It is not a logical statement, it is a comparison of costs. Nintendo is being criticized because they cost the consumer more than they otherwise would spend through price fixing. However, this amount of money is miniscule by comparison to the amount of money stolen by the government. The poster is not saying breaking a corporation breaking a law is ok because his taxes are too high. He doesn't even care about the law, except he believes rightly the law is there to protect his interests. In this case, the cost of Nintendo's behavior to him is trivial in comparison to the government. It is not a logical statement, it is a comparsion based on his personal preferences. Thus, there is no logical fallicy since logic was not employed.
Nintendo doesn't really cost you anything if you do not buy their products. A penny saved is a penny earned. However, every penny you earn will be taxed by the government. Your only recourse NOT to have the government cost you money is simply not to work. Or break the law, which is what people do now.
Also, free trade, by its very definition does not involve rules. There will always be free trade, regardless of what you or anyone else claims. People will deal with the rules as long as they aren't a big deal, but as soon as they are, they say fuck it. Heroin may be completely illega, trade in diacetylmorphine is completely prohibited in the United States. Nevertheless, I can walk out my front door and find a drug dealer in less than 20 minutes who will gladly sell me a $20 bag of the h-bomb.
What really is a nonsequitor is that laws and rules always create 100% compliance. Rules don't mean a damn thing. People will do what they want when they want no matter what. Threats, intimidation, gulags, concentration camps, its all been tried and doesn't work.
There was a time this was true, but AOL stopped blocking Trillian a few months ago. The last time I had to upgrade to fix the problem was probably July. The great thing is the folks that do Trillian came out with fixes within days. Eventually AOL just gave up. AIM is rock solid in Trillian today, even with the great 128 bit encryption enabled.
The United States however WAS the first country since Antiquity to make as a principle of its constitution the right to free speech. In the examples you specify, there are specific reasons for why that behavior is deemed illegal. For libel, it is simple. The bill of rights was not ratified to protect a liar. A basic premise of libel is that the offendor must have LIED. And pornography is perfectly legal in the united states. Witness that fat hustler dude who went to the Supreme Court over it. CHILD PORN is not legal however. Why? Because the court has found a child does not have the legal right to consent to such behavior. Patent and Copyright law is a whole different matter with which everyone is familiar.
Basically, the premise of "rights" is that they are intended to protect the people of a country. Your rights end where another persons rights begin.
Note, prior to the United States, Athens was the last nation to codify the right to free speech in its constitution. What was Socrates condemned to death for? Corrupting the youth of Athens. It is a strange thing how humans always are willing to corrupt their laws for their children.
I sympathize with your theory here about a rivision to the capital gains tax to prevent abuses. We used to have a tax system that was oppressive against capital gains in the 1970's, and it brought capital investment to a standstill.
I agree that the current system is flawed, as stock ownership is no longer regarded as giving a small loan to a company. Yet, we still need a way for small company's with an uncertain future to tap capital when necessary. I fear that if short term gains are not allowed, many of those with money will have little incentive to invest.
Personally, I am not too worried about any of that stuff. I believe the rule of business should be caveat emptor. There will be abuses, but I don't think the cost of those abuses is greater than the cost to society in lost capital...
Its a sad fact, but going all the way back to the jews forced to live on the island Ghetto in Venice till now, society has always had a tense relationship with those who have money and are willing to lend it. We can rant and rave, but we need their money.
America is not a capitalist system, it is a corporate fascist state. It is easy to fall into the trap of believeing this country is free, but it is a lie none the less. We have forced schooling to turn us into slaves, government restrictions that make it nearly impossible for all but the largest corporations to exist, and outrageous taxes foisted on the middle class to keep them from ever saving money.
I purchased a copy of Borland C++ for OS/2. It wasn't as fast as watcom, but it was a lot faster than IBM's VisualAge. I mean, I am not the only person here who got started with Borland Turbo Pascal, and stayed with Borland on the next level.
First of al, the spelling is "tort", the word is derived from torsion, to twist.
The primary reason mega-corporation have arisen in the US is because small businessmen cannot afford the legal fees associated with civil actions. The economy we have today is the direct result of the massive capital needed to function within the American legal system today.
Insurance companies WANT expensive tort rulings. It was NOT legal in the US to purchase liability insurance until about 1915. The idea was simple, it should be the INDIVIDUAL (or company) that pays. Insurance, by its nature, spreds the risk and the cost.
It wasn't until this was changed that insurance REALLY took off.
I am judging by your spelling mistakes and syntax errors that you are still a little young and don't quite understand this shit. Think about it this way, you will have a really hard time starting a business today. Such a huge percentage of your operating expenses will go to paying for liability insurance, you won't be able to really make any money.
The only ones with that money are huge companies, so you go work for them.
If there is any one thing that will destroy the mega-corporations it is making their biggest asset obsolete: the cash reserve to pay for hefty liability insurance.
Incidentally, which socialist countries are you thinking of? How about Cuba as a counter-example? The health service there is excellent, and completely free at the point of use.
Actually, i was thinking about Sweden, perhaps one of the most depressing countries I have ever visited. I also was employed with a certain large multinational corporation based in Sweden.
Gothenberg is a dump. Their stores are empty of goods, McDonalds cost an insane amount of money. It cost $15 for a Happy Meal.
I am from New York City, and I can say without a doubt, the subway system here is finitely better than anything available in Sweden. The trollies in Gothenberg were obviously from the 1950's, long before the vice grip of the socialist regime was put in place. We won't even get into the architecture. Gothenberg is a shining example of why post modernism sucks. Not having to endure such boring architecure alone is a great reason not to live there. Sweden looks like the country it is, a country that has raped their people of everything of value. All thats left is some decrepit transportation system and wretched modern buildings.
As far as Cuba. hey, if you want to go there by all means do so. I look forward to so some socialist swedes to tell me why their primitive country is so wonderful. What makes it so great to live there. I find no redeeming value in that hell hole. Its cold, the women look like they take steroids, the architecture makes me sick, the restaurants are outrageously expensive, the stores have no products to sell, and its overall a dirty nation. The worst part is the people, they are lazy, tired, and beaten down. They are a dying nation, desperate to keep their sick society alive.
The primary reason most people advocate capitalism is ETHICAL, not scientific. It was liberals and their endless dreams of micromanaging the perfect society that gave birth to that study.
Capitalism is by its nature free, it is how human beings behave when they are not acquiesing to the restrictive, violence backed will of the government. It is one man, exchanging value for value.
The reason statist economic policies always fail is because they turn free humans into criminals, and pursues them as such. The problem is, under statist regimes, too many people are treated as criminals. The end result is a society full of people who scoff at law, and refuse to participate in a corrupt system of government.
Capitalism will always win for this reason.
As far as your other statements, many of us wish there WAS no police force. I am perfectly capable of defending myself, and have a license to carry a Ruger.38 to do so. Health care? You have only to go to a socialist country to see how that works. They won't throw you out in the gutter, but they will make you get in line, possibly for months to remedy serious ailments such as cancer. Even dialysis machines are hardly easily accessible.
Socialism on paper provides these services, but in reality, it is plagued by shortages in materials, a dejected and lazy workforce, and a sense of entitlement that makes everyone not really want to work.
You need to open your mind and realize that government is not the solution. You need to think about more than one possibility. Chanting to yourself over and over again "Government can solve my problems, government can solve my problems" is not going to work.
Gluten intolerance is not the issue. Gluten is decomposed into glutomorphine molecules in the intestine. Many, many plants contain opiod peptides because all animals mediate respiration through the opiod peptides. Plants have evolved this trait so as to prevent their consumption by insects. Wheat contains particularly powerful opiod peptides, which is one of the reasons it is so resilient to insect infestation (but not molds).
For some reading on this info try these articles:
1. Fukudome, S. et al, Release of opioid peptides, gluten exorphins by the action of pancreatic elastase. FEBS Lett. 1997 / 412 (3) / 475-479. , Fukudome, S. et al, Gluten exorphin C : a novel opioid peptide derived from wheat gluten. FEBS Lett. 1993 / 316 (1) / 17-19.
2. Max,B., This and that : an artefactual alkaloid and its peptide analogs. Trends Pharmacol. Sci. 1992 / 13 (9) / 341-345.
Note: Exorphins are opiod peptides which are exogenous in origin, as opposed to the endrogenous opiods (endorphins) created by your body.
Opiods are used by the body to condition social behavior. Sex, human contact, listening to others speak, all of these activities cause measureable increases in endorphin levels in the brain. This occurs to condition humans to continue that behavior, it is a classic reward conditioning system. I don't want to get into WHY respiration and feelings of well being are related, but it is due to ancient evolution which is not completely understood. Social behavior of ants is mediated in a similar fashion for instance.
Glutan affects all people like all opiod peptides do. Is it any wonder that Asthma has also increased at an alarming rate, as rapid of an increase as autism? Not at all, because autism is the behavioral result of opiod consumption. As an adult, its not that big of a deal. A junkie can still speak, but it is the childs desire to be with his mother, that drives him to learn to speak from her. Without that initial drive, he never learns correctly. Asthma is ALWAYS the result of respiratory suppresion due to kappa-opiod receptor agonists. Constipation is another major problem. How many people here always know chicks who pop laxatives like mad? It is also because of eating glutan.
The other primary reason why glutan is added to foods is because it is addictive. More glutan, means mor profits. Why would glutan, a protein from wheat, be added to junk food like Doritos or Slim Jims, or instant soup, or TV dinners... It is to make people eat more.
Today, the pricessing of wheat has allowed extremely concentrated forms of gluten. Many are chemically decomposed such that they are nearly PURE gluto-morphine molecules, so that they are even MORE addictive.
And this is the way companies want it. Haven't you ever thought its crazy that people overeat on cookies, and they say its the sugar. But no one overeats on bananas, even though they have MORE Sugar per gram than cookies? Or they say its the starch, but no one gets fat eating 10 pounds of potatoes a day, even though potatoes contain a HUGE quantity of starch, more per gram than cookies? Its the opiod peptide content of these foods which causing overeating.
The government has known this for years. The first example of finding these effects of wheat go back to 1980, of you do the research. The government doesn't care, because they know just as the Roman emperors knew 2000 years ago that a population jacked up on wheat products all day will be less likely to rebel.
Hasn't anyone wondered why the popularus party at the end of the Republic gave away ONLY bread? Not any other kind of food? Or why prisoners are usually given bread? It keeps them apathetic and complacent.
Is it also any wonder that the narcosis effect commonly called ADHD is also countered by CNS drugs? Or better yet, that Amphetamine was until 10-15 years ago also the only drug used for Asthma? Respiration is stimulated through activation of the Alpha-2 adrenal receptors in the brain.
As far as WHEAT and Autism, for MANY mild cases of autism, administration of an opiod antagonist drug, such as nalextrone, can easily reverse much of the behavior (or lack thereof) exhibited by such patients.
What is the problem? In the past, natural wheat was used, and many population groups evolved to resistant to small doses of gluto-morphine peptides. But through modern chemistry, new kinds of glutan is being added to foods which is far more powerful. The end result is a population that is prone to asthma, apathy, antisocial behavior, constipation, and addicted to stimulants such as caffeine, nicotine, amphetamine, or cocaine.
The number of people who do not consume any of those drugs is very, very small.
I will be honest, there is a way out. Your body does adjust. I was even on prescription dextroamphetamine for a long time, smoked for 10 years, drank coffee every day. Not consuming wheat sounds like its impossible, but its SOO easy. It is hard at first, you will crave these foods, but like all addictions, it will past. It just takes time.
The end result is you will think more clearly, breath more deeply, be more awake, and have more of a will to live. Its also nice to have regular bowel movements. Anyway, its been a long weekend for me, and its time to go to sleep. I encourage anyone who reads this far to think before you eat, especially if you give food to children. Wheat products and junk food containing wheat is just not suitable for human consumption, and harms children in the long run.
I do not think even India is too overpopulated that science cannot provide a solution.
We could feed another 50 billion people. The point is, what will thsoe 50 billion people do. We are overpopulated from the standpoint that not enough meaningful work exists to allow everyone to live in a way well suited for humans.
The entire economy is a gigantic make work program. After all, the purpose of technology is to ELIMINATE work. Do you really think we need 280 million folks going to their daily jobs? No, but what would happen if 250 million people were unemployed... it would be chaos.
It is overpopulation which necessitates the office make work program we have had for most of the twentieth century. 200 years ago, if people couldn't have an independent livelyhood they immigrated to someplace they could. From the Romans expanding north, to the Vikings colonizing Greenland, to the English in America... the excess population of one group moves elsewhere.
The problem is, the entire world is populated. Hell, even the Faukland islands have 15,000 people living or something. Every nitch of land. We can't go into the wilderness, build a cottage and start farming. There is nowhere to go.
So, a gigantic social system was created to keep people busy, to do something, ANYTHING other than rebel against their masters. The social order the governments seek to maintain is not true order, but power.
First it was religion. Then it was government with compulsory education intended to model the perfect slave for the state, ready willing, and able to do as instructed. Both attempted to suppress our human nature in order to make us into more efficient batteries.
The reason society is about to collapse is because there is nothing left... No one can control billions of people with nothing to do. Religion is over. No one believes in organized religion, and most don't believe in a god or gods. People realize education is bullshit. A college degree doesn't mean shit today. Now, its grad school. So, what happens when everyone struggles to go to grad school? Everyone needs to be a doctor of something? We are going to make people waste half their life learning to live the other half of their life?
Soon, we will have machines capable of doing everything. We won't need humans to at all work for their own survival. Then what?
That is the basic question. What do we do now that the necessities of life are no longer a tremendous expense?
This is the philosophy for the future that is not yet available. We need to teach people to live in context of their humanity, even though the basics of survival are no longer scarce. I don't have the answer, but it is a question that will require an answer in the next 100 years.
Otherwise, we will all be destroyed, or end up in a matrix-like fantasy world.
The article mentions the ability to zoom, but doesn't mention anything more. What I would like is the ability to look at the web page rendered in 640x480 dimensions, and be able to zoom in as necessary. The example pages are stripped down content, and that is a very cool feature without a doubt. But, sometimes I think it would be nice to be able to see what the page looks like in more native resolutions. Just think, zooming in from 10% of the normal size, to 500% to read the article...
I had an old 486 DX/2 50 laptop I used for ages with Opera. It was great on the old machine, no slow down at all. But, it was 640x480. I would frequently have to look at pages 50% of their normal size to see everything at once (like big headers). Once I found what I was looking for, I would zoom in like 200% so I could read the article text. I imagine this feature would be even more useful on a cell phone, especially one running at at HALF the resolution I had on that laptop.
The examples the article gives makes it seem like Opera is a super efficient automatic AvantGo. I want to be able to look at the real think on my PDA or phone using PDA technology.
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HA! What is American currency worth? The good word of the federal government?
The fact is ALL currency is worthless these days. Forgery back in the day was the same as trying to sell fool's gold as the real deal.
You are free to use WHATEVER you want as a bargaining chip. Casino's actually USE bargaining chips. They are good ONLY in the casino. If you and I decide to agree upon chickens as the means of exchange between us thats fine. Every time I want 20 widgets from you, I will give you 20 chickens. Its completely legit. Its ONLY between us.
It is situations like this where the letter of the law is not necessarily the best indicator of the truth. However, a quick search on Lexis-Nexis would help you realize there prosecutions revolving around conterfeiting charges did not deal with anything other than someone making cold hard cash. You can barter with whatever you wish. quid pro quo is the name of the game.
Also, constitutional prohibitions against anyone other than the US government making currency was to prevent states from minting their own coinage, and to diminish the use of spanish pieces of eight. Thats a whole other story however.
This may all be well and true, but I for one refuse to participate by your rules. I am willing to take the risk. Fools like yourself don't understand that the more you tighten your grip, the more your control disappears.
The point is life is NOT fair. No one cares about you, and we don't expect you to give us any sympathy either. We are not interested in making your life better. Give your views, I personally would be happier if you ceased to exist. It would be one less person trying to restrict my freedom to do and think and create as I see fit without having to check through 5 million pages of laws to see which regulation to follow.
you cannot appeal to people's goodwill by threatening the use of the government's big stick. The simple reason this is so is because instead of playing by the rules, and appealing to reason, you believe we are all mindless animals who need to be directed with ruthless force. As you think we are such fools, you are equally the fool.
That is absolutely correct. I believe their first web browser was some mosaic rip off. They purchased Spyglass software I think, that made the popular program Internet-in-a-box for Windows 3.1. (well, as popular as the internet was on windows in those days)
Yeah, well when the telephone service is $50 a month minimum, they better charge $30 a month for DSL.
I used to live in Chicago. NYNEX was half the price when I moved there in '96.
The best part was their long distance charging. Anything over 7 miles was second tier long distance. I lived on the north side of Chicago, far north in Rogers Park which was about eight miles from dowtown. This was when the entire city was 312, so I had no idea based on number what was long distance or not. You would be charged long distance for calling within the SAME city.
New York City by law was 10 cents per call, anywhere in the city. Someone on city Island in the far northeastern corner of the bronx could call the southern most region in Staten Island 30 miles away for 10 cents.
Yeah, and you are all free. Living in your box homes, with outrageous inflation, unemployment, and the most expensive living conditions on the planet.
Maybe if you people had guns you could actually rebel against the unbelieveably corrupt government that rules Japan.
Maybe the Inu minorities in the north could actually have their native lands back against increasing encroachment from the south.
Maybe the japanese people will actually be able to afford as much sushi as we get in the USA.
Japan is a gigantic prison, with a system of government and society that turns its people into slaves. Of COURSE they don't want guns. How will they make a nice Nissan for the Americans if they can do whatever they want?
Windows 95's 3D interface, color scheme, etc, was most closely ripped from OS/2 2.0, which was in development around the time WorkBench 2.0 was, so i doubt there was any conspiracy there.
Hell, the default blue-green background of Windows 95 was ripped from OS/2. IBM actually did a case study on which color induced the most focused relaxation and focused on that blue-green.
Are you insane? What part of the nation are you living in? Europe is at the height of its crime wave... That is no secret.
In the US things have improved in the last ten years, but it is still not like it was during the depression. My grandparents used to sleep in CENTRAL PARK in New York during the summer, as would thousands of other people. can you imagine anyone doing that today? Even when New York is one of the safest cities in the country? Things are nowhere near as bad as they were in the 70's, but they are still bad, we have a long way to go.
As far as the tax burden, we aren't going to pay it. So, you can stop worrying about that
The revolution began in the colleges, and now it is going to end there. We have supported the worthless scum of the 60's with are blood, sweat, and tears... looking at that student loan debt. Struggling through part time jobs trying to make ends me, wondering how we will afford the next meal... All of this, in the name of learning something.
We all knew it was bullshit, sitting through that college crap because thats what we had to do we were told.
No more. The first to die of starvation are going to be the university professors. Fuck them and their worthless schools.
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It is not a logical statement, it is a comparison of costs. Nintendo is being criticized because they cost the consumer more than they otherwise would spend through price fixing. However, this amount of money is miniscule by comparison to the amount of money stolen by the government. The poster is not saying breaking a corporation breaking a law is ok because his taxes are too high. He doesn't even care about the law, except he believes rightly the law is there to protect his interests. In this case, the cost of Nintendo's behavior to him is trivial in comparison to the government. It is not a logical statement, it is a comparsion based on his personal preferences. Thus, there is no logical fallicy since logic was not employed.
Nintendo doesn't really cost you anything if you do not buy their products. A penny saved is a penny earned. However, every penny you earn will be taxed by the government. Your only recourse NOT to have the government cost you money is simply not to work. Or break the law, which is what people do now.
Also, free trade, by its very definition does not involve rules. There will always be free trade, regardless of what you or anyone else claims. People will deal with the rules as long as they aren't a big deal, but as soon as they are, they say fuck it. Heroin may be completely illega, trade in diacetylmorphine is completely prohibited in the United States. Nevertheless, I can walk out my front door and find a drug dealer in less than 20 minutes who will gladly sell me a $20 bag of the h-bomb.
What really is a nonsequitor is that laws and rules always create 100% compliance. Rules don't mean a damn thing. People will do what they want when they want no matter what. Threats, intimidation, gulags, concentration camps, its all been tried and doesn't work.
There was a time this was true, but AOL stopped blocking Trillian a few months ago. The last time I had to upgrade to fix the problem was probably July. The great thing is the folks that do Trillian came out with fixes within days. Eventually AOL just gave up. AIM is rock solid in Trillian today, even with the great 128 bit encryption enabled.
props to 0xdeadbeef!
I am framing this post to forever remind me of the torture of modern business culture.
Your are god, a man of eternal wisdom, to whom I am forever indebted!
You did not go to 12 years of catholic school. From 1984 until 1996, I wore I tie every goddamn day.
Thats enough for my life.
The United States however WAS the first country since Antiquity to make as a principle of its constitution the right to free speech. In the examples you specify, there are specific reasons for why that behavior is deemed illegal. For libel, it is simple. The bill of rights was not ratified to protect a liar. A basic premise of libel is that the offendor must have LIED. And pornography is perfectly legal in the united states. Witness that fat hustler dude who went to the Supreme Court over it. CHILD PORN is not legal however. Why? Because the court has found a child does not have the legal right to consent to such behavior. Patent and Copyright law is a whole different matter with which everyone is familiar.
Basically, the premise of "rights" is that they are intended to protect the people of a country. Your rights end where another persons rights begin.
Note, prior to the United States, Athens was the last nation to codify the right to free speech in its constitution. What was Socrates condemned to death for? Corrupting the youth of Athens. It is a strange thing how humans always are willing to corrupt their laws for their children.
I sympathize with your theory here about a rivision to the capital gains tax to prevent abuses. We used to have a tax system that was oppressive against capital gains in the 1970's, and it brought capital investment to a standstill.
I agree that the current system is flawed, as stock ownership is no longer regarded as giving a small loan to a company. Yet, we still need a way for small company's with an uncertain future to tap capital when necessary. I fear that if short term gains are not allowed, many of those with money will have little incentive to invest.
Personally, I am not too worried about any of that stuff. I believe the rule of business should be caveat emptor. There will be abuses, but I don't think the cost of those abuses is greater than the cost to society in lost capital...
Its a sad fact, but going all the way back to the jews forced to live on the island Ghetto in Venice till now, society has always had a tense relationship with those who have money and are willing to lend it. We can rant and rave, but we need their money.
America is not a capitalist system, it is a corporate fascist state. It is easy to fall into the trap of believeing this country is free, but it is a lie none the less. We have forced schooling to turn us into slaves, government restrictions that make it nearly impossible for all but the largest corporations to exist, and outrageous taxes foisted on the middle class to keep them from ever saving money.
...to establish a black list for the purpose of identifying incompetent managers.
I purchased a copy of Borland C++ for OS/2. It wasn't as fast as watcom, but it was a lot faster than IBM's VisualAge. I mean, I am not the only person here who got started with Borland Turbo Pascal, and stayed with Borland on the next level.
First of al, the spelling is "tort", the word is derived from torsion, to twist.
The primary reason mega-corporation have arisen in the US is because small businessmen cannot afford the legal fees associated with civil actions. The economy we have today is the direct result of the massive capital needed to function within the American legal system today.
Insurance companies WANT expensive tort rulings. It was NOT legal in the US to purchase liability insurance until about 1915. The idea was simple, it should be the INDIVIDUAL (or company) that pays. Insurance, by its nature, spreds the risk and the cost.
It wasn't until this was changed that insurance REALLY took off.
I am judging by your spelling mistakes and syntax errors that you are still a little young and don't quite understand this shit. Think about it this way, you will have a really hard time starting a business today. Such a huge percentage of your operating expenses will go to paying for liability insurance, you won't be able to really make any money.
The only ones with that money are huge companies, so you go work for them.
If there is any one thing that will destroy the mega-corporations it is making their biggest asset obsolete: the cash reserve to pay for hefty liability insurance.
Actually, i was thinking about Sweden, perhaps one of the most depressing countries I have ever visited. I also was employed with a certain large multinational corporation based in Sweden.
Gothenberg is a dump. Their stores are empty of goods, McDonalds cost an insane amount of money. It cost $15 for a Happy Meal.
I am from New York City, and I can say without a doubt, the subway system here is finitely better than anything available in Sweden. The trollies in Gothenberg were obviously from the 1950's, long before the vice grip of the socialist regime was put in place. We won't even get into the architecture. Gothenberg is a shining example of why post modernism sucks. Not having to endure such boring architecure alone is a great reason not to live there. Sweden looks like the country it is, a country that has raped their people of everything of value. All thats left is some decrepit transportation system and wretched modern buildings.
As far as Cuba. hey, if you want to go there by all means do so. I look forward to so some socialist swedes to tell me why their primitive country is so wonderful. What makes it so great to live there. I find no redeeming value in that hell hole. Its cold, the women look like they take steroids, the architecture makes me sick, the restaurants are outrageously expensive, the stores have no products to sell, and its overall a dirty nation. The worst part is the people, they are lazy, tired, and beaten down. They are a dying nation, desperate to keep their sick society alive.
The primary reason most people advocate capitalism is ETHICAL, not scientific. It was liberals and their endless dreams of micromanaging the perfect society that gave birth to that study.
.38 to do so. Health care? You have only to go to a socialist country to see how that works. They won't throw you out in the gutter, but they will make you get in line, possibly for months to remedy serious ailments such as cancer. Even dialysis machines are hardly easily accessible.
Capitalism is by its nature free, it is how human beings behave when they are not acquiesing to the restrictive, violence backed will of the government. It is one man, exchanging value for value.
The reason statist economic policies always fail is because they turn free humans into criminals, and pursues them as such. The problem is, under statist regimes, too many people are treated as criminals. The end result is a society full of people who scoff at law, and refuse to participate in a corrupt system of government.
Capitalism will always win for this reason.
As far as your other statements, many of us wish there WAS no police force. I am perfectly capable of defending myself, and have a license to carry a Ruger
Socialism on paper provides these services, but in reality, it is plagued by shortages in materials, a dejected and lazy workforce, and a sense of entitlement that makes everyone not really want to work.
You need to open your mind and realize that government is not the solution. You need to think about more than one possibility. Chanting to yourself over and over again "Government can solve my problems, government can solve my problems" is not going to work.
Gluten intolerance is not the issue. Gluten is decomposed into glutomorphine molecules in the intestine. Many, many plants contain opiod peptides because all animals mediate respiration through the opiod peptides. Plants have evolved this trait so as to prevent their consumption by insects. Wheat contains particularly powerful opiod peptides, which is one of the reasons it is so resilient to insect infestation (but not molds).
,B., This and that : an artefactual alkaloid and its peptide analogs. Trends Pharmacol. Sci. 1992 / 13 (9) / 341-345.
For some reading on this info try these articles:
1. Fukudome, S. et al, Release of opioid peptides, gluten exorphins by the action of pancreatic elastase. FEBS Lett. 1997 / 412 (3) / 475-479. , Fukudome, S. et al, Gluten exorphin C : a novel opioid peptide derived from wheat gluten. FEBS Lett. 1993 / 316 (1) / 17-19.
2. Max
Note: Exorphins are opiod peptides which are exogenous in origin, as opposed to the endrogenous opiods (endorphins) created by your body.
Capsule summaries of these journal articles can be found at The National Library of Medicine.
I will attempt to summarize.
Opiods are used by the body to condition social behavior. Sex, human contact, listening to others speak, all of these activities cause measureable increases in endorphin levels in the brain. This occurs to condition humans to continue that behavior, it is a classic reward conditioning system. I don't want to get into WHY respiration and feelings of well being are related, but it is due to ancient evolution which is not completely understood. Social behavior of ants is mediated in a similar fashion for instance.
Glutan affects all people like all opiod peptides do. Is it any wonder that Asthma has also increased at an alarming rate, as rapid of an increase as autism? Not at all, because autism is the behavioral result of opiod consumption. As an adult, its not that big of a deal. A junkie can still speak, but it is the childs desire to be with his mother, that drives him to learn to speak from her. Without that initial drive, he never learns correctly. Asthma is ALWAYS the result of respiratory suppresion due to kappa-opiod receptor agonists. Constipation is another major problem. How many people here always know chicks who pop laxatives like mad? It is also because of eating glutan.
The other primary reason why glutan is added to foods is because it is addictive. More glutan, means mor profits. Why would glutan, a protein from wheat, be added to junk food like Doritos or Slim Jims, or instant soup, or TV dinners... It is to make people eat more.
Today, the pricessing of wheat has allowed extremely concentrated forms of gluten. Many are chemically decomposed such that they are nearly PURE gluto-morphine molecules, so that they are even MORE addictive.
And this is the way companies want it. Haven't you ever thought its crazy that people overeat on cookies, and they say its the sugar. But no one overeats on bananas, even though they have MORE Sugar per gram than cookies? Or they say its the starch, but no one gets fat eating 10 pounds of potatoes a day, even though potatoes contain a HUGE quantity of starch, more per gram than cookies? Its the opiod peptide content of these foods which causing overeating.
The government has known this for years. The first example of finding these effects of wheat go back to 1980, of you do the research. The government doesn't care, because they know just as the Roman emperors knew 2000 years ago that a population jacked up on wheat products all day will be less likely to rebel.
Hasn't anyone wondered why the popularus party at the end of the Republic gave away ONLY bread? Not any other kind of food? Or why prisoners are usually given bread? It keeps them apathetic and complacent.
Is it also any wonder that the narcosis effect commonly called ADHD is also countered by CNS drugs? Or better yet, that Amphetamine was until 10-15 years ago also the only drug used for Asthma? Respiration is stimulated through activation of the Alpha-2 adrenal receptors in the brain.
As far as WHEAT and Autism, for MANY mild cases of autism, administration of an opiod antagonist drug, such as nalextrone, can easily reverse much of the behavior (or lack thereof) exhibited by such patients.
What is the problem? In the past, natural wheat was used, and many population groups evolved to resistant to small doses of gluto-morphine peptides. But through modern chemistry, new kinds of glutan is being added to foods which is far more powerful. The end result is a population that is prone to asthma, apathy, antisocial behavior, constipation, and addicted to stimulants such as caffeine, nicotine, amphetamine, or cocaine.
The number of people who do not consume any of those drugs is very, very small.
I will be honest, there is a way out. Your body does adjust. I was even on prescription dextroamphetamine for a long time, smoked for 10 years, drank coffee every day. Not consuming wheat sounds like its impossible, but its SOO easy. It is hard at first, you will crave these foods, but like all addictions, it will past. It just takes time.
The end result is you will think more clearly, breath more deeply, be more awake, and have more of a will to live. Its also nice to have regular bowel movements. Anyway, its been a long weekend for me, and its time to go to sleep. I encourage anyone who reads this far to think before you eat, especially if you give food to children. Wheat products and junk food containing wheat is just not suitable for human consumption, and harms children in the long run.
I do not think even India is too overpopulated that science cannot provide a solution.
We could feed another 50 billion people. The point is, what will thsoe 50 billion people do. We are overpopulated from the standpoint that not enough meaningful work exists to allow everyone to live in a way well suited for humans.
The entire economy is a gigantic make work program. After all, the purpose of technology is to ELIMINATE work. Do you really think we need 280 million folks going to their daily jobs? No, but what would happen if 250 million people were unemployed... it would be chaos.
It is overpopulation which necessitates the office make work program we have had for most of the twentieth century. 200 years ago, if people couldn't have an independent livelyhood they immigrated to someplace they could. From the Romans expanding north, to the Vikings colonizing Greenland, to the English in America... the excess population of one group moves elsewhere.
The problem is, the entire world is populated. Hell, even the Faukland islands have 15,000 people living or something. Every nitch of land. We can't go into the wilderness, build a cottage and start farming. There is nowhere to go.
So, a gigantic social system was created to keep people busy, to do something, ANYTHING other than rebel against their masters. The social order the governments seek to maintain is not true order, but power.
First it was religion. Then it was government with compulsory education intended to model the perfect slave for the state, ready willing, and able to do as instructed. Both attempted to suppress our human nature in order to make us into more efficient batteries.
The reason society is about to collapse is because there is nothing left... No one can control billions of people with nothing to do. Religion is over. No one believes in organized religion, and most don't believe in a god or gods. People realize education is bullshit. A college degree doesn't mean shit today. Now, its grad school. So, what happens when everyone struggles to go to grad school? Everyone needs to be a doctor of something? We are going to make people waste half their life learning to live the other half of their life?
Soon, we will have machines capable of doing everything. We won't need humans to at all work for their own survival. Then what?
That is the basic question. What do we do now that the necessities of life are no longer a tremendous expense?
This is the philosophy for the future that is not yet available. We need to teach people to live in context of their humanity, even though the basics of survival are no longer scarce. I don't have the answer, but it is a question that will require an answer in the next 100 years.
Otherwise, we will all be destroyed, or end up in a matrix-like fantasy world.
The article mentions the ability to zoom, but doesn't mention anything more. What I would like is the ability to look at the web page rendered in 640x480 dimensions, and be able to zoom in as necessary. The example pages are stripped down content, and that is a very cool feature without a doubt. But, sometimes I think it would be nice to be able to see what the page looks like in more native resolutions. Just think, zooming in from 10% of the normal size, to 500% to read the article...
I had an old 486 DX/2 50 laptop I used for ages with Opera. It was great on the old machine, no slow down at all. But, it was 640x480. I would frequently have to look at pages 50% of their normal size to see everything at once (like big headers). Once I found what I was looking for, I would zoom in like 200% so I could read the article text. I imagine this feature would be even more useful on a cell phone, especially one running at at HALF the resolution I had on that laptop.
The examples the article gives makes it seem like Opera is a super efficient automatic AvantGo. I want to be able to look at the real think on my PDA or phone using PDA technology.
HA! What is American currency worth? The good word of the federal government?
The fact is ALL currency is worthless these days. Forgery back in the day was the same as trying to sell fool's gold as the real deal.
You are free to use WHATEVER you want as a bargaining chip. Casino's actually USE bargaining chips. They are good ONLY in the casino. If you and I decide to agree upon chickens as the means of exchange between us thats fine. Every time I want 20 widgets from you, I will give you 20 chickens. Its completely legit. Its ONLY between us.
It is situations like this where the letter of the law is not necessarily the best indicator of the truth. However, a quick search on Lexis-Nexis would help you realize there prosecutions revolving around conterfeiting charges did not deal with anything other than someone making cold hard cash. You can barter with whatever you wish. quid pro quo is the name of the game.
Also, constitutional prohibitions against anyone other than the US government making currency was to prevent states from minting their own coinage, and to diminish the use of spanish pieces of eight. Thats a whole other story however.
This may all be well and true, but I for one refuse to participate by your rules. I am willing to take the risk. Fools like yourself don't understand that the more you tighten your grip, the more your control disappears.
The point is life is NOT fair. No one cares about you, and we don't expect you to give us any sympathy either. We are not interested in making your life better. Give your views, I personally would be happier if you ceased to exist. It would be one less person trying to restrict my freedom to do and think and create as I see fit without having to check through 5 million pages of laws to see which regulation to follow.
you cannot appeal to people's goodwill by threatening the use of the government's big stick. The simple reason this is so is because instead of playing by the rules, and appealing to reason, you believe we are all mindless animals who need to be directed with ruthless force. As you think we are such fools, you are equally the fool.
Socrates went further to say irony is the contrast between the real and ideal, which I think is more definitive.
That is absolutely correct. I believe their first web browser was some mosaic rip off. They purchased Spyglass software I think, that made the popular program Internet-in-a-box for Windows 3.1. (well, as popular as the internet was on windows in those days)
Yeah, well when the telephone service is $50 a month minimum, they better charge $30 a month for DSL.
I used to live in Chicago. NYNEX was half the price when I moved there in '96.
The best part was their long distance charging. Anything over 7 miles was second tier long distance. I lived on the north side of Chicago, far north in Rogers Park which was about eight miles from dowtown. This was when the entire city was 312, so I had no idea based on number what was long distance or not. You would be charged long distance for calling within the SAME city.
New York City by law was 10 cents per call, anywhere in the city. Someone on city Island in the far northeastern corner of the bronx could call the southern most region in Staten Island 30 miles away for 10 cents.
Yeah, and you are all free. Living in your box homes, with outrageous inflation, unemployment, and the most expensive living conditions on the planet.
Maybe if you people had guns you could actually rebel against the unbelieveably corrupt government that rules Japan.
Maybe the Inu minorities in the north could actually have their native lands back against increasing encroachment from the south.
Maybe the japanese people will actually be able to afford as much sushi as we get in the USA.
Japan is a gigantic prison, with a system of government and society that turns its people into slaves. Of COURSE they don't want guns. How will they make a nice Nissan for the Americans if they can do whatever they want?
Windows 95's 3D interface, color scheme, etc, was most closely ripped from OS/2 2.0, which was in development around the time WorkBench 2.0 was, so i doubt there was any conspiracy there.
Hell, the default blue-green background of Windows 95 was ripped from OS/2. IBM actually did a case study on which color induced the most focused relaxation and focused on that blue-green.
Are you insane? What part of the nation are you living in? Europe is at the height of its crime wave... That is no secret.
In the US things have improved in the last ten years, but it is still not like it was during the depression. My grandparents used to sleep in CENTRAL PARK in New York during the summer, as would thousands of other people. can you imagine anyone doing that today? Even when New York is one of the safest cities in the country? Things are nowhere near as bad as they were in the 70's, but they are still bad, we have a long way to go.
As far as the tax burden, we aren't going to pay it. So, you can stop worrying about that
The revolution began in the colleges, and now it is going to end there. We have supported the worthless scum of the 60's with are blood, sweat, and tears... looking at that student loan debt. Struggling through part time jobs trying to make ends me, wondering how we will afford the next meal... All of this, in the name of learning something.
We all knew it was bullshit, sitting through that college crap because thats what we had to do we were told.
No more. The first to die of starvation are going to be the university professors. Fuck them and their worthless schools.