine! They'll learn to turn off JavaScript in their browser! They'll change the world! They'll be no more "digital divide".
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The Little Mermaid, maybe. Aladdin, was "lifted" from Arabian folklore. Disney in reality has came up with little "original" material since Mickey Mouse. Disney's animations are usually just re-tellings of history or previous works (ahem, Hunchback of Notre Dame?). A good site on the subject of the "Disneyfication" of history is here.
The only way Disney is original is in how it can take so many varied stories from many cultures and shoehorn them into its single stock script. Truly amazing... --
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There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the world because there never was one to begin with. You can't lose something you never had.
I think the expectectation and reasonableness rise in proportion to the amount of government probing into our lives. If the government and companies weren't so intent on gathering so much info on us, and monitoring all of our activity, and even checking our thoughts, we wouldn't be so obsessed with privacy.
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I don't get why Communist stuff can be sold and Nazi stuff can't.
Because there are so many Communists floating around there still. There was no de-communization done anywhere.
The furor that _The Black Book of Communism_ raised is because it dared to document the crimes of Communism (the subtitle of the book is "Crimes, Repression, Terror"), and ask the question: "Why are Nazis so (justifiably) vilified for their crimes, but Communists are not? Especially since the communists exterminated rather indiscriminately, too, and much more prolifically.
All the French Communists just about had a cow apiece.
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In the specific case of Yahoo! auctions, those who asked for this ruling were distrurbed by the fact that these items are very probably sold to sick animals, who do not have much interest in history, but rather a fascination for hate, violence, genocide or morbidity.
Yes, and forbidding the sale of these items cures these people of their problems, just turns them into docile bunnies. It is well-documented, somewhere, I am just sure of it!
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What's most interesting about this discussion is that it shows that people are now turning to perfect strangers in how to parent, that most intimate of activities. I don't know if this is a good or bad thing. The action itself isn't harmful, but it does indicate that traditional channels of support for parents are disappearing.
You are right, but I gathered he mainly wanted an ethical technical approach to his situation. Where better than/. to get ethical technical approaches? Microsoft?
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No, the original poster has hit the nail square on the head. Keeping a record of where the child surfed is far better than simply signing up with some CyberPatrol. First of all you get to decide what is appropriate or not for your own children (instead of relying on someone else). Besides, squid at leats gives the child the benefit of the doubt. It doesn't block web sites (unless you tell it to) it merely logs where you have been without blocking off potentially useful parts of the web. It allows you and your child to decide together what is appropriate and what is not.
And there also is squidblock for those who want a canned set of "bad" sites to block right off the bat. They build the list from user input. And if you want to, there are any number of proxy log reporting tools out there, too, to generate reports of sites visited.
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So, sovreignty of nations no longer applies? My laws extend beyond my recognized national boundries?
Can I just say that, for the record, this is the most misguided hunk of trash ever pushed in the UN? Thank you.
You know that sovereignty of nations does not exist, if you followed what what went on in Yugoslavia in 1999-2000, in Hungary in 1956, in Chekoslovakia in 1968 and 1938, in Ethiopia in 1935, in (small-country-getting-pushed-around-by-big-countr y) in (any-random-year). But I'm getting repetitious.
If you are a small country, your sovereignty exists right now only with the indulgence of the US/NATO.
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What gets lost? Individual rights and community rights. Americans will no longer be able to act as Americans, because of how it might affect a Korean, a Swede, a South African or a New Zealander.
I don't know about you, but I'm not looking forward to it.
If you like McDonald's hamburgers, you can get excited. Oh, wait, that's already happened. Can it get worse?
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This, I suppose, will cause a worldwide shortage of lawyers, thereby increasing demand and pay for lawyers. It will also increase the tedium in the law profession (how many jobs devoted to knowing the laws of all rinky-dink-Hague-members?), and thereby the purported excitement of law in Hollywood shows. Soon we shall see enless gun battles and car chases among lawyers in lawyer shows.
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I dunno.. I'm not sure any site with advertising is "free". There are different ways to pay for things, and one of them is to fill your eyeballs with banner-ads. Not that I disagree with your point, I think that if anything, this asks the question - Why would you pay for someone else to 'hold onto' your data, and lose that much control?
Because Microsoft said it was the wave of the future!.NET! Cool! Oh, wait, this doesn't look like CIO.com...Where am I exactly?
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It's not his strict constructionist views that I have a problem with (indeed, I tend to agree with those) but his almost blind adherance to tradition without regard for changing social mores that cause me to disagree. Don't get me wrong: I respect Scalia a great deal. He's an incredibly well-versed Justice with a sharp legal mind, and his adherance to principle is admirable.
However, like the father in "Fiddler on the Roof" he shouts out "Tradition!" too frequently for my tastes. Unlike that father, though, Scalia fails to alter his opinions -- even in the slightest -- based on either new information or the simple fact that people's beliefs have changed. Social mores and taboos do (and should) change as time goes on. Scalia has given far too much weight to the way things were yesterday as a rationale for his decisions.
Of course, some things transcend "tradition" or "social mores", such as "rule of law". I'd like to see more adherents to rule of law and fewer to "whatever is cool in the Statist camp right now". --
I want to see this guy working on The Revolution. Is there a bio for him? Do they have a "current life status" describing his computer hardware at home, any pets, cars, friends, and the current contents of his refrigerator? Do they have him hooked up to record vital statistics? I hope they make some pretty charts out of them.
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I wish that someone (or some group) would check out the prices of CD's in the states (and around the worls for that matter). I know that there are marketing and royalty costs that come with each CD but to pay $15 for a CD is crazy.
Then there are a lot of crazy people here. BTW, whenever you buy a CD, you are saying the price is worth it. Because instead of keeping the cash ($15), you are giving it up voluntarily for the object. It doesn't matter what people say: when they buy something, they are saying with their action: "It's worth it." (Of course, there are exceptions for monopoly/cartel necessities, of which I can't think of any examples right now).
It's only after you find that there are only one or two tracks that are worth listening to that you realize you were rooked.
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This has some really nice points. After a while, we've seen it all. Part of what drives our lives is the knowledge that our time is limited, it will end.
Here is an article pondering the question, "Why Not Immortality?" --
To reject IP as a legal fiction only leads us back to a terrifying fact that all property is, in essence, a lie. But it is a useful lie, which is why we Civilized People argue for it so strongly. If Disney has no right to protect its DVDs, what right do you have to your house? I'm sure the world's millions of homeless would like an answer.
This is a clear but false idea. If all property is a lie, then we are all slaves of whoever can exercise force successfully against us--that is, if someone wants to take your computer, he can, if he has the wherewithal. The right the keep the fruits of your labor (property) is a fundamental aspect of liberty. If you cannot keep the fruit of your labor, you are working for someone else, you are a slave.
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A basic human action is to act to benefit yourself and your family. Typically, that translates into adding value to some materials and selling the value-added product. Your labor and creativity have changed something into something more valuable. If you can't sell/exchange it, you tend to change activities to something where you can make money. This insight completely eludes communists and socialists, which is why communist systems are so wretchedly impoverished (socialists are busy trying to impoverish prosperous systems). Central bureacrats try to decide what is the best allocation of resources, but they can't, because they don't know everything, so they misallocate. This is inherently inefficient. But now I'm rambling...
So should the state coerce people to act for the benefit of others without any reward? That they must give up their time and energy and creativity for the benefit of some unknown, distant, unrelated human, to the detriment of those who are close--friends and family? That is, to be slaves?
No, we don't care about money more than we care about our loved ones, but we don't always care about abstract "humanity", which is what the slave-makers always chant while enslaving and impoverishing and bombing.
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I agree with you. However, being an American means you also have the inalienable right to be hectored by moralists and immoralists of every stripe and cajoled by an array of hucksters. It's all in the great search for a sucker from whom money is easily extracted. If you are a sucker, you have the right to be found and stripped clean.
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I studied at a well-known eastern U. What the heck, let's name names, Georgia Tech. It's a corporate research empire. Most profs are spending their time writing proposals and trolling for grants from industry and gov't. The profs are paid on a percentage of the grants they pull in. After a coupla years, that is their only income. And the undergrads are always grumbling about not getting good prof time. For the profs that are good at it (i.e., the entrepeneural types), it's a nice cash cow.
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Can't find a not-at-all-sucky system. Find the least-sucky system. Capitalism is less-sucky than communism, because there is the potential for liberty under capitalism. Too bad that potential has been sold out. Plus, the indoctrination of our children into a global corporate state in which they are merely docile consumerist droids is complete.
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It's a blessing in disguise. Now's their chance to really help society, and get the homeless up to speed on technology. They'll learn Java! They'll set Google as their default search engine! They'll learn to turn off JavaScript in their browser! They'll change the world! They'll be no more "digital divide".
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The only way Disney is original is in how it can take so many varied stories from many cultures and shoehorn them into its single stock script. Truly amazing...
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Nope. A Hans Christian Andersen story.
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I think the expectectation and reasonableness rise in proportion to the amount of government probing into our lives. If the government and companies weren't so intent on gathering so much info on us, and monitoring all of our activity, and even checking our thoughts, we wouldn't be so obsessed with privacy.
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And I wasn't really on your case, more on France's.
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Because there are so many Communists floating around there still. There was no de-communization done anywhere.
The furor that _The Black Book of Communism_ raised is because it dared to document the crimes of Communism (the subtitle of the book is "Crimes, Repression, Terror"), and ask the question: "Why are Nazis so (justifiably) vilified for their crimes, but Communists are not? Especially since the communists exterminated rather indiscriminately, too, and much more prolifically. All the French Communists just about had a cow apiece.
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Yes, and forbidding the sale of these items cures these people of their problems, just turns them into docile bunnies. It is well-documented, somewhere, I am just sure of it!
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You are right, but I gathered he mainly wanted an ethical technical approach to his situation. Where better than /. to get ethical technical approaches? Microsoft?
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And there also is squidblock for those who want a canned set of "bad" sites to block right off the bat. They build the list from user input. And if you want to, there are any number of proxy log reporting tools out there, too, to generate reports of sites visited.
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Can I just say that, for the record, this is the most misguided hunk of trash ever pushed in the UN? Thank you.
You know that sovereignty of nations does not exist, if you followed what what went on in Yugoslavia in 1999-2000, in Hungary in 1956, in Chekoslovakia in 1968 and 1938, in Ethiopia in 1935, in (small-country-getting-pushed-around-by-big-countr y) in (any-random-year). But I'm getting repetitious.
If you are a small country, your sovereignty exists right now only with the indulgence of the US/NATO.
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I don't know about you, but I'm not looking forward to it.
If you like McDonald's hamburgers, you can get excited. Oh, wait, that's already happened. Can it get worse?
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This, I suppose, will cause a worldwide shortage of lawyers, thereby increasing demand and pay for lawyers. It will also increase the tedium in the law profession (how many jobs devoted to knowing the laws of all rinky-dink-Hague-members?), and thereby the purported excitement of law in Hollywood shows. Soon we shall see enless gun battles and car chases among lawyers in lawyer shows.
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There goes the heyday of reading /. Surely this will reduce the incidence of sites getting /.ed.
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Because Microsoft said it was the wave of the future! .NET! Cool! Oh, wait, this doesn't look like CIO.com...Where am I exactly?
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Of course, some things transcend "tradition" or "social mores", such as "rule of law". I'd like to see more adherents to rule of law and fewer to "whatever is cool in the Statist camp right now".
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I, too, have admired your web pages for a long time now.
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Advertising == Skewed view of reality. If you skew it even more, will you get closer to reality?
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I want to see this guy working on The Revolution. Is there a bio for him? Do they have a "current life status" describing his computer hardware at home, any pets, cars, friends, and the current contents of his refrigerator? Do they have him hooked up to record vital statistics? I hope they make some pretty charts out of them.
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Then there are a lot of crazy people here. BTW, whenever you buy a CD, you are saying the price is worth it. Because instead of keeping the cash ($15), you are giving it up voluntarily for the object. It doesn't matter what people say: when they buy something, they are saying with their action: "It's worth it." (Of course, there are exceptions for monopoly/cartel necessities, of which I can't think of any examples right now).
It's only after you find that there are only one or two tracks that are worth listening to that you realize you were rooked.
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Here is an article pondering the question, "Why Not Immortality?"
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This is a clear but false idea. If all property is a lie, then we are all slaves of whoever can exercise force successfully against us--that is, if someone wants to take your computer, he can, if he has the wherewithal. The right the keep the fruits of your labor (property) is a fundamental aspect of liberty. If you cannot keep the fruit of your labor, you are working for someone else, you are a slave.
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