I assume any company that's selling suborbital trips will make a big production out of the whole pre-flight thing. A week of training, meet-the-astronauts, maybe ride up on the carrier plane for the guy ahead of you's flight, and then you actually get to fly. For that, it might start to seem value for money.
The UN is about government force. It chooses by politics, pull, and muscle. It operates by coercion, subtle or overt. To the extent it has any high minded ideals, they operate like laws: instructing everyone how to behave, and threatening punishment for disobedience.
The internet is about freedom and choice. Partly, it works because of mutual cooperation for mutual profit. Partly, it works because of the liberty to NOT cooperate, be a maverick, and invent something new (which might be better), and sell it on its merits. Just like the free market, basically.
It's no surprise they won't mix, they're FUNDAMENTAL OPPOSITES.
"My Gran once got in one, and when she was going to load her stuff into the trunk - she was a musician, yanno, lots of cases - she found this bag fulla dollars, must be half a mil in bundled notes. Just sitting there in the trunk. This is back when half a mil was serious money, ya gotta remember. And that's not all, there was a dead body next to it. Guy in business clothes, tied up with duct tape. Musta suffocated or something. Too fresh to stink.
I tell you, she threw a fit! Was going to slap the "not OK" button so fast... but Grandpa, well, he figured they could use the money."
"So what happened?"
"Well, Jim - they named the guy Jim - they dug him a hole up a ways thataway, in the woods. Got a bible and did a service an all. And the half-a-mil, well... ya don't think they built themselves a house as nice as this one by playin' music?"
Anyone who thinks no copyright equals no art
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...should take a look at web comics.
Seriously, there are literally hundreds now, and quite a few are well drawn, intricately plotted, creative and imaginative. They publish weekly or more, for free or for "busking" style donations, on the open internet, with no DRM. Some artists make a living that way. Many more do it as a hobby. The number of comics out there just keeps on rising.
Surely this is a strong enough counter-example? Even with zero "business model", art would flourish.
If there were a commercial reason to have a space station, the cost would be in effect zero because income would cover and pay for expenditure. Resupply missions would have been worked into the budget. In an emergency a lender could be found to pick up the cost aganst future profits. And if the whole project became a white elephant, it would show straight off empirically as negative profit.
How do you socialist spacers grow your budget? The tax take can't go up much (because you'll wreck the economy and shrink the tax base). The government's got other things to do besides NASA. The cost for serious space can go up without limit but you're already bumping your budget ceiling. Your solution can't scale, which is why you're stuck with itty bitty robot probes and a barely operational floating tin can on a mission to nowhere.
After having had the building knocked over flat twice, they'll retrofit a giant chicken-wire mesh cage, enclosing the building on all 4 sides and above, to keep out that pesky woodpecker.
"Deterrence not backed by force only work until smart crook see bug fly through middle of hologram."
If you aren't prepared to injure or capture them, if you can't acquire the assistance of anybody who is, if your alarm goes off and nobody cares, then you're fucked whichever way.
If you're really really good at tech, you can make a tiny nuke,
If you're okay at tech, you can make a big nuke,
If you suck at tech, your big nuke will fizzle.
The BBC is well known for having a "liberal" bias
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...which is hardly suprising given their status as a nationalized company funded via a TV tax, and their mandate to be "better for you" than commercial TV.
I believe the USA equivalent is "PBS"? They aren't known for their love of guns either.
Terorists are going to have shady contacts to acquire guns regardless. Or make them, which isn't too hard if you have facilities for machining metal. So the only real difference will be whether or not you disarm the law-abiding potential victims.
When you take a sick day it's unlikely everyone else does too. Work will go on. Money is still being made, so it's not too much of a burden to cover your pay for the day.
When everyone in the facility ups and walks out at once, processes grind to a halt, money is not made. Worse, some processes may not be as simple to restart as merely flipping the on switch. The day's a dead loss from the company's perspective. Expecting on top of that, that they absorb the damage of paying you (and everybody else) for work you weren't there to do, is adding insult to injury.
All that snazzy window borders and task bars, fvwm or E could have done most of it (leaving aside drop shadows) back when ye olde screenshot was taken.
The real improvements, the stuff that matter, show when you start right-clicking or drag-and-dropping. Soon enough you'll notice that it's no longer a WM with some eye candy, it's a system.
From "look and feel", look matters 10%; feel matters 90%.
Your mistake is to assume regulation does any good
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The main purposes of regulation in a bureaucracy: - cover your ass - pin the blame - profit via corruption - look busy
..."if honorable business model depends on building a toll-gate where there are open roads to left and right, soon will have new business model involving burgers and fries"
VNC runs an app remotely, displays it remotely, and sends bitmap movie of the display actoss the network. It can't scale, because the server has to do 100% of the work, and because sending bitmap diffs is bandwidth heavy.
NX runs an app remotely, displays it locally. Only the unavoidable parts of X protocol travel over the network. It can scale well, because the server only does the bit-crunching; the "thin client" draws the display.
The thing about copyright licenses, is that if you break them you leave yourself open to be sued - but nobody's forcing the copyright-holder to sue. If they choose to let it slide, then the whole question is academic.
Are the coders of X-Chat (and associated GPL libraries) hostile to it being shareware? Are they willing to sue?
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I assume any company that's selling suborbital trips will make a big production out of the whole pre-flight thing. A week of training, meet-the-astronauts, maybe ride up on the carrier plane for the guy ahead of you's flight, and then you actually get to fly. For that, it might start to seem value for money.
The UN is about government force. It chooses by politics, pull, and muscle. It operates by coercion, subtle or overt. To the extent it has any high minded ideals, they operate like laws: instructing everyone how to behave, and threatening punishment for disobedience.
The internet is about freedom and choice. Partly, it works because of mutual cooperation for mutual profit. Partly, it works because of the liberty to NOT cooperate, be a maverick, and invent something new (which might be better), and sell it on its merits. Just like the free market, basically.
It's no surprise they won't mix, they're FUNDAMENTAL OPPOSITES.
...somebody will be trying to turn it into soulless commercial pap.
...somebody will be faking it, to con money out of fools.
...somebody will think they're the shiznit, despite being total crap by any objective measure.
...but none of the above means a damn, to the few guys who are quietly doing it and doing it well.
You might as well worry "what if there were only going to be one type of car" (or airplane, or boat, or helium blimp, or etc).
Even if the other X-prize teams quit Tuesday, interest will pick up again as soon as Virgin Galactic shows a profit.
The cure for caffiene withdrawal is coffee.
These wee beasties could equally well be used as formidable search-and-designate targeting drones...
"My Gran once got in one, and when she was going to load her stuff into the trunk - she was a musician, yanno, lots of cases - she found this bag fulla dollars, must be half a mil in bundled notes. Just sitting there in the trunk. This is back when half a mil was serious money, ya gotta remember. And that's not all, there was a dead body next to it. Guy in business clothes, tied up with duct tape. Musta suffocated or something. Too fresh to stink.
I tell you, she threw a fit! Was going to slap the "not OK" button so fast... but Grandpa, well, he figured they could use the money."
"So what happened?"
"Well, Jim - they named the guy Jim - they dug him a hole up a ways thataway, in the woods. Got a bible and did a service an all. And the half-a-mil, well... ya don't think they built themselves a house as nice as this one by playin' music?"
...should take a look at web comics.
Seriously, there are literally hundreds now, and quite a few are well drawn, intricately plotted, creative and imaginative. They publish weekly or more, for free or for "busking" style donations, on the open internet, with no DRM. Some artists make a living that way. Many more do it as a hobby. The number of comics out there just keeps on rising.
Surely this is a strong enough counter-example? Even with zero "business model", art would flourish.
It's out on suprnova too.
I love this century.
If there were a commercial reason to have a space station, the cost would be in effect zero because income would cover and pay for expenditure. Resupply missions would have been worked into the budget. In an emergency a lender could be found to pick up the cost aganst future profits. And if the whole project became a white elephant, it would show straight off empirically as negative profit.
How do you socialist spacers grow your budget? The tax take can't go up much (because you'll wreck the economy and shrink the tax base). The government's got other things to do besides NASA. The cost for serious space can go up without limit but you're already bumping your budget ceiling. Your solution can't scale, which is why you're stuck with itty bitty robot probes and a barely operational floating tin can on a mission to nowhere.
After having had the building knocked over flat twice, they'll retrofit a giant chicken-wire mesh cage, enclosing the building on all 4 sides and above, to keep out that pesky woodpecker.
"Deterrence not backed by force only work until smart crook see bug fly through middle of hologram."
If you aren't prepared to injure or capture them, if you can't acquire the assistance of anybody who is, if your alarm goes off and nobody cares, then you're fucked whichever way.
Crime is force. Only force stops crime.
If you're really really good at tech, you can make a tiny nuke,
If you're okay at tech, you can make a big nuke,
If you suck at tech, your big nuke will fizzle.
...which is hardly suprising given their status as a nationalized company funded via a TV tax, and their mandate to be "better for you" than commercial TV.
I believe the USA equivalent is "PBS"? They aren't known for their love of guns either.
...then it's the terrorists who'll get shot.
Terorists are going to have shady contacts to acquire guns regardless. Or make them, which isn't too hard if you have facilities for machining metal. So the only real difference will be whether or not you disarm the law-abiding potential victims.
When you take a sick day it's unlikely everyone else does too. Work will go on. Money is still being made, so it's not too much of a burden to cover your pay for the day.
When everyone in the facility ups and walks out at once, processes grind to a halt, money is not made. Worse, some processes may not be as simple to restart as merely flipping the on switch. The day's a dead loss from the company's perspective. Expecting on top of that, that they absorb the damage of paying you (and everybody else) for work you weren't there to do, is adding insult to injury.
You're not just going to have to shave.
You're going to have to wax.
Head hair's not the only hair.
All that snazzy window borders and task bars, fvwm or E could have done most of it (leaving aside drop shadows) back when ye olde screenshot was taken.
The real improvements, the stuff that matter, show when you start right-clicking or drag-and-dropping. Soon enough you'll notice that it's no longer a WM with some eye candy, it's a system.
From "look and feel", look matters 10%; feel matters 90%.
The main purposes of regulation in a bureaucracy:
- cover your ass
- pin the blame
- profit via corruption
- look busy
..."if honorable business model depends on building a toll-gate where there are open roads to left and right, soon will have new business model involving burgers and fries"
Don't say your mama didn't warn you!
Todays edition of Sesame Street is brought to you by the phrases "white elephant" and "good riddance", and the word "boondoggle".
...as X is to frame-buffer.
VNC runs an app remotely, displays it remotely, and sends bitmap movie of the display actoss the network. It can't scale, because the server has to do 100% of the work, and because sending bitmap diffs is bandwidth heavy.
NX runs an app remotely, displays it locally. Only the unavoidable parts of X protocol travel over the network. It can scale well, because the server only does the bit-crunching; the "thin client" draws the display.
The thing about copyright licenses, is that if you break them you leave yourself open to be sued - but nobody's forcing the copyright-holder to sue. If they choose to let it slide, then the whole question is academic.
Are the coders of X-Chat (and associated GPL libraries) hostile to it being shareware? Are they willing to sue?
What does it do?