Although you could call this "Creating jobs", since you are only producing for the sake of one individual (or, more generally for "Luxuries") you really aren't creating technology, food or clothing
If there's no demand for luxuries like TVs and cars, then there is no advancement of technology to create better TVs and cars.
If people who worked doing anything other than producing food, clothing or technology gave up their jobs, are you willing to carry them? You'll actually find that most jobs are actually necessary, even if they don't appear so.
With no managers, the fruit-canning factory doesn't work, because all the workers are slacking off, there's no-one to fire them or to hire new workers. There's no-one to order in the fruit or the machinery, or to find people to sell it to.
With no investors, the fruit-canning factory doesn't exist at all.
With the resources and technology we have available to humanity today, we could provide for every human being on the planet, and we could all work only 20 hours a week.
If everyone on the planet only worked 20 hours a week, and relied on technology and handouts for food and clothing, there would be no technology, no clothes and no food.
They could have sought another way to stop him using it, like getting their IT guy to set up a passphrase for access (even WEP would surfice!!!), The passphrase could be printed on the stores reciepts, or written on a sign in the shop (small enough that you have to approach the counter to read it).
Why should hundreds of customers have to go through more hassle for the sake of one asshole with a misguided sense of entitlement?
No- I meant exactly what I said: Newspapers (i.e. dissemination of information via broadsheet and ink) are obsolete.
Newspaper: 50p Electronic device: £250
Newspapers will be around for a long while yet. And that price isn't even including batteries, Internet connection, subscription to online services.
Sure the classic "newspaper" is still in use, but so are fountain pens and pocket watches. What can I say? Some people like anachronisms, and some habits are hard to break.
Or maybe, old devices are merely simpler and more convenient, and that new products aren't worthwhile simply because they're new and expensive. Your analogies are poor, instead of pocket watch, a better analogy would be an analogue watch vs newer digital watches, and instead of fountain pen, a better analogy would be biros vs handheld computers with styluses.
Do developers hate them? You may be prepared to find that the supposed hatred is all talk when a recently-laid off developer gets a new car wafted under his nose.
Sega's problem was Sony corrupted the market from being about fun to "looking cool" saddly.
Yeah that explains Nintendo's pulling out of the console market. It's not Sony's fault if Sega can't market their products properly. Nintendo even today make a killing off 'fun' games.
but it was way too far ahead of it's time. It had online play and all the stuff today we consider vital, the problem was Sega brought it out before anyone else and never fully exploited it.
In other words, they failed to market their products properly. They brought things out when people didn't want them.
It's not just the hassle of registration (can take several minutes on some sites), or the feeling of futility at filling in completely fake details that are no use to anyone (so why do they ask?), it's the cost. I've seen the NY Times ask me for $4 to read a 500 word article. You could buy several newspapers for that.
As well he should. The 19-year old invited a 14-year old back to his place with the intent of having sex with her. Is there something else I'm missing in this picture?
What's wrong with that? Only in your Christian fundamentalist world is sex between two sexually-mature individuals somehow wrong.
A 14-year old sleeping with a 14-year old is extremely regrettable.
Let me guess, when you were 14 you were too fat/spotty to get any?
There are only so many decent professors to go round. They could open a thousand new universities, but people would still be putting microphones in their ears to get into the good ones.
You don't like the person next to you talking on his cell phone? Don't ask the owners/government to make it so it won't work -- instead, ask the guy to stop, and remind him how rude he's being.
Why not ask the owners to stop it? It's their business to stop people irritating their customers. Maybe there should be seperate 'phone' and 'non phone' screens. Then all the obnoxious assholes can go into the same room and chat all the way through the film. You'd only need one screen because they don't watch the film anyway, just talk on the phone.
The same policy can be applied to restaurants. Put a Faraday cage around the building, then let the phone-talkers have their own special eating area: on the roof.
I'd be mighty angry if I was at the movies, and the babysitter couldn't call me and let me know that my children had hurt themselves and was in ICU at the hospital.
God knows how they managed a decade ago when most people didn't have phones. It must have been constant anger and chaos. In fact, there are many people today who don't own phones, their lives must be complete misery.
people also scoffed at google's little one-line blurb text ads when they came out. are they scoffing now?
Google make nearly all of their income from advertising, that's not a very good example. Ads haven't driven people away from Google, so who's to say they'll do the same for craig's list?
Orbit is 200 miles above Earth. With a two percent failure rate, and assuming a round trip, that would be equivalent to a car blowing up with everyone in it every 20,000 miles. I'm not counting the distance floating round and round in orbit as that's not where the danger is.
The Brazilian's dominance of football is not genetic nor unearned. It's created through a culture of football. As soon as they can walk, they are playing the game, kicking balls made of cloth on street corners and dirt fields.
They don't have the American/Australian soulless attitude that sport is about mechanically working out in the gym, or following strict, dull instructions from the coach. In Brazil, sport is about expression, about creativity, about style and panache.
That is something that the dominant Olympic countries will never understand. No matter how much money they throw at it, no matter how many 'Institutes of Sport' they make, no matter how much they can 'bench', no matter how fast then can run a 40, they will never have the passion, the creativity, the joy for the game necessary to win the World Cup.
I think their performance has more to do with managing to acquire the services of Guus Hiddink (a man who was coaching championship-winning teams in the 80s, when none of this modern technology was around).
Also their players have four more years of experience playing in Europe's top leagues which can't hurt.
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In this case, they're choosing short-term profits over long-term complete loss of money. There is no money to be made in asteroid mining.
If there's no demand for luxuries like TVs and cars, then there is no advancement of technology to create better TVs and cars.
If people who worked doing anything other than producing food, clothing or technology gave up their jobs, are you willing to carry them? You'll actually find that most jobs are actually necessary, even if they don't appear so.
With no managers, the fruit-canning factory doesn't work, because all the workers are slacking off, there's no-one to fire them or to hire new workers. There's no-one to order in the fruit or the machinery, or to find people to sell it to.
With no investors, the fruit-canning factory doesn't exist at all.
If everyone on the planet only worked 20 hours a week, and relied on technology and handouts for food and clothing, there would be no technology, no clothes and no food.
I don't see how music DRM stops you downloading DRM-free MP3s from independent musicians.
I've had my computer for well over five years. You're also neglecting the environmental issues, but then maybe you're American.
So this man's computer has accidently, automatically connected to this network every day for three months?
The fact that they called the police on him is sort of a hint that they don't want him to use it.
Or maybe you're just the most gullible person in the world.
Why should hundreds of customers have to go through more hassle for the sake of one asshole with a misguided sense of entitlement?
You don't consider $96 a year a significant amount of money?
Same as any other developing job then?
Newspaper: 50p
Electronic device: £250
Newspapers will be around for a long while yet. And that price isn't even including batteries, Internet connection, subscription to online services.
Or maybe, old devices are merely simpler and more convenient, and that new products aren't worthwhile simply because they're new and expensive. Your analogies are poor, instead of pocket watch, a better analogy would be an analogue watch vs newer digital watches, and instead of fountain pen, a better analogy would be biros vs handheld computers with styluses.
Yeah, it's pathetic they have to PAY people to work for them! Popular companies like Google and Microsoft have all their employees work for free.
Do developers hate them? You may be prepared to find that the supposed hatred is all talk when a recently-laid off developer gets a new car wafted under his nose.
Sexual maturity = periods, hair, tits etc.
Yeah, Golden Axe was awesome. I can still hear the sword-hacking sound and the death rattle now, and I haven't played it in a decade.
Sega's problem was Sony corrupted the market from being about fun to "looking cool" saddly.
Yeah that explains Nintendo's pulling out of the console market. It's not Sony's fault if Sega can't market their products properly. Nintendo even today make a killing off 'fun' games.
but it was way too far ahead of it's time. It had online play and all the stuff today we consider vital, the problem was Sega brought it out before anyone else and never fully exploited it.
In other words, they failed to market their products properly. They brought things out when people didn't want them.
Trees the world over will breath a sigh of relief if the Internet replaces newspapers.
Many newspapers are made with recycled paper.
and come up with readers that actually work as well as newspapers when you are on a subway commuting.
And also cheap enough so you can leave them around in public without worrying about them being stolen, like you can with a real paper.
It's not just the hassle of registration (can take several minutes on some sites), or the feeling of futility at filling in completely fake details that are no use to anyone (so why do they ask?), it's the cost. I've seen the NY Times ask me for $4 to read a 500 word article. You could buy several newspapers for that.
As well he should. The 19-year old invited a 14-year old back to his place with the intent of having sex with her. Is there something else I'm missing in this picture?
What's wrong with that? Only in your Christian fundamentalist world is sex between two sexually-mature individuals somehow wrong.
A 14-year old sleeping with a 14-year old is extremely regrettable.
Let me guess, when you were 14 you were too fat/spotty to get any?
With schools you can open as many as you want
There are only so many decent professors to go round. They could open a thousand new universities, but people would still be putting microphones in their ears to get into the good ones.
Why not ask the owners to stop it? It's their business to stop people irritating their customers. Maybe there should be seperate 'phone' and 'non phone' screens. Then all the obnoxious assholes can go into the same room and chat all the way through the film. You'd only need one screen because they don't watch the film anyway, just talk on the phone.
The same policy can be applied to restaurants. Put a Faraday cage around the building, then let the phone-talkers have their own special eating area: on the roof.
God knows how they managed a decade ago when most people didn't have phones. It must have been constant anger and chaos. In fact, there are many people today who don't own phones, their lives must be complete misery.
Google make nearly all of their income from advertising, that's not a very good example. Ads haven't driven people away from Google, so who's to say they'll do the same for craig's list?
And once the kudzu gets out of hand, just introduce a colony of snakes which feed on kudzu.
Orbit is 200 miles above Earth. With a two percent failure rate, and assuming a round trip, that would be equivalent to a car blowing up with everyone in it every 20,000 miles. I'm not counting the distance floating round and round in orbit as that's not where the danger is.
The Brazilian's dominance of football is not genetic nor unearned. It's created through a culture of football. As soon as they can walk, they are playing the game, kicking balls made of cloth on street corners and dirt fields.
They don't have the American/Australian soulless attitude that sport is about mechanically working out in the gym, or following strict, dull instructions from the coach. In Brazil, sport is about expression, about creativity, about style and panache.
That is something that the dominant Olympic countries will never understand. No matter how much money they throw at it, no matter how many 'Institutes of Sport' they make, no matter how much they can 'bench', no matter how fast then can run a 40, they will never have the passion, the creativity, the joy for the game necessary to win the World Cup.
And thank fuck for that.
I think their performance has more to do with managing to acquire the services of Guus Hiddink (a man who was coaching championship-winning teams in the 80s, when none of this modern technology was around).
Also their players have four more years of experience playing in Europe's top leagues which can't hurt.