Actually, If they didn't have a direct line into the decision making of the government, you'd be absolutely right. As it is, they're not the most discriminated against group, they're the most powerful group.
I was pretty amused by being tagged flamebait as well, but I just figured it was because alot of people that visit this site are socialists/communists etc that don't understand what freedom really means.
Yes, I can't imagine why you think
Freedom isn't always freedom from rules imposed by a government. Those who formed the first governments, thousands of years ago, were able to oppress people without calling themselves something. They used knives and clubs and took what they wanted. They did this without a police force. They did this without a method for taxation. They did this without a book telling people how to act.
Today, despite what you seem to believe, the biggest threat to liberty is from oppression from the rich and powerful. Even governments are being forced to bend to the will of corporations. You can argue that I'm wrong, but you can't argue that laws like the DMCA were not created for the people. You can't argue that KELO v. CITY OF NEW LONDON is really happening because the city really wants a mini-mall for socially-minded reasons.
And yes, you can argue that using the state means that it's really government oppression. But that ignores historical precident that says that when the government refuses to intervene, the rich will create their own armies to oppress the people. It wasn't police breaking attempts of workers to unionize in the early part of the last century, it was hired strike-breakers.
The problem with people like you is the same problem with people who think socialist or communist totalitarianism is a good idea -- You ignore that power corrupts, and just taking power away from one group of people won't make the other powerful people accountable to anyone.
This is why the founding fathers of the US are so widely praised. They understood that the government, and therefore the people, must hold the power to prevent oppression while at the same time being accountable and having checks on it's power to prevent the government itself from being oppressive.
Libertarianism is naievete at best on the same scale as communism. At it's worst, it's just the rich deciding that they deserve to be powerful more than anyone else, and that nobody should be allowed to stop them.
From what I understand, Intel has the slower, more expensive product.
Not really seeing the better product with the massive market share here.
On the other hand, who the fuck cares? A bunch of soulless accountants get a bit less money than they might have, while a second group of soulless accountants get a bit more. Unless AMD or Intel are too poor to design and manufacture chips, the fact that they're stuck at 10-20% of a massive market doesn't mean anything. It certainly doesn't make your computer any faster.
Yes, if all you're looking at are blockbuster FPSes, it looks pretty stagnant. If all you look at in film are summer blockbuster distaster movies, it's the same.
The money folks are never creative. There are plenty of insteresting games out there, but they're not neccessarily the ones hyped by all the game magazines to be the next ten million seller.
Remember.. a weakness in a market is an opening for competition. Does anyone have the guts to slap a nice AMD-64 CPU in a box, gigabit ethernet, modern Gforce 6800 or better video card, and a phsyics processor, and 4GB of ram in a box and sell it as a console? Do it, and avoid going broke from the costs, and the console market could be yours.:)
Alienware is doing something similar. It costs eleventy billion dollars.
The problem is, there's nothing that java contributes that using cross-platform compatible APIs and cross-compiling to get multiple binaries can't do on it's own.
Making sure nobody ever profits from your work isn't the idea of Free Software, in my opinion, it's just being maevolent. Free software should be dedicated to ensuring that it stays free -- that's the point of the GPL. Using GPL for libraries to force people to license their programs under the GPL really *IS* viral.
This is one of the reasons my open source code stays in the public domain. Yes, people could try to screw me over. I'd rather take that chance than unwittingly screw someone else over. When I was learning to program, I used countless examples from the internet, all of which were free and without any strings attached. I have replaced all that old code, but I still remember it, and I remember that I wasn't forced to give away my own program because they gave away theirs. I don't need to take others code anymore because I can code on my own. When others decide to try to use some of my code to get their programs to work, why should I try to restrict them?
And if any companies make it big by stealing my code, I'll ask them for a job.:P
You're out of the loop, dude. The alliance is no more.
Frankly, I'm voting NDP. They've never been in power before, I think they'd crap themselves just enough to not try anything funny. Plus, it would give the mainstream parties a boot in the ass in terms of "hey! Maybe we should work on not being such douches all the time!".
Conservative times are hard times. It's sort of ironic that people don't remember the past.
Long story short, both of the main parties are horrible, but the Liberals have actually managed to keep our country in the black, where the Conservative plan sounds suspiciously like the "tax less, spend more" commie lovefest which has proved so useful at driving defecits to all-time highs in the past.
Fuck all y'all. I'm voting NDP in the next election.:P
If these supposed geeks were any good, they would have written a program to send out warnings automatically. If they were a bit better, they would have found a way to get the GPS transmitters onto the women so they could be avoided. If they were even better, they would have mounted sensors in the womens cubicles to detect the exact start and end of "that time of the month".
And if they were great? They'd rig up a bit of biotech to cancel the effect altogether.:P
If it's any consolation, between the Liberals turning out to be even more corrupt than we thought they were, and the conservatives being a party we "demand better" than, I guess I'm stuck trying NDP this time around.
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Yep, I'm sure they are.
Actually, If they didn't have a direct line into the decision making of the government, you'd be absolutely right. As it is, they're not the most discriminated against group, they're the most powerful group.
"We need the DMCA! To the batphone!"
Just when I think the business folks can't get any dumber, they prove me wrong.
Thank you, business folks, for the many hours of entertainment you've given us in your god-awful decision making abilities.
I was pretty amused by being tagged flamebait as well, but I just figured it was because alot of people that visit this site are socialists/communists etc that don't understand what freedom really means.
Yes, I can't imagine why you think
Freedom isn't always freedom from rules imposed by a government. Those who formed the first governments, thousands of years ago, were able to oppress people without calling themselves something. They used knives and clubs and took what they wanted. They did this without a police force. They did this without a method for taxation. They did this without a book telling people how to act.
Today, despite what you seem to believe, the biggest threat to liberty is from oppression from the rich and powerful. Even governments are being forced to bend to the will of corporations. You can argue that I'm wrong, but you can't argue that laws like the DMCA were not created for the people. You can't argue that KELO v. CITY OF NEW LONDON is really happening because the city really wants a mini-mall for socially-minded reasons.
And yes, you can argue that using the state means that it's really government oppression. But that ignores historical precident that says that when the government refuses to intervene, the rich will create their own armies to oppress the people. It wasn't police breaking attempts of workers to unionize in the early part of the last century, it was hired strike-breakers.
The problem with people like you is the same problem with people who think socialist or communist totalitarianism is a good idea -- You ignore that power corrupts, and just taking power away from one group of people won't make the other powerful people accountable to anyone.
This is why the founding fathers of the US are so widely praised. They understood that the government, and therefore the people, must hold the power to prevent oppression while at the same time being accountable and having checks on it's power to prevent the government itself from being oppressive.
Libertarianism is naievete at best on the same scale as communism. At it's worst, it's just the rich deciding that they deserve to be powerful more than anyone else, and that nobody should be allowed to stop them.
From what I understand, Intel has the slower, more expensive product.
Not really seeing the better product with the massive market share here.
On the other hand, who the fuck cares? A bunch of soulless accountants get a bit less money than they might have, while a second group of soulless accountants get a bit more. Unless AMD or Intel are too poor to design and manufacture chips, the fact that they're stuck at 10-20% of a massive market doesn't mean anything. It certainly doesn't make your computer any faster.
Yes, if all you're looking at are blockbuster FPSes, it looks pretty stagnant. If all you look at in film are summer blockbuster distaster movies, it's the same.
The money folks are never creative. There are plenty of insteresting games out there, but they're not neccessarily the ones hyped by all the game magazines to be the next ten million seller.
Remember.. a weakness in a market is an opening for competition. Does anyone have the guts to slap a nice AMD-64 CPU in a box, gigabit ethernet, modern Gforce 6800 or better video card, and a phsyics processor, and 4GB of ram in a box and sell it as a console? Do it, and avoid going broke from the costs, and the console market could be yours. :)
Alienware is doing something similar. It costs eleventy billion dollars.
The problem is, there's nothing that java contributes that using cross-platform compatible APIs and cross-compiling to get multiple binaries can't do on it's own.
Making sure nobody ever profits from your work isn't the idea of Free Software, in my opinion, it's just being maevolent. Free software should be dedicated to ensuring that it stays free -- that's the point of the GPL. Using GPL for libraries to force people to license their programs under the GPL really *IS* viral.
:P
This is one of the reasons my open source code stays in the public domain. Yes, people could try to screw me over. I'd rather take that chance than unwittingly screw someone else over. When I was learning to program, I used countless examples from the internet, all of which were free and without any strings attached. I have replaced all that old code, but I still remember it, and I remember that I wasn't forced to give away my own program because they gave away theirs. I don't need to take others code anymore because I can code on my own. When others decide to try to use some of my code to get their programs to work, why should I try to restrict them?
And if any companies make it big by stealing my code, I'll ask them for a job.
Symbiotic Harmonic Adaption Matrix Extention technology?
sounds like a fancy term for having a dance partner and copying what they do.
Isn't santas list filled with small children?
You sicko!!
No, it was a joke. At least, *I* found it funny.
PoutineTech L.L.C (canada)
More importantly for me, will KDE itself be ported to win32 so I don't need to run cygwin beneath it!
Whatever problems Linux has on the desktop, they are unrelated to KDE. I want to replace Explorer with KDE. Badly.
You know, you can't just be a jerk-off and then hide behind our lack of a sense of humor.
:/
If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go eat some poutine, then buy some coffee from Tim Hortons.
Sadly, it's mosquito season in Winnipeg.
You're out of the loop, dude. The alliance is no more.
Frankly, I'm voting NDP. They've never been in power before, I think they'd crap themselves just enough to not try anything funny. Plus, it would give the mainstream parties a boot in the ass in terms of "hey! Maybe we should work on not being such douches all the time!".
Conservative times are hard times. It's sort of ironic that people don't remember the past.
:P
Long story short, both of the main parties are horrible, but the Liberals have actually managed to keep our country in the black, where the Conservative plan sounds suspiciously like the "tax less, spend more" commie lovefest which has proved so useful at driving defecits to all-time highs in the past.
Fuck all y'all. I'm voting NDP in the next election.
Because you can only be blue or red, right?
:P
I find it ironic that the conservatives in canada are blue, and the Liberals are red.
Actually, I can think of one other political affiliation which uses red. Guess which?
If these supposed geeks were any good, they would have written a program to send out warnings automatically. If they were a bit better, they would have found a way to get the GPS transmitters onto the women so they could be avoided. If they were even better, they would have mounted sensors in the womens cubicles to detect the exact start and end of "that time of the month".
:P
And if they were great? They'd rig up a bit of biotech to cancel the effect altogether.
If it's any consolation, between the Liberals turning out to be even more corrupt than we thought they were, and the conservatives being a party we "demand better" than, I guess I'm stuck trying NDP this time around.
The hacks done to the x-box proves the utility of throwing custom software onto inexpensive custom hardware.
You'd be suprised what a couple smart hackers can do, given a consistent form factor and an entire console to play around with.
There is only one country that's allowed to make fun of Canada.
Austria. I don't know why either.
Judging from your inability to put 2 and 2 together, I'm guessing you're not Austrian.
My condolences concerning your functional illiteracy.
It's just like people who see gold ends on something and figure it's the automatic winner in any contest.
:P
Never mind that using gold connectors and non-gold connectors together causes corrosion.
I'm sure clear channel will listen to your suggestions with open hearts and minds.
Actually, it's more like taking bukkake to a whole new level.
Because everything is shared.