Most people in the states on a cable internet connection do. I can pretty easily do 1 megabyte (that's byte, not bit) per second. I could upload a song in 5 seconds, maybe 6 with connection overhead. That's about 14,000 songs/day if I ran 24/7, and if the people I'm uploading to have similar connections they can do the same. Now, my ISP would probably have something to say if they saw me doing that, but I'm pretty sure I could get by on a few thousand downloads pre day.
Not saying I agree with the damages, just that it's technically possible to upload a song thousands of times per day on a consumer grade Internet connection.
because as your income increases, you can better prepare for the risks. Like having your mansion made to withstand an earthquake, and having it rebuilt (on the gov't dime) if it's bad enough.
30% of Harvard students are 'legacy', meaning they got in because their Daddy's rich, so right there I don't get to 'just go to Harvard'. I also need an enormous amount of cash for tuition, books, living expenses (it's not cheap to live in that area), etc.
As for climbing the social ladder, good luck. You didn't do it not because you'd crack under the pressure, it's just really, really hard. You don't need a little luck, you need the kind of luck that wins the lottery. You don't just 'become the ruling class'. Daily life grinds you down. 50 hour work weeks grind you down. And it takes so little to screw up. Just one kid you weren't planning, and your finances are a mess. Just one illness and a few months without work, and you're done. There's a really culture of blame and self recrimination among the working class in America. It's not the crappy eduction, heath care systems. The transportation system that makes you spend the first 3 months of the year working to pay for a car or the long hours with low pay and no hope of advancement. No. It's your fault, because you didn't work hard and play by the rules.
Oh, and the poor never catch up, because as soon as they start to, all the gov't programs that help them get yanked away, and they next problem stops them dead in their tracks.
Your economic theory doesn't take into account the basic fact that people are not rational. You're leaving out nepotism, that people make choices based on their feelings rather than reasoned arguments, or that past a certain level of wealth you're basically untouchable (or 'too big to fail', in other parlance).
Bankers don't need unions. They're members of our ruling class. Kings and queens don't need a union. When somebody complains about bankers, these are the ones their talking about.
So what limits the size of the pool? Hint: It's not skill, drive or gumption (whatever Ayne Rand wants you to believe), it's that you can only have so many people in the ruling class. Or, put another way, what good's being rich if nobody's poor.
don't know the difference between real geology, flood geology, or pancake geology (a really interesting new science I'm developing for optimizing syrup distribution). They're rich because they're daddy was rich, and his daddy was rich, and if you go back far enough because one of the daddy's was really, really big.
As for the geologists themselves, well studies show the more education you have the less likely you are to believe this nonsense.
They believe we're all descended from 2 people. Actually, your interpretation is a lot scarier. If they believed that it'd make them some kind of master race, descended from God's true children. Religious zealots with a superiority complex do really nasty things...
Can the base that cares about this sort of thing (pro-life, anti-science Christians) could make the distinction?
It's a real golden opportunity. An honest to God politician to make a mess of Perry's campaign. One of his Republican challengers might do it even if the Dems are wishy-washy to do it.
Then again, here we have someone who's dedicated to seeing the poor don't have access to healthcare utilizing the best we've got to offer.
Super Street Fighter II retailed for $70 in 1994. Adjusted for inflation that's about $101 today. Most top tier games are $60 right now. So all things considered we're making out Ok.
these are existing billionaires planning this. Also, our society is allowing the super rich to hoard an amount of wealth and power they haven't seen since the old Monarchies. So, yeah, Sealand didn't work. But that doesn't mean the new Ultra rich won't make work.
hand out antibiotics for colds that is. Plus we get another fun side effect of private medicine: people hoarding their antibiotics. Just about every poor person I know stops taking their antibiotics as soon as they feel better. Conventional wisdom says they just forgot. They didn't. They're saving them for the next time they (or their family) get sick because they can't afford the co pay to see a doctor & get a prescription (or they can't afford the time off, you can't take FMLA an infection). So as soon as they feel OK they stop taking the pills, and instead of the bacteria being wiped out they grow back stronger. Viva la private medicine!
A right is whatever society defines it as. As technology improves, what we define as a right can be expanded. The question you're getting at is: should it be? By defining a right as the opportunity exercise it without government interference you're saying that it shouldn't. You're advocating a society without progress. This makes sense. You're doing well yourself, and another man's progress risks yours. That's what conservatism is all about. A handful of super rich manipulating frightened people desperately trying to hold onto what little they have.
Oh, and if the infrastructure is spread thin, BUILD MORE OF IT. Jeez, it's not complicated. We could use some public works projects anyway. Internet may very well be necessary to survive. For many it's becoming their only access to education and networking opportunities needed to maintain their communities and livelihoods. There are other forces for evil besides the gov't you know.
they make money. Most of the real innovation, meaning base line research, is being done on the public dime. Then businesses refine it into a product. Take a look at the state of Bell Labs, or the state of cancer research in the world. Innovation costs money. Why spend it if you don't have to? Remember, the world's all about capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich.
Make sense though. Apple computer has more in the bank than our Gov't. Unless Americans wise up and grow enough balls to start taking back the money they themselves earned from the super rich that hoard it, our economy is just going to tank and tank and tank. There's 3 types of people in America right now: Socialists, super rich, and rubes. Jesus people, wake up. There's a class war on, and you don't even know you're fighting!
You're missing the point. My point is that no matter how great your knowledge and skills, our ruling class doesn't value you. They'll throw you away like used tissue at the drop of a hat. The point of the trench warfare is that during WWI and II we sent our best and brightest off to die when they could have been making a better life for us all. We did this because the ruling class has the best society has to offer, so they have a hard time imaging what those people could do to make life better. Even if they could imagine it, they don't care. They don't care about you, your country and your family. If you really want to defend them, get involved in the ongoing class warfare. If you care about your children, you will
Of course, you could keep doing the same dimwitted, delusional crap Americans love and convince yourself that because YOU are so DAMN AMAZING your kids must be, and same with your Grand kids, and that no matter how bad things get they'll be great! This is nonsense, but it's something a lot of people convince themselves of. If that's you, Get over it. Your kids are going to die in a gutter if you don't (unless you're super rich and just slumming it here on/., then carry please).
Uh, mankind has survived, but I think the point is that for all but the top 1% survival has been a brutal and unpleasant ordeal. Things like leaving your children on the side of the road to die (happening right now in Africa, as a matter of fact)...
I see no evidence that those bad decisions have stopped. People still treat people like shit and let them breed uncontrollably. OTOH, a nice big WWIII with a few hundred million going off to die in the trenches'll solve that. Don't forget, when it comes to trench warfare it doesn't matter how smart you are. We sent Physicists off to die too.
It's good for me. My plugin for downloading flash video & converting to MP3 gets a lot more attention because it's free. It's a nice little boost to my ego & programming skills. I fixed a lot of bugs and added a lot of enhancements I wouldn't have known about w/o the community I have now.
And then change their mind later, what then? While I'm on the subject, is it just me, or has the mood on Slashdot changed lately? I doubt I'll see one post in defense of these patents, and I don't see as much of the 'ole libertarian bias as I used to. After 11 years of us tech workers getting screwed and having our jobs shipped overseas, maybe we finally got it.:).
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Most people in the states on a cable internet connection do. I can pretty easily do 1 megabyte (that's byte, not bit) per second. I could upload a song in 5 seconds, maybe 6 with connection overhead. That's about 14,000 songs/day if I ran 24/7, and if the people I'm uploading to have similar connections they can do the same. Now, my ISP would probably have something to say if they saw me doing that, but I'm pretty sure I could get by on a few thousand downloads pre day.
Not saying I agree with the damages, just that it's technically possible to upload a song thousands of times per day on a consumer grade Internet connection.
where life isn't a constant struggle for survival. I'm just sayin'...
because as your income increases, you can better prepare for the risks. Like having your mansion made to withstand an earthquake, and having it rebuilt (on the gov't dime) if it's bad enough.
30% of Harvard students are 'legacy', meaning they got in because their Daddy's rich, so right there I don't get to 'just go to Harvard'. I also need an enormous amount of cash for tuition, books, living expenses (it's not cheap to live in that area), etc.
As for climbing the social ladder, good luck. You didn't do it not because you'd crack under the pressure, it's just really, really hard. You don't need a little luck, you need the kind of luck that wins the lottery. You don't just 'become the ruling class'. Daily life grinds you down. 50 hour work weeks grind you down. And it takes so little to screw up. Just one kid you weren't planning, and your finances are a mess. Just one illness and a few months without work, and you're done. There's a really culture of blame and self recrimination among the working class in America. It's not the crappy eduction, heath care systems. The transportation system that makes you spend the first 3 months of the year working to pay for a car or the long hours with low pay and no hope of advancement. No. It's your fault, because you didn't work hard and play by the rules.
Oh, and the poor never catch up, because as soon as they start to, all the gov't programs that help them get yanked away, and they next problem stops them dead in their tracks.
Your economic theory doesn't take into account the basic fact that people are not rational. You're leaving out nepotism, that people make choices based on their feelings rather than reasoned arguments, or that past a certain level of wealth you're basically untouchable (or 'too big to fail', in other parlance).
Bankers don't need unions. They're members of our ruling class. Kings and queens don't need a union. When somebody complains about bankers, these are the ones their talking about.
So what limits the size of the pool? Hint: It's not skill, drive or gumption (whatever Ayne Rand wants you to believe), it's that you can only have so many people in the ruling class. Or, put another way, what good's being rich if nobody's poor.
Here's an 8.4" tablet with a dual core ARM for under $200. Maybe it's a quality issue? I've read mixed things about cheap tablets. But still...
This is the coolest post I've read in years. Where the hell are my mod points when I need 'em.
so yes, we can make green technology profitable by simply (and I'm going to edit your post a little) devoting more resources to them.
don't know the difference between real geology, flood geology, or pancake geology (a really interesting new science I'm developing for optimizing syrup distribution). They're rich because they're daddy was rich, and his daddy was rich, and if you go back far enough because one of the daddy's was really, really big.
As for the geologists themselves, well studies show the more education you have the less likely you are to believe this nonsense.
They believe we're all descended from 2 people. Actually, your interpretation is a lot scarier. If they believed that it'd make them some kind of master race, descended from God's true children. Religious zealots with a superiority complex do really nasty things...
Can the base that cares about this sort of thing (pro-life, anti-science Christians) could make the distinction?
It's a real golden opportunity. An honest to God politician to make a mess of Perry's campaign. One of his Republican challengers might do it even if the Dems are wishy-washy to do it.
Then again, here we have someone who's dedicated to seeing the poor don't have access to healthcare utilizing the best we've got to offer.
Super Street Fighter II retailed for $70 in 1994. Adjusted for inflation that's about $101 today. Most top tier games are $60 right now. So all things considered we're making out Ok.
these are existing billionaires planning this. Also, our society is allowing the super rich to hoard an amount of wealth and power they haven't seen since the old Monarchies. So, yeah, Sealand didn't work. But that doesn't mean the new Ultra rich won't make work.
mostly for posts about my programming projects (mostly my Firefox Plugin, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/youtube-mp3-podcaster/), so privacy is a non issue. I'm just careful about what info I give FB.
hand out antibiotics for colds that is. Plus we get another fun side effect of private medicine: people hoarding their antibiotics. Just about every poor person I know stops taking their antibiotics as soon as they feel better. Conventional wisdom says they just forgot. They didn't. They're saving them for the next time they (or their family) get sick because they can't afford the co pay to see a doctor & get a prescription (or they can't afford the time off, you can't take FMLA an infection). So as soon as they feel OK they stop taking the pills, and instead of the bacteria being wiped out they grow back stronger. Viva la private medicine!
A right is whatever society defines it as. As technology improves, what we define as a right can be expanded. The question you're getting at is: should it be? By defining a right as the opportunity exercise it without government interference you're saying that it shouldn't. You're advocating a society without progress. This makes sense. You're doing well yourself, and another man's progress risks yours. That's what conservatism is all about. A handful of super rich manipulating frightened people desperately trying to hold onto what little they have.
Oh, and if the infrastructure is spread thin, BUILD MORE OF IT. Jeez, it's not complicated. We could use some public works projects anyway. Internet may very well be necessary to survive. For many it's becoming their only access to education and networking opportunities needed to maintain their communities and livelihoods. There are other forces for evil besides the gov't you know.
they make money. Most of the real innovation, meaning base line research, is being done on the public dime. Then businesses refine it into a product. Take a look at the state of Bell Labs, or the state of cancer research in the world. Innovation costs money. Why spend it if you don't have to? Remember, the world's all about capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich.
the idea is you're suppose to buy an Xbox pad to play your games with. Many Steam games only work with the 360 controller :(.
Make sense though. Apple computer has more in the bank than our Gov't. Unless Americans wise up and grow enough balls to start taking back the money they themselves earned from the super rich that hoard it, our economy is just going to tank and tank and tank. There's 3 types of people in America right now: Socialists, super rich, and rubes. Jesus people, wake up. There's a class war on, and you don't even know you're fighting!
You're missing the point. My point is that no matter how great your knowledge and skills, our ruling class doesn't value you. They'll throw you away like used tissue at the drop of a hat. The point of the trench warfare is that during WWI and II we sent our best and brightest off to die when they could have been making a better life for us all. We did this because the ruling class has the best society has to offer, so they have a hard time imaging what those people could do to make life better. Even if they could imagine it, they don't care. They don't care about you, your country and your family. If you really want to defend them, get involved in the ongoing class warfare. If you care about your children, you will
/., then carry please).
Of course, you could keep doing the same dimwitted, delusional crap Americans love and convince yourself that because YOU are so DAMN AMAZING your kids must be, and same with your Grand kids, and that no matter how bad things get they'll be great! This is nonsense, but it's something a lot of people convince themselves of. If that's you, Get over it. Your kids are going to die in a gutter if you don't (unless you're super rich and just slumming it here on
Yeah, but is it Linux?
Uh, mankind has survived, but I think the point is that for all but the top 1% survival has been a brutal and unpleasant ordeal. Things like leaving your children on the side of the road to die (happening right now in Africa, as a matter of fact)...
I see no evidence that those bad decisions have stopped. People still treat people like shit and let them breed uncontrollably. OTOH, a nice big WWIII with a few hundred million going off to die in the trenches'll solve that. Don't forget, when it comes to trench warfare it doesn't matter how smart you are. We sent Physicists off to die too.
It's good for me. My plugin for downloading flash video & converting to MP3 gets a lot more attention because it's free. It's a nice little boost to my ego & programming skills. I fixed a lot of bugs and added a lot of enhancements I wouldn't have known about w/o the community I have now.
There's always Libertarian Paradise!
And then change their mind later, what then? While I'm on the subject, is it just me, or has the mood on Slashdot changed lately? I doubt I'll see one post in defense of these patents, and I don't see as much of the 'ole libertarian bias as I used to. After 11 years of us tech workers getting screwed and having our jobs shipped overseas, maybe we finally got it. :).