- We need to get doctors in congress like that one.
- Democracy is a form of do-it-yourself open source by the people.
- If history has shown anything, the OS wars are following similar lines as other tragic events in history: Starting with Microsoft rejecting the feasability of open source: 1) Totalitarian govermnents that reject the existence of neighboring nations, usually in an attempt to acquire them. 2) Regimes that descriminate between their people, implying that some are citizens while others have no rights. 3) Large religions that have no tolerance over beliefs that appear to challenge their ways. These beliefs could be alternate religions, political opionions, or even scientific discoveries. The imposing religions make statements that the "non-believers" are damned. They associate elements of the others with their own fictional evil elements to the point that "acknowledging a hell implies acceptance of the oppressor's religion". They actively proselytize (convert), persecute, excommunicate, interrogate, censor, to further their own unknown agendas. This also includes denying the existence of the other beliefs.
Bad things happen when you trust the wrong people.
I've only seen two kinds of communities that still exist in the traditional sense.
Traditional meaning the users are online together for a period of time, not just posting messages or web pages in a collective area.
The first one would be online action fps shooters like Quake Arena, Unreal, etc. These are where players want to compete for a few rounds and focus on a task.
The second one would be online role playing games like Everquest, AO, DaoC, etc. Here players are visiting the dungeons with the good experience or loot in their quest to get maximum levels and loot (could take thousands of hours). Ultima Online could be in this category but the game had a mass exodus. It's too easy to get the maximum attainable skills (a month or less) and instant teleporting to anywhere. Kind of like winning a Warcraft level.. nothing to do afterwards.
Online communities only seem to work when the people have a common task. Otherwise it becomes a chat room.. which some enjoy but i'm an action person.
Checkers are already scanning the barcodes or typing in the keycodes of the products.
If the register can print a receipt that shows all your purchases and your debit/credit/check then they can already link your habits to your bank account.
Might as well as use a club card for a discount or pay in cash if you really care about your privacy.
(OMG they found out I eat the same food as the other 100 million people around me)
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It'll be as popular as those solid gold diamond studded phones.
"How much wood would wood glue glue if wood glue could glue wood?" -Vivre Draco
- We need to get doctors in congress like that one.
- Democracy is a form of do-it-yourself open source by the people.
- If history has shown anything, the OS wars are following similar lines as other tragic events in history:
Starting with Microsoft rejecting the feasability of open source:
1) Totalitarian govermnents that reject the existence of neighboring nations, usually in an attempt to acquire them.
2) Regimes that descriminate between their people, implying that some are citizens while others have no rights.
3) Large religions that have no tolerance over beliefs that appear to challenge their ways. These beliefs could be alternate religions, political opionions, or even scientific discoveries. The imposing religions make statements that the "non-believers" are damned. They associate elements of the others with their own fictional evil elements to the point that "acknowledging a hell implies acceptance of the oppressor's religion". They actively proselytize (convert), persecute, excommunicate, interrogate, censor, to further their own unknown agendas. This also includes denying the existence of the other beliefs.
Bad things happen when you trust the wrong people.
I've only seen two kinds of communities that still exist in the traditional sense.
Traditional meaning the users are online together for a period of time, not just posting messages or web pages in a collective area.
The first one would be online action fps shooters like Quake Arena, Unreal, etc. These are where players want to compete for a few rounds and focus on a task.
The second one would be online role playing games like Everquest, AO, DaoC, etc. Here players are visiting the dungeons with the good experience or loot in their quest to get maximum levels and loot (could take thousands of hours). Ultima Online could be in this category but the game had a mass exodus. It's too easy to get the maximum attainable skills (a month or less) and instant teleporting to anywhere. Kind of like winning a Warcraft level.. nothing to do afterwards.
Online communities only seem to work when the people have a common task. Otherwise it becomes a chat room.. which some enjoy but i'm an action person.
Checkers are already scanning the barcodes or typing in the keycodes of the products.
If the register can print a receipt that shows all your purchases and your debit/credit/check then they can already link your habits to your bank account.
Might as well as use a club card for a discount or pay in cash if you really care about your privacy.
(OMG they found out I eat the same food as the other 100 million people around me)