Well, not while we're busy buying private jets and yachts for the super rich, we aren't. But here's a thought. What if all the resources we turn satisfying the whims of 1% of our populace and the Military Juntas to keep them in power were put to space exploration instead? The only hard part is getting over our out dated sense of property rights that says just because somebody's great-great granddad saw if first, it belongs to him. There are limits to that extreme of course, but we've gone so far the other way that our entire civilization is grinding to a halt.
but we're not packing a backpack. That's one of the trouble's with politics. When you try to reduce everything to a saying you get nowhere. Moreover, our economic system isn't the death of a thousand cuts. That's a false narrative pushed on you by the Republican party. Watch the video again. The point of it is that the deficit was caused by out of control tax cuts and military spending.
But I guess if I'm going to play around, it'd be like putting a 60lb weight in your back pack, saying you can't take that out because if a bear came around you could throw it, and then tossing out the pack of trail mix you were going to bring for the kids. You had 10lbs of food in the pack, but you gave that to a trail guide because he threatened to leave you stranded, and you were too scared even though the trail was clearly marked... Ok, now see how the analogy just gets too complicated?
That Corel hand coded Wordperfect in assembly? I ask you, where are they now? My point is not waste, it's PRIORITIES. Sure, you can waste thousands of man hours hand coding your wordprocessor in assembly; meanwhile Microsoft is letting the hardware catch up and spending those man hours busy running you out of business.
My point is, there are much, much better targets for your outrage. You're being manipulated by the 1% (or you're a paid shill for them. Sorry if you're not, but OTOH I managed to out one the other day). Assuming you're honest and not super rich, let me say this: There's a class war on right now, whether you want to acknowledge it or not. The rich aren't content to live like mere kings anymore. They're after Godhood. They want the kind of wealth that lets them bend civilization to their whims, building pyramids & opera houses while us peons eat cake.
Please see this video. Long story short, $443 million isn't a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. Now, $70 billion in tax cuts for the rich? Well, we're starting to talk some real money. The cost of the Iraq war? Yeah, about that...
regardless of your distro? I'm not asking for much, I just want 2d graphics on par with what a Dreamcast or PS2 could do (that's 2d, I don't need 3d, except maybe at Minecraft levels). What I really want is a dev environment / language that enforces packaging, and a guaranteed base system. Linux vendors keep trying to make something like this and failing. I guess what's really needed is something like the Ruby philosophy: convention over configuration. e.g. just pick something for God sakes and go with it, even if it's not the best solution.
is that there's a good reason to prevent over farming. Over farming tobacco turned Virginia into a desert in the 1800s. Plus in agriculture you sometimes have to get people to grow food that's not profitable but that people need to eat, e.g. it might be a bad year for potatoes, but we still need potatoes.
The trouble with net neutrality, indeed with any concepts on the Web, is that we're brushing up against a post-scarcity economy here. There really isn't any analogy that works because we've never done that before.
were the widespread accusations of fraud & voter intimidation (esp in Florida). There's strong evidence that both Kerry & Gore won by small margins, and that they didn't contest because they felt it would be bad for the country.
What your basically saying is: don't bother to vote, your just going to lose anyway. There are two reasons this is B.S.
1. These are career politicians. They will vote however it takes to get elected. If by some miracle we could vote them out, the 'next guy' would understand that his actions could end his career and would behave accordingly.
2. More realistically #1 isn't going to happen. We're too balkanized of a country. The reason to vote then isn't to win, it's to prevent your opponent from winning by a landslide. Landslide victories embolden them to even worse excesses. If they already know you're not going to come out to vote, and that their jobs are secure no matter how awful they act, what's holding them back? The moral of the story is: vote even if you know your going to lose, or you'll lose more than just your vote.
because everyone's so scared of Microsoft. They've got such a reputation for dominating every market they enter and then screwing their partners that even the big guys are backing open standards out of fear of getting cut out of the deal by MS. It reminds me of those old west shows where the gunslingers were sitting 'round a table playing poker ready to gun each other down at the first sign of cheating...
Seriously. About 45 % of our population are part of the left wing that would appose this (cause it's bad for freedom and such). Another 45% are part of the right wing that support this stuff (cause of property rights and such). That last 10% have no strong opinions whatsoever, they just vote for the guy with the best hair. We call them "Swing Voters". That's why the question "Who would you rather have a beer with" decides the election. Our trouble is elections are being decided by people that vote on "gut feeling" instead of matters of public policy.
I think Gene Wilder said it best: "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."
Um... did you even bother to contest it? In my state (Arizona) if an employer contests, they win. Period. You're either none too bright, a paid shill astroturfing for a right wing think tank, or withholding information. Just out of curiosity, which is it?
Wealth is both created and distributed. More so now than ever now with the increase in automation. One of the biggest problems with the US economy right now is that the spoils of capitalism aren't making it into the hands of enough people to drive our economy.
The working class today is living well compared to people of old, but what you're ignoring is that state of affairs is a recent, post WWII invention that resulted mostly from a few key (and unusual) historical events. Specifically, the redistribution of wealth that came from the Military Industrial Complex and the unfounded fears of Communism keeping factories and jobs in America (out of fear of having the assets seized). Our rulers are remedying both of these. The cold war is over, and the factories that churned out weapons are being run by robots and a few engineers. That leaves a massive number of people without a traditional way to be granted money from our society (read: jobs). The current solution to this problem is: ignore it, blather on about how a rising tide raises all boats, and then let them die in the streets. Personally, I don't like that answer. YMMV.
Bankers aren't the working class, their the ruling class. You can't "end bonuses" for them without a major social upheaval. The trouble is those bonuses represent a major redistribution of wealth from the working class to the ruling class. The only answer that "ends bonuses" is switch the redistribution to the other direct. But when we redistribute wealth to the working classes we call that socialism. It's only capitalism when the ruling class gets the money.
If you're rich enough to matter, you don't live underneath a dam. If you do, you'll get advanced warning that fracking is going on nearby and move out. You'll have this warning because you'll have people looking out for you (personal assistants, a wife that stays at home and watches out for those things, etc).
When your rich, I mean truly, truly rich... life is different. I don't mean 6, or even 7 figures. That's not what I mean by rich. The people pulling the strings on your life are way past that. They don't waste time living like kings. They're like Gods. Like the Pharaohs or old.
Strings are more powerful then guns if the strings decide who gets shot. And I've said it before, will say it again. I'll take my chances with the gov't, because at least I HAVE a chance. Corporations stated goal is profit, not matter what the cost. The gov't at least has the potential to be "By the people, for the people". A corporation will never be anything but what it is: A replacement for the apparatus of the Divine Right of Kings.
without the test you never have the choice between treating and not treating. This sounds like a study conducted by wealthy @$$es to discourage middle class people from seeking medical treatment. I don't see Senators turning down treatment. What was that qoute? "In America, If you get sick better die quick!".
if you're in another country. Especially a rich one. The reason we tolerate the Mexican drug lords is they mostly keep to their own little piece of hell, plus a few boarder towns full of people who don't matter. If they start acting like terrorists their liable to get 'liberated'.
the people in power don't even have to bother tracking you. There are much better strategies for keeping everyone down. They're not monitoring you because they have to, they're just doing it for kicks. Seriously.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, not while we're busy buying private jets and yachts for the super rich, we aren't. But here's a thought. What if all the resources we turn satisfying the whims of 1% of our populace and the Military Juntas to keep them in power were put to space exploration instead? The only hard part is getting over our out dated sense of property rights that says just because somebody's great-great granddad saw if first, it belongs to him. There are limits to that extreme of course, but we've gone so far the other way that our entire civilization is grinding to a halt.
but we're not packing a backpack. That's one of the trouble's with politics. When you try to reduce everything to a saying you get nowhere. Moreover, our economic system isn't the death of a thousand cuts. That's a false narrative pushed on you by the Republican party. Watch the video again. The point of it is that the deficit was caused by out of control tax cuts and military spending.
But I guess if I'm going to play around, it'd be like putting a 60lb weight in your back pack, saying you can't take that out because if a bear came around you could throw it, and then tossing out the pack of trail mix you were going to bring for the kids. You had 10lbs of food in the pack, but you gave that to a trail guide because he threatened to leave you stranded, and you were too scared even though the trail was clearly marked... Ok, now see how the analogy just gets too complicated?
That Corel hand coded Wordperfect in assembly? I ask you, where are they now? My point is not waste, it's PRIORITIES. Sure, you can waste thousands of man hours hand coding your wordprocessor in assembly; meanwhile Microsoft is letting the hardware catch up and spending those man hours busy running you out of business.
My point is, there are much, much better targets for your outrage. You're being manipulated by the 1% (or you're a paid shill for them. Sorry if you're not, but OTOH I managed to out one the other day). Assuming you're honest and not super rich, let me say this: There's a class war on right now, whether you want to acknowledge it or not. The rich aren't content to live like mere kings anymore. They're after Godhood. They want the kind of wealth that lets them bend civilization to their whims, building pyramids & opera houses while us peons eat cake.
Please see this video. Long story short, $443 million isn't a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. Now, $70 billion in tax cuts for the rich? Well, we're starting to talk some real money. The cost of the Iraq war? Yeah, about that...
if we ban Hardball, then Earl Weaver and RBI have to be banned too!
regardless of your distro? I'm not asking for much, I just want 2d graphics on par with what a Dreamcast or PS2 could do (that's 2d, I don't need 3d, except maybe at Minecraft levels). What I really want is a dev environment / language that enforces packaging, and a guaranteed base system. Linux vendors keep trying to make something like this and failing. I guess what's really needed is something like the Ruby philosophy: convention over configuration. e.g. just pick something for God sakes and go with it, even if it's not the best solution.
is that there's a good reason to prevent over farming. Over farming tobacco turned Virginia into a desert in the 1800s. Plus in agriculture you sometimes have to get people to grow food that's not profitable but that people need to eat, e.g. it might be a bad year for potatoes, but we still need potatoes.
The trouble with net neutrality, indeed with any concepts on the Web, is that we're brushing up against a post-scarcity economy here. There really isn't any analogy that works because we've never done that before.
were the widespread accusations of fraud & voter intimidation (esp in Florida). There's strong evidence that both Kerry & Gore won by small margins, and that they didn't contest because they felt it would be bad for the country.
he backed down on Social Security. Give him 90% of the electorate and he wouldn't have.
What your basically saying is: don't bother to vote, your just going to lose anyway. There are two reasons this is B.S.
1. These are career politicians. They will vote however it takes to get elected. If by some miracle we could vote them out, the 'next guy' would understand that his actions could end his career and would behave accordingly.
2. More realistically #1 isn't going to happen. We're too balkanized of a country. The reason to vote then isn't to win, it's to prevent your opponent from winning by a landslide. Landslide victories embolden them to even worse excesses. If they already know you're not going to come out to vote, and that their jobs are secure no matter how awful they act, what's holding them back? The moral of the story is: vote even if you know your going to lose, or you'll lose more than just your vote.
because everyone's so scared of Microsoft. They've got such a reputation for dominating every market they enter and then screwing their partners that even the big guys are backing open standards out of fear of getting cut out of the deal by MS. It reminds me of those old west shows where the gunslingers were sitting 'round a table playing poker ready to gun each other down at the first sign of cheating...
Curse my poor memory and google skills. BTW, the phrase you want to google is voter intimidation in America
Neither can black people in Texas and Florida. Man, I wish I was trolling :(...
Seriously. About 45 % of our population are part of the left wing that would appose this (cause it's bad for freedom and such). Another 45% are part of the right wing that support this stuff (cause of property rights and such). That last 10% have no strong opinions whatsoever, they just vote for the guy with the best hair. We call them "Swing Voters". That's why the question "Who would you rather have a beer with" decides the election. Our trouble is elections are being decided by people that vote on "gut feeling" instead of matters of public policy.
I think Gene Wilder said it best: "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."
Um... did you even bother to contest it? In my state (Arizona) if an employer contests, they win. Period. You're either none too bright, a paid shill astroturfing for a right wing think tank, or withholding information. Just out of curiosity, which is it?
Wealth is both created and distributed. More so now than ever now with the increase in automation. One of the biggest problems with the US economy right now is that the spoils of capitalism aren't making it into the hands of enough people to drive our economy.
The working class today is living well compared to people of old, but what you're ignoring is that state of affairs is a recent, post WWII invention that resulted mostly from a few key (and unusual) historical events. Specifically, the redistribution of wealth that came from the Military Industrial Complex and the unfounded fears of Communism keeping factories and jobs in America (out of fear of having the assets seized). Our rulers are remedying both of these. The cold war is over, and the factories that churned out weapons are being run by robots and a few engineers. That leaves a massive number of people without a traditional way to be granted money from our society (read: jobs). The current solution to this problem is: ignore it, blather on about how a rising tide raises all boats, and then let them die in the streets. Personally, I don't like that answer. YMMV.
Bankers aren't the working class, their the ruling class. You can't "end bonuses" for them without a major social upheaval. The trouble is those bonuses represent a major redistribution of wealth from the working class to the ruling class. The only answer that "ends bonuses" is switch the redistribution to the other direct. But when we redistribute wealth to the working classes we call that socialism. It's only capitalism when the ruling class gets the money.
My plugin uses a binary component and it still worked in FF 8.0 w/o me lifting a finger. I gotta admit I was worried at first, but so far, so good.
If you're rich enough to matter, you don't live underneath a dam. If you do, you'll get advanced warning that fracking is going on nearby and move out. You'll have this warning because you'll have people looking out for you (personal assistants, a wife that stays at home and watches out for those things, etc).
When your rich, I mean truly, truly rich... life is different. I don't mean 6, or even 7 figures. That's not what I mean by rich. The people pulling the strings on your life are way past that. They don't waste time living like kings. They're like Gods. Like the Pharaohs or old.
if you're rich enough to live far away from it. Frankly I don't see the problem.
why not increase the punishment, so as to act as a deterrent? We can keep it completely harmless. How about Waterboarding?
Strings are more powerful then guns if the strings decide who gets shot. And I've said it before, will say it again. I'll take my chances with the gov't, because at least I HAVE a chance. Corporations stated goal is profit, not matter what the cost. The gov't at least has the potential to be "By the people, for the people". A corporation will never be anything but what it is: A replacement for the apparatus of the Divine Right of Kings.
without the test you never have the choice between treating and not treating. This sounds like a study conducted by wealthy @$$es to discourage middle class people from seeking medical treatment. I don't see Senators turning down treatment. What was that qoute? "In America, If you get sick better die quick!".
if you're in another country. Especially a rich one. The reason we tolerate the Mexican drug lords is they mostly keep to their own little piece of hell, plus a few boarder towns full of people who don't matter. If they start acting like terrorists their liable to get 'liberated'.
the people in power don't even have to bother tracking you. There are much better strategies for keeping everyone down. They're not monitoring you because they have to, they're just doing it for kicks. Seriously.