Someday you're going to realize we don't live in a just world where your dreams come true if you just wait long enough. Faced with that knowledge, you'll actually have to start making decisions and living with the consequences. I hope one of the decisions you make will be to go outside more and learn about the world.
Whenever I go into an air and space museum it indeed makes me very happy to pause and reflect how angry some people get that NASA research is government funded. If you don't like your tax money going to space exploration, apply the free market principles you love so well and move to somalia.
You're right, I don't care if your mom's house burns down or if your wife is killed by a runaway escalator, why the fuck should *I* have to pay taxes so some elitist college graduate with an ivory tower engineering degree can have a government job enforcing oppressive regulations that may as well have been enacted by Hitler himself?
It's almost as if in order to preserve freedom, we must be willing to enact regulations. Holy. Shit. My mind is blown. Excuse me, I need to go lie down for a while.
Since when are the barely coherent musings of a free market sycophant "news for nerds"? This article is a terrible treatment of the issue, and adds absolutely nothing to the years of debate that have occurred on this topic. Fuck you Slashdot, I'm done with this shit.
Not true, if we followed the teachings of Austrian economics, we would know that it's the academics who try to model economic activity who are to blame for the failure of the free market, which, if left unchecked, would make us all rich.
As a former prospective college student, the biggest turnoff when visiting potential schools and sitting in on classes was the professors' air of sophistication; they all acted like they know something we don't.
Nobody is entitled to get money just because they made some software or recorded some music. Rewards are handed out by the free market; if they don't receive the return they would like then they need to change their product or find another career not whine about other people pursuing their rational self-interest. Read up on free market capitalism sometime.
Me, I prefer the moral clarity that comes from seeing everything in black and white. If the founding fathers had taken the "middle ground" we never would have ended up with the Constitution, the most error-free and infallible document ever created.
If the recording industry was really so oppressive, artists would find other ways to make more money. Free market capitalism is defined as the naturally occurring optimal distribution of resources. Stop trying to destroy what you don't understand.
I have one. I can indeed shave a bar off the signal strength meter by nestling the lower-left corner into my palm. Practically speaking, I haven't had any dropped calls or any problems at all. In fact, I see a larger fluctuation in signal strength just walking around my house. For me, this is such a non-issue that it's kind of mind-boggling to see so many discussions about this. I guess I don't care about my iPhone 4 as much as most people seem to.
Thanks, that was exactly the sort of reply I was looking for. I feel like you've given me some good starting points for understanding his music better.
Thanks as well to everyone else who made a serious attempt at answering my question.
Seriously. It was an innocent question but from the moderator's reaction you'd think I'd insulted Ron Paul or something. Oh well, I guess I'll just think back to this experience every time I get a little curious about Zappa.
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Someday you're going to realize we don't live in a just world where your dreams come true if you just wait long enough. Faced with that knowledge, you'll actually have to start making decisions and living with the consequences. I hope one of the decisions you make will be to go outside more and learn about the world.
Whenever I go into an air and space museum it indeed makes me very happy to pause and reflect how angry some people get that NASA research is government funded. If you don't like your tax money going to space exploration, apply the free market principles you love so well and move to somalia.
No, he's saying NASA weren't true pioneers because Big Government. Doncha know.
You're right, I don't care if your mom's house burns down or if your wife is killed by a runaway escalator, why the fuck should *I* have to pay taxes so some elitist college graduate with an ivory tower engineering degree can have a government job enforcing oppressive regulations that may as well have been enacted by Hitler himself?
Hey, this wingnut shit feels good.
Right, next you'll be asking for building and fire codes. I swear, you liberal nanny types are never satisfied!
It's almost as if in order to preserve freedom, we must be willing to enact regulations. Holy. Shit. My mind is blown. Excuse me, I need to go lie down for a while.
Since when are the barely coherent musings of a free market sycophant "news for nerds"? This article is a terrible treatment of the issue, and adds absolutely nothing to the years of debate that have occurred on this topic. Fuck you Slashdot, I'm done with this shit.
Not true, if we followed the teachings of Austrian economics, we would know that it's the academics who try to model economic activity who are to blame for the failure of the free market, which, if left unchecked, would make us all rich.
Uh, that's why I prefaced my post with "Durr"?
Durrr, but if we regulate it, then it wouldn't be a free market!
As a former prospective college student, the biggest turnoff when visiting potential schools and sitting in on classes was the professors' air of sophistication; they all acted like they know something we don't.
Hear, hear! Show me a university that doesn't offer advanced degrees in Objectivism or Austrian economics and I'll show you an American university.
I bet if they deregulate they could get that down to just one ISP.
Nobody is entitled to get money just because they made some software or recorded some music. Rewards are handed out by the free market; if they don't receive the return they would like then they need to change their product or find another career not whine about other people pursuing their rational self-interest. Read up on free market capitalism sometime.
As with climate change, the only people who think the constitution is up for "debate" are socialist usurpers.
Me, I prefer the moral clarity that comes from seeing everything in black and white. If the founding fathers had taken the "middle ground" we never would have ended up with the Constitution, the most error-free and infallible document ever created.
If the recording industry was really so oppressive, artists would find other ways to make more money. Free market capitalism is defined as the naturally occurring optimal distribution of resources. Stop trying to destroy what you don't understand.
I have one. I can indeed shave a bar off the signal strength meter by nestling the lower-left corner into my palm. Practically speaking, I haven't had any dropped calls or any problems at all. In fact, I see a larger fluctuation in signal strength just walking around my house. For me, this is such a non-issue that it's kind of mind-boggling to see so many discussions about this. I guess I don't care about my iPhone 4 as much as most people seem to.
Haven't you read any of the other posts? This is an easy problem, all they need is a MySQL database!
You know Slashdot culture is bad when people feel the need to disclaim their happiness by saying they're not gay or a woman.
If only there were some kind of "final solution" that would rid the world of these decadent heathens.
You didn't think all that "free markets, small government" stuff was just talk did you?
Thanks, that was exactly the sort of reply I was looking for. I feel like you've given me some good starting points for understanding his music better.
Thanks as well to everyone else who made a serious attempt at answering my question.
Seriously. It was an innocent question but from the moderator's reaction you'd think I'd insulted Ron Paul or something. Oh well, I guess I'll just think back to this experience every time I get a little curious about Zappa.
Can someone explain the appeal of Zappa to me? Most of his songs seem weird for weirdness' sake, but I'm willing to learn.