I'm envisioning one quite & easy solution for GSU's lawsuit, just dump all the journals by the plaintiffs.. and get Emory, Georgia Tech, UGA, etc. to dump them too. Universities are not faceless stupid buyers of music and movies. If you make legitimately holding your IP toxic, they'll dump your ass, and make their students and faculty obtain the IP directly from the authors (or free preprint servers).
In fact, the shock that started the great depression was caused by congress deciding that gambling was immortal and raising interest rates for margin buying. And the stock market only recovered once later administrations relaxed the restrictions. We already tax capital gains differently depending upon the duration.
Automation will replace numerous unpleasant low-skill low-pay jobs with fewer more pleasant higher-skilled higher-paying jobs, and that's always good progress. Also, we should support any reduction in the trade imbalance with China, even if they're just moving to another country with a lesser trade imbalance.
.. but I'm just advocating that all news sources discuss the latest apple releases together with the latest tween toy trends.
For example, you really needed to contemplate the iPad together with vajazzling if you hoped to comprehend either. I assure you that Apple's engineers were intently involved with bedazzling their phones while designing the iPad, just like the vajazzling developers.
I'm sure Morocco, Mexico, Bangladesh, Haiti, etc. will all be thrilled to hear your endorsement of their civilian nuclear power programs. Sure, they've absolutely no chance with fusion either. But.. Isn't that an endorsement of fusion?
In any case, we'll obviously benefit more from 20 billion spent investigating fusion than from 20 billion spent on most other government funded activities, so kinda depends what else they'd spend the money on.
You know, I don't give a shit about wifi data collected by google. In fact, google one does one evil thing afaik :
Google sells fucking first place search results!
I don't even really mind google selling BP the first place search results for oil spill, but I'd wish google would charge say $5 million per day, that's a fair price given the social damage done.
Google has sold us all out by selling that search result for less than even $1 million per day. fuckers!
Yeah, all this make it imperative that users install some form of FlashBlocker that blocks flash content until the user clicks it. In fact, I'd prefer that flash content was opened in the stand alone FlashPlayer, not the browser. I'm sure this would prevent most remaining browser crashes.
I said liquor not beer or wine, moonshine does occasionally contain methanol or other toxins. I've never heard about beer or wine fermentation accidentally producing methanol.
All Apple product release posts should focus primarily upon the latest tween toy trends like silly bandz.
For example, vajazzling discussion would have been the perfect accompaniment to the iPad release article here on slashdot.
I've observe this merger of topics keep discussions organized and focussed upon what matters most, and encourage slashdot users to submit and discuss accordingly.
We've just made a major discovery in tech news reporting over at metafilter.org :
All Apple product release posts should focus primarily upon the latest tween toy trends like bedazzling.
For example, the iPad release article should clearly have focussed upon vajazzling.
We have found this merger of topics undeniably keeps discussions organized and focussed upon what matters most, and therefore recommend that slashdot users submit all future articles about Apple product releases accordingly.
Also, we're fairly confident that youtube videos pertaining to apply products should also focus upon the latest tween trends.
Jobs is a psychopath that wanted to change the world, even got his wish, kinda. Among sane people, I'm not sure the Google guys were exactly trying to change the world, although they're willing to take up the mantle when absolutely necessary. Bill Gates wasn't trying to change anything either, but age eventually showed how he had little choice. Zuckerberg? change? don't make me laugh!
Interesting vaguely, but mostly that just says NPG is outdated and must die.
Academic publishers do exactly jack shit, seriously like nothing, zero, zilch. Academics prepare their papers in LaTeX which unlike MS Word will easily produce print quality output. I've never once seen even so much as a spelling correction from an editor, merely bitching about uncited referenced that I'd left uncited for a reason. Referees work completely for free.
I never claimed marijuana was a gateway drug in the U.S. To me, that kinda depends upon whether your a jack booted authoritarian.
I merely asserted that pot was an anti-gateway drug for Spain. In particular, Spanish pot users are habituated to spending less for their highs than for alcohol because they and/or their friends grow it themselves. If a reasonable pot high comes for nearly free, with timing regulated by your green thumb, then coke and heroin prices sound kinda insane, well assuming you're not currently a user.
I'm serious, pot grower-users will inherently regulate their own consumption for more responsibly than any other conceivable system. If they want more, they'll work harder growing. If they can't even water their plants, they'll get jack.
To me, medical marijuana isn't the ideal route since it encourages professional grow ops and Netherlands style THC doping. If your not competent, you can easily make poisonous liquor, so alcohol cannot be controlled like this, but nobody will ever grow poisonous pot, so embrace the opportunity.
Just fyi, Spain has kept marijuana distribution illegal, but their courts have said that growing reasonable quantities for personal use cannot be outlawed. So the result is the single best drug deterrent system ever devised : marijuana users must grow a green thumb. In particular, marijuana is actually an anti-gateway drug there because marijuana users become cheap ass bastards.
Turkey never had much chance unless the ascension rules were loosened, which then might weaken the E.U. dramatically.
I'm pretty sure the PIGS crisis has dramatically and permanently altered the European political landscape now though. Eastern European nations have not exactly joint the ranks of the PIGS. Turkey otoh would clearly act like the PIGS. So the crisis has given average Europeans a perfect basis for opposing Turkey's ascension indefinitely.
I'm unsure about Germany a priori, but Austria opposes it vehemently. Switzerland has now joined Schengen and will oppose it to their dying breath. France has decided that future admissions must occur by referendum, which means France will oppose Turkey's entry forever. I'd imagine that Croatia will join first, maybe even Serbia, but those nations will vote against any Islamic member, given the balkan war. It follows that Turkey has zero chance unless the E.U. changes the admission rules, currently even one vote against prevents ascension.
Turkey would unquestionably join the ranks of the PIGS. I'm doubtful that rich European nations will find a truly bullet proof method for controlling PIGS spending, so after the current crisis Turkey will be permanently kept out of the Euro even. And I'm imagine the PIGS crisis will prevent the E.U. from changing the ascension rules within the next couple generations.
AKP is highly Euro skeptic. In fact, they're election was partially distrust of Europe.
Europe will not favor enlarging again for quite some time given the recent economic problems. In fact, Turkey would unquestionably join the ranks of the PIGS. I'm doubtful that Germany, France, etc. will ever feel like they've fixed the PIGS situation, so Turkey is effectively out permanently.
You know, Turkey never had very good odds for entering anyways. Greece would oppose them for military reasons. France would oppose them since France requires a public referendum for new admission into the E.U. Austria would oppose them for Austrian reasons. In fact, Switzerland would even oppose them now that Switzerland joined Schengen.
In the long run, Croatia and Montenegro will all be admitted before Turkey, but they'll vote against Turkey for religious reasons. Bosnia and Serbia might not be admitted for quite some time either, but Serbia would also oppose Turkey's entrance too.
p.s. E.U. expansionism has basically been a substitute for unpopular immigration that allows political elites to lower labor costs. Imho, they are crazy about labor costs not for competing with developing nations, but largely China. China cannot manipulate their currency indefinitely, which will remove the immediate pressure. All the newly admitted countries like Poland will provide cheap labor for some years, with the Ukraine another possible expansion if China holds out.
p.s.2 There has been however an European policy of educating people from Central and South America, kinda an opposition to the Monroe Doctrine. We're now seeing this policy provide higher quality and more culturally similar immigrants than Turkey, the Middle East, or Africa. Face it, if people see Turks or Africans they think Shira law or female circumcision, but if people see Brazilians they think Carnival and barbecue. And immigration from the Americas could easily provide the required labor force control.
Yes obviously the U.S. economic model with only one party would also prove disastrous; however, one centralized parliament making all major economic decisions would also prove disastrous, even if they had multiple parties.
We truly need multiple almost completely independent organizations that succeed or fail based upon their own decisions, the more the better. That said, all those organizations could have democratically elected leadership.
The GP author proposed only that large corporations -- which are already created by the state, and so are not free market entities -- be democratically controlled. He(?) did not propose that all economic decisions be made democratically. So, no, no communism here.
Yes, but in-fact my comment was even more subtle. I never advocated placing those corporations under government control. In particular, their independent democratic status would largely eviscerate the legitimacy of government regulations, well assuming those regulations were targeted at subside receiving companies.
To me, the biggest large scale difference between communism and our state capitalism is that communism consisted of basically one dominant organization with subsidiary organizations, while our state capitalism consists of a handful of distinct large organizations. You'll obviously make better decisions overall when you've got several fully independent organizations that are permitted to fail, witness the rise of Google and Appel and Microsfot's decline. So I'd assert that communism failed from an organizational disconnect from reality, which might've been less severe early on.
Btw, you might consider other variations without quite so much independents. For example, the people might elect "topical boards" that oversaw all companies that fit within their domain. You notice however that this would depends more upon the power of the stock holder boards for independence. And thus rings far closer to my critique of communism.
Yes, but just making the deal will never cut it. A sustainable system for subsidies would be : large corporations who receive significant public subsidies or hold public contracts in excess of $250M per year must become publicly democratically chartered companies, which means all american citizens have the right to vote in elections of board members and executives, and these results must be approved by a second round of elections among only stock holders.
No, just another evil corporation that isn't actually chopping up kittens and has powerful lobbyists. Yeah, amybe those lobbyists are partially police agencies, but surely the NSA/CIA don't need these guys.
Fair enough. Yes, the telepathy-spirit package that provides skype integration is close source, along with various other core packages. That said, I've only installed additional packages from open source repositories. And obviously the closed source packages like telepathy-spirit are feeding into an open source user interface.
I've got adblock and flashblock running on my N900 just fine. I only install apps from the free software repositories, not Ovi store. All my bandwidth usage comes from being simultaneously logged into skype, gtalk, aim, msn, yahoo chat, and facebook chat, which probably isn't possible on other phones anyways.
You could install cups and ghostscript on an N900 too, or just use an ssh script, but you've got no integration with the native apps for email, web, etc. Android doesn't offer that either.
x11vnc is for interacting with the phone from the computer, which lets you carry out more involved tasks more quickly. It sadly doesn't hardly work over wifi, only usb networking.
Subversion (svn) and CVS are centralized version control programs, while Mercurial (hg) and Git are distributed ones.
TeX is the only typesetting system in the world suitable for preparing professional quality documents with any significant amount of mathematics. You'd never actually write a (La)TeX document on an Android device of course, but you might modify one.
All these programs are not exactly trivial to reimplement in Java, although you could port them to the Android NDK, which might cost you portability among Android devices. I'd imagine Android remote desktop apps all sacrifice portability by using the NDK for speed, btw.
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I'm envisioning one quite & easy solution for GSU's lawsuit, just dump all the journals by the plaintiffs.. and get Emory, Georgia Tech, UGA, etc. to dump them too. Universities are not faceless stupid buyers of music and movies. If you make legitimately holding your IP toxic, they'll dump your ass, and make their students and faculty obtain the IP directly from the authors (or free preprint servers).
In fact, the shock that started the great depression was caused by congress deciding that gambling was immortal and raising interest rates for margin buying. And the stock market only recovered once later administrations relaxed the restrictions. We already tax capital gains differently depending upon the duration.
Automation will replace numerous unpleasant low-skill low-pay jobs with fewer more pleasant higher-skilled higher-paying jobs, and that's always good progress. Also, we should support any reduction in the trade imbalance with China, even if they're just moving to another country with a lesser trade imbalance.
.. but I'm just advocating that all news sources discuss the latest apple releases together with the latest tween toy trends.
For example, you really needed to contemplate the iPad together with vajazzling if you hoped to comprehend either. I assure you that Apple's engineers were intently involved with bedazzling their phones while designing the iPad, just like the vajazzling developers.
I'm sure Morocco, Mexico, Bangladesh, Haiti, etc. will all be thrilled to hear your endorsement of their civilian nuclear power programs. Sure, they've absolutely no chance with fusion either. But.. Isn't that an endorsement of fusion?
In any case, we'll obviously benefit more from 20 billion spent investigating fusion than from 20 billion spent on most other government funded activities, so kinda depends what else they'd spend the money on.
You know, I don't give a shit about wifi data collected by google. In fact, google one does one evil thing afaik :
Google sells fucking first place search results!
I don't even really mind google selling BP the first place search results for oil spill, but I'd wish google would charge say $5 million per day, that's a fair price given the social damage done.
Google has sold us all out by selling that search result for less than even $1 million per day. fuckers!
Yeah, all this make it imperative that users install some form of FlashBlocker that blocks flash content until the user clicks it. In fact, I'd prefer that flash content was opened in the stand alone FlashPlayer, not the browser. I'm sure this would prevent most remaining browser crashes.
I said liquor not beer or wine, moonshine does occasionally contain methanol or other toxins. I've never heard about beer or wine fermentation accidentally producing methanol.
I've got a modest proposal :
All Apple product release posts should focus primarily upon the latest tween toy trends like silly bandz.
For example, vajazzling discussion would have been the perfect accompaniment to the iPad release article here on slashdot.
I've observe this merger of topics keep discussions organized and focussed upon what matters most, and encourage slashdot users to submit and discuss accordingly.
We've just made a major discovery in tech news reporting over at metafilter.org :
All Apple product release posts should focus primarily upon the latest tween toy trends like bedazzling.
For example, the iPad release article should clearly have focussed upon vajazzling.
We have found this merger of topics undeniably keeps discussions organized and focussed upon what matters most, and therefore recommend that slashdot users submit all future articles about Apple product releases accordingly.
Also, we're fairly confident that youtube videos pertaining to apply products should also focus upon the latest tween trends.
Jobs is a psychopath that wanted to change the world, even got his wish, kinda. Among sane people, I'm not sure the Google guys were exactly trying to change the world, although they're willing to take up the mantle when absolutely necessary. Bill Gates wasn't trying to change anything either, but age eventually showed how he had little choice. Zuckerberg? change? don't make me laugh!
Interesting vaguely, but mostly that just says NPG is outdated and must die.
Academic publishers do exactly jack shit, seriously like nothing, zero, zilch. Academics prepare their papers in LaTeX which unlike MS Word will easily produce print quality output. I've never once seen even so much as a spelling correction from an editor, merely bitching about uncited referenced that I'd left uncited for a reason. Referees work completely for free.
I never claimed marijuana was a gateway drug in the U.S. To me, that kinda depends upon whether your a jack booted authoritarian.
I merely asserted that pot was an anti-gateway drug for Spain. In particular, Spanish pot users are habituated to spending less for their highs than for alcohol because they and/or their friends grow it themselves. If a reasonable pot high comes for nearly free, with timing regulated by your green thumb, then coke and heroin prices sound kinda insane, well assuming you're not currently a user.
I'm serious, pot grower-users will inherently regulate their own consumption for more responsibly than any other conceivable system. If they want more, they'll work harder growing. If they can't even water their plants, they'll get jack.
To me, medical marijuana isn't the ideal route since it encourages professional grow ops and Netherlands style THC doping. If your not competent, you can easily make poisonous liquor, so alcohol cannot be controlled like this, but nobody will ever grow poisonous pot, so embrace the opportunity.
Just fyi, Spain has kept marijuana distribution illegal, but their courts have said that growing reasonable quantities for personal use cannot be outlawed. So the result is the single best drug deterrent system ever devised : marijuana users must grow a green thumb. In particular, marijuana is actually an anti-gateway drug there because marijuana users become cheap ass bastards.
Turkey never had much chance unless the ascension rules were loosened, which then might weaken the E.U. dramatically.
I'm pretty sure the PIGS crisis has dramatically and permanently altered the European political landscape now though. Eastern European nations have not exactly joint the ranks of the PIGS. Turkey otoh would clearly act like the PIGS. So the crisis has given average Europeans a perfect basis for opposing Turkey's ascension indefinitely.
I'm unsure about Germany a priori, but Austria opposes it vehemently. Switzerland has now joined Schengen and will oppose it to their dying breath. France has decided that future admissions must occur by referendum, which means France will oppose Turkey's entry forever. I'd imagine that Croatia will join first, maybe even Serbia, but those nations will vote against any Islamic member, given the balkan war. It follows that Turkey has zero chance unless the E.U. changes the admission rules, currently even one vote against prevents ascension.
Turkey would unquestionably join the ranks of the PIGS. I'm doubtful that rich European nations will find a truly bullet proof method for controlling PIGS spending, so after the current crisis Turkey will be permanently kept out of the Euro even. And I'm imagine the PIGS crisis will prevent the E.U. from changing the ascension rules within the next couple generations.
Afaik, DNS blocking has been the traditional censorship tool in Turkey, but who knows now.
AKP is highly Euro skeptic. In fact, they're election was partially distrust of Europe.
Europe will not favor enlarging again for quite some time given the recent economic problems. In fact, Turkey would unquestionably join the ranks of the PIGS. I'm doubtful that Germany, France, etc. will ever feel like they've fixed the PIGS situation, so Turkey is effectively out permanently.
You know, Turkey never had very good odds for entering anyways. Greece would oppose them for military reasons. France would oppose them since France requires a public referendum for new admission into the E.U. Austria would oppose them for Austrian reasons. In fact, Switzerland would even oppose them now that Switzerland joined Schengen.
In the long run, Croatia and Montenegro will all be admitted before Turkey, but they'll vote against Turkey for religious reasons. Bosnia and Serbia might not be admitted for quite some time either, but Serbia would also oppose Turkey's entrance too.
p.s. E.U. expansionism has basically been a substitute for unpopular immigration that allows political elites to lower labor costs. Imho, they are crazy about labor costs not for competing with developing nations, but largely China. China cannot manipulate their currency indefinitely, which will remove the immediate pressure. All the newly admitted countries like Poland will provide cheap labor for some years, with the Ukraine another possible expansion if China holds out.
p.s.2 There has been however an European policy of educating people from Central and South America, kinda an opposition to the Monroe Doctrine. We're now seeing this policy provide higher quality and more culturally similar immigrants than Turkey, the Middle East, or Africa. Face it, if people see Turks or Africans they think Shira law or female circumcision, but if people see Brazilians they think Carnival and barbecue. And immigration from the Americas could easily provide the required labor force control.
Yes obviously the U.S. economic model with only one party would also prove disastrous; however, one centralized parliament making all major economic decisions would also prove disastrous, even if they had multiple parties.
We truly need multiple almost completely independent organizations that succeed or fail based upon their own decisions, the more the better. That said, all those organizations could have democratically elected leadership.
The GP author proposed only that large corporations -- which are already created by the state, and so are not free market entities -- be democratically controlled. He(?) did not propose that all economic decisions be made democratically. So, no, no communism here.
Yes, but in-fact my comment was even more subtle. I never advocated placing those corporations under government control. In particular, their independent democratic status would largely eviscerate the legitimacy of government regulations, well assuming those regulations were targeted at subside receiving companies.
To me, the biggest large scale difference between communism and our state capitalism is that communism consisted of basically one dominant organization with subsidiary organizations, while our state capitalism consists of a handful of distinct large organizations. You'll obviously make better decisions overall when you've got several fully independent organizations that are permitted to fail, witness the rise of Google and Appel and Microsfot's decline. So I'd assert that communism failed from an organizational disconnect from reality, which might've been less severe early on.
Btw, you might consider other variations without quite so much independents. For example, the people might elect "topical boards" that oversaw all companies that fit within their domain. You notice however that this would depends more upon the power of the stock holder boards for independence. And thus rings far closer to my critique of communism.
Yes, but just making the deal will never cut it. A sustainable system for subsidies would be : large corporations who receive significant public subsidies or hold public contracts in excess of $250M per year must become publicly democratically chartered companies, which means all american citizens have the right to vote in elections of board members and executives, and these results must be approved by a second round of elections among only stock holders.
No, just another evil corporation that isn't actually chopping up kittens and has powerful lobbyists. Yeah, amybe those lobbyists are partially police agencies, but surely the NSA/CIA don't need these guys.
Fair enough. Yes, the telepathy-spirit package that provides skype integration is close source, along with various other core packages. That said, I've only installed additional packages from open source repositories. And obviously the closed source packages like telepathy-spirit are feeding into an open source user interface.
I've got adblock and flashblock running on my N900 just fine. I only install apps from the free software repositories, not Ovi store. All my bandwidth usage comes from being simultaneously logged into skype, gtalk, aim, msn, yahoo chat, and facebook chat, which probably isn't possible on other phones anyways.
You could install cups and ghostscript on an N900 too, or just use an ssh script, but you've got no integration with the native apps for email, web, etc. Android doesn't offer that either.
x11vnc is for interacting with the phone from the computer, which lets you carry out more involved tasks more quickly. It sadly doesn't hardly work over wifi, only usb networking.
Subversion (svn) and CVS are centralized version control programs, while Mercurial (hg) and Git are distributed ones.
TeX is the only typesetting system in the world suitable for preparing professional quality documents with any significant amount of mathematics. You'd never actually write a (La)TeX document on an Android device of course, but you might modify one.
All these programs are not exactly trivial to reimplement in Java, although you could port them to the Android NDK, which might cost you portability among Android devices. I'd imagine Android remote desktop apps all sacrifice portability by using the NDK for speed, btw.