I have fond memories of my elementary school's tall metal slide. What the "cool kids" would do -- like me for a brief instant in time -- is go down the icy slide in the winter... balancing ON OUR FEET, like a surfer dood. "So cool man!"
Would I deny my kids the right to take the same fun risks? Nope. But the safety nazis and their lawyers have already spoken.
In fact, I bet that ~30ft slide isn't there anymore. I'll have to go back one day to find out.
90% of the workforce isn't unemployed today because the rate of change is still slow enough for people to adapt.
As automation increases (and the productivity gains hoarded by the wealthy), and fewer and fewer people are required to do actually useful work, they are still SOCIALLY required to "work for a living", and so they adapt by creating new "bullshit economies" to keep busy and the consumption cycle going.
Imagine a world with advanced robotics (labor), nanotechnology (ultra-cheap manufacturing), and AI (services & even *gasp* creativity). No one would HAVE to work anymore, but socially there would still be an elitist hierarchy that would want to be at the top denying the fruits of an automated-production paradise to the breeding peons.
the notion of countries, like "The United States", just doesn't seem that relevant any more.
As long as there's still real scarcity in the world, trading/fighting nation-states will matter. You can't download your food & clothing (yet), so you can't write off the government that helps to protect your selfish interests.
It's just easier for some people to go with the grain than against it on principle. Similarly, a lot of people are religious soley for the socio-economic benefits of belonging to the club.
Porn, pro-choice, questioning the logic of pre-emptive-war.... these ideas and more have been newly classified as dangerous and 'infectious mimeases' by the Bush administration.:)
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Don't have to time to read everything under the sun. So you've read it, but your summary still sounds like more of the same. Lately there's been a rash of 'terrorism' FUD-shows with slightly different spin.
Then somebody builds a robot to repair robots, and/or self-repairing robots, and the technologically unemployed revolt when the concentration of wealth reaches obscene levels.
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Global Frequency revolves around an independent defense intelligence organization connected by a worldwide telecommunications web that uses ordinary individuals as agents around the world to fight black ops projects, unexplained phenomena and other problems the government agencies have."
That's not sci-fi, that's pseudo-scientific psychic crap with conspiracy theory thrown in. And what are the odds that this show gives legitmacy to The Department of Fath^H^H^H^H Homeland Security with cute references to "HomeSec" like they did in TheGrid and The4400 shows?
I'll be glad if it never airs. So much crap on TV. I've got a grand total of four shows I bother to watch: 1) Enterprise, 2) Stargate, 3) MythBusters, and 4) BattleStar Galactica ("imported" early from the UK).
"He stole my idea", yet mysteriously, you still have your idea, and you bug collection. See where I'm going with this?
The fraud of plagiarism is far more despicable than copyright infringement. In fact, even in the case where you bought the "rights" to redistribute somebody elses "IP", it's very sleazy to claim credit for it. (nothing to do with redistribution as-is).
The ability to survive on the moon will require constant importing.
That won't hold true for long. Once our inefficient top-down manufacturing methods give way to advancing bottom-up nanotechnology, it will be very easy to create self-contained biospheres with 100% molecular recyclability.
In comes solar, and out goes infrared; everything else can be perfectly broken down and reused. (Not as sci-fi as you might think).
The gun that only shot robots worked by detecting infrared. It would shoot at hot objects. So, if you wanted to defeat this awesome security, just place a glass of icewater between the gun and the human before pulling the trigger.
At least, that was one of the thoughts going through my head when watching that old movie for the first time a few weeks ago (the other thought having to do with lucy lui robot(s)).
How dare you distribute their Advertisement without permission!:)
Even though I despise what's become of Star Wars, I'll be seeding the FileRush torrent until I've got a 10X up/down ratio just to spite those greedy "Members Only" fucktards.
"Here's my book, it's $5, but if you buy it you can't read chapters 3, 7, or 9." And I'd have no problem with that.
You're serious, aren't you? I just don't understand people with your greedy, assbackwards, mindset. You really think that that kind of unenforcable agreement for artificial restriction on your "Intellectual Property" is morally correct and promotes innovation? (Don't answer that.)
(It's not moral or legal to sign yourself into slavery; the same will one day be said of "IP" artificial scarcity too, IMO.)
Then perhaps it is possible, since everyone is saying the same thing apparently, that these 'defenses' are correct?;)
The 'correct' subjective view on IP depends on how greedy and power-hungry your genes and memes are. If you were the type of kid who hoarded all the toys and stole others' lunchmoney, you can easily justify perpetual IP.
And if you want to get rich from music, WORK THOSE INSTRUMENTS!
Ahh... but I was hoping to hit it big so that my great-great-grandkids could live off artificial-scarcity royalties for the rest of their spoiled, unproductive lives -- a healthy commons, and 'working' for a living be damned.
Per your request we have modified a Yorkie to NOT pee on your carpet. We didn't do this by modifying its expressed behavior (no, that would be too hard), but by splicing in a Great White Shark gene that allows your new & improved pet to urinate through its skin(TM) just like a shark!*
MSRP $9500. Enjoy!
* side effects include: sharper teeth; increased tendency to bite; a strange smell due to the fact that dogs don't constantly swim/bathe in the ocean.
You were the only American wearing the t-shirt that read "Love my country; Hate my government", weren't you? That would explain the understanding you got.:)
My thinking is that in the not too distant future, privacy will be valued much higher than it is today. Currently a lot of people just don't give a crap, but that's only because it's under their radar. It'll get to the point where SnitchCam's are so cheap, ubiquitous, and the size of dust particles that you can never really be sure that even your bathroom is bugfree. More people will join the ranks of the "tinfoil hats".
At that point it'll be a cool luxury to retreat to renovated basements that are:
faraday caged to prevent wireless devices from phoning home
thermally insulated (my pot! none of your business:)
sound proofed (my midget pr0n! none of your biz!)
hermetically sealed with a double entrance (to prevent a non-wireless dust-sized coachroach spybot from entering/leaving on your coattails with recorded snoopdata
Another possibility is that the natural evolution of a civilization is to either quickly make it to a technological Singularity, or destroy themselves in the process. Such a civilization would then be so far advanced as to view us like we view ants (yet behave more benevolently).
Additionally, it might turn out that the speed of light is a hardlimit (no warp?!) and the most intelligent course of action is to disassemble all the planets in your solar system to build an efficient matrioshka brain around your star to live virtually ever after.
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Would I deny my kids the right to take the same fun risks? Nope. But the safety nazis and their lawyers have already spoken.
In fact, I bet that ~30ft slide isn't there anymore. I'll have to go back one day to find out.
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As automation increases (and the productivity gains hoarded by the wealthy), and fewer and fewer people are required to do actually useful work, they are still SOCIALLY required to "work for a living", and so they adapt by creating new "bullshit economies" to keep busy and the consumption cycle going.
Imagine a world with advanced robotics (labor), nanotechnology (ultra-cheap manufacturing), and AI (services & even *gasp* creativity). No one would HAVE to work anymore, but socially there would still be an elitist hierarchy that would want to be at the top denying the fruits of an automated-production paradise to the breeding peons.
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As long as there's still real scarcity in the world, trading/fighting nation-states will matter. You can't download your food & clothing (yet), so you can't write off the government that helps to protect your selfish interests.
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It's just easier for some people to go with the grain than against it on principle. Similarly, a lot of people are religious soley for the socio-economic benefits of belonging to the club.
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Think good thoughts, brother.
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btw, what's with the extra backslashes? slashdot isn't doing an extra addslashes before inserting into the db. proxy munging? bad browser?
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That's not sci-fi, that's pseudo-scientific psychic crap with conspiracy theory thrown in. And what are the odds that this show gives legitmacy to The Department of Fath^H^H^H^H Homeland Security with cute references to "HomeSec" like they did in TheGrid and The4400 shows?
I'll be glad if it never airs. So much crap on TV. I've got a grand total of four shows I bother to watch: 1) Enterprise, 2) Stargate, 3) MythBusters, and 4) BattleStar Galactica ("imported" early from the UK).
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The fraud of plagiarism is far more despicable than copyright infringement. In fact, even in the case where you bought the "rights" to redistribute somebody elses "IP", it's very sleazy to claim credit for it. (nothing to do with redistribution as-is).
Anyway, bad analogy on your part.
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That won't hold true for long. Once our inefficient top-down manufacturing methods give way to advancing bottom-up nanotechnology, it will be very easy to create self-contained biospheres with 100% molecular recyclability.
In comes solar, and out goes infrared; everything else can be perfectly broken down and reused. (Not as sci-fi as you might think).
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At least, that was one of the thoughts going through my head when watching that old movie for the first time a few weeks ago (the other thought having to do with lucy lui robot(s)).
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Even though I despise what's become of Star Wars, I'll be seeding the FileRush torrent until I've got a 10X up/down ratio just to spite those greedy "Members Only" fucktards.
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You're serious, aren't you? I just don't understand people with your greedy, assbackwards, mindset. You really think that that kind of unenforcable agreement for artificial restriction on your "Intellectual Property" is morally correct and promotes innovation? (Don't answer that.)
(It's not moral or legal to sign yourself into slavery; the same will one day be said of "IP" artificial scarcity too, IMO.)
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Might make more sense to take your standard Montana hermit, or anti-social computer geek, and train them, rather than going the other way around. :)
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And the wired writers, who work for a living, have the right to scoff at dotbomb insanity.
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Pick the "crime":
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The 'correct' subjective view on IP depends on how greedy and power-hungry your genes and memes are. If you were the type of kid who hoarded all the toys and stole others' lunchmoney, you can easily justify perpetual IP.
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Ahh... but I was hoping to hit it big so that my great-great-grandkids could live off artificial-scarcity royalties for the rest of their spoiled, unproductive lives -- a healthy commons, and 'working' for a living be damned.
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MSRP $9500. Enjoy!
* side effects include: sharper teeth; increased tendency to bite; a strange smell due to the fact that dogs don't constantly swim/bathe in the ocean.
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At that point it'll be a cool luxury to retreat to renovated basements that are:
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Additionally, it might turn out that the speed of light is a hardlimit (no warp?!) and the most intelligent course of action is to disassemble all the planets in your solar system to build an efficient matrioshka brain around your star to live virtually ever after.
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