All things being equal (they aren't), Bush has done enough damage and the press is bold enough with him that he cannot win relection without: it being handed to him by a blunder of an idiot opponent, or if he steals it through fraud.
We are going into the economic winter of an inevitable Kondratieff Cycledelayed by massive deficit spending. Whatever party wins the next election will take the blame for this.
Based on the momentem of electronic voter machine replacment and the detailed widespread press coverage of the hanging/dimpled chad recount process, if the presidential election is in within 0-5% there will be great hubbub and sevral recounts.
Bush will become president again after recounts play out. The media will be forced to cover the advantages of open source vs proprietary software. It's to short a logical leap for the press not to take.
Durring the mayhem and finger pointing US companies that make software will become the biggest boogie men in the questionable election. Rigged or not, the mistrust of the govt will be enourmous. The stigma will linger and people will understand the software/IP alternitive en-masse for the first time.
When the market/housing/bonds/currency all crash, because the chinese unpeg the yuan from the dollar as late as possible (2007 3/4 as per the WTO) and the yuan springs back hard destablizing everything. (they will do this as sabotage or an economic nuke.) Republicans will take all the blame for the following depresion and the corruption that caused it. (Nothing sucks like a Hoover)
The Republican party will be dispanded, and perhaps a world war (over intelectual property) will occour. Laws on software will radically change for the better in 2012-2015 bringing the US inline with less recent but still new international IP law.
As crazy as it seems, the scarriest thing to me right now is a Democrat winning. Most of these things will still happen but the Democrats will take the blame. Democrats are way to weak to survive a disasterous presidency and will dispand.
Obviously whatever party is dispanded will be replaced, but the populist replacment will take time to accumulate power and the country will swing hard to the left or the right.
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Just because it's in a contract doesn't mean it's legal. Much less enforcable, moral, or in a sane alignment to the natural doctrines of the free market and capitalism. It just means another lawyer is off the bread line.
My thoughts exactly. Why the EU respects the less reputable copyright and patent laws from the US is beyond me. The US version of intelectual property gives US companies an unfair home court advantage.
Does the EU want to subject to the latest MSFT webstandard powergrab? Do they want to be the place that "finds" all the new rock stars but doesn't financially benifit from their accent? Do they want to pay rediculous fees everytime they try to build somthing that happens to be covered by one of a billion random word string patents registered in the US. Do they want attach closepins to their collective nipples and pour hot wax on themselves?
By 2008, perhaps sooner, the GDP of the EU will surpass that of the US. Isn't time to stop being pushed around? Create cut and dry IP laws that best benifit a free open market. Like 14 year copyrights, government works in the public domain, compulsory licencing in patents and copyright, and working models for patent applications. Make the rules fair and let the chips fall as they may. You may not have another chance...
Uh oh here comes a mob of angry confused rednecks lead by disney patent lawyers posing as neo-cons... aaaaaaaaaahhh I'm not the Taliban... oh god run.....
If anyone is interested in a free daily periodical where you can learn a great deal more about the machine and the reality of modern economics to the tune of dripping sarchasam I recommend the The Daily Reckoning.
To paraphrase an article I read their recently, You can no more understand the modern world without understanding econimics than you can understand the renasance without understanding religion.
For instance they recently had a great article on the real nature of deflation. It's contraction of the money availble to the system and a not directly related to prices falling (although that is a possible side effect.) Despite Greenspans rantings, It is actually a healthy and normal good thing.
If you look through their cast list you will see it is quite an impressive list of economics professors, market anaylists, politicians, and venture capitalists. They mention Linux as an inevitable market motion too, which is always a good sign.;)
It's called compulsory licencing, and they hate it. They were threatened with it a couple of years ago by Orrin Hatch(I think?)
Anybody sells any song from any artist, they in turn pay a flat fee back to the RIAA. Band not making enough money? Adjust the rate. What they lose in profit per song they would make up in volume when everybody and anybody sold.oggs at every opportunity on the Net. Well the good stuff at the right rate would sell at least.
The problem is, a financial idiot could run the system effectivly. The CEO's need to keep it complicated to maintian their importance. With regions and release dates and clearchannel, FCC, and ticketmaster kickbacks and secret deals, CEOs look smart and can command more money.
Overpaid CEO's are still a major problem, and the beatings (the next Britney Spears) will continue until Americans get it...
"I believe that we are about to move into a second phase of the digital revolution, a phase which will be more about public than private value; about free, not pay services; about inclusivity, not exclusion.
"In particular, it will be about how public money can be combined with new digital technologies to transform everyone's lives."
Everywhere in hollywood, stars and middlemen, flunkies and directors, aging rockers and CEOs woke up screaming.
"No.. no, not the Internet! Don't put it ON the INTERNET AAAAHHHHHH, OUR CONTROL, OUR MARGINS! NO PEOPLE NEED USSSSSSSSSSSS!!"
About 10,000 Linux advocates laughed themselves to death today, France is now confused about weather to add their share of the dead nerds to the heat death toll. In an official response to the sea SCO's chairman said there will now be weekly wild assertaions until the case is lost... errr he meant won.
"'Network users have a back door to your hard drive while you're online, thereby seeing your personal, private information, such as bank records, social security number, etc.'?"
So this this 27-missing-pages-implicating-Afganistan.doc that I downloaded the other day from an ISP node in Maryland might actually the real thing?
Pretty saussy. Thanks RIAA, I didn't realize filesharing was so important to democracy, and Independance Day makes more sense now!
" as well as to that city's holiday tradition of the Santa Rampage, in which odd Santas pop up in various neighborhoods to hand out weird gifts to locals."
Cummon who else thought of multiple santa from the tick.
1000 people in santa outfits running the wrong way down 5th ave, yelling in unison.
"HO HO HO!"
"HO HO HO!"
"HO HO HO!"
"HO HO HO!"
And they all disappear.
I know what you are thinkning though.. Are they evil Santas?
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It's simple, the threat is internet connections becoming one way streets.
If there is any static IP DSL with reasonable bandidth and price 768/$60 avalible at home, and you don't get it and run a server(s) on it, you are part of the problem. Throw your DHCP based cable modem in the river! It's not real Internet.
And you call yourself a geek!
Go ahead and flame me, I am full of love.:)
PS: COLOs don't count they don't help this problem.
That's exactly how suburban NY is too. Aliens controling peoples minds. Blue glowing lights emiting from every house. All too easy.
Where did that childhood lesson about moderation go? Did people stop teaching it 20 years ago?
Either way this power grab will be a good thing in the long run, it's the short and medium run we need ot worry about. Raising awareness, consolidating power, obsoleting broadcast airwaves, empowering and boosting the Internet. Sooner rather than later, the people will have to choose between the comfey blue lights and less consolidated information chaos. Those who risk confusion will become worldly and better prepared, while the easier, distorted path will be confusing as well and also lead to certain destruction.
Without oversight the lies will grow bolder. Media will appreciate and discuss none of the things about to happen vollentaraly. They answer only to plummiting ratings, and that is what they will get, permenantly.
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Picture's worth a thousand words.
Holy cow, they get a big confused DUH?
Hope this helps.
I'm sure it was a coincidence though.
I will keep trying though.
Thanks for the mod, I think... ;)
Somtimes I wonder if Sony annonced the chipset development just to prevent anyone else from trying...
Think about the implications for wearable computing.
PDA+Linux+2_gig_cf_card+UHF_reciever_card+tiny_pin _UHF_transimit_camera
=real_life_video_log_for less_than_$2000
All things being equal (they aren't), Bush has done enough damage and the press is bold enough with him that he cannot win relection without: it being handed to him by a blunder of an idiot opponent, or if he steals it through fraud.
We are going into the economic winter of an inevitable Kondratieff Cycledelayed by massive deficit spending. Whatever party wins the next election will take the blame for this.
Based on the momentem of electronic voter machine replacment and the detailed widespread press coverage of the hanging/dimpled chad recount process, if the presidential election is in within 0-5% there will be great hubbub and sevral recounts.
Bush will become president again after recounts play out. The media will be forced to cover the advantages of open source vs proprietary software. It's to short a logical leap for the press not to take.
Durring the mayhem and finger pointing US companies that make software will become the biggest boogie men in the questionable election. Rigged or not, the mistrust of the govt will be enourmous. The stigma will linger and people will understand the software/IP alternitive en-masse for the first time.
When the market/housing/bonds/currency all crash, because the chinese unpeg the yuan from the dollar as late as possible (2007 3/4 as per the WTO) and the yuan springs back hard destablizing everything. (they will do this as sabotage or an economic nuke.) Republicans will take all the blame for the following depresion and the corruption that caused it. (Nothing sucks like a Hoover)
The Republican party will be dispanded, and perhaps a world war (over intelectual property) will occour. Laws on software will radically change for the better in 2012-2015 bringing the US inline with less recent but still new international IP law.
As crazy as it seems, the scarriest thing to me right now is a Democrat winning. Most of these things will still happen but the Democrats will take the blame. Democrats are way to weak to survive a disasterous presidency and will dispand.
Obviously whatever party is dispanded will be replaced, but the populist replacment will take time to accumulate power and the country will swing hard to the left or the right.
Somebody please laugh at me.
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Just because it's in a contract doesn't mean it's legal. Much less enforcable, moral, or in a sane alignment to the natural doctrines of the free market and capitalism. It just means another lawyer is off the bread line.
Does the EU want to subject to the latest MSFT webstandard powergrab? Do they want to be the place that "finds" all the new rock stars but doesn't financially benifit from their accent? Do they want to pay rediculous fees everytime they try to build somthing that happens to be covered by one of a billion random word string patents registered in the US. Do they want attach closepins to their collective nipples and pour hot wax on themselves?
By 2008, perhaps sooner, the GDP of the EU will surpass that of the US. Isn't time to stop being pushed around? Create cut and dry IP laws that best benifit a free open market. Like 14 year copyrights, government works in the public domain, compulsory licencing in patents and copyright, and working models for patent applications. Make the rules fair and let the chips fall as they may. You may not have another chance...
Uh oh here comes a mob of angry confused rednecks lead by disney patent lawyers posing as neo-cons... aaaaaaaaaahhh I'm not the Taliban... oh god run.....
To paraphrase an article I read their recently, You can no more understand the modern world without understanding econimics than you can understand the renasance without understanding religion.
For instance they recently had a great article on the real nature of deflation. It's contraction of the money availble to the system and a not directly related to prices falling (although that is a possible side effect.) Despite Greenspans rantings, It is actually a healthy and normal good thing.
If you look through their cast list you will see it is quite an impressive list of economics professors, market anaylists, politicians, and venture capitalists. They mention Linux as an inevitable market motion too, which is always a good sign. ;)
TY
It's called compulsory licencing, and they hate it. They were threatened with it a couple of years ago by Orrin Hatch(I think?)
Anybody sells any song from any artist, they in turn pay a flat fee back to the RIAA. Band not making enough money? Adjust the rate. What they lose in profit per song they would make up in volume when everybody and anybody sold .oggs at every opportunity on the Net. Well the good stuff at the right rate would sell at least.
The problem is, a financial idiot could run the system effectivly. The CEO's need to keep it complicated to maintian their importance. With regions and release dates and clearchannel, FCC, and ticketmaster kickbacks and secret deals, CEOs look smart and can command more money.
Overpaid CEO's are still a major problem, and the beatings (the next Britney Spears) will continue until Americans get it...
Actually as I can figure two non-service things will be important.
Commodity elements and energy.
Both of which can be obtained by harnessing and controling...
Land!
Serfdom here we come again!
"In particular, it will be about how public money can be combined with new digital technologies to transform everyone's lives."
Everywhere in hollywood, stars and middlemen, flunkies and directors, aging rockers and CEOs woke up screaming.
"No.. no, not the Internet! Don't put it ON the INTERNET AAAAHHHHHH, OUR CONTROL, OUR MARGINS! NO PEOPLE NEED USSSSSSSSSSSS!!"
You heartless British bastards.
If they were that hot the fries, the carton and the bag would be ON FIRE!
Excuse me maam? Why did you throw a flaming McDonald's bag in my car... AHHAHHHHHHHAH AAAARG oooooo AAAAHHHEEEEEE!!!!
Yea I guess you could win that suit.
It would be an interesting social experiment to send a worm out that only attacks other machines after people click through a belivable EULA.
Wouldn't it be telling if it began to spread... There might be larger legal implications.
From NY on diesel.... :)
About 10,000 Linux advocates laughed themselves to death today, France is now confused about weather to add their share of the dead nerds to the heat death toll. In an official response to the sea SCO's chairman said there will now be weekly wild assertaions until the case is lost... errr he meant won.
Can't we just cut right to the part where Sheridan tells the Shadows and Vorlons to leave the galaxy...
So this this 27-missing-pages-implicating-Afganistan.doc that I downloaded the other day from an ISP node in Maryland might actually the real thing?
Pretty saussy. Thanks RIAA, I didn't realize filesharing was so important to democracy, and Independance Day makes more sense now!
It seems to be time.
Let the RIAA argue the point they are NOT doing this on behalf of the artists on the Tee Vee. That's not our problem.
Cummon who else thought of multiple santa from the tick.
1000 people in santa outfits running the wrong way down 5th ave, yelling in unison.
"HO HO HO!"
"HO HO HO!"
"HO HO HO!"
"HO HO HO!"
And they all disappear.
I know what you are thinkning though.. Are they evil Santas?
If there is any static IP DSL with reasonable bandidth and price 768/$60 avalible at home, and you don't get it and run a server(s) on it, you are part of the problem. Throw your DHCP based cable modem in the river! It's not real Internet.
And you call yourself a geek!
Go ahead and flame me, I am full of love. :)
PS: COLOs don't count they don't help this problem.
Where did that childhood lesson about moderation go? Did people stop teaching it 20 years ago?
Either way this power grab will be a good thing in the long run, it's the short and medium run we need ot worry about. Raising awareness, consolidating power, obsoleting broadcast airwaves, empowering and boosting the Internet. Sooner rather than later, the people will have to choose between the comfey blue lights and less consolidated information chaos. Those who risk confusion will become worldly and better prepared, while the easier, distorted path will be confusing as well and also lead to certain destruction.
Without oversight the lies will grow bolder. Media will appreciate and discuss none of the things about to happen vollentaraly. They answer only to plummiting ratings, and that is what they will get, permenantly.