You might want to read Joseph Campbell's book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In it Campbell explains how myths and legends from all around the world have certain themes and events recurring.
These themes include for example a phase of the myth/story/whatever when the Hero goes to the Abyss (eg. the bad guys beat him up), but via a divine transformation (eg. dead partner saying Get up! Get UP!) the Hero emerges and goes on to slaughter the enemies and inflict various kinds of revenge upon them. You know, the standard Steven Seagal / Die Hard / whatever action-movie plot.
So... it's classical stuff, real classical. All the great myths, legends, hero epics, world creation stories and such have common elements. Since they're great stories, it's obvious that there becomes a "pattern" of a story which is then followed. Naturally the script writers, authors and so on would like to recreate the great mythical epics so they take influence from there. If they don't, they should. Rewriting something like Gilgamesh or just about any of the great stories to a space-epic cyberpunk screenplay would kick Matrix's ass.
Hell, you could even think of Campbell's book as equivalent of Gamma's Design Patterns for storytellers (script writers, book authors, etc.) all around the world!
When you say information can't be free you are mistakenly saying that information and the matter in which it manifests itself are the same. This is not correct.
Of course it costs to make a eg. CD, to get the materials, to manufacture the disc, to encode the information to the disc etc. but information in its basic and abstract form, as information, does not cost to you.
You probably know how to make a fire by rubbing two woods together. You probably overheard that somewhere. That information does not cost anything. It exists whether you as the keeper of information die (ie. your brains stop working). Of course there's a cost in keeping your brains working, but the information as such does not cost you more. Cost is always imposed by a human. There is no such thing in natural occurence where you take fruit from a tree and suddenly you have to part with some amount of money.
But the information has not gone anywhere! You can still make a fire by rubbing two woods together.
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I have no idea about Polish, Russian or Czech but in Finnish the word "ruska" means that time when all the leaves are orange, red and yellow due to autumn. This is especially so in Lapland. I have no idea if this word even means the same... Just an observation.
You! Yes, you, the concerned parent. Play with your fucking kids, get them a book or whatever and stop them from surfing the fucking net ON THEIR OWN and then stop the fucking whining you stupid fuck.
If you're too fucking lazy to watch over your children and teach them about shit yourself, it's your fault if they end up at rotten.com.
The Internet is not your fucking babysitter! There are web pages for children. Read them together. And shut the fuck up!!
Also, with the amount of money spent on bombs and the entire operation to smoke out bin Lad^H^H^H^H^H^H^H the Talib^H^H^H^H^H terrorists, how many Mars probes / HSTs / International Space Stations you could get with that money?
My point is that there is a huge amount of money being spent on seemingly "unconstructive" purposes. Maybe some percentage of that money could be used to forward space exploration and research!
It's a utopian thought. There will always be a military of some kind in a society... and there is little point in demolishing it altogether. There are many benefits from it, after all.
But there's a line when preparing to defend becomes the capability to launch an offensive. And this margin of offensive capability is what IMO could be eaten away. Maybe the money bags in the scale could be balanced a little bit more in favor of space exploration.
Just a thought... Could it be possible to do homebrewn quantum computing using white light (all colours = all bits are 1) and some homebrewn filters, mirrors etc. or similar setup?
If I don't get paid, neither will you. If I get paid, so will you.
When you create the software and I use it to make some software, either I give it away for free or expect payment. If I get paid, I've used it commercially and therefore have to pay you...
Or at least something like that was my train of thought.
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You might want to read Joseph Campbell's book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In it Campbell explains how myths and legends from all around the world have certain themes and events recurring.
These themes include for example a phase of the myth/story/whatever when the Hero goes to the Abyss (eg. the bad guys beat him up), but via a divine transformation (eg. dead partner saying Get up! Get UP!) the Hero emerges and goes on to slaughter the enemies and inflict various kinds of revenge upon them. You know, the standard Steven Seagal / Die Hard / whatever action-movie plot.
So... it's classical stuff, real classical. All the great myths, legends, hero epics, world creation stories and such have common elements. Since they're great stories, it's obvious that there becomes a "pattern" of a story which is then followed. Naturally the script writers, authors and so on would like to recreate the great mythical epics so they take influence from there. If they don't, they should. Rewriting something like Gilgamesh or just about any of the great stories to a space-epic cyberpunk screenplay would kick Matrix's ass.
Hell, you could even think of Campbell's book as equivalent of Gamma's Design Patterns for storytellers (script writers, book authors, etc.) all around the world!
When you say information can't be free you are mistakenly saying that information and the matter in which it manifests itself are the same. This is not correct.
Of course it costs to make a eg. CD, to get the materials, to manufacture the disc, to encode the information to the disc etc. but information in its basic and abstract form, as information, does not cost to you.
You probably know how to make a fire by rubbing two woods together. You probably overheard that somewhere. That information does not cost anything. It exists whether you as the keeper of information die (ie. your brains stop working). Of course there's a cost in keeping your brains working, but the information as such does not cost you more. Cost is always imposed by a human. There is no such thing in natural occurence where you take fruit from a tree and suddenly you have to part with some amount of money.
But the information has not gone anywhere! You can still make a fire by rubbing two woods together.
I don't think I'm making sense.. but whatever.
I send you this mail in order to celebrate you turning 30:
HAVE YOU HEARD OF GROWTH HORMONE (GH)???
Released by your own pituitary gland, GH starts declining in
your 20s, even more in your 30s and 40s, eventually resulting
in the shrinkage of major organs plus all other symptoms related
to old age.
THIS CAN NOW BE REVERSED!!! IN THOUSANDS OF CLINICAL STUDIES,
GH HAS BEEN SHOWN TO ACCOMPLISH THE FOLLOWING:
in 6 months of usage !!!
For MORE INFORMATION and your FREE INFO-PAK,
Call 24 hrs. (recorded message):
1 800 COWBOY NEAL
SALES REPS NEEDED (NOT MLM)
____________________________
If you are not interest in this offer, you will be
automatically removed from out mailing list by sending
an email to yourself
Rob a bank?
Would it be possible to receive AM transmissions with your monitor?
If you'd bothered with Google, you would have found it, maybe here.
I have no idea about Polish, Russian or Czech but in Finnish the word "ruska" means that time when all the leaves are orange, red and yellow due to autumn. This is especially so in Lapland. I have no idea if this word even means the same... Just an observation.
You! Yes, you, the concerned parent. Play with your fucking kids, get them a book or whatever and stop them from surfing the fucking net ON THEIR OWN and then stop the fucking whining you stupid fuck.
If you're too fucking lazy to watch over your children and teach them about shit yourself, it's your fault if they end up at rotten.com.
The Internet is not your fucking babysitter! There are web pages for children. Read them together. And shut the fuck up!!
Man, at first glance I thought that was some short Perl script!
Also, with the amount of money spent on bombs and the entire operation to smoke out bin Lad^H^H^H^H^H^H^H the Talib^H^H^H^H^H terrorists, how many Mars probes / HSTs / International Space Stations you could get with that money?
My point is that there is a huge amount of money being spent on seemingly "unconstructive" purposes. Maybe some percentage of that money could be used to forward space exploration and research!
It's a utopian thought. There will always be a military of some kind in a society... and there is little point in demolishing it altogether. There are many benefits from it, after all.
But there's a line when preparing to defend becomes the capability to launch an offensive. And this margin of offensive capability is what IMO could be eaten away. Maybe the money bags in the scale could be balanced a little bit more in favor of space exploration.
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Shrek with hair?
We're involved in a WAR with extremist muslims
Gee, I thought it was a war against terrorism.
Just a thought... Could it be possible to do homebrewn quantum computing using white light (all colours = all bits are 1) and some homebrewn filters, mirrors etc. or similar setup?
...by the names of those three Gods of Hindu pantheon, namely those who are the Creator (Brahma), the Destroyer (Shiva) and the Preserver (Vishnu).
If I don't get paid, neither will you. If I get paid, so will you.
When you create the software and I use it to make some software, either I give it away for free or expect payment. If I get paid, I've used it commercially and therefore have to pay you...
Or at least something like that was my train of thought.
Profit should be made with support and consultancy.
Does this not imply that you should make your software as hard to use as possible, without seeming obviously too difficult?
I think a better idea would be to make the software free for non-commercial use. If you make money with it, it's only fair that you pay the author.
If you make free software, it's free for you to use. This way you would have freedom to write whatever "free as in beer" software that you want.