I believe the established car companies have been and will be reluctant to put out electrical cars. Gasoline cars are more complex and have more moving parts that wear and tear. So producing and servicing gasoline cars is simply much more profitable than producing and servicing electrical cars.
Also, the excellent documentary "Who killed the electric car" suggests that hydrogen technology is a complete sham, that will always be inferior to battery technology when it comes to efficiency and capacity. The reason the oil and car industry is pushing it, is because there's lots of money to be made in building the new hydrogen infrastructure that would be needed to refuel hydrogen cars. Hydrogen cars are also more complex than electrical cars, thus increasing the profits made from producing and servicing them.
"and in the space of resource light desktops it looks like a clear winner"
I do apologize, but that statement just forced me to mention ROX Desktop, my DE of choice for some time now. It has some very nice features, like drag-and-drop saving (applications have to explicitly support this, though) and support for application directories, which are like bundles on OSX. Also, the file manager (ROX) is snappier than snappy. On my system it goes from login (XDM) to desktop in less than five seconds.
Does anybody know of other light-weight, full-featured desktop environments? Because XFCE and ROX Desktop are the only ones I can think of.
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it's not the part of Europe I live in. Europe is a pretty big and diverse place, though. I'd say western Europe and Scandinavia are plenty computerized. But I think what GP said may apply to Southern and Eastern Europe.
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"The market value of the content is dramatically reduced by allowing use without compensation."
Not necessarily. For example, Janis Ian claims she has actually sold more cd's thanks to Napster and its offspring. Most DVD's I own were bought because I downloaded the movie and decided I really liked it. I think p2p will usually increase the sales of quality and decrease the sales of crap. The movie and music industry prefer to produce crap because it's easier and cheaper, which is why they oppose p2p.
"People forget that the US had close to 100,000 men stationed in various European countries. Now that the US is slowly moving these men out, the tensions have stated to rise again. Just look at all of the recent riots. Just look at how France and Germany have once again run roughshod over the whole European Union."
Actually, Universal healthcare is meant to compensate for an existing uneven distribution of private property. The idea is that anyone who goes bungeejumping and breaks their arm, should be able to get it fixed, not just the people who have money.
I can see why you think that the redistribution of wealth is unethical, but I'd like to argue that it's even more unethical if people who need medical care can't get it.
I'm interested in both your researches. I'm personally interested in potential societies without hierarchy (anarchy, in the political sense of the word, not the chaos/destruction sense of the word). Such a society would probably have a very different concept of property. Most texts on the subject of anarchy speak in terms of organizational structures rather than psychology and world-view, though. I'm interested in hearing other people's thougts on world-views and psychology and what influence they have on society, especially the concept of property or lack thereof.
I know you didn't have me in mind when you asked the question, but you might be interested to know what the "eliminiation" of private property means to me. Anarchists tend to make a distinction between "private property" and "personal posessions". Private property are things that give people power, like land or means of production. People should not own these. They can own as many personal posessions like iPods, cellphones and combs as they like, though. So people should not own private property because that gives them power. An uneven distribution of power creates hierarchy which creates inequality, a lack of freedom and suppression. The abolition of private property is thus a means to prevent inequality. It's important to note that freedom and equality are pretty much mutually inclusive according to most anarchist theories.
The idea of a gift-based economy is also really popular among Anarchists. I think such an economy would require a very different concept of property than is popular in today's scociety.
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Are you referring by any chance to the problem of qualia?
I believe the established car companies have been and will be reluctant to put out electrical cars. Gasoline cars are more complex and have more moving parts that wear and tear. So producing and servicing gasoline cars is simply much more profitable than producing and servicing electrical cars.
Also, the excellent documentary "Who killed the electric car" suggests that hydrogen technology is a complete sham, that will always be inferior to battery technology when it comes to efficiency and capacity. The reason the oil and car industry is pushing it, is because there's lots of money to be made in building the new hydrogen infrastructure that would be needed to refuel hydrogen cars. Hydrogen cars are also more complex than electrical cars, thus increasing the profits made from producing and servicing them.
"and in the space of resource light desktops it looks like a clear winner"
I do apologize, but that statement just forced me to mention ROX Desktop, my DE of choice for some time now. It has some very nice features, like drag-and-drop saving (applications have to explicitly support this, though) and support for application directories, which are like bundles on OSX. Also, the file manager (ROX) is snappier than snappy. On my system it goes from login (XDM) to desktop in less than five seconds.
Does anybody know of other light-weight, full-featured desktop environments? Because XFCE and ROX Desktop are the only ones I can think of.
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it's not the part of Europe I live in. Europe is a pretty big and diverse place, though. I'd say western Europe and Scandinavia are plenty computerized. But I think what GP said may apply to Southern and Eastern Europe.
The whole committee or just the chairman?
Why would I want to moon the sun, anyway?
Yes, lawyers hate it when they have to pretend to be human beings.
What, that flaming homosexual?
Try pressing the 'f' button.
You should have voted for the Animal Party, they have the hottest "listpuller" of all.
I thought it was because two eyes are more attractive to the opposite sex.
..and I suppose the OS field will be dominated by BeOS, RiscOS and AmigaOS.
'anarchy' and 'historically', I don't think these words mean what you think they mean.
Well, it's aboot time!
"The market value of the content is dramatically reduced by allowing use without compensation."
Not necessarily. For example, Janis Ian claims she has actually sold more cd's thanks to Napster and its offspring. Most DVD's I own were bought because I downloaded the movie and decided I really liked it. I think p2p will usually increase the sales of quality and decrease the sales of crap. The movie and music industry prefer to produce crap because it's easier and cheaper, which is why they oppose p2p.
"People forget that the US had close to 100,000 men stationed in various European countries. Now that the US is slowly moving these men out, the tensions have stated to rise again. Just look at all of the recent riots. Just look at how France and Germany have once again run roughshod over the whole European Union."
Yes, and global warming is due to a decrease in pirates.
The beast is the idea that control is the solution, while in reality control is the problem.
"So you're saying it is inappropriate to make fun of a convicted sexual offenders?"
For an encyclopaedia it is inappropriate, yes.
It is, isn't it? Maybe I'm not insane after all.
If you pay, sure.
The mañanon?
Actually, Universal healthcare is meant to compensate for an existing uneven distribution of private property. The idea is that anyone who goes bungeejumping and breaks their arm, should be able to get it fixed, not just the people who have money.
I can see why you think that the redistribution of wealth is unethical, but I'd like to argue that it's even more unethical if people who need medical care can't get it.
I'm interested in both your researches. I'm personally interested in potential societies without hierarchy (anarchy, in the political sense of the word, not the chaos/destruction sense of the word). Such a society would probably have a very different concept of property. Most texts on the subject of anarchy speak in terms of organizational structures rather than psychology and world-view, though. I'm interested in hearing other people's thougts on world-views and psychology and what influence they have on society, especially the concept of property or lack thereof.
I know you didn't have me in mind when you asked the question, but you might be interested to know what the "eliminiation" of private property means to me. Anarchists tend to make a distinction between "private property" and "personal posessions". Private property are things that give people power, like land or means of production. People should not own these. They can own as many personal posessions like iPods, cellphones and combs as they like, though. So people should not own private property because that gives them power. An uneven distribution of power creates hierarchy which creates inequality, a lack of freedom and suppression. The abolition of private property is thus a means to prevent inequality. It's important to note that freedom and equality are pretty much mutually inclusive according to most anarchist theories.
The idea of a gift-based economy is also really popular among Anarchists. I think such an economy would require a very different concept of property than is popular in today's scociety.
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The system works.
Man, I've always wanted to say that!