Uhh, the CORPORATION DECIDES WHAT TO DO WITH ITS PROPERTY.
Look up a co-operative apartment. the corporation in which each resident is a shareholder, decides what is common area and what is private. You have no right to even living in the building, the corporation can kick you out whenever they wish and force you to sell your share of the company.
Sony could conceivably decide to grant every shareholder free use of its recordings... they may not happen, but it IS their right to do so.
I suggest you read up on cooperative apartments, as this system is more akin to that. Specifically, look at how common areas are owned by all the shareholders of the company.
First, he handwaves about going public at $20/share. Maybe in 1999, pal, but not now. You can't just decide to do it, there are significant capitalization requirements, to say nothing of the money the bankers will want for doing the work for you.
Pray tell, how can you possibly figure out the capitalization requirements from this article. The corporation DOESN'T have to be public. In fact, in this case having it be public is probably not a good idea...
and by definition everything a corporation does is for profit)
What about a non-profit corporation? Or better yet, what about co-operative housing???
Second, and perhaps more importantly, the traditional test of fair use is, "would it replace a sale?" This clearly would
Come the fuck on jack. Is this logic applied to a co-op apartment? No. Is selling a share in a co-op replacing the sale of the fee simple? Yes. Does that make it de facto fee simple property? No, absolutely not.
The shareholders can decide to do with their collectively owned property whatever they wish.
If one cannot freely assemble in New York, then citizens of the place are no longer free human beings as defined by the Constitution. No debate required, that's just the way it is.
Umm, it has ALWAYS been that way. There is no right to assemble in the United States and there never has been. Nowhere is this more necessary than in New York. You have a 27 square mile island populated by 2 million people, with an additional million working every day.
This group is probably small and not really obstructing anything to the point harm is caused, but I guarantee you if that sat in Macy's for an extended period of time they would be arrested.
Same thing if they blocked a major street.
You need a permit to assemble on public property, don't have one? you will be removed by the police.
This WAS a big problem for a long time, but has been substantially improved in Opera 7.0. I use it exclusively over Mozilla because it has more features and is far faster. Mozilla is just dog slow.
I have been trying to search for a site which does Digital Camera reviews for several days... No matter what I type in, I get shopping, shopping shopping... mostly to some zdnet related site. Whether I type in specific models or variations on Digital Camera Reviews I get the same worthless results.
So... point me in the right direction, oh great one. My feeble skillz are insufficient.
Men have been a far larger burden on women than the other way around.
Indeed. Men have written every uplifting piece of music, painted every beautiful painting, invented every time saving device, created concepts of law and order, sacrificed themselves by the millions to defend women, and evolved into being tools of female materialism.
Wake up man. You are not aware of reality. Women have contributed practically NOTHING to what we call civilization or humanity. Women enjoy their current place in the world simply because men were stupid enough to invent machines which made our physical strength and combat prowess unnecessary. Without the modern technology invented by men, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
It's an accepted fact that men have a negative impact upon feminine creativity and should be prevented from dominating a woman's life and time as much as possible.
Read Homer. Read Plato's Phaedrus. I am not the first to make such an observation. Look at how it is practically impossible to be male and creative and be heterosexual today. When the choice comes down to fucking a woman or engaging in art, most choose the latter. Of course, today, the matriarchy has virtually extinguished male creativity in the politically correct nations. Before men were simply laborers, they were artisans who made beautiful homes, quality furnishings... Now it is all crap. All of it.
The traditional view of marriage sees the wife as housekeeper, mother, cook, caretaker, etc... all roles that ask her to serve others, instead of expressing herself or being creative.
Why do you think there was a whole movement by women so that being unmarried wouldn't be stigmatized like in the past?
You are apparently young. You will realize how crazy women get when they are 35 and never have been married. It is not a pretty sight. Women stigmatize themselves.
The whole movement you speak of was simply a manifestation of modern decadence. Nothing more.
Do you think that *maybe* the 'traditional marriage' you refer to is the reason women have made up a minority of artists and scientists?
Oh yeah, MEN are the ones who dreamed up lifetime monogomy. I don't believe in marriage, and I am not married. I am perfectly happy fucking random women, preferably ones who are drunk.
Women are not artists or scientists because they are not driven to create like men are. We have had 40 years of feminism. I see nothing to come out of this female renaissance to convince me women have any creative talent. It is nothing personal. You would not be defiant if I said men have a high predisposition to violence in comparison to women. There are no female Jack the Rippers because there are no female Michaelangelos.
When I see women flock to engineering classes, and become the primary customers of Roland keyboards I will change my opinion. Until then...
Hell, you're not even affirming commited relationships
No shit
As if drunkenly fucking a young boy makes you more creative,
As Plato discusses in the Phaedrus, male love is idealistic. The love between a teacher and student is the most ideal. Idealism is the essence of creativity. A man produces a sculpture of an ideal man, a man loves a boy he can turn into an ideal man. You may not agree with it, but this is part of the Classical Heritage. I can't personally bring myself to fuck little boys, but I can understand Plato's argument.
demanding that one sleep only with a spouse is, like, waaaay too confining, man... free love(for the men), you dig?
When prostitution is made legal in the United States once again, your statements will perhaps have some meaning.
won't even get into the fact that you disapprove of women 'flauning their bodies' a few paragraphs later.
I will accept women's current state of undress when prostitution is legalized, and when pornography
The number of female geniuses are exceedingly few, and for those who have existed their tendencies are clearly masculine in nature.
Homosexuality is the ultimate attempt to remove women from the picture. Homosexuals are uniquely able to carry on their creative endeavours without female distraction yet with the support of an intimate relationship.
This is hardly a new concept. Plato discusses it in Phaedrus, there are countless stories regarding this in Homer Illiad and the Odyssey. It has been known for thousands of years that women inhibit life as men desire it, in whatever its form.
You are sadly a product of our politically correct world, a man unaware of his masculinity. RIP.
Having children is not necessarily the same as our modern form of married life (or female/male relationships).
Look at classical Greece. It was quite common for men to have large families with their wives locked at home, engage in sexual relationships with young boys, not to mention have the occasional drunken symposium with lots of prostitutes and wine.
It used to be an accepted fact that women have a negative impact upon masculine creativity and they should be prevented from dominating a man's life and time as much as possible.
I don't know about Frank Lloyd Wright, but Einstein was definitely a philanderer and had many lovers. He didn't let any one woman dominate him or share his home for his entire life. Stephen Hawking, for obvious reasons, was hardly the man a woman would want to spend all her time with.
We don't have any social customs today which attempt to control women's ability to distract men. They flaunt their bodies everywhere with impunity, preventing us from determining when and where we are sexually aroused. Women today expect copious amounts of attention as a normal part of a relationship. Establishments which exclude women are generally illegal, although the same is not true for women (Look at how many Female only gyms are out there).
Anyway, you had a short post.. don't mean it to seem like I am ripping on you, but I think having and desiring children is just as normal for a man as a woman. What is not normal is the modern concept of male/female relationships which has developed since the Victorian era.
It has not been my experience that homosexuals lose their creative edge when in relationships. Yet, no one would dispute that homosexuals are highly creative, far more so than heterosexual men.
Perhaps it is not being in the relationship per se, but the fact it involves females which affects masculine creativity.
I personally believe it is no coincidence the rise of feminism has coincided with a rise in male homosexuality (but no corresponding rise in female homosexuality). Women do in fact exert tremendous influence upon the male mind, and social traditions arose as a way to prevent such undue influence.
As many men will attest, having a relationship with a woman is generally not worth it. Perhaps the rise men in need of the comfort of human intmacy resort to homosexuality when women cease to provide any benefit. Some men choose to be bachelors and engage in random sexual liasons, others eschew women all together and focus on their own gender...
Perhaps escpaping women has a much more profound impact on men than any feminist could have ever imagined.
Thankfully for some of us however, women still love to drink lots of liquor bwahaha.
Ok, so you are a communist sympathizer. That much is clear, but at least try to hide it a little bit. I mean, mentioning North Korea is just a dead give away. Who supports them? Hell, even the Chinese are getting sick of them.
But the sad reality is that men have evolved to be warriors. Our physical strength was only later of use in farming and industrial production.
Today, machines have replaced our muscles and guns have made our talents in battle irrelevent.
The only thing that is left in men today that is truly masculine is our confrontational behavior and aggressive tendencies. When such instinct served society, men were commended and idolized.
Masculinity is a danger to modern society as we know it, and the medical profession does consider male aggressive tendencies to be deviant. They haven't gone as far as you have mentioned as far as banning testosterone, but they do give millions upon millions of young men amphetamine and methylphenidate.
Amphetamine works because it is structurally similar to, but less powerful than adrenalin. A working theory as to why constant dosage induces docile behavior in male humans is that it "tricks" your body into thinking you are already under stress so natural hormones (like adrenalin) are not produced in as great quantities.
As some may know, amphetamine was the only asthma drug for many decades (The old benzedrine inhalers, benzoamphetamine). The early attempts at using other hormones (like cortisol) somewhat worked, but often affected growth. This is one major example of how consuming artifically created hormone can reduce levels of other seemingly unrelated hormones.
Feudalism occurred thousands of years after the Europeans or Hindus tried a caste system. It was the Spartans who really tried to do it completely in the west.
The concept of class as you are describing it is a capitalist/communist way of looking at it. In a caste system, certain people depending on birth have specific functions in society. In a strict caste system, there aren't really classes, and there is pretty much no mobility as birth has always been the deciding factor.
In the end however, anyone writing about the subject in 500BC described a caste system as an eastern phenomenon. Prior to Sparta, an organized system of leaders, warriors, workers, and slaves simply did not exist in the West.
You just revealed the deep, dark secret of the Western Economy
And the Eastern economy does not do this? or at the very least prevent the masses of people from increasing their standard of living?
I agree with what you are saying, but it is hardly a western phenomenon. In fact, I would say it is decidedly an EASTERN phenomenon as controlling social class in an organized fashion really began with the Hindu Caste system in India.
As always, the only profound solution is education. Until most people understand at a gut-level that government is the atomic-bomb of social engineering, a powerful and dangerous weapon that needs to operated with attention, caution and deliberation, they and "we" -- the smaller "we", the slashdot-type "we" that prefers freedom to comfort and security -- are going to remain under the feet of government.
Its funny you say education is the solution to this problem in society, given that many would argue education is the PROBLEM. Some would argue education exists for no other reason than to manipulate societies. The world was certainly a very different, and more free place, before compulsory education imprisoned our youth for nearly 20 years of their lives...
Hmm... I don't think you have thought about this completely.
What is great about simple Palms is great batter life and reliability.
Lets see, can you really let your cell phone go more than a day or two without charging? I didn't think so. Today's PocketPC's have lithium ion batteries. They last easily 6 hours a day, more than you could ever possibly go through. The newest do 10 hours even with high load (like active wifi) If it is a problem, just get an extra battery.
I need an alarm, TODO list, pim, calander, and maybe a game like Tetris. Thats it.
What if you need more? A graphing calculator? Outlook integration? Access? Money? A graphing calculator? Or a financial calculator? You won't see a perfect clone of an HP 12C that any idiot could use on the Palm.
And games... Try playing Sim City 2000 or Age of Empires on a palm.
It supports dvd playback. WOOAA. But how can you play a dvd on it? You probably need a big bulky external device.
What planet are you on? When people talk about watching movies on their PDA's they are referring to DivX! Really, downsampling your 700 meg movie into a 250 megabyte movie at 320x240 with 64kbps audio is not a big deal. I would hardly call a compactflash card a bulky device. And, you may not find it too interesting but some of us take public transportation to work and it is much more convenient than using a laptop.
The newer handsprings have video, color, and audio support, internet browsing, extra, and have all the apps.
I have never seen anyone watch a movie on a palm.
If you need all the features described above then maybe a full laptop might be better suited.
Laptop = big, PDA = small. I can't use a laptop on the subway with ease, a PDA I can.
My concern is more the fact that no one makes software for MIPS anymore. I am not worried about new processors showing up so much as the fact developers seem to focus on the dominant platform.
Originally, they said this wasn't such a big deal because the standard was going to be ARM, but now suddenly it is Xscale. Yes, I know Xscale is backwards compatible with ARM but software needs to be written specifically for it to really benefit from the additional speed.
Fascism is also not purely economic in its goals. While communism focuses purely on economic/materialistic matters, fascism was focused much more on combatting the modern condition of nihilism which resulted from the industrial revolution. Promoting relative equality was more secondary to that cause. Fascism seeks to promote a national culture, whereas Communism seeks to destroy it in the name of egalitarianism.
Fascism is also not radically different from a monarchy, in fact in some ways its better as there is usually some other ruling body which has some say (or can at least organize to depose the leader). This is in fact what happened to Mussolini. In 1944, when Germany's defeat was becoming clear to the military, many officers of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS organized a coup, but it failed. Of course, the Senate served a similar role up until the last century or two of the Roman Empire.
An important argument FOR fascism which will probably start occurring here is that democracy is inherently unreliable in the modern age as it is so easy to sway the votes of the people. This was Hitler's main reason for pursuing a dictatorship, as the world press was owned by Jews. Rather than having a government based on an ideal (right or wrong) you have a government based on whoever can purchase enough media representation.
Btw, Arab countries use Hitler's exact same argument.
In the end, fascism does work at least as it was intended to work. Look at Spain and Argentina. Spain is perhaps the only truly European nation left in terms of national values and traditions. It was also the only country where fascism ruled for longer than 12 years. Argentina also had a unique cultural identity for a long time.
I prefer liberalism, but I agree nihilism is a problem in modern society. It is a shame the only people who have tried to address the problem on a large scale are fascist dictators. But I think it is also a shame that most non-fascists deny the problem exists...
WEll it did say some things, in fact in the last page of the article the author discusses how there is no benchmark available.
I have an old Casio E125, which has a 150mhz MIPS processor and 32 megs of ram. Video does play, but it is always pretty choppy and never more than 1-3 frames per second which can get annoying but you get used to it. THe author explicitly states the new Xscale optimized unit can play video perfectly... Which is a great bonus.
PocketPC 2003 includes a new version of Internet Explorer which is not crippled in any way and also apparently much faster.
In my experience the only time I experience slowdown are these two instances. Maybe I will upgrade, but I still have this fear yet ANOTHER processor is going to come out for the damn thing. SH3, MIPS, ARM, Xscale... now what.
Umm, I use a 1 gig compactflash microdrive from IBM in my Casio E125. The power consumption is noticable, but its compactflash. The size is as small as I could ever need.
One of the reasons Ipaqs suck is they don't have a compactflash slot. THat means no cheap flash memory, no IBM Microdrive, no WiFi card, no GPS...
The perception of drowsiness does not necessarily mean the drug is a narcotic.
Try taking Benadryl. It will cause your pulse to rise quite measurably just as Ritalin can, but no one would argue that it does not cause drowsiness.
Many people experience nervousness from the drug, it is paradoxical. But as the common literature will say, for non-ADD affected individuals it works as a traditional stimulant, for ADD affected individuals it has a calming affect.
Jews have a disproportionate representation in American media and arts. This cannot be disputed. The important question is does it matter? I think what matters is we cannot discuss the issue without the charge of antisemitism appearing. Why do people like you cringe at the discussion of what is the truth?
I also think Malcom X would disagree with you on that analogy there, as would any black civil rights leader who is aware of how the slave trade was basically financed by Jews.
Nothing on that site is saying "Jews control the media, and thus must be destroyed". But for many people, the Jewish stronghold on the media and arts is astounding. Try to get a job in NYC as a professional musician and be clearly non-jewish. Media presents a unique case because people like yourself vehemntly oppose even discussing what the implications are of the vast power of media falling into the hands of a group of people who are essentially racist in their beliefs and actions. What is there to hide? Why can we not even ask these questions?
By the way, since you posted a nice link to the the establishment of holocaust existence supporters... I suggest you check out this site It cannot be described as racist in any way. Indeed, many of the writers are in fact Jewish, some even Rabbis. You will find that not all Jews are Zionists, and not all support the myth of an orchestrated holocaust. Some articles are written by professors at major universities. Some from less free countries have even gone to prison for their views.
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Uhhh, no?
Uhh, the CORPORATION DECIDES WHAT TO DO WITH ITS PROPERTY.
Look up a co-operative apartment. the corporation in which each resident is a shareholder, decides what is common area and what is private. You have no right to even living in the building, the corporation can kick you out whenever they wish and force you to sell your share of the company.
Sony could conceivably decide to grant every shareholder free use of its recordings... they may not happen, but it IS their right to do so.
notice the word "co-op"
I suggest you read up on cooperative apartments, as this system is more akin to that. Specifically, look at how common areas are owned by all the shareholders of the company.
First, he handwaves about going public at $20/share. Maybe in 1999, pal, but not now. You can't just decide to do it, there are significant capitalization requirements, to say nothing of the money the bankers will want for doing the work for you.
Pray tell, how can you possibly figure out the capitalization requirements from this article. The corporation DOESN'T have to be public. In fact, in this case having it be public is probably not a good idea...
and by definition everything a corporation does is for profit)
What about a non-profit corporation? Or better yet, what about co-operative housing???
Second, and perhaps more importantly, the traditional test of fair use is, "would it replace a sale?" This clearly would
Come the fuck on jack. Is this logic applied to a co-op apartment? No. Is selling a share in a co-op replacing the sale of the fee simple? Yes. Does that make it de facto fee simple property? No, absolutely not.
The shareholders can decide to do with their collectively owned property whatever they wish.
If one cannot freely assemble in New York, then citizens of the place are no longer free human beings as defined by the Constitution. No debate required, that's just the way it is.
Umm, it has ALWAYS been that way. There is no right to assemble in the United States and there never has been. Nowhere is this more necessary than in New York. You have a 27 square mile island populated by 2 million people, with an additional million working every day.
This group is probably small and not really obstructing anything to the point harm is caused, but I guarantee you if that sat in Macy's for an extended period of time they would be arrested.
Same thing if they blocked a major street.
You need a permit to assemble on public property, don't have one? you will be removed by the police.
I know Google is soooo hard to use.
Just to let you know, Kinko's has locations in the UK, Australia, Japan and several other countries. Here are some in London.
Also, by the way, Citizens of the United States are American. Citizens of the United Kingdom are British. You get the idea. 2 strikes against you.
This WAS a big problem for a long time, but has been substantially improved in Opera 7.0. I use it exclusively over Mozilla because it has more features and is far faster. Mozilla is just dog slow.
I have been trying to search for a site which does Digital Camera reviews for several days... No matter what I type in, I get shopping, shopping shopping... mostly to some zdnet related site. Whether I type in specific models or variations on Digital Camera Reviews I get the same worthless results.
So... point me in the right direction, oh great one. My feeble skillz are insufficient.
FYI, for the idiots out there.
the root word of materialism is mater, the latin word for mother. It is of course, the same root word as maternal.
Men have been a far larger burden on women than the other way around.
Indeed. Men have written every uplifting piece of music, painted every beautiful painting, invented every time saving device, created concepts of law and order, sacrificed themselves by the millions to defend women, and evolved into being tools of female materialism.
Wake up man. You are not aware of reality. Women have contributed practically NOTHING to what we call civilization or humanity. Women enjoy their current place in the world simply because men were stupid enough to invent machines which made our physical strength and combat prowess unnecessary. Without the modern technology invented by men, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
It's an accepted fact that men have a negative impact upon feminine creativity and should be prevented from dominating a woman's life and time as much as possible.
Read Homer. Read Plato's Phaedrus. I am not the first to make such an observation. Look at how it is practically impossible to be male and creative and be heterosexual today. When the choice comes down to fucking a woman or engaging in art, most choose the latter. Of course, today, the matriarchy has virtually extinguished male creativity in the politically correct nations. Before men were simply laborers, they were artisans who made beautiful homes, quality furnishings... Now it is all crap. All of it.
The traditional view of marriage sees the wife as housekeeper, mother, cook, caretaker, etc... all roles that ask her to serve others, instead of expressing herself or being creative.
Why do you think there was a whole movement by women so that being unmarried wouldn't be stigmatized like in the past?
You are apparently young. You will realize how crazy women get when they are 35 and never have been married. It is not a pretty sight. Women stigmatize themselves.
The whole movement you speak of was simply a manifestation of modern decadence. Nothing more.
Do you think that *maybe* the 'traditional marriage' you refer to is the reason women have made up a minority of artists and scientists?
Oh yeah, MEN are the ones who dreamed up lifetime monogomy. I don't believe in marriage, and I am not married. I am perfectly happy fucking random women, preferably ones who are drunk.
Women are not artists or scientists because they are not driven to create like men are. We have had 40 years of feminism. I see nothing to come out of this female renaissance to convince me women have any creative talent. It is nothing personal. You would not be defiant if I said men have a high predisposition to violence in comparison to women. There are no female Jack the Rippers because there are no female Michaelangelos.
When I see women flock to engineering classes, and become the primary customers of Roland keyboards I will change my opinion. Until then...
Hell, you're not even affirming commited relationships
No shit
As if drunkenly fucking a young boy makes you more creative,
As Plato discusses in the Phaedrus, male love is idealistic. The love between a teacher and student is the most ideal. Idealism is the essence of creativity. A man produces a sculpture of an ideal man, a man loves a boy he can turn into an ideal man. You may not agree with it, but this is part of the Classical Heritage. I can't personally bring myself to fuck little boys, but I can understand Plato's argument.
demanding that one sleep only with a spouse is, like, waaaay too confining, man... free love(for the men), you dig?
When prostitution is made legal in the United States once again, your statements will perhaps have some meaning.
won't even get into the fact that you disapprove of women 'flauning their bodies' a few paragraphs later.
I will accept women's current state of undress when prostitution is legalized, and when pornography
The number of female geniuses are exceedingly few, and for those who have existed their tendencies are clearly masculine in nature.
Homosexuality is the ultimate attempt to remove women from the picture. Homosexuals are uniquely able to carry on their creative endeavours without female distraction yet with the support of an intimate relationship.
This is hardly a new concept. Plato discusses it in Phaedrus, there are countless stories regarding this in Homer Illiad and the Odyssey. It has been known for thousands of years that women inhibit life as men desire it, in whatever its form.
You are sadly a product of our politically correct world, a man unaware of his masculinity. RIP.
Having children is not necessarily the same as our modern form of married life (or female/male relationships).
Look at classical Greece. It was quite common for men to have large families with their wives locked at home, engage in sexual relationships with young boys, not to mention have the occasional drunken symposium with lots of prostitutes and wine.
It used to be an accepted fact that women have a negative impact upon masculine creativity and they should be prevented from dominating a man's life and time as much as possible.
I don't know about Frank Lloyd Wright, but Einstein was definitely a philanderer and had many lovers. He didn't let any one woman dominate him or share his home for his entire life. Stephen Hawking, for obvious reasons, was hardly the man a woman would want to spend all her time with.
We don't have any social customs today which attempt to control women's ability to distract men. They flaunt their bodies everywhere with impunity, preventing us from determining when and where we are sexually aroused. Women today expect copious amounts of attention as a normal part of a relationship. Establishments which exclude women are generally illegal, although the same is not true for women (Look at how many Female only gyms are out there).
Anyway, you had a short post.. don't mean it to seem like I am ripping on you, but I think having and desiring children is just as normal for a man as a woman. What is not normal is the modern concept of male/female relationships which has developed since the Victorian era.
It has not been my experience that homosexuals lose their creative edge when in relationships. Yet, no one would dispute that homosexuals are highly creative, far more so than heterosexual men.
Perhaps it is not being in the relationship per se, but the fact it involves females which affects masculine creativity.
I personally believe it is no coincidence the rise of feminism has coincided with a rise in male homosexuality (but no corresponding rise in female homosexuality). Women do in fact exert tremendous influence upon the male mind, and social traditions arose as a way to prevent such undue influence.
As many men will attest, having a relationship with a woman is generally not worth it. Perhaps the rise men in need of the comfort of human intmacy resort to homosexuality when women cease to provide any benefit. Some men choose to be bachelors and engage in random sexual liasons, others eschew women all together and focus on their own gender...
Perhaps escpaping women has a much more profound impact on men than any feminist could have ever imagined.
Thankfully for some of us however, women still love to drink lots of liquor bwahaha.
This is one of the worst trolls I have read...
Ok, so you are a communist sympathizer. That much is clear, but at least try to hide it a little bit. I mean, mentioning North Korea is just a dead give away. Who supports them? Hell, even the Chinese are getting sick of them.
Anyway, happy trolling...
This is funny, but true.
But the sad reality is that men have evolved to be warriors. Our physical strength was only later of use in farming and industrial production.
Today, machines have replaced our muscles and guns have made our talents in battle irrelevent.
The only thing that is left in men today that is truly masculine is our confrontational behavior and aggressive tendencies. When such instinct served society, men were commended and idolized.
Masculinity is a danger to modern society as we know it, and the medical profession does consider male aggressive tendencies to be deviant. They haven't gone as far as you have mentioned as far as banning testosterone, but they do give millions upon millions of young men amphetamine and methylphenidate.
Amphetamine works because it is structurally similar to, but less powerful than adrenalin. A working theory as to why constant dosage induces docile behavior in male humans is that it "tricks" your body into thinking you are already under stress so natural hormones (like adrenalin) are not produced in as great quantities.
As some may know, amphetamine was the only asthma drug for many decades (The old benzedrine inhalers, benzoamphetamine). The early attempts at using other hormones (like cortisol) somewhat worked, but often affected growth. This is one major example of how consuming artifically created hormone can reduce levels of other seemingly unrelated hormones.
One more battle being won by the matriarchy.
Feudalism occurred thousands of years after the Europeans or Hindus tried a caste system. It was the Spartans who really tried to do it completely in the west.
The concept of class as you are describing it is a capitalist/communist way of looking at it. In a caste system, certain people depending on birth have specific functions in society. In a strict caste system, there aren't really classes, and there is pretty much no mobility as birth has always been the deciding factor.
In the end however, anyone writing about the subject in 500BC described a caste system as an eastern phenomenon. Prior to Sparta, an organized system of leaders, warriors, workers, and slaves simply did not exist in the West.
You just revealed the deep, dark secret of the Western Economy
And the Eastern economy does not do this? or at the very least prevent the masses of people from increasing their standard of living?
I agree with what you are saying, but it is hardly a western phenomenon. In fact, I would say it is decidedly an EASTERN phenomenon as controlling social class in an organized fashion really began with the Hindu Caste system in India.
As always, the only profound solution is education. Until most people understand at a gut-level that government is the atomic-bomb of social engineering, a powerful and dangerous weapon that needs to operated with attention, caution and deliberation, they and "we" -- the smaller "we", the slashdot-type "we" that prefers freedom to comfort and security -- are going to remain under the feet of government.
Its funny you say education is the solution to this problem in society, given that many would argue education is the PROBLEM. Some would argue education exists for no other reason than to manipulate societies. The world was certainly a very different, and more free place, before compulsory education imprisoned our youth for nearly 20 years of their lives...
Check out Project Mayo. A free, open source DivX player for PocketPC devices, AKA Pocket DivX.
It does work.
Hmm... I don't think you have thought about this completely.
What is great about simple Palms is great batter life and reliability.
Lets see, can you really let your cell phone go more than a day or two without charging? I didn't think so. Today's PocketPC's have lithium ion batteries. They last easily 6 hours a day, more than you could ever possibly go through. The newest do 10 hours even with high load (like active wifi) If it is a problem, just get an extra battery.
I need an alarm, TODO list, pim, calander, and maybe a game like Tetris. Thats it.
What if you need more? A graphing calculator? Outlook integration? Access? Money? A graphing calculator? Or a financial calculator? You won't see a perfect clone of an HP 12C that any idiot could use on the Palm.
And games... Try playing Sim City 2000 or Age of Empires on a palm.
It supports dvd playback. WOOAA. But how can you play a dvd on it? You probably need a big bulky external device.
What planet are you on? When people talk about watching movies on their PDA's they are referring to DivX! Really, downsampling your 700 meg movie into a 250 megabyte movie at 320x240 with 64kbps audio is not a big deal. I would hardly call a compactflash card a bulky device. And, you may not find it too interesting but some of us take public transportation to work and it is much more convenient than using a laptop.
The newer handsprings have video, color, and audio support, internet browsing, extra, and have all the apps.
I have never seen anyone watch a movie on a palm.
If you need all the features described above then maybe a full laptop might be better suited.
Laptop = big, PDA = small. I can't use a laptop on the subway with ease, a PDA I can.
My concern is more the fact that no one makes software for MIPS anymore. I am not worried about new processors showing up so much as the fact developers seem to focus on the dominant platform.
Originally, they said this wasn't such a big deal because the standard was going to be ARM, but now suddenly it is Xscale. Yes, I know Xscale is backwards compatible with ARM but software needs to be written specifically for it to really benefit from the additional speed.
Fascism is also not purely economic in its goals. While communism focuses purely on economic/materialistic matters, fascism was focused much more on combatting the modern condition of nihilism which resulted from the industrial revolution. Promoting relative equality was more secondary to that cause. Fascism seeks to promote a national culture, whereas Communism seeks to destroy it in the name of egalitarianism.
Fascism is also not radically different from a monarchy, in fact in some ways its better as there is usually some other ruling body which has some say (or can at least organize to depose the leader). This is in fact what happened to Mussolini. In 1944, when Germany's defeat was becoming clear to the military, many officers of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS organized a coup, but it failed. Of course, the Senate served a similar role up until the last century or two of the Roman Empire.
An important argument FOR fascism which will probably start occurring here is that democracy is inherently unreliable in the modern age as it is so easy to sway the votes of the people. This was Hitler's main reason for pursuing a dictatorship, as the world press was owned by Jews. Rather than having a government based on an ideal (right or wrong) you have a government based on whoever can purchase enough media representation.
Btw, Arab countries use Hitler's exact same argument.
In the end, fascism does work at least as it was intended to work. Look at Spain and Argentina. Spain is perhaps the only truly European nation left in terms of national values and traditions. It was also the only country where fascism ruled for longer than 12 years. Argentina also had a unique cultural identity for a long time.
I prefer liberalism, but I agree nihilism is a problem in modern society. It is a shame the only people who have tried to address the problem on a large scale are fascist dictators. But I think it is also a shame that most non-fascists deny the problem exists...
WEll it did say some things, in fact in the last page of the article the author discusses how there is no benchmark available.
I have an old Casio E125, which has a 150mhz MIPS processor and 32 megs of ram. Video does play, but it is always pretty choppy and never more than 1-3 frames per second which can get annoying but you get used to it. THe author explicitly states the new Xscale optimized unit can play video perfectly... Which is a great bonus.
PocketPC 2003 includes a new version of Internet Explorer which is not crippled in any way and also apparently much faster.
In my experience the only time I experience slowdown are these two instances. Maybe I will upgrade, but I still have this fear yet ANOTHER processor is going to come out for the damn thing. SH3, MIPS, ARM, Xscale... now what.
Umm, I use a 1 gig compactflash microdrive from IBM in my Casio E125. The power consumption is noticable, but its compactflash. The size is as small as I could ever need.
One of the reasons Ipaqs suck is they don't have a compactflash slot. THat means no cheap flash memory, no IBM Microdrive, no WiFi card, no GPS...
The perception of drowsiness does not necessarily mean the drug is a narcotic.
Try taking Benadryl. It will cause your pulse to rise quite measurably just as Ritalin can, but no one would argue that it does not cause drowsiness.
Many people experience nervousness from the drug, it is paradoxical. But as the common literature will say, for non-ADD affected individuals it works as a traditional stimulant, for ADD affected individuals it has a calming affect.
Jews have a disproportionate representation in American media and arts. This cannot be disputed. The important question is does it matter? I think what matters is we cannot discuss the issue without the charge of antisemitism appearing. Why do people like you cringe at the discussion of what is the truth?
I also think Malcom X would disagree with you on that analogy there, as would any black civil rights leader who is aware of how the slave trade was basically financed by Jews.
Nothing on that site is saying "Jews control the media, and thus must be destroyed". But for many people, the Jewish stronghold on the media and arts is astounding. Try to get a job in NYC as a professional musician and be clearly non-jewish. Media presents a unique case because people like yourself vehemntly oppose even discussing what the implications are of the vast power of media falling into the hands of a group of people who are essentially racist in their beliefs and actions. What is there to hide? Why can we not even ask these questions?
By the way, since you posted a nice link to the the establishment of holocaust existence supporters... I suggest you check out this site It cannot be described as racist in any way. Indeed, many of the writers are in fact Jewish, some even Rabbis. You will find that not all Jews are Zionists, and not all support the myth of an orchestrated holocaust. Some articles are written by professors at major universities. Some from less free countries have even gone to prison for their views.
Good luck.