There has been a long-time anarchist movement, based on what is referred to as "native American anarchism", i.e. from people like Benjamin Tucker and Lysander Spooner, and subsequently from spinoffs from the Objectivists and Libertarians, which is free-market oriented. And while it is not as well known as left anarchism, it is properly termed "right anarchism" because it supports the free market as opposed to either state socialism or communitarianism. I think most, if not all, "right" anarchists recognize that the corporation is a creature of the state and reject it.
If the corporations want to put us out of work, then start your own company and put them out of business.
Rightwing anarchists have been advocating the abolishment of the corporation (a creature of the state) for decades. Now's our chance.
The corporation is an inefficient tool to compete with what are essentially Mom-and-Pop foreign enterprises. So let American Mom-and-Pop enterprises compete.
I've wasted that much on Windows 98 in the average week.
So far on Linux I've wasted that much in the last week, so maybe I shouldn't say anything at all until next week.
Last problem was the k3b setup screen was too big to fit my screen resolution, so I couldn't click the buttons at the bottom of the screen. It couldn't be resized vertically, only horizontally.
"Santa" is actually an aircraft being flown by Al Qaeda pilots planning to crash into the REAL Santa - assuming he isn't shot down first by the anti-aircraft missiles being deployed around Washington and elsewhere to protect Bush's cowardly ass.
Oh, they'll have "fun" when they get there, never fear. It just probably won't be anal fun.
Of course, they'll end up going to a prison CAMP, which is not the same thing as going to a Federal Correctional Institution, let alone a Federal Penitentiary. Camps are less dangerous because everyone there is about to be released. On the other hand, the guards at camps tend to be even bigger assholes because they KNOW everybody there is about to be released - and every inmate released is a threat to job security - so they harass you more in order to try to get you to do something that will get you more time.
Your tax dollars at work.
I was never at a camp. I went from an FCI to a USP and spent the last two years at the USP in "The Hole".
I was "justly" accused and convicted of armed bank robbery (i.e., I actually did it. Of course, I was acting as an anarchist engaged in "revolutionary expropriation", but that's another viewpoint.)
Well, they cancelled the Pell Grants, the room sucks, the board DEFINITELY sucks, and they've removed most of the weight piles from most of the prisons (and are letting the rest disappear through attrition) leaving only non-free-weight machines - hell, they aren't even letting in porn mags anymore, last I heard - so people better forget about it.
I don't know how many times I've said this, but I served eight years in Federal prison and the incidence of rape is much lower than the news media (including/.) would have you believe (at least if you're over forty and not terribly attractive...heh, heh). The Feds have a much more controlled environment than state prisons (or so I've heard, I've never been in a state prison).
The real nasty trick the Feds use is if someone does get raped or engages in consensual homosexual sex and the Feds find out, they will write your parents or your wife and tell them you did so. Nice, huh?
Believe me, I know what I'm doing. I'm not the average clueless user. But the average user is going to call somebody's tech support and they are going to tell him to reinstall - if he doesn't do it on his own.
And I don't even have to click a dialogue to drop 98 - Opera or Free Agent or Irfanview or whatever can do it just by downloading the wrong thing or forcing 98 to run out of system resources. Most of the problems I think come from poor integration with the Winsock. If it gets locked into waiting for something coming in from the Net, and then you try to cancel the program that issues the request (like Agent), 98 gets totally lost. I think it's like the zombie process problem in UNIX - the kernel no longer has control of the process or has lost the process,and unlike UNIX, 98 has no clue what to do next. Which is not surprising since it's based on DOS code which is not true multitasking.
You don't have to reinstall but you do have to reboot constantly. There have been days when I rebooted five or ten times - sometimes twice or even three times in a row because something else would crash on the reboot (usually the spool32.exe - I found the fix for that - load it early on bootup via the win.ini)
It's pathetic.
I'm dumping it within the next month and switching to Linux full time, with 2000 as a dual-boot.
Well, if you never install third party software on Windows, it runs well.
I've installed and uninstalled tons of freeware stuff. The Registry is bloated, even though I've cleaned it up and compacted it several times.
More importantly, run out of system resources or have some weird Java or JavaScript come in through your browser and Windows 98 goes right down. I suspect it was never designed to handle something like Java or it just has a lousy implementation of the OSI stack. Most of my crashes come while browsing the Net. The rest come from running too many programs and running out of the painfully small system resources. And 98 simply does not recover from application crashes well.
Most people reinstall when they have problems like that. I've never reinstalled it myself since I can handle those problems. But it's a pain in the ass and 98 is going to be replaced by 2000 or XP very soon now. It simply is not very crash resistant compared to either the newer Windows or Linux.
I was joking - somewhat. A lot of people just reinstall when they run into problems.
I've never reinstalled it myself. I run RH 7.3 multiboot with it.
My problem is my Registry is bloated from installing and uninstalling a lot of software. I have registry tools to delete and compact the thing, but it's still bloated. There may be other problems. And Windows 98 is just too easy to take down - especially when something goes wrong in connecting to the Internet or when the system runs out of resources.
I can get Windows XP for free via Microsoft's educational program through City College of San Francisco, which I think I will do. But first I have to get more of my apps moved over to Linux so I can use it more than I do Windows. Then I can reinstall stuff on Windows XP. Then that can serve as an applications backup until I can do everything on Linux.
Also, I need XP and/or Windows 2000 to do support work for other people. So I can't go total Linux just yet.
When I buy a third machine, tho, (I have a Compaq Deskpro 4000 with Win/98 and RH 7.0 and an Athlon 2GHz with Win98 and RH 7.3), that one is likely to be only Linux. Or maybe I'll dual-boot that one with XP, the other one with 2000 and leave the 98 on the Compaq.
Try reading Austrian economic theory which is where Ayn Rand got HER economic theory.
There are several Austrian economists arguing that intellectual property is an oxymoron and cannot be justified under proper concepts of property.
And as far as Ayn Rand's moral theories go, they've been severely criticized by a lot of people as being full of holes. And her personal morality has been severely criticized by none other than her former top associate (and boyfriend - while she was married) psychologist Nathaniel Branden.
Property "rights" (I don't like the term "rights" which is essentially meaningless) are negotiated economic and cultural artifacts intended to reduce coercion and non-productive competition for resources. They are logical behavioral principles, not "rights".
They have logical consequences as well. One of those consequences is that it is not reasonable to attempt to control another's use of property which has been transferred to him, except by contract. The attempt to do so is itself a violation of correct principles of property. The attempt to do so is an attempt to extend principles of contract over the principles of property. The attempt to do this is motivated by the desire for monopoly profit (which is a reasonable desire) and the attempt is to create a monopoly (which is not a reasonable action since monopolies are unsustainable according to Austrian theory).
If someone receives a hammer, looks at it, says "I can build this myself", does so and sells it, you have no justification for claiming you own the "concept" of a hammer or that you deserve the fruits of his labor. If someone receives an idea and then gives it to someone else, you have no justification for attempting to either prevent this or control the third person who entered into no contract with you. To attempt to do this is a violation of that third person's freedom.
If I receive an MP3 from someone who received it either the same way or through purchase, I have made no contract with anyone not to reproduce it. The person who made the reproduction first after purchasing it may or not have made a contract with the seller. (Laws passed by Congress are not contracts and are not binding on individuals except through state force. Let us theorize that these examples occur in the absence of state law.)
If I purchase an MP3 from you and do not contract not to reproduce it, I can do so at will. Even if I DO contract not to reproduce it, and then do so, economically that merely establishes me as a competitor in the same sense as the hammer example above. There was no coercion involved in my breach of contract. While there may be coercion involved in breach of contract (i.e., I agree to pay you so much for something, then reneg and keep the property), there is no coercion in the breach of contract not to reproduce something. In fact, one could argue the coercion is the contract itself, as I indicated previously.
Contracts that require behavioral changes that do not involve coercion on the part of the second party are themselves coercive. The only difference from actual coercion is they can be rejected with only the loss of the value of the contract, as opposed to actual physical coercion. They can also be abrogated the same way.
Property applies properly to physical objects, not concepts, ideas, "productive effort" or "fruits of man's mind" - which are loaded prejudged value terms. The only "intellectual property" which exists is if I know something you don't and you are willing to pay me to divulge it. It could be argued you aren't even paying for the information but for the act of divulging it. In any event, the information has no economic value if no one else knows it exists (other than what one might accomplish knowing it personally). Only by the act of releasing it can one request compensation at all. It's value is then limited to those people who do not already know it (either because they don't know of it or because they don't know the other persons to who
City College is thinking about this. There are some access points up around the Phelan campus (mostly in the computer labs) but the IT staff is not advertising them yet.
And City College is nicely on top of a hill.
I know, I have to walk up the damn several flights of stairs to get to classes.
In fact, City College considered going wireless (microwave or IR, I don't know which) to link the other campuses at one point. My boss said they had a consultant walking around on the roofs proclaiming he could see pretty much most of the campuses. They went with dedicated lines instead because of weather concerns.
Now they want to link the campuses to the main database on the main campus via the Internet. My boss doesn't think that's a good idea, since the Net tends to get too congested at times to be conducting database transactions over it without a dedicated QOS connection.
that the justifications for the cameras are for public consumption only and have nothing to do with the real reasons for the cameras - which probably have to do with self-absorbed administrators who are incompetent or perhaps budget squandering.
This sort of thing is ubiquitous in the public schools - not to mention a lot of other places. It's not necessarily a grand conspiracy but it IS symptomatic of the state of mind of educators in this country.
And of course the politicians and the cops and the secret police love this stuff as well since they don't even have to mandate it to make it happen.
You may know what copyright infringement is (not hard, it's a law), but you only THINK you know economics.
Try studying the Austrian school of economics. Google for some of the Austrian economists who think intellectual property is an oxymoron (like Thomas Jefferson did).
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You ever work in a hot restaurant?
Okay, maybe it's not actually "frying". Might be broiling since there's a lot of sweat moisture involved.
Depends on how greasy you are to begin with, maybe.
So little space!
do to Microsoft IIS what IE did to Netscape - wipe it off the market.
Take that, Microsoft worshippers!
Soon to be followed by Linux wiping out Windows!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Wrong.
There has been a long-time anarchist movement, based on what is referred to as "native American anarchism", i.e. from people like Benjamin Tucker and Lysander Spooner, and subsequently from spinoffs from the Objectivists and Libertarians, which is free-market oriented. And while it is not as well known as left anarchism, it is properly termed "right anarchism" because it supports the free market as opposed to either state socialism or communitarianism. I think most, if not all, "right" anarchists recognize that the corporation is a creature of the state and reject it.
That's the ticket.
If the corporations want to put us out of work, then start your own company and put them out of business.
Rightwing anarchists have been advocating the abolishment of the corporation (a creature of the state) for decades. Now's our chance.
The corporation is an inefficient tool to compete with what are essentially Mom-and-Pop foreign enterprises. So let American Mom-and-Pop enterprises compete.
I've wasted that much on Windows 98 in the average week.
So far on Linux I've wasted that much in the last week, so maybe I shouldn't say anything at all until next week.
Last problem was the k3b setup screen was too big to fit my screen resolution, so I couldn't click the buttons at the bottom of the screen. It couldn't be resized vertically, only horizontally.
A serious moron wrote that program.
TomsNetworking will return as soon as our slashdot initiation is finished...
Or get Altzheimer's...
"Santa" is actually an aircraft being flown by Al Qaeda pilots planning to crash into the REAL Santa - assuming he isn't shot down first by the anti-aircraft missiles being deployed around Washington and elsewhere to protect Bush's cowardly ass.
Oh, they'll have "fun" when they get there, never fear. It just probably won't be anal fun.
Of course, they'll end up going to a prison CAMP, which is not the same thing as going to a Federal Correctional Institution, let alone a Federal Penitentiary. Camps are less dangerous because everyone there is about to be released. On the other hand, the guards at camps tend to be even bigger assholes because they KNOW everybody there is about to be released - and every inmate released is a threat to job security - so they harass you more in order to try to get you to do something that will get you more time.
Your tax dollars at work.
I was never at a camp. I went from an FCI to a USP and spent the last two years at the USP in "The Hole".
I was "justly" accused and convicted of armed bank robbery (i.e., I actually did it. Of course, I was acting as an anarchist engaged in "revolutionary expropriation", but that's another viewpoint.)
Well, they cancelled the Pell Grants, the room sucks, the board DEFINITELY sucks, and they've removed most of the weight piles from most of the prisons (and are letting the rest disappear through attrition) leaving only non-free-weight machines - hell, they aren't even letting in porn mags anymore, last I heard - so people better forget about it.
No, no, not McGyver and the A-Team! (Well, maybe the A-Team)
Watch the BABES on the SOAPS!
Don't you get it?
Trust me, in Federal prison the soaps are very big.
I don't know how many times I've said this, but I served eight years in Federal prison and the incidence of rape is much lower than the news media (including /.) would have you believe (at least if you're over forty and not terribly attractive...heh, heh). The Feds have a much more controlled environment than state prisons (or so I've heard, I've never been in a state prison).
The real nasty trick the Feds use is if someone does get raped or engages in consensual homosexual sex and the Feds find out, they will write your parents or your wife and tell them you did so. Nice, huh?
Believe me, I know what I'm doing. I'm not the average clueless user. But the average user is going to call somebody's tech support and they are going to tell him to reinstall - if he doesn't do it on his own.
And I don't even have to click a dialogue to drop 98 - Opera or Free Agent or Irfanview or whatever can do it just by downloading the wrong thing or forcing 98 to run out of system resources. Most of the problems I think come from poor integration with the Winsock. If it gets locked into waiting for something coming in from the Net, and then you try to cancel the program that issues the request (like Agent), 98 gets totally lost. I think it's like the zombie process problem in UNIX - the kernel no longer has control of the process or has lost the process,and unlike UNIX, 98 has no clue what to do next. Which is not surprising since it's based on DOS code which is not true multitasking.
You don't have to reinstall but you do have to reboot constantly. There have been days when I rebooted five or ten times - sometimes twice or even three times in a row because something else would crash on the reboot (usually the spool32.exe - I found the fix for that - load it early on bootup via the win.ini)
It's pathetic.
I'm dumping it within the next month and switching to Linux full time, with 2000 as a dual-boot.
In other words, most of /.
Well, if you never install third party software on Windows, it runs well.
I've installed and uninstalled tons of freeware stuff. The Registry is bloated, even though I've cleaned it up and compacted it several times.
More importantly, run out of system resources or have some weird Java or JavaScript come in through your browser and Windows 98 goes right down. I suspect it was never designed to handle something like Java or it just has a lousy implementation of the OSI stack. Most of my crashes come while browsing the Net. The rest come from running too many programs and running out of the painfully small system resources. And 98 simply does not recover from application crashes well.
Most people reinstall when they have problems like that. I've never reinstalled it myself since I can handle those problems. But it's a pain in the ass and 98 is going to be replaced by 2000 or XP very soon now. It simply is not very crash resistant compared to either the newer Windows or Linux.
I was joking - somewhat. A lot of people just reinstall when they run into problems.
I've never reinstalled it myself. I run RH 7.3 multiboot with it.
My problem is my Registry is bloated from installing and uninstalling a lot of software. I have registry tools to delete and compact the thing, but it's still bloated. There may be other problems. And Windows 98 is just too easy to take down - especially when something goes wrong in connecting to the Internet or when the system runs out of resources.
I can get Windows XP for free via Microsoft's educational program through City College of San Francisco, which I think I will do. But first I have to get more of my apps moved over to Linux so I can use it more than I do Windows. Then I can reinstall stuff on Windows XP. Then that can serve as an applications backup until I can do everything on Linux.
Also, I need XP and/or Windows 2000 to do support work for other people. So I can't go total Linux just yet.
When I buy a third machine, tho, (I have a Compaq Deskpro 4000 with Win/98 and RH 7.0 and an Athlon 2GHz with Win98 and RH 7.3), that one is likely to be only Linux. Or maybe I'll dual-boot that one with XP, the other one with 2000 and leave the 98 on the Compaq.
Try reading Austrian economic theory which is where Ayn Rand got HER economic theory.
There are several Austrian economists arguing that intellectual property is an oxymoron and cannot be justified under proper concepts of property.
And as far as Ayn Rand's moral theories go, they've been severely criticized by a lot of people as being full of holes. And her personal morality has been severely criticized by none other than her former top associate (and boyfriend - while she was married) psychologist Nathaniel Branden.
Property "rights" (I don't like the term "rights" which is essentially meaningless) are negotiated economic and cultural artifacts intended to reduce coercion and non-productive competition for resources. They are logical behavioral principles, not "rights".
They have logical consequences as well. One of those consequences is that it is not reasonable to attempt to control another's use of property which has been transferred to him, except by contract. The attempt to do so is itself a violation of correct principles of property. The attempt to do so is an attempt to extend principles of contract over the principles of property. The attempt to do this is motivated by the desire for monopoly profit (which is a reasonable desire) and the attempt is to create a monopoly (which is not a reasonable action since monopolies are unsustainable according to Austrian theory).
If someone receives a hammer, looks at it, says "I can build this myself", does so and sells it, you have no justification for claiming you own the "concept" of a hammer or that you deserve the fruits of his labor. If someone receives an idea and then gives it to someone else, you have no justification for attempting to either prevent this or control the third person who entered into no contract with you. To attempt to do this is a violation of that third person's freedom.
If I receive an MP3 from someone who received it either the same way or through purchase, I have made no contract with anyone not to reproduce it. The person who made the reproduction first after purchasing it may or not have made a contract with the seller. (Laws passed by Congress are not contracts and are not binding on individuals except through state force. Let us theorize that these examples occur in the absence of state law.)
If I purchase an MP3 from you and do not contract not to reproduce it, I can do so at will. Even if I DO contract not to reproduce it, and then do so, economically that merely establishes me as a competitor in the same sense as the hammer example above. There was no coercion involved in my breach of contract. While there may be coercion involved in breach of contract (i.e., I agree to pay you so much for something, then reneg and keep the property), there is no coercion in the breach of contract not to reproduce something. In fact, one could argue the coercion is the contract itself, as I indicated previously.
Contracts that require behavioral changes that do not involve coercion on the part of the second party are themselves coercive. The only difference from actual coercion is they can be rejected with only the loss of the value of the contract, as opposed to actual physical coercion. They can also be abrogated the same way.
Property applies properly to physical objects, not concepts, ideas, "productive effort" or "fruits of man's mind" - which are loaded prejudged value terms. The only "intellectual property" which exists is if I know something you don't and you are willing to pay me to divulge it. It could be argued you aren't even paying for the information but for the act of divulging it. In any event, the information has no economic value if no one else knows it exists (other than what one might accomplish knowing it personally). Only by the act of releasing it can one request compensation at all. It's value is then limited to those people who do not already know it (either because they don't know of it or because they don't know the other persons to who
City College is thinking about this. There are some access points up around the Phelan campus (mostly in the computer labs) but the IT staff is not advertising them yet.
And City College is nicely on top of a hill.
I know, I have to walk up the damn several flights of stairs to get to classes.
In fact, City College considered going wireless (microwave or IR, I don't know which) to link the other campuses at one point. My boss said they had a consultant walking around on the roofs proclaiming he could see pretty much most of the campuses. They went with dedicated lines instead because of weather concerns.
Now they want to link the campuses to the main database on the main campus via the Internet. My boss doesn't think that's a good idea, since the Net tends to get too congested at times to be conducting database transactions over it without a dedicated QOS connection.
Oh, wait, I forgot - people reinstall it every week.
that the justifications for the cameras are for public consumption only and have nothing to do with the real reasons for the cameras - which probably have to do with self-absorbed administrators who are incompetent or perhaps budget squandering.
This sort of thing is ubiquitous in the public schools - not to mention a lot of other places. It's not necessarily a grand conspiracy but it IS symptomatic of the state of mind of educators in this country.
And of course the politicians and the cops and the secret police love this stuff as well since they don't even have to mandate it to make it happen.
Full of HERSELF?
I thought that video was...
Never mind.
You may know what copyright infringement is (not hard, it's a law), but you only THINK you know economics.
Try studying the Austrian school of economics. Google for some of the Austrian economists who think intellectual property is an oxymoron (like Thomas Jefferson did).
Because after they've been flamed on Slashdot, they'll hate you forever.