Reducing taxes is always good. Anything the government was going to do you could do with your taxes anyways. And if the money was being used for one of the many wealth redistribution schemes then it is definitely good as it is tantamount to theft anyways.
The best electronic voting system I've seen uses a system similar to those Scantron tests I used to take in highschool. The format of it is a paper ballot with questions / candidates, underneath the question is instructions for voting, (ie. select up to 10 candidates from the following list). Directly beside each answer / candidate is a fairly large oval to fill in with pencil. The ballot box looks like a LaserJet 4 that takes paper in instead of spitting it out, the ballot is slotted so that the box will only accept it inserted correctly. When you insert it a simple LED display aknowledges that your vote was accepted.
It's simple, there is a paper copy if anything goes wrong and it enables mechanical counting of the ballots. I'm not sure why no one else can design a system like this.
It isn't employee owned. Notice how the investors are non-members. It is employee run and investor owned, which is stupid. Fuck, most businesses are employee owned as most people are employees and most companies are owned by and large through pension funds / RRSPs. This is stupid hippy bullshit through and through. The whole point of capitalism is helping society by mutual self-interest.
Basically, the people with vested interest in the software don't get a say in how it's developed but a bunch of hippies do. It isn't a business model, it's a model for communism. Mutual cooperation results in people getting ripped off because those that don't leech off those that do.
At the end of the day someone has to pay the bills and there is no getting around that.
I don't want to work at a co-op I want to pay my mortgage. If you've ever seen a commune it's a bunch of lazy bums waiting for someone who can work or has rich parents to show up and give them alms. Lazy bums like this guy who wants to write papers instead of implementing his oh-so-sucessful business model and making a bunch of money. Watch for this guy in the role of "overpriced consultant".
Hahah I wasted an entire week trying to get monodevelop working on OS X on Intel. (It never worked). Then I realized It would be cheaper to just buy Parallels, WinXP, and VS.NET. I estimate in less than a month the stack had paid for itself. I target mono on Linux and have found that developing in VS.NET and replicating your project files in.build (for Nant/Linux) files is the best way to go. Eventually I ran monodevelop on Linux and realized that it is a total piece of crap. Wtf is the point of an IDE that doesn't support debugging.
Copyright is while not necessarily communist is definitely not capitalist. It actually goes against the central tennants of capitalism and creates many of the conditions under which capitalism is known to fail. The parts of communism that it overlaps is, state granted monopoly, and planned economy, and enforcement of the planned economy via the state (read: FBI busts for copyright infringement). The "corporation" definitely exists in communist states, it merely takes its orders from the state rather than the consumer / shareholder.
We have libel laws in the west. Yeah, I'd love to be able to fine anyone who says something I don't like either. The problem is that it moves the libel bar from protecting against false assertions of fact to opinions you don't like. A reptutation stands on its own. If someone thinks they were ripped off by you they should damn well be able to say so.
That isn't true. I've lost weight while consuming between 3000-4000 (estimated) calories a day on no excersize at all. I dropped 85 lbs in about 4 months doing that. A typical breakfast for me was three eggs, a quarter pound of bacon with about 50 grams of cheese. I'd have 3 or 4 lattes per day with the heaviest cream I could buy. Lunch was usually hamburger and cheese and for dinner chicken breast wrapped in bacon and cheese. Or meatballs and sourcream. The funny this is my cholesterol actually dropped on this diet as well.
If you control your diet its very easy to hack your body to do things that on the surface seem impossible. There are lots of ways for a body to effectively burn excess calories.
Why do the police still give out speeding tickets then? According to the law, drug offences are more severe than tickets yet they still find time to patrol the highways. The police are simply lazy. I actually don't think buying / selling drugs is a crime, but the police sure do.
Maybe Families find that killing people is something they value, while beating up kids at school is not. Many people are OK with the concept of prisions, but not kidnapping / unlawful confinement. It's their store, if you want to make a store that stocks only gore games, go right ahead, and when the city council won't grant you a business permit we will rally right behind you. Freedom is the ability to do what you want, not make others do what you want.
You might want to consult their SEC filings for their intention. I don't think I might be too far off the mark by saying their intentions are to make money. Right now they are probably going to incur a cost of doing business in the EU (ligitation / fines) and I would hazard a guess that doing this is what they figure will minimize their losses (litigation / regulation / fines) and maximize their profits (selling software & services).
It may be a suprise to some but corporations are modeled around capitalism. That is to deliver value to their shareholders, if OSS creates more value then they will do that. There is nothing wrong with self-interest. They are running a charity. I use free software because of the price/performance metric. When commercial software is more valuable I use that.
What if your house is made of combustible material? Can I have a surety bond from you? Oh, whats that, you don't want me up your ass? Get out of mine. Can I have a surety bond for the entire block because you choose to have Windex AND Bleach in your house. What if you have Drano AND Tinfoil? etc etc etc. You just happen to be a moron who doesn't realize all the bad reactions that can happen from common ingredients in your house.
Aren't you telling them where and when to speak? "Imposing" (to use your definition) your values of politeness and fairness on them? Traditionally, imposing values means by force, not by reason and competition. Highlighting the benefits of one idea, imposition does not make. They aren't imposing their values on you.
If they don't like the fact that they have no technology perhaps they should stop being leeches and invent their own instead of flying planes into buildings because they can't compete.
Having all people educated to the same level means a) a massive waste of resources or b) not educating people who really need it. Smart people need education, dumb people don't.
African and Arab nations seem to import western weapons just fine. Perhaps one day they will realize its better to buy farm equiptment, etc, but until that day comes I'm still quite happy with the performance of my arms manufacturer stock. Of course western nations are trying to keep them down, that is competition. We prefer to do it via economic competition but if they want to compete via force, lets go. Sure it would be good if they are educated and productive, but we don't owe them that. No little green men came down and offered western civilization advanced technology we made it ourselves.
He doesn't tell you what license to use. You can use any license you want. If you don't like the terms of the GPL find a vendor who licenses software on terms that you like. What makes a republican (not the party) government great is that anyone can tell anyone anything they like, you just can't FORCE them to do it.
You can still write software for Windows, you just can't modify the kernel. But the kernel in Windows is very modular and most of the stuff that you'd want to do you can do. Basically, the only thing off limits is the scheduler and vm system. Filesystems, network protocols, etc are all modular.
And for the most part writing drivers or extensions for Windows costs the same as Linux. You can do a lot of poking around the NT kernel with out any money. Just download VC++ Express and the Windows DDK/SDKs.
The whole article reads like a press release. I really like the integration of the epic struggle between Linux and Microsoft. Telephony isn't Microsoft's market. The big company that Trixbox / Asterisk is competing against are PBX vendors like Avaya or NEC. Or long distance telcos to a lesser extent as well as more directly against Cisco.
They probably don't have a bunch of patents on this because patenting it would disclose how it works. What they don't want to do is disclose how it works, because DRM systems are security through obscurity. And as well DRM systems are hard to patent because they are all basically encrypt content and make the key really really hard to extract.
If only 1% of people know how to break it and it generates more than that in sales then we actually save money. Esepcially since the cost of the DRM system is more like a capital cost that is amortized over all product sold.
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Reducing taxes is always good. Anything the government was going to do you could do with your taxes anyways. And if the money was being used for one of the many wealth redistribution schemes then it is definitely good as it is tantamount to theft anyways.
The best electronic voting system I've seen uses a system similar to those Scantron tests I used to take in highschool. The format of it is a paper ballot with questions / candidates, underneath the question is instructions for voting, (ie. select up to 10 candidates from the following list). Directly beside each answer / candidate is a fairly large oval to fill in with pencil. The ballot box looks like a LaserJet 4 that takes paper in instead of spitting it out, the ballot is slotted so that the box will only accept it inserted correctly. When you insert it a simple LED display aknowledges that your vote was accepted.
It's simple, there is a paper copy if anything goes wrong and it enables mechanical counting of the ballots. I'm not sure why no one else can design a system like this.
It isn't employee owned. Notice how the investors are non-members. It is employee run and investor owned, which is stupid. Fuck, most businesses are employee owned as most people are employees and most companies are owned by and large through pension funds / RRSPs. This is stupid hippy bullshit through and through. The whole point of capitalism is helping society by mutual self-interest.
Basically, the people with vested interest in the software don't get a say in how it's developed but a bunch of hippies do. It isn't a business model, it's a model for communism. Mutual cooperation results in people getting ripped off because those that don't leech off those that do.
At the end of the day someone has to pay the bills and there is no getting around that.
I don't want to work at a co-op I want to pay my mortgage. If you've ever seen a commune it's a bunch of lazy bums waiting for someone who can work or has rich parents to show up and give them alms. Lazy bums like this guy who wants to write papers instead of implementing his oh-so-sucessful business model and making a bunch of money. Watch for this guy in the role of "overpriced consultant".
Hahah I wasted an entire week trying to get monodevelop working on OS X on Intel. (It never worked). Then I realized It would be cheaper to just buy Parallels, WinXP, and VS.NET. I estimate in less than a month the stack had paid for itself. I target mono on Linux and have found that developing in VS.NET and replicating your project files in .build (for Nant/Linux) files is the best way to go. Eventually I ran monodevelop on Linux and realized that it is a total piece of crap. Wtf is the point of an IDE that doesn't support debugging.
Directive 12, we've got a long way to go 'til we get to Directive 10-289, but I have a feeling it's not far off.
Copyright is while not necessarily communist is definitely not capitalist. It actually goes against the central tennants of capitalism and creates many of the conditions under which capitalism is known to fail. The parts of communism that it overlaps is, state granted monopoly, and planned economy, and enforcement of the planned economy via the state (read: FBI busts for copyright infringement). The "corporation" definitely exists in communist states, it merely takes its orders from the state rather than the consumer / shareholder.
We have libel laws in the west. Yeah, I'd love to be able to fine anyone who says something I don't like either. The problem is that it moves the libel bar from protecting against false assertions of fact to opinions you don't like. A reptutation stands on its own. If someone thinks they were ripped off by you they should damn well be able to say so.
That isn't true. I've lost weight while consuming between 3000-4000 (estimated) calories a day on no excersize at all. I dropped 85 lbs in about 4 months doing that. A typical breakfast for me was three eggs, a quarter pound of bacon with about 50 grams of cheese. I'd have 3 or 4 lattes per day with the heaviest cream I could buy. Lunch was usually hamburger and cheese and for dinner chicken breast wrapped in bacon and cheese. Or meatballs and sourcream. The funny this is my cholesterol actually dropped on this diet as well.
If you control your diet its very easy to hack your body to do things that on the surface seem impossible. There are lots of ways for a body to effectively burn excess calories.
Why do the police still give out speeding tickets then? According to the law, drug offences are more severe than tickets yet they still find time to patrol the highways. The police are simply lazy. I actually don't think buying / selling drugs is a crime, but the police sure do.
Funny story, A friend of mine used to send pot via the Canadian Postal Service, one of his clients lived in Ontario with a postal code of P0T 2G0.
Maybe Families find that killing people is something they value, while beating up kids at school is not. Many people are OK with the concept of prisions, but not kidnapping / unlawful confinement. It's their store, if you want to make a store that stocks only gore games, go right ahead, and when the city council won't grant you a business permit we will rally right behind you. Freedom is the ability to do what you want, not make others do what you want.
You might want to consult their SEC filings for their intention. I don't think I might be too far off the mark by saying their intentions are to make money. Right now they are probably going to incur a cost of doing business in the EU (ligitation / fines) and I would hazard a guess that doing this is what they figure will minimize their losses (litigation / regulation / fines) and maximize their profits (selling software & services).
It may be a suprise to some but corporations are modeled around capitalism. That is to deliver value to their shareholders, if OSS creates more value then they will do that. There is nothing wrong with self-interest. They are running a charity. I use free software because of the price/performance metric. When commercial software is more valuable I use that.
What if your house is made of combustible material? Can I have a surety bond from you? Oh, whats that, you don't want me up your ass? Get out of mine. Can I have a surety bond for the entire block because you choose to have Windex AND Bleach in your house. What if you have Drano AND Tinfoil? etc etc etc. You just happen to be a moron who doesn't realize all the bad reactions that can happen from common ingredients in your house.
Awesome sig.
I wanted to mod you up, but then I realized I couldn't tell you why.
So sorry.
Aren't you telling them where and when to speak? "Imposing" (to use your definition) your values of politeness and fairness on them? Traditionally, imposing values means by force, not by reason and competition. Highlighting the benefits of one idea, imposition does not make. They aren't imposing their values on you.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Why can't we?
If they don't like the fact that they have no technology perhaps they should stop being leeches and invent their own instead of flying planes into buildings because they can't compete.
Having all people educated to the same level means a) a massive waste of resources or b) not educating people who really need it. Smart people need education, dumb people don't.
African and Arab nations seem to import western weapons just fine. Perhaps one day they will realize its better to buy farm equiptment, etc, but until that day comes I'm still quite happy with the performance of my arms manufacturer stock. Of course western nations are trying to keep them down, that is competition. We prefer to do it via economic competition but if they want to compete via force, lets go. Sure it would be good if they are educated and productive, but we don't owe them that. No little green men came down and offered western civilization advanced technology we made it ourselves.
He doesn't tell you what license to use. You can use any license you want. If you don't like the terms of the GPL find a vendor who licenses software on terms that you like. What makes a republican (not the party) government great is that anyone can tell anyone anything they like, you just can't FORCE them to do it.
You can still write software for Windows, you just can't modify the kernel. But the kernel in Windows is very modular and most of the stuff that you'd want to do you can do. Basically, the only thing off limits is the scheduler and vm system. Filesystems, network protocols, etc are all modular. And for the most part writing drivers or extensions for Windows costs the same as Linux. You can do a lot of poking around the NT kernel with out any money. Just download VC++ Express and the Windows DDK/SDKs.
My wife runs a 300 person guild. I don't have the time for WoW, I have to participate in the real economy.
Non-enforcement only applies to trademarks. Not patents, and not copyright.
The whole article reads like a press release. I really like the integration of the epic struggle between Linux and Microsoft. Telephony isn't Microsoft's market. The big company that Trixbox / Asterisk is competing against are PBX vendors like Avaya or NEC. Or long distance telcos to a lesser extent as well as more directly against Cisco.
They probably don't have a bunch of patents on this because patenting it would disclose how it works. What they don't want to do is disclose how it works, because DRM systems are security through obscurity. And as well DRM systems are hard to patent because they are all basically encrypt content and make the key really really hard to extract.
If only 1% of people know how to break it and it generates more than that in sales then we actually save money. Esepcially since the cost of the DRM system is more like a capital cost that is amortized over all product sold.