Nobody is hurt by saying you wanna shoot someone. You can think and hate whatever you want. Even if your position is extremist. The point is, not to actually do hurting things. But most people unfortunately are too blindly following rules without thinking themselves, you even parse the logic behind it. They just block at the "rule (of other people) says: forbidden" point.
I still think, without the **AA and banking crap, Obama would be pretty great. He handled much stuff *exactly* as I would have handled it. I never believed to see the day of reason in politics. But hey, who financed his campaign? Banks. And who is his vice president? **AA-lover Biden. I guess you can't have it all.
So I go for pushing the media industry into trying more and more crazy concepts on the people, to make more and more people angry at them, until they collapse under their pitchforks. ^^ If you can't make people follow you, make them fight your enemy.;)
Yes, I know I might some day become an evil overlord. *ashamed* Can't help it, though.
At first, yes. This is what happens now. The good thing is: The more crazy they get, the less people put up with it. I say, let's push them right over the edge. Let them create horrible crazy laws where you are burned alive for even looking at a CD. And then cue the pitchforks and torches, the guillotines and hangings. The more extreme, the quicker it will be over.
Ok, I am an evil soul. I really think it would be quite some fun. And I know how to handle such a world. But most people would be seriously fucked then. And I do not want that. So I guess we have to go the slow way, that is more painful when you add it all up. Much like you create *more* disturbing noise by trying to be more quite with your bag of chips at the cinema.
The average visitor to YouTube is costing Google between one and two dollars [...]
Over what time? In total? Because I'd have no problem, paying $2 a year for YouTube. Even more, if most of it goes straight to the creators of the videos I'm watching, and the videos are in the uploaded quality (up to full-HD). Kutiman alone would be worth that.
I'm all for micro-payment. Sounds fair to me. And they would make good money off of it, while supporting artist directly. (As long as they do not do it like the old media industry, and take 96.5% for themselves, and then still expect the artists to pay for the studio and everything... off of that money.)
There is a great solution to this: Just make it totally deadly radioactive for the next 10,000 years. ^^ If it were me, who had to build it, I would do exactly that. I would make the only way to look at it, to use binoculars. With a large deadly zone around it. I would make it so radioactive, that it would glow in the night, for the first 1000 years or so. I would make it a legend. Something that is above religion. Above governments. Something that the two sides of the biggest war in those 10,000 years will value so much that they could never destroy it. And the radioactivity would keep more primitive thieves off of it.
A second that too. But I think a real writer should also be the one who structures the text. And he should do that with some proper markup, like HTML or TeX. He should not think about the visual layout for even one second. Only about his content and the structural layout of it.
You also need a separate person, that can create the visual building blocks / layouts and the big picture of the site, and output them in CSS and images. He should not think about the content for one second, except for the theme of the content.
Then of course you need a developer. In big shops you separate client, server, and database developers.
And finally you need a simulated user / tester. That is the guy who looks though the eyes of the user, and defines their experience. And then tests for those things. Like usability in every meaning of the word. He can also play the coordinator for the group. In big shops, again, those are separate persons/groups.
Your picture is good, but still far from complete.
First of all, every life form on every planet in this universe exists for the sole purpose to expand/reproduce, consuming resources in the process. And because on Earth, the concurring life forms are not different animals/plants anymore, but humans only, they fight each other. It works pretty much exactly like bubbles in cooking water. They rise and grow, until they blast, and others feed off of the freed resources.
So sure you can oppose those in power, and remove them. And place someone better (usually yourself, if you aren't only ranting but actually acting, it will be you) in that place. And then the same cycle continues. Until the end of all times.
Democracy can never work. Communism can never work. All those "everybody has the same rights" systems can never work. By definition. Because they do not understand this basic cycle of nature.
You can try to create a government, where there are no people on top, but which is nor anarchist, because it has a software system without own interests to seek power, instead of the humans of other forms of governments. But you would have to create a masterpiece of the work of a genius, to make it in a way that nobody can mis-use it, without being bashed to death by others. ^^ This is what metagovernment.org tries to do. I hope they succeed. Hint: The one-allowed-totalitarian-reality motel of Wikipedia is not going to work!
Or you accept the cycles, and use them in the best way, to your advantage. This is what I am trying to do.
Ts. Maybe you are just totally uninformed? ffmpeg supports flv just fine. And it comes preinstalled with every desktop distribution. The only thing missing, is the small Firefox script, that transforms flv playback into a mplayer (or vlc) playback window. (pretty simple. I have done it for many sites myself). And so could every preinstaller.
But in reality (hellooo, yeah. reality. that world out there!), this all is completely and totally irrelevant. Everybody just has flash preinstalled from his bought computer (noobs), or installs it himself (non-noobs). Same as with the nvidia-drivers. Same as with any program they want to have. It's nice, that you can change the OS, and nobody can enforce anything. But those who care about openness, and those who are noobs, are two completely separate groups. So in reality, all your made-up problems about Joe and Jane Sixpack-Soccermom wanting open software are non-existant. They are completely shielded and unaware that that discussion even exists.
Yay. So you wanna tell me, Slashdot moderators are now officially gone Nazi? Wow. Great. FUCKIN' STUPID MORONS! READ THE FUCKIN' TEXT BEFORE MODDING! And so TYPICAL for bofh-retards too. Be happy that we never meet on the street. Because there, I'd mod *you* troll and offtopic. And I prefer to mod with my *fists*! Let's call it natural selection, and non-survival of the retards. How about that?
There is only so much time. You can prefer to improve your social skills (unfortunately completely ignored in schools, while just as important), or your logic, art or sports skills. If I were 16 again, I'd definitely choose social skills. No reason in being the best programmer in the known universe, when your can't even procreate.:( Even worse, when you are not the best one in the known universe. ^^
Well, banks work that way. And they were very successful for long times. But it works a bit different. Just take the money of people, and deposit it somewhere. Banks only have to keep between 3-10% of the cash available, in case, someone wans to get some of it back. So you can lend over 90% of that money to others. With a nice fat interest. From that interest you take a tiny part, and give it to the people that that money belongs to. The rest is free money for pretty much no work. (You can automate most it.)
The only problem is, that because you only gave out X dollars, but expect X+interest dollars back, which do not exist, because they were not given out in the fist place, someone always has to go bankrupt. So you create an "economic crisis" every X years, where those people and banks lose their belongings, so the rest can still work in your system. If you are good, you can even get "bailout" money, and get even richer. Just look a little sad and put your own money where they don't see it.
...and there always will be. So why not at least use them for the good of the rest (especially ourselves)? ^^
Yes, the problems are the stupid people. But they will not ever go away. So we better start accepting to live with the consequences.
The once richest man in the world (Bill Gates) did exactly that. In fact, most companies work that way. Most governments definitely work that way.
So why not do it ourselves, in a morally more acceptable way, than someone more evil else doing it anyway? I see it as a form or natural selection. Not needed when resources are plenty. But the only thing that counts, when resources are scarce.
Morons. In your raging prejudicing fake-political-correctness you ironically got just as blind as the Nazis, so you did not see what I meant with this: He stated that it is against the EULA. I stated "So?", and meant "So what? Who cares?" Then I was reminded of a good example, why it is not always right to follow the EULA/Law: In Nazi Germany, it was somehow illegal to be Jewish. So here, the right thing to do, would be, not to follow the law, but protect the Jews (which my Grandparents did with many of them, risking their life in the process). The same thing, but milder, applies here too. The EULA is wrong. So it does not matter if it states that thisandthat is suchandsuch. Only blind followers would stop thinking for themselves in this situation.
Which ironically, is exactly what the moderators did, when they modded me down, because they wrongly thought I would do this. You moderators really have learned nothing from the Holocaust. You are still blind extremists. Only in the other direction.
Oh, at least one relief: To relive that what I described, you would have to go back to the year 2002 or 2003. Normally it's always some degrees windier and colder there, than in the surrounding cities. I guess it comes from all the hot air of the Bertelsmann bosses, and their hearts being made out of dark matter, frozen at absolute zero.
That's nothing. Imagine listening to Aphex Twin's Omgyjya Switch 7 on one day, and German schlager versions of really really cheesy songs on the next day, while working uncomfortably close to the only toilet in the building, at a weather that makes you sweat trough your pants in 30 minutes, with two fat geeks (one young, pimpled and arrogant, one old, hairy as hell and fat), in a fuck-ugly industrial building with concrete, pipes, fluorescent lights and nothing else to see. Owned by one of the big evil media publishers. With the text "HELL" written next to the elevator button for the floor where you work. From 8 in the morning to 8 in the evening. And then coming home, in a city that always sleeps, with no entertaining place within reach, and totally boring and narrow-minded people, in a region, where the traditional dish looks and tastes like something that would be called vomit in other places.
In case you want to avoid it: Never go to Gütersloh in Germany (home of Bertelsmann [BMG, RTL, Mohn print, ex Lycos]). Even if they offer you huge sums of money. It's not worth it. You literally completely lose that time in your life, and will be too weak to get out by your own.
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What has that to do with 24? Drunk again?
Bush was too. You just looked at the wrong things. Look at who profited.
That did not change for a second, of the whole presidency.
Well, you already are oppressed by fearmongering.
Nobody is hurt by saying you wanna shoot someone. You can think and hate whatever you want. Even if your position is extremist.
The point is, not to actually do hurting things. But most people unfortunately are too blindly following rules without thinking themselves, you even parse the logic behind it. They just block at the "rule (of other people) says: forbidden" point.
I still think, without the **AA and banking crap, Obama would be pretty great. He handled much stuff *exactly* as I would have handled it. I never believed to see the day of reason in politics.
But hey, who financed his campaign? Banks. And who is his vice president? **AA-lover Biden.
I guess you can't have it all.
So I go for pushing the media industry into trying more and more crazy concepts on the people, to make more and more people angry at them, until they collapse under their pitchforks. ^^ ;)
If you can't make people follow you, make them fight your enemy.
Yes, I know I might some day become an evil overlord. *ashamed*
Can't help it, though.
At first, yes. This is what happens now. The good thing is: The more crazy they get, the less people put up with it.
I say, let's push them right over the edge. Let them create horrible crazy laws where you are burned alive for even looking at a CD. And then cue the pitchforks and torches, the guillotines and hangings. The more extreme, the quicker it will be over.
Ok, I am an evil soul. I really think it would be quite some fun. And I know how to handle such a world. But most people would be seriously fucked then. And I do not want that. So I guess we have to go the slow way, that is more painful when you add it all up. Much like you create *more* disturbing noise by trying to be more quite with your bag of chips at the cinema.
The average visitor to YouTube is costing Google between one and two dollars [...]
Over what time? In total?
Because I'd have no problem, paying $2 a year for YouTube. Even more, if most of it goes straight to the creators of the videos I'm watching, and the videos are in the uploaded quality (up to full-HD). Kutiman alone would be worth that.
I'm all for micro-payment. Sounds fair to me. And they would make good money off of it, while supporting artist directly. (As long as they do not do it like the old media industry, and take 96.5% for themselves, and then still expect the artists to pay for the studio and everything... off of that money.)
There is a great solution to this: Just make it totally deadly radioactive for the next 10,000 years. ^^
If it were me, who had to build it, I would do exactly that. I would make the only way to look at it, to use binoculars. With a large deadly zone around it. I would make it so radioactive, that it would glow in the night, for the first 1000 years or so. I would make it a legend. Something that is above religion. Above governments. Something that the two sides of the biggest war in those 10,000 years will value so much that they could never destroy it. And the radioactivity would keep more primitive thieves off of it.
A second that too. But I think a real writer should also be the one who structures the text. And he should do that with some proper markup, like HTML or TeX. He should not think about the visual layout for even one second. Only about his content and the structural layout of it.
You also need a separate person, that can create the visual building blocks / layouts and the big picture of the site, and output them in CSS and images. He should not think about the content for one second, except for the theme of the content.
Then of course you need a developer. In big shops you separate client, server, and database developers.
And finally you need a simulated user / tester. That is the guy who looks though the eyes of the user, and defines their experience. And then tests for those things. Like usability in every meaning of the word. He can also play the coordinator for the group. In big shops, again, those are separate persons/groups.
Your picture is good, but still far from complete.
First of all, every life form on every planet in this universe exists for the sole purpose to expand/reproduce, consuming resources in the process.
And because on Earth, the concurring life forms are not different animals/plants anymore, but humans only, they fight each other.
It works pretty much exactly like bubbles in cooking water. They rise and grow, until they blast, and others feed off of the freed resources.
So sure you can oppose those in power, and remove them. And place someone better (usually yourself, if you aren't only ranting but actually acting, it will be you) in that place.
And then the same cycle continues. Until the end of all times.
Democracy can never work. Communism can never work. All those "everybody has the same rights" systems can never work. By definition.
Because they do not understand this basic cycle of nature.
You can try to create a government, where there are no people on top, but which is nor anarchist, because it has a software system without own interests to seek power, instead of the humans of other forms of governments. But you would have to create a masterpiece of the work of a genius, to make it in a way that nobody can mis-use it, without being bashed to death by others. ^^ This is what metagovernment.org tries to do. I hope they succeed. Hint: The one-allowed-totalitarian-reality motel of Wikipedia is not going to work!
Or you accept the cycles, and use them in the best way, to your advantage. This is what I am trying to do.
Ts. Maybe you are just totally uninformed? ffmpeg supports flv just fine. And it comes preinstalled with every desktop distribution. The only thing missing, is the small Firefox script, that transforms flv playback into a mplayer (or vlc) playback window. (pretty simple. I have done it for many sites myself). And so could every preinstaller.
But in reality (hellooo, yeah. reality. that world out there!), this all is completely and totally irrelevant.
Everybody just has flash preinstalled from his bought computer (noobs), or installs it himself (non-noobs). Same as with the nvidia-drivers. Same as with any program they want to have.
It's nice, that you can change the OS, and nobody can enforce anything. But those who care about openness, and those who are noobs, are two completely separate groups. So in reality, all your made-up problems about Joe and Jane Sixpack-Soccermom wanting open software are non-existant. They are completely shielded and unaware that that discussion even exists.
Yay. So you wanna tell me, Slashdot moderators are now officially gone Nazi? Wow. Great. FUCKIN' STUPID MORONS! READ THE FUCKIN' TEXT BEFORE MODDING! And so TYPICAL for bofh-retards too.
Be happy that we never meet on the street. Because there, I'd mod *you* troll and offtopic.
And I prefer to mod with my *fists*!
Let's call it natural selection, and non-survival of the retards.
How about that?
There is only so much time. You can prefer to improve your social skills (unfortunately completely ignored in schools, while just as important), or your logic, art or sports skills. :(
If I were 16 again, I'd definitely choose social skills. No reason in being the best programmer in the known universe, when your can't even procreate.
Even worse, when you are not the best one in the known universe. ^^
Well, banks work that way. And they were very successful for long times. But it works a bit different. Just take the money of people, and deposit it somewhere. Banks only have to keep between 3-10% of the cash available, in case, someone wans to get some of it back. So you can lend over 90% of that money to others. With a nice fat interest. From that interest you take a tiny part, and give it to the people that that money belongs to. The rest is free money for pretty much no work. (You can automate most it.)
The only problem is, that because you only gave out X dollars, but expect X+interest dollars back, which do not exist, because they were not given out in the fist place, someone always has to go bankrupt.
So you create an "economic crisis" every X years, where those people and banks lose their belongings, so the rest can still work in your system.
If you are good, you can even get "bailout" money, and get even richer. Just look a little sad and put your own money where they don't see it.
PROFIT!!!
...and there always will be. So why not at least use them for the good of the rest (especially ourselves)? ^^
Yes, the problems are the stupid people. But they will not ever go away. So we better start accepting to live with the consequences.
The once richest man in the world (Bill Gates) did exactly that.
In fact, most companies work that way.
Most governments definitely work that way.
So why not do it ourselves, in a morally more acceptable way, than someone more evil else doing it anyway?
I see it as a form or natural selection. Not needed when resources are plenty. But the only thing that counts, when resources are scarce.
Was out of reach, because I could not pay for a car, and the train did not bring me home at night. And even if I went there: It was not much better.
I'm in Cologne now. Finally, I have a life again.
Morons. In your raging prejudicing fake-political-correctness you ironically got just as blind as the Nazis, so you did not see what I meant with this:
He stated that it is against the EULA. I stated "So?", and meant "So what? Who cares?"
Then I was reminded of a good example, why it is not always right to follow the EULA/Law: In Nazi Germany, it was somehow illegal to be Jewish. So here, the right thing to do, would be, not to follow the law, but protect the Jews (which my Grandparents did with many of them, risking their life in the process).
The same thing, but milder, applies here too. The EULA is wrong. So it does not matter if it states that thisandthat is suchandsuch. Only blind followers would stop thinking for themselves in this situation.
Which ironically, is exactly what the moderators did, when they modded me down, because they wrongly thought I would do this.
You moderators really have learned nothing from the Holocaust. You are still blind extremists. Only in the other direction.
How do you know, that is was easy to fix? Did you fix it? Do you know someone who fixes it?
Or are you perhaps talking out of the wrong orifice? ^^
It *is* illegal, but if those emails also document an illegal (or legally actionable) activity, then they can be used as evidence.
At least in Germany, illegally obtained data can not be used as evidence. Is this legal in the US?
So?
I will end this thread with the notion, how in Nazi Germany, it was "against the EULA", to be Jewish, too.
So?
Oh, I'd knew a process that might fill up those resources.
But you will train it to not kill us all, okay?
Then learn their language!
How is it, that this never comes into the mind of your kind of people?
I sincerely hope, he did not mean the horizontal kind of "rumba", or the oral "roomba". Ewwwww...
Oh, at least one relief:
To relive that what I described, you would have to go back to the year 2002 or 2003.
Normally it's always some degrees windier and colder there, than in the surrounding cities. I guess it comes from all the hot air of the Bertelsmann bosses, and their hearts being made out of dark matter, frozen at absolute zero.
That's nothing. Imagine listening to Aphex Twin's Omgyjya Switch 7 on one day, and German schlager versions of really really cheesy songs on the next day, while working uncomfortably close to the only toilet in the building, at a weather that makes you sweat trough your pants in 30 minutes, with two fat geeks (one young, pimpled and arrogant, one old, hairy as hell and fat), in a fuck-ugly industrial building with concrete, pipes, fluorescent lights and nothing else to see. Owned by one of the big evil media publishers. With the text "HELL" written next to the elevator button for the floor where you work. From 8 in the morning to 8 in the evening. And then coming home, in a city that always sleeps, with no entertaining place within reach, and totally boring and narrow-minded people, in a region, where the traditional dish looks and tastes like something that would be called vomit in other places.
In case you want to avoid it: Never go to Gütersloh in Germany (home of Bertelsmann [BMG, RTL, Mohn print, ex Lycos]). Even if they offer you huge sums of money. It's not worth it. You literally completely lose that time in your life, and will be too weak to get out by your own.
Impossible, except if you mean "next" in an astronomical sense. Like in "The Andromeda Galaxy is the next Galaxy.".
Whoops. I meant to say "They are not taught to not do something because they think it is wrong."