Generally science at home lacks the budget of the professionals. Some of the amateur astronomy set ups I have seen are ingenious. And the low cost of olde technology as it is dumped means the amateur scientist has a wide range of entry level options.
People are corruptable but people are not consistently corruptable. Corporationsneed to lobby to survive. They need to tilt the playing field which sort of implies they are worried they may not 'win' as it were. Say Microsoft ruled the online world, owned the Internet; had access to every server and all the data on it. Whatever leverage that gave the company would disappear as soon as people stopped seeing it as power, blackmail fails when you don't care what people know. People adapt way faster than corporations. Totalitarian and unjust systems fail, unable to maitntain a sufficiently stable membership. Downside is progress takes time and we might be in the bit that sucks but sooner or later my descendants (yet to be issued) will reap the benefits of people being people.
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Ever since I downloaded this, my e-mail box has been full of great, insightful advertisements!"
Generally science at home lacks the budget of the professionals. Some of the amateur astronomy set ups I have seen are ingenious. And the low cost of olde technology as it is dumped means the amateur scientist has a wide range of entry level options.
People are corruptable but people are not consistently corruptable. Corporationsneed to lobby to survive. They need to tilt the playing field which sort of implies they are worried they may not 'win' as it were. Say Microsoft ruled the online world, owned the Internet; had access to every server and all the data on it. Whatever leverage that gave the company would disappear as soon as people stopped seeing it as power, blackmail fails when you don't care what people know. People adapt way faster than corporations. Totalitarian and unjust systems fail, unable to maitntain a sufficiently stable membership.
Downside is progress takes time and we might be in the bit that sucks but sooner or later my descendants (yet to be issued) will reap the benefits of people being people.
http://www.dslreports.com/town?tid=5380 Google "earthlink" AND "39.99" Don't forget googlecache didn't look past first 10 results