I’m not really a gamer, but while game review embargoes may be bad, how-about you don’t rush out on launch day to get it.
One of the highest correlated factors to success as an adult is delayed gratification as a kid. How about we all slow down and not have to be first. The game will still be available in a week and you’ll know if it is teh luz or not.
Ahhh, the wonderful future were societal problems are solved with technology. Fast forward ten years and the system is being enhanced to immobilize the shooter or tranq them in some fashion – works so well it gets rolled out to every store and fast food joint. Pretty soon everyone everywhere is constantly monitored for signs of aberrant behavior and an automated response ready to be applied. The future will be wonderful.
Duke seems to be in the wrong here. It is to hard to decide exactly what is research and copying in these cases. This isn't just some answer key that was mailed to some inner circle of conspirators. If Duke worries about how the internet will be used in finding solutions, then they need tougher in class testing procedures to show people have mastered the skill set they say they have or the University wants them to have.
In a way, using the internet to get the answer is the way it works in IT these days. I routinely get my solutions for problems at work by going to the internet – I don't memorize every command and algorithm. These kids aren't cheating, they're doing it the current/modern way.
I don't think these kids expected to be involved in The Prisoner's Dilemma, then again, maybe this is some meta-programming test for an optimal solution.
Many/most posts on this subject are on how terrible a deal this is for America and China getting off Scott free.
Or on the other hand, China's emissions per citizen is much lower than America's. So basically America can only agree to cut emissions if our historic advantage is preserved when negotiating with other countries. We got to polluted at much higher levels for decades, but now that emerging economies are polluting as much or more, well all that s**t has to come to a stop.
If America wants the world to have a better environment then it needs to lead by example – not demand we get the best deal. China is developing renewables at a much faster clip than America, but it still has a lot of ground to catch up on a per-citizen basis in economics. It is a foregone conclusion that China will pollute more than America in the short run while it catches up economically. To expect them to stay behind because we don't like it, even though we basically did the same or worse when adjusted for population just won't fly. As China becomes more affluent you can expect pollution levels to decrease as an enriched middle-class demands a better environment. Yes there will be damage in the short run, but this is probably unavoidable given political realities. Better to do something than nothing.
I'm fine with being mad at China for human right's abuses or lack of free speech, but this whining is really about we-got-our-nut, screw everyone else if they try to catch up.
If you really want to save the world, push for Nuclear-Fusion research. We know this is a solvable problem if we just have the political will to tackle it. Others like Lockheed might get there before ITER, but in general this needs a Manhattan project level off commitment to be certain it is solved, not just wait and hope the free market takes care of it, because you know in the meantime we are still burning oil and coal.
My wife often decides to hate things because everyone is “into” them. My daughter gets caught up in liking what others like for no reason other than that it’s the trend. Then there’s me who like many Slashdotters decide what to like based on what seems like good empirical evidence and an ability to just judge for myself.
I think it is the dynamic between the hippster and trenders that give the wild oscillations in popularity for things and why trends come and go. Ironically it is the trenders that undo the hippsters as when the hippster/hatters reach a certain critical mass, then boom the trenders hate it to.
Easy morals to have if you're not the one on the bottom. Your assumption is that if someone cheats at all to offset an unfair advantage then they will be incapable of doing anything afterward.
By my way of think the unprivledged that stay in the system my offset the priviledged that will never be expected to perform because all they needed was a peice of paper to cover the corruption that got them to where they are. The unpriviledged will actually have to produce when they get where they are going whether in India or America. Granted there will be a lot of chaff, but there will also be some wheat.
For years I’ve been hearing how India is posed to take off economically. No one talked about China being a powerhouse 30 years ago, then 20 years ago the litany became India was next and posed to pass China, you know, because of freedom and stuff. I still kept hearing this, but it just never seems to happen. Meanwhile lots of doom and gloom predictions about China that never seem to materialize.
Both are countries are corrupt, but in very different ways. China’s leaders are pushing their populous into the modern age to benefit both their people and themselves. The richer the people are the more they can skim off the top.
India seems to want to let half of its population wallow in ignorance, superstition, and class based prejudice, all the while setting the tone for corruption at all levels that keeps anything from getting done.
Religious fanaticism is unpleasant, but if we could conquer corruption there would be very little left to fix in the world.
BTW, if I were a poor student in India, I would cheat too, then work hard in the real world to make it not just a selfish waste.
One always hears about attempts to steal intellectual property, but (assuming this isn’t hype by Kaspersky) could these types of attacks be about insider trading? Could nation-states being playing the markets with this info?
I am troubled by the no concern for his vegan diet. No concern would imply he was routinely served meat with no deviation from the regular prison fare. I don’t know about Sweden, but it seems there would be plenty of vegetarian diet dishes available for religious reasons to prisoners. If he was offered vegetarian fare, perhaps that suffices, its not like we can accommodate every dietary request. My religion only allows me to eat panda or human flesh certainly wouldn’t fly.
The question here is whether any reasonable accommodation was made. Without more details it is hard to judge. Disturbing if true though. This would imply you have to have a major religion to back up your moral choices in life – which to me is not religious freedom.
Ummm, why does he need the names and addresses to pray for them? Sort of like “what does God need with a starship?” Surely this man's all seeing deity can take care of these wayward soles by just know this man cares about the state of their immortal souls.
Of course maybe this is a more impotent rather than Omnipotent God, in which case I guess this man has to carry God's message in person, to do what God can't.
So if we're lucky this won't be the true Higgs partilce, as that would point to more discoveries involving a fifth force dubbed the technicolor force and allow us to see particles composed of techni-quarks. Should this come to be, then that probably more than justifies the expense of the LHC as just finding the Higgs would not really give us radically new knowledge.
It’s all well and good to say our Big Bang was an inevitable quantum fluctuation in some frothy Metaverse, but then the real question becomes where the Metaverse comes from.
Whether Metaverse or not, I tend to believe the true answer is something close to Max Tegmark’s Mathematical universe hypothesis. There isn’t really any physical substance, we are the actualizations of pure math. This universe is just one of an uncounatable infinity of universes that exist because the are mathematically consisitant.
Take the equation for a parabolla, it isn’t complex enough to contain self aware entities, but if it where then it’s Big Bang is at y=0 for y=x^2. It is silly to ask what comes before 0 in the parabolla universe, similarly is is silly to ask what comes before the Big Bang, Time started at 0 because it is just a parameter in the etenal framework of math. The true Universe then is etenal and unchanging, it is math, our perception of time just the unfolding of following one particular parameter in a multidimensional equation.
Held accountable for what? This total free resource I can use with no strings attached, all the while when these guys have to deal with and moderate with various personalities and entities constantly trying to pervert Wikipedia from its mission.
To me Wikipedia is a marvel to behold, a shining bastion of how not-to-be Facebook. I’m constantly amazed at the vitriol they endure when one or two contentious pages gets messed up by some self-aggrandizing a**hole. Nobody seems to stop or look at the literally millions of technical pages which get used on an everyday basis to solve real world problems – but instead focus on whether Justin Beber, Ron Paul, the Koch Brothers, or Monsanto are given a fair shake in their writeups.
I may admire the fact that education is admired by society at large in China. That said, yes their system can be very cruel and the children often have emotional issues because of it. Chinese parents here in America are often hell bent on forcing their children to study endlessly. And you know what, they do much better in school than average American children, and then go on to have better jobs. Here in Howard County Maryland there is about 20% Asian population. Howard County has the third highest average income in America – this population segment is doing something right (and things wrong as well outside of work and school).
When Chinese are sent to foreign schools they take the same work attitude.
I don't admire the Chinese school system, but I also don't think all the hard work is wasted. There is probably some ideal middle ground between what we do here in America and what is done in China.
While not praising the system, I'm also not underestimating it either. China has come a long way in the last twenty years having finally unshackled themselves from Maoist philosophy in all but name only.
What I don't understand is why you and many others extrapolate so easily that despite the fact they have come so far so fast, they can go no further. It may be their system will implode, but it is not inevitable. I dislike the fact that we Americans all seem so smug in our belief that our system is so far superior no one elsewhere under a different system could in some sense to better.
I don't not want to live in China and I especially like the freedom of speech that allows me the lattitude to write as I wish. But I don't take it as a given that will be all it takes to stay ahead of China.
It’s hard to know how to parse this. I don’t say China surpassing us is inevitable, but complacency could make it so. Are you saying American or Western cultural hegemony are unassailable?
Despite China’s pollution problems (or because of them) they are investing a much larger portion of their GDP to solving them than we are. Who knows if they will succeed. I certainly don’t.
If I where a Chinese I don’t think I would appreciate being told I’d better stay at a standard of living less (much less) than an American for the good of the world (or especially Americans).
I use Firefox all the time, but of late all the browsers seem basically good-enough (though don’t get me started about HTML5’s implementation of draggable) or at least compatible enough.
There is always work to do, but Microsoft seems to have largely conceded the battle against standardization.
I doubt I will find Mozilla’s new browser for developers Earth shattering. I hope I’m wrong.
What really seems needed is just continued pursuit of refinement of the HTML5 standard and work towards making it syntactically regular, grammatically powerful, and user friendly.
In closing, dear God, please someone fix draggable, I want an easy to use, powerful language more than I want cross-platform tools.
Or... faith in America’s brand of freedom may be more a conceit or a faith based belief -- a flattering rationalization we tell ourselves to explain our post-WWII position in the world. I’m not say it isn’t true at all, or true to some degree, but to blindly believe freedom of expression or various other freedoms will forever keep America in the forefront on the world stage may be a bit naive.
That said, day after day, all I see is Slashdot postings that seem to point to the erosion of this freedom you seem to think gives us such a huge advantage.
It may be comforting to think China merely stole everything to become manufacturing heavyweights – it may even be true to a degree, but going forward they are becoming increasingly self reliant. They will at some point surpass us in many areas, or perhaps already have. Did I mention the admiration of academic achievement within their culture? Do you think only us good ol’ Americans have a lock on creativity and knowledge? They aren’t just building infrastructure, they are building know-how. When the Communist party wants something done they are not sidetracked by petty partisan bickering. Yes I outlined some weaknesses of theirs, but that is not to say they might not overcome or evolve past them.
We are the ones that need to start working towards the future harder. Get past the Common-Core complaints -- some are merited, some are not – and get on with it and apply what works in education. An educated workforce will be the only way for us to compete with them (or anyone else) in the future, and they have a 4-5x advantage numbers wise to cull the best from.
I’m on the fence about this one. It reminds me of Japan’s big fifth generation computer project in the 80’s – and which was widely considered a failure. China has had many great accomplishments this last two decades, they are a force to be reckoned with, but many of their gains have come through brute force methods of applying ample labor to problems, not true subtlety or production efficiencies.
That said, the Chinese admire those who excel academically and are hungry for a prosperous modern future. I have actually been to China 5 times in the last eight years and the major cities are modern marvels to behold.
But what has worked well in the past, the ruling party deciding spending priorities, may not work so well in the future. China’s bureaucrats are very controlling. They have worked hard the last twenty years to drag China into the modern world, enriching their citizens and themselves alike, but now that a substantial portion of the population is educated and middle class they have become more restless and demanding of accountability on the part of the government.
This desire for control may also not work so well in an industry that needs the freedom to make mistakes and learn from them. You can command the building of streets and bridges and skyscrapers, commanding new discoveries be made and made in such a way that are not a threat to the state and can be controlled by the state – that may be another thing.
You do NOT have a RIGHT to control your public image. A public image is something that emerges from HOW you perform in public.
You do NOT have a RIGHT to not have your religion, beliefs, politics offended.
You CAN be just as misguided, idiotic, self absorbed as you want to be as long as I am not forced to change my behaviors to accommodate your stupid world views.
The way I see it, I DO have the RIGHT to see, believe, read, write, learn, say, do what I want want if it doesn't interfere with someone else's right to do the same. If you do not agree with that, then we have a problem.
Let's add some moral outrage at maybe DRM involved in buggy behavior.
I am against DRM in general, but by the same token I'm not one to encourage other people to break it. Jones_Supa gets an article posted, but perhaps is really trying to motivate the community to open this cookie-jar for him. Hidden agenda much?
Despite all of America's faults our freedom of speech and self correcting form of democracy had always made me proud to be and American. These days however we seem to teeter on the edge of Fascism in order to preserve the interests of the top 1%.
The freedom of the internet and the cultural clash with ideologies like radical Islam seem to have created a perfect storm to motivate those at the top to grab what they can now and lock down everything to keep it for themselves in perpetuity.
Automation will increasingly make goods cheaper. Intellectual property is essentially free to distribute once created. Since there will be less profits in making goods going forward, the way to more riches is to lock up IP and make it artificially expensive. The ultimate cash-cow.
The top 1% decry the inheritance tax (death tax in rich parlance). By all measures class mobility in America is declining – lowering taxes for the rich is increasingly a scam to produce a new nobility, not a way to spur more hiring. It is not a coincidence I think that as tax rates for the rich have declined that the rich are pulling away year after year from the middle class. The advantages the rich have had over the last few decades never seem to trickle down to the middle class, so why always the argument the rich are needed to create jobs? The more we give the less we get.
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I’m not really a gamer, but while game review embargoes may be bad, how-about you don’t rush out on launch day to get it.
One of the highest correlated factors to success as an adult is delayed gratification as a kid. How about we all slow down and not have to be first. The game will still be available in a week and you’ll know if it is teh luz or not.
And if a preschooler uses a calculator at home, we don't threaten them and tell them to turn themselves in.
You can't control how assignments are done outside of class, you have to adapt your testing regimen for the modern age.
Ahhh, the wonderful future were societal problems are solved with technology. Fast forward ten years and the system is being enhanced to immobilize the shooter or tranq them in some fashion – works so well it gets rolled out to every store and fast food joint. Pretty soon everyone everywhere is constantly monitored for signs of aberrant behavior and an automated response ready to be applied. The future will be wonderful.
Duke seems to be in the wrong here. It is to hard to decide exactly what is research and copying in these cases. This isn't just some answer key that was mailed to some inner circle of conspirators. If Duke worries about how the internet will be used in finding solutions, then they need tougher in class testing procedures to show people have mastered the skill set they say they have or the University wants them to have.
In a way, using the internet to get the answer is the way it works in IT these days. I routinely get my solutions for problems at work by going to the internet – I don't memorize every command and algorithm. These kids aren't cheating, they're doing it the current/modern way.
I don't think these kids expected to be involved in The Prisoner's Dilemma, then again, maybe this is some meta-programming test for an optimal solution.
Many/most posts on this subject are on how terrible a deal this is for America and China getting off Scott free.
Or on the other hand, China's emissions per citizen is much lower than America's. So basically America can only agree to cut emissions if our historic advantage is preserved when negotiating with other countries. We got to polluted at much higher levels for decades, but now that emerging economies are polluting as much or more, well all that s**t has to come to a stop.
If America wants the world to have a better environment then it needs to lead by example – not demand we get the best deal. China is developing renewables at a much faster clip than America, but it still has a lot of ground to catch up on a per-citizen basis in economics. It is a foregone conclusion that China will pollute more than America in the short run while it catches up economically. To expect them to stay behind because we don't like it, even though we basically did the same or worse when adjusted for population just won't fly. As China becomes more affluent you can expect pollution levels to decrease as an enriched middle-class demands a better environment. Yes there will be damage in the short run, but this is probably unavoidable given political realities. Better to do something than nothing.
I'm fine with being mad at China for human right's abuses or lack of free speech, but this whining is really about we-got-our-nut, screw everyone else if they try to catch up.
If you really want to save the world, push for Nuclear-Fusion research. We know this is a solvable problem if we just have the political will to tackle it. Others like Lockheed might get there before ITER, but in general this needs a Manhattan project level off commitment to be certain it is solved, not just wait and hope the free market takes care of it, because you know in the meantime we are still burning oil and coal.
The obvious solution is to automate this stuff! What could go wrang?
My wife often decides to hate things because everyone is “into” them. My daughter gets caught up in liking what others like for no reason other than that it’s the trend. Then there’s me who like many Slashdotters decide what to like based on what seems like good empirical evidence and an ability to just judge for myself.
I think it is the dynamic between the hippster and trenders that give the wild oscillations in popularity for things and why trends come and go. Ironically it is the trenders that undo the hippsters as when the hippster/hatters reach a certain critical mass, then boom the trenders hate it to.
Easy morals to have if you're not the one on the bottom. Your assumption is that if someone cheats at all to offset an unfair advantage then they will be incapable of doing anything afterward.
By my way of think the unprivledged that stay in the system my offset the priviledged that will never be expected to perform because all they needed was a peice of paper to cover the corruption that got them to where they are. The unpriviledged will actually have to produce when they get where they are going whether in India or America. Granted there will be a lot of chaff, but there will also be some wheat.
For years I’ve been hearing how India is posed to take off economically. No one talked about China being a powerhouse 30 years ago, then 20 years ago the litany became India was next and posed to pass China, you know, because of freedom and stuff. I still kept hearing this, but it just never seems to happen. Meanwhile lots of doom and gloom predictions about China that never seem to materialize.
Both are countries are corrupt, but in very different ways. China’s leaders are pushing their populous into the modern age to benefit both their people and themselves. The richer the people are the more they can skim off the top.
India seems to want to let half of its population wallow in ignorance, superstition, and class based prejudice, all the while setting the tone for corruption at all levels that keeps anything from getting done.
Religious fanaticism is unpleasant, but if we could conquer corruption there would be very little left to fix in the world.
BTW, if I were a poor student in India, I would cheat too, then work hard in the real world to make it not just a selfish waste.
One always hears about attempts to steal intellectual property, but (assuming this isn’t hype by Kaspersky) could these types of attacks be about insider trading? Could nation-states being playing the markets with this info?
I am troubled by the no concern for his vegan diet. No concern would imply he was routinely served meat with no deviation from the regular prison fare. I don’t know about Sweden, but it seems there would be plenty of vegetarian diet dishes available for religious reasons to prisoners. If he was offered vegetarian fare, perhaps that suffices, its not like we can accommodate every dietary request. My religion only allows me to eat panda or human flesh certainly wouldn’t fly.
The question here is whether any reasonable accommodation was made. Without more details it is hard to judge. Disturbing if true though. This would imply you have to have a major religion to back up your moral choices in life – which to me is not religious freedom.
BTW, that first soles was also supposed to be souls.
Seems there trouble with my soul (sole) as well.
Ummm, why does he need the names and addresses to pray for them? Sort of like “what does God need with a starship?” Surely this man's all seeing deity can take care of these wayward soles by just know this man cares about the state of their immortal souls.
Of course maybe this is a more impotent rather than Omnipotent God, in which case I guess this man has to carry God's message in person, to do what God can't.
So if we're lucky this won't be the true Higgs partilce, as that would point to more discoveries involving a fifth force dubbed the technicolor force and allow us to see particles composed of techni-quarks. Should this come to be, then that probably more than justifies the expense of the LHC as just finding the Higgs would not really give us radically new knowledge.
It’s all well and good to say our Big Bang was an inevitable quantum fluctuation in some frothy Metaverse, but then the real question becomes where the Metaverse comes from.
Whether Metaverse or not, I tend to believe the true answer is something close to Max Tegmark’s Mathematical universe hypothesis. There isn’t really any physical substance, we are the actualizations of pure math. This universe is just one of an uncounatable infinity of universes that exist because the are mathematically consisitant.
Take the equation for a parabolla, it isn’t complex enough to contain self aware entities, but if it where then it’s Big Bang is at y=0 for y=x^2. It is silly to ask what comes before 0 in the parabolla universe, similarly is is silly to ask what comes before the Big Bang, Time started at 0 because it is just a parameter in the etenal framework of math. The true Universe then is etenal and unchanging, it is math, our perception of time just the unfolding of following one particular parameter in a multidimensional equation.
Held accountable for what? This total free resource I can use with no strings attached, all the while when these guys have to deal with and moderate with various personalities and entities constantly trying to pervert Wikipedia from its mission.
To me Wikipedia is a marvel to behold, a shining bastion of how not-to-be Facebook. I’m constantly amazed at the vitriol they endure when one or two contentious pages gets messed up by some self-aggrandizing a**hole. Nobody seems to stop or look at the literally millions of technical pages which get used on an everyday basis to solve real world problems – but instead focus on whether Justin Beber, Ron Paul, the Koch Brothers, or Monsanto are given a fair shake in their writeups.
I may admire the fact that education is admired by society at large in China. That said, yes their system can be very cruel and the children often have emotional issues because of it. Chinese parents here in America are often hell bent on forcing their children to study endlessly. And you know what, they do much better in school than average American children, and then go on to have better jobs. Here in Howard County Maryland there is about 20% Asian population. Howard County has the third highest average income in America – this population segment is doing something right (and things wrong as well outside of work and school).
When Chinese are sent to foreign schools they take the same work attitude.
I don't admire the Chinese school system, but I also don't think all the hard work is wasted. There is probably some ideal middle ground between what we do here in America and what is done in China.
While not praising the system, I'm also not underestimating it either. China has come a long way in the last twenty years having finally unshackled themselves from Maoist philosophy in all but name only.
What I don't understand is why you and many others extrapolate so easily that despite the fact they have come so far so fast, they can go no further. It may be their system will implode, but it is not inevitable. I dislike the fact that we Americans all seem so smug in our belief that our system is so far superior no one elsewhere under a different system could in some sense to better.
I don't not want to live in China and I especially like the freedom of speech that allows me the lattitude to write as I wish. But I don't take it as a given that will be all it takes to stay ahead of China.
It’s hard to know how to parse this. I don’t say China surpassing us is inevitable, but complacency could make it so. Are you saying American or Western cultural hegemony are unassailable?
Despite China’s pollution problems (or because of them) they are investing a much larger portion of their GDP to solving them than we are. Who knows if they will succeed. I certainly don’t.
If I where a Chinese I don’t think I would appreciate being told I’d better stay at a standard of living less (much less) than an American for the good of the world (or especially Americans).
What are your proposals to keep them down?
I use Firefox all the time, but of late all the browsers seem basically good-enough (though don’t get me started about HTML5’s implementation of draggable) or at least compatible enough.
There is always work to do, but Microsoft seems to have largely conceded the battle against standardization.
I doubt I will find Mozilla’s new browser for developers Earth shattering. I hope I’m wrong.
What really seems needed is just continued pursuit of refinement of the HTML5 standard and work towards making it syntactically regular, grammatically powerful, and user friendly.
In closing, dear God, please someone fix draggable, I want an easy to use, powerful language more than I want cross-platform tools.
Or... faith in America’s brand of freedom may be more a conceit or a faith based belief -- a flattering rationalization we tell ourselves to explain our post-WWII position in the world. I’m not say it isn’t true at all, or true to some degree, but to blindly believe freedom of expression or various other freedoms will forever keep America in the forefront on the world stage may be a bit naive.
That said, day after day, all I see is Slashdot postings that seem to point to the erosion of this freedom you seem to think gives us such a huge advantage.
It may be comforting to think China merely stole everything to become manufacturing heavyweights – it may even be true to a degree, but going forward they are becoming increasingly self reliant. They will at some point surpass us in many areas, or perhaps already have. Did I mention the admiration of academic achievement within their culture? Do you think only us good ol’ Americans have a lock on creativity and knowledge? They aren’t just building infrastructure, they are building know-how. When the Communist party wants something done they are not sidetracked by petty partisan bickering. Yes I outlined some weaknesses of theirs, but that is not to say they might not overcome or evolve past them.
We are the ones that need to start working towards the future harder. Get past the Common-Core complaints -- some are merited, some are not – and get on with it and apply what works in education. An educated workforce will be the only way for us to compete with them (or anyone else) in the future, and they have a 4-5x advantage numbers wise to cull the best from.
I’m on the fence about this one. It reminds me of Japan’s big fifth generation computer project in the 80’s – and which was widely considered a failure. China has had many great accomplishments this last two decades, they are a force to be reckoned with, but many of their gains have come through brute force methods of applying ample labor to problems, not true subtlety or production efficiencies.
That said, the Chinese admire those who excel academically and are hungry for a prosperous modern future. I have actually been to China 5 times in the last eight years and the major cities are modern marvels to behold.
But what has worked well in the past, the ruling party deciding spending priorities, may not work so well in the future. China’s bureaucrats are very controlling. They have worked hard the last twenty years to drag China into the modern world, enriching their citizens and themselves alike, but now that a substantial portion of the population is educated and middle class they have become more restless and demanding of accountability on the part of the government.
This desire for control may also not work so well in an industry that needs the freedom to make mistakes and learn from them. You can command the building of streets and bridges and skyscrapers, commanding new discoveries be made and made in such a way that are not a threat to the state and can be controlled by the state – that may be another thing.
You do NOT have a RIGHT to control your public image. A public image is something that emerges from HOW you perform in public.
You do NOT have a RIGHT to not have your religion, beliefs, politics offended.
You CAN be just as misguided, idiotic, self absorbed as you want to be as long as I am not forced to change my behaviors to accommodate your stupid world views.
The way I see it, I DO have the RIGHT to see, believe, read, write, learn, say, do what I want want if it doesn't interfere with someone else's right to do the same. If you do not agree with that, then we have a problem.
3 days you say – oh noes.
Let's add some moral outrage at maybe DRM involved in buggy behavior.
I am against DRM in general, but by the same token I'm not one to encourage other people to break it.
Jones_Supa gets an article posted, but perhaps is really trying to motivate the community to open this cookie-jar for him. Hidden agenda much?
Contrary to Betteridge's law, the answer here is Yes
Despite all of America's faults our freedom of speech and self correcting form of democracy had always made me proud to be and American. These days however we seem to teeter on the edge of Fascism in order to preserve the interests of the top 1%.
The freedom of the internet and the cultural clash with ideologies like radical Islam seem to have created a perfect storm to motivate those at the top to grab what they can now and lock down everything to keep it for themselves in perpetuity.
Automation will increasingly make goods cheaper. Intellectual property is essentially free to distribute once created. Since there will be less profits in making goods going forward, the way to more riches is to lock up IP and make it artificially expensive. The ultimate cash-cow.
The top 1% decry the inheritance tax (death tax in rich parlance). By all measures class mobility in America is declining – lowering taxes for the rich is increasingly a scam to produce a new nobility, not a way to spur more hiring. It is not a coincidence I think that as tax rates for the rich have declined that the rich are pulling away year after year from the middle class. The advantages the rich have had over the last few decades never seem to trickle down to the middle class, so why always the argument the rich are needed to create jobs? The more we give the less we get.