Present world is a playground for top organism: corporation. Seems nothing unifies like the whip and nobody weilds the whip better than a man with exploitation on his mind. Exploitation is contagious too, exacerbating the situation. Is it worth it? These tumors are inhibiting our health and happiness. Sure it's a system that's been around since we were blobs of protoplasm floating in puddles, tried and true, but a new organism has to happen. A superdemocratic culture? Cellphone borgs unite!
OPTION 3: Create new system for resource allocation.
What is the convention of property but a resource allocation system that's been around for so long (billions of years? bugs and dogs use it.) and is implemented so reflexively that it's virtually invisible.
what are you modding my parent down for? It's the straight shit!
Corporations, like all blood-sucking baby-eating world-defiling sub-human organisms, suck. They suck worms out my cat's ass.
Apple sucks.
Microsoft sucks.
Redhat sucks.
Humans, otoh, rule.
the corporate game is ugly and unnatural and anyone asked to "keep secrets from your fellows" is liable to forget and let word slip because it's such a damn unsightly, ass-biting, bad-fitting shoe.
Freedom without guidance is worse than worthless, it's bewildering.
What good is 100 choices if I don't know what the best one is?
Microsoft is a dictatorship, truely, but guess what: DICTATORSHIPS ARE EFFICIENT!
Unity of purpose is *EFFICIENT*!
If the democracy of Linux can't get over the "a bunch of squabbling microdictatorships" stage then then IT WILL BE EATEN.
Microsoft is just a "Redhat Linux with Gnome" that got in early in the game. Their behavior is no more or less ethical or "community minded" than any other individual that refuses to play community member.
So, little ferretlemming, you want to beat the dinosaur?
Extricate yourself from the myopic clench that characterizes the typical geek mind-state and:
Develop a user interface standard.
Develop an installer standard.
Develop a community standard (why not? group-of-people-organizer with personal interface).
Not an arbititrary form to be imposed but a better form to be revealed and adopted because of it's betterness.
The price, the carrot?
The *retardation* of idea flow in the group mind?
That's one spendy carrot!
Besides, any good scientist (artist, etc.) does it for fun and would continue doing it whether he got paid or not.
Only knuckledraggers work for the green piss.
We live in a society where screwing your neighbor is the norm. We have laws limiting the manner and degree of fuckage to some arbitrary level set by and favoring the lawmakers. This degree has zip to do with loving your neighbor or ethics or justice or any other dreams like that. Expecting the legal inch but get the whole nine? It's the unspoken name of the game folks. In for a dime in for a dollar. Don't like it? Get religion or something.
...and I carry rocks and dig gravel for a living. Scrounging for pennies. Might pick up a job driving schoolbuses if I'm lucky. Considering living under a bridge.
Depressed, yes, but up to now admitting as much would be a declaration of failure. Now that I have society to blame I feel much better.
Centralized governing bodies will always become corrupt. Any arguements? Solution: Distributed governing bodies.
We should abandon trying to manage this language of names. The managing bodies will always rot and end up feeding us poison. Let the language evolve naturally. It works for english, etc.
It works like this: I get a name for a domain or a web location or some other thing. Maybe I made the name up, maybe I got it from a friend. If I find the name useful I'll use it. If I don't then I'll use some other name (slang). I don't have to use the names you use, but it would be convenient to, right? If I'm new to the language I'll get a copy of the dictionary from my neighbor (peer). If conflicts between my naming system and that of other people causes me inconvenience then I'll conform.
Alternatively: How would you like to speak a language designed by Disney/Cocoa-Cola? Not designed for effective communication or reality-rendering power but to maximize corporate profits.
It's happening right now.
--- P2P swarm-logic naming system NOW. ---
Re:Great, there goes more of our freedom
on
Shrinkwrapped Books
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
employed, eh? Like a farmer employs it's cattle.
Tho the farmer feeds and houses the cattle the farmer is NOT the cattles' friend.
It's war. It's economics. It's the jungle. Same now as it was a million years ago. Elaborated, obfusticated and perhaps even refined to bring us all a more peaceful and profitable suicide but still just as red in tooth and claw.
Slashdot Mirror
Obviously.
USA is stepping on the sovereignty of any country that uses Galeleio by demanding this vulnerability. Consider the 2 ways that this can go:
1) EU says,"Hell no, we're going to make Galelio OUR way", whereupon USA punishes the EU somehow, pushing it an inch closer to "terrorist" status.
2)EU says, "Yes sir", whereupon the USA is one step closer to removing the last threat to it's total domination of the planet.
Either way it a winning scenario for the USA.
Isn't that how the bully always starts a war? By making unreasonable demands?
Present world is a playground for top organism: corporation. Seems nothing unifies like the whip and nobody weilds the whip better than a man with exploitation on his mind. Exploitation is contagious too, exacerbating the situation.
Is it worth it? These tumors are inhibiting our health and happiness. Sure it's a system that's been around since we were blobs of protoplasm floating in puddles, tried and true, but a new organism has to happen. A superdemocratic culture? Cellphone borgs unite!
Patents? Intellectual property? What a joke!
OPTION 3:
Create new system for resource allocation.
What is the convention of property but a resource allocation system that's been around for so long (billions of years? bugs and dogs use it.) and is implemented so reflexively that it's virtually invisible.
A better system could be devised.
what are you modding my parent down for? It's the straight shit! Corporations, like all blood-sucking baby-eating world-defiling sub-human organisms, suck. They suck worms out my cat's ass. Apple sucks. Microsoft sucks. Redhat sucks. Humans, otoh, rule.
That's pretty good R2D2. Bet you can multiply really fast too. Look up "pedant" while you're at it.
the corporate game is ugly and unnatural and anyone asked to "keep secrets from your fellows" is liable to forget and let word slip because it's such a damn unsightly, ass-biting, bad-fitting shoe.
Freedom without guidance is worse than worthless, it's bewildering. What good is 100 choices if I don't know what the best one is? Microsoft is a dictatorship, truely, but guess what: DICTATORSHIPS ARE EFFICIENT! Unity of purpose is *EFFICIENT*! If the democracy of Linux can't get over the "a bunch of squabbling microdictatorships" stage then then IT WILL BE EATEN. Microsoft is just a "Redhat Linux with Gnome" that got in early in the game. Their behavior is no more or less ethical or "community minded" than any other individual that refuses to play community member. So, little ferretlemming, you want to beat the dinosaur? Extricate yourself from the myopic clench that characterizes the typical geek mind-state and: Develop a user interface standard. Develop an installer standard. Develop a community standard (why not? group-of-people-organizer with personal interface). Not an arbititrary form to be imposed but a better form to be revealed and adopted because of it's betterness.
The price, the carrot? The *retardation* of idea flow in the group mind? That's one spendy carrot! Besides, any good scientist (artist, etc.) does it for fun and would continue doing it whether he got paid or not. Only knuckledraggers work for the green piss.
We live in a society where screwing your neighbor is the norm. We have laws limiting the manner and degree of fuckage to some arbitrary level set by and favoring the lawmakers. This degree has zip to do with loving your neighbor or ethics or justice or any other dreams like that. Expecting the legal inch but get the whole nine? It's the unspoken name of the game folks. In for a dime in for a dollar. Don't like it? Get religion or something.
...and I carry rocks and dig gravel for a living. Scrounging for pennies. Might pick up a job driving schoolbuses if I'm lucky. Considering living under a bridge. Depressed, yes, but up to now admitting as much would be a declaration of failure. Now that I have society to blame I feel much better.
Centralized governing bodies will always become corrupt.
Any arguements?
Solution: Distributed governing bodies.
We should abandon trying to manage this language of names. The managing bodies will always rot and end up feeding us poison. Let the language evolve naturally. It works for english, etc.
It works like this: I get a name for a domain or a web location or some other thing. Maybe I made the name up, maybe I got it from a friend. If I find the name useful I'll use it. If I don't then I'll use some other name (slang). I don't have to use the names you use, but it would be convenient to, right? If I'm new to the language I'll get a copy of the dictionary from my neighbor (peer). If conflicts between my naming system and that of other people causes me inconvenience then I'll conform.
Alternatively: How would you like to speak a language designed by Disney/Cocoa-Cola? Not designed for effective communication or reality-rendering power but to maximize corporate profits.
It's happening right now.
---
P2P swarm-logic naming system NOW.
---
employed, eh? Like a farmer employs it's cattle.
Tho the farmer feeds and houses the cattle the farmer is NOT the cattles' friend.
It's war. It's economics. It's the jungle. Same now as it was a million years ago. Elaborated, obfusticated and perhaps even refined to bring us all a more peaceful and profitable suicide but still just as red in tooth and claw.