And sometimes you miss valuable insight and information because you're bigoted against people who don't censor their thoughts. I guess it just happens.
I've never understood people getting on "teams" for this kind of thing. It's very surreal. Rooting for one multinational billion dollar company to beat another one? What does the consumer get out of that? Less competition.
Bullshit. We saw this demonstrated years ago in the Sega/Nintendo wars. No matter what Sega tried, they just couldn't cut it, and succumbed.
Two companies arose to take Sega's place, and now we have a three-way console war.
The reason people get onto "teams" is that the most successful console is usually the one supported the longest, and gets the most software, and therefore the people who rooted for that company get the most bang for their buck. But this doesn't mean competion is going to end, it just continues onto the next generation, sometimes with the original companies, and sometimes with new upstarts (Go Phantom!;)
As far as X-mas gifts go, I received a DS for X-mas, my roommate received one, his GF received one (not from each other), and my manager received his second (he lost his first).
No one I know received a PSP, or if they did, they were not impressed enough to tell anyone;).
Viva Miyamoto!
The means of production are physical, non-human, inputs used in production. This includes factories, machines, tools and materials, along with both infrastructural capital and natural capital - in other words, the classical factors of production minus financial capital and minus human capital or labor.
Giving the workers the means to production is WRONG.
Why?
1. Because it is confiscation. You're taking away someone else's property, that he/she has earned through hard work, long hours, and dedication. In a capitalist economy, anyone can earn enough money to live on, any excess can be saved, invested, or blown on entertainment. What you do with that excess is your choice, and determines how you live.
2. How do you determine who gets what means of production? I call a share of the biopharm trade for myself, it's a lot more lucrative than the flooring sales I do now. It can't be too tough for me to learn it, our new utopia assures me that I am just as qualified for this as the people who have spent 10 years in post-secondary education learning nothing BUT biopharm.
3. If the proletariat has the means of production, they can still do practically nothing with it. They work in a factory, make chairs for themselves, go home with those chairs, and the wife sells them out of the house while the husband is at work. Without capitalism (there's that dirty word again) to hire subordinates to produce more chairs for more production, transportation to move the chairs to a retail shop, retail shops to distribute those chairs, everyone operates individually, and is stunted by all the various operations needed to make a profit. In an industrialized society, people HAVE to perform different functions. How can the means of production be owned by all when not everyone is capable of using it, and it is useless to have everyone use it?
4. Where does "means of production" end? Does it include retail shops? How do you assign value to these, and make it fair, so that the people working in the retail shops can be exactly as profitable as the people working in the factories?
All right, if this is your first encounter with communism, fine, read the book, learn, think, and REALIZE that communism is a bad thing. My problem is with all the goddamned, stupid college kids that want to take my hard-earned assets, and distribute it to the poor people who don't have the drive/dedication/willpower/knowledge use them properly (or at all), simply because the kids feel SORRY for them. I've worked hard for what I have, I could have had a lot more by now if I had worked even harder, but I blame no one but myself. It's MY job to look out for me, and to control what I do with my life/investments, no one else's.
Yeah, I was unaware that major highways existed in 1883, as well. Those cars must have had to haul ass to get between the towns before the Indians could scalp them. . .
power, n.: possession of control, authority, or influence over others.
Knowledge is the ability to refute others' power over you, or to accumulate the devices/assets/flunkies that DO constitute power.
While I applaud the effort, that report is behind the times. Many groups (including The Geek Group) have been using this approach to teach physics, and many other physical sciences, for years.
And how many people thought that blacks would always be slaves, or that we would never need more than 64 K of RAM for PCs, or that women would never be astronauts?
In "Game of the Minute," I'm not referring to the quality of the game, just as in how popular it is (judging by game sales and how often it's played at the LAN parties I go to). It was really big for about three or four months, then suddenly no one played it anymore (and JKII was part of that).
Actually, it makes quite a bit of sense economically for Blizzard to continue patches. People are still buying Diablo II and the expansion new off the shelves (I work at a video game store, so I know). Not only that, but how many of us have bought Blizzard games because we are confident of the support (Fuck you, ATI!)? After Warcraft II, I was confident that Blizzard games aren't going to just end up "Game of the Minute" like AvP2 and JK2 did, and so I put up the cash for Diablo II. It definately pays to build a reputation for solid support and development.
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I think he was just doing his best to fit it in to the quote. Though he may be a retard as well ;)
And sometimes you miss valuable insight and information because you're bigoted against people who don't censor their thoughts. I guess it just happens.
Or just ignore an argument because I don't follow your rules of propriety. You must have been on the debate team.
Not true. It makes a good hammer, as well ;)
I've never understood people getting on "teams" for this kind of thing. It's very surreal. Rooting for one multinational billion dollar company to beat another one? What does the consumer get out of that? Less competition.
;)
Bullshit. We saw this demonstrated years ago in the Sega/Nintendo wars. No matter what Sega tried, they just couldn't cut it, and succumbed. Two companies arose to take Sega's place, and now we have a three-way console war. The reason people get onto "teams" is that the most successful console is usually the one supported the longest, and gets the most software, and therefore the people who rooted for that company get the most bang for their buck. But this doesn't mean competion is going to end, it just continues onto the next generation, sometimes with the original companies, and sometimes with new upstarts (Go Phantom!
As far as X-mas gifts go, I received a DS for X-mas, my roommate received one, his GF received one (not from each other), and my manager received his second (he lost his first). No one I know received a PSP, or if they did, they were not impressed enough to tell anyone ;).
Viva Miyamoto!
Got to love how any military product has to have a PR photo ready first, results later.
What about video game systems?
The means of production are physical, non-human, inputs used in production. This includes factories, machines, tools and materials, along with both infrastructural capital and natural capital - in other words, the classical factors of production minus financial capital and minus human capital or labor. Giving the workers the means to production is WRONG. Why? 1. Because it is confiscation. You're taking away someone else's property, that he/she has earned through hard work, long hours, and dedication. In a capitalist economy, anyone can earn enough money to live on, any excess can be saved, invested, or blown on entertainment. What you do with that excess is your choice, and determines how you live. 2. How do you determine who gets what means of production? I call a share of the biopharm trade for myself, it's a lot more lucrative than the flooring sales I do now. It can't be too tough for me to learn it, our new utopia assures me that I am just as qualified for this as the people who have spent 10 years in post-secondary education learning nothing BUT biopharm. 3. If the proletariat has the means of production, they can still do practically nothing with it. They work in a factory, make chairs for themselves, go home with those chairs, and the wife sells them out of the house while the husband is at work. Without capitalism (there's that dirty word again) to hire subordinates to produce more chairs for more production, transportation to move the chairs to a retail shop, retail shops to distribute those chairs, everyone operates individually, and is stunted by all the various operations needed to make a profit. In an industrialized society, people HAVE to perform different functions. How can the means of production be owned by all when not everyone is capable of using it, and it is useless to have everyone use it? 4. Where does "means of production" end? Does it include retail shops? How do you assign value to these, and make it fair, so that the people working in the retail shops can be exactly as profitable as the people working in the factories?
All right, if this is your first encounter with communism, fine, read the book, learn, think, and REALIZE that communism is a bad thing. My problem is with all the goddamned, stupid college kids that want to take my hard-earned assets, and distribute it to the poor people who don't have the drive/dedication/willpower/knowledge use them properly (or at all), simply because the kids feel SORRY for them. I've worked hard for what I have, I could have had a lot more by now if I had worked even harder, but I blame no one but myself. It's MY job to look out for me, and to control what I do with my life/investments, no one else's.
Yeah, I was unaware that major highways existed in 1883, as well. Those cars must have had to haul ass to get between the towns before the Indians could scalp them. . .
Or the epidemic of NOT thinking, since it is a mostly a book about the greatness of communism.
power, n.: possession of control, authority, or influence over others. Knowledge is the ability to refute others' power over you, or to accumulate the devices/assets/flunkies that DO constitute power.
Yeah, but then Big Brother's little brothers will come aknockin' at your door, and when they're done with you, we'll never hear from you again ;)
How can it be scary when you've seen it so often?
64DD, anyone?
It's spelled "StrategEry," yo.
While I applaud the effort, that report is behind the times. Many groups (including The Geek Group) have been using this approach to teach physics, and many other physical sciences, for years.
Yeah, but you can't be a pilot if you have bad eyesight anyway, so what's the loss?
These items are "for sale." Look it up. There's a difference.
Hey, SOMETHING had to design the platypus.
And how many people thought that blacks would always be slaves, or that we would never need more than 64 K of RAM for PCs, or that women would never be astronauts?
Or forgot to touch a grounded wire before the operation. ;)
And then RedHat gets some much needed cashflow. They're almost as bad off as Mandrake these days.
In "Game of the Minute," I'm not referring to the quality of the game, just as in how popular it is (judging by game sales and how often it's played at the LAN parties I go to). It was really big for about three or four months, then suddenly no one played it anymore (and JKII was part of that).
Actually, it makes quite a bit of sense economically for Blizzard to continue patches. People are still buying Diablo II and the expansion new off the shelves (I work at a video game store, so I know). Not only that, but how many of us have bought Blizzard games because we are confident of the support (Fuck you, ATI!)? After Warcraft II, I was confident that Blizzard games aren't going to just end up "Game of the Minute" like AvP2 and JK2 did, and so I put up the cash for Diablo II. It definately pays to build a reputation for solid support and development.