Imagine you were, well you, and you were standing under King Kong's foot. If he steps on you, the obvious happens. Kong demands "a $2 discount" from you, even though you are his banana supplier.
The question of the day is, does Kong get his bananas for $2 less? For extra credit, can you explain why reverse would not be true, if you attempted to demand a $2 on Kong's security services he's providing you?
Qualifying questions:
If I give Kong a discount, am I still going to be able to eat? Or am I going to die slow? Can I feed my bananas to another monkey and have them grow while Kong shrinks? Do I enjoy my life enough that I wouldn't just tell Kong to fuck off out of spite?
Wal-Mart are a short ways from collapse at all times, it's a consequence of their "Keep no back stock" policy. They run everything at the edge, and at some point, it's going to bite them hard.
In the end, didn't King Kong get killed when everyone united against them?
You make Medicare something that you have an equal entitlement to regardless of income, and you pay for it out of taxes.
Then you make it utterly illegal for anyone to practice medicine privately, so the people who have the money and the power know that if they let the public Medicare slide, there will be no Medicare for them.
Bingo... suddenly everyone who used to be asking for tax breaks so they could afford medicine is asking for more medical spending and better oversight, right from the richest on down.
But then, everyone knows you can do that, because a large portion of the world does, and they generally have a higher standard of living than the US too.
Like I said before... baby boomer DINKs getting medicare before your parents. That's what this stuff is about, preparing for the coming wave of no longer able bodied and making sure that the number of those monopoly bucks the Fed prints are still what gets you into line.
A CD is a piece of plastic that meets a standard. Your ranting doesn't change anything. They're not CDs, they don't play in CD players, and if they get caught calling them CDs, they get charged with fraud. Your arguments have all been made, in court, and those arguments LOST. It's really that cut and dried, and none of your attempts to split hairs change a thing. You can call it a coaster if you want, but legally, you can't call it a CD.
If it doesn't have the "CD" logo on the label, it's because it isn't.
You are just plain wrong. It is illegal for them to call it a CD. There are no new CDs for sale on Amazon. Look for them, check the images of the product front and back. You won't find them. And the reason why you can't find them is because it has already been judged to be a fraudulent act to label what are being sold these days as CDs.
They are not CDs. They are not called CDs, they are not labeled CDs, they are materially NOT CDs. None of the babble you put forth about how everyone is ignorant and assumes means nothing at all.
As a matter of fact, that pretty much is the definition of a Compact Disc(c). Compact Disk does include such things as discs with SecuROM and other DRM. But for the most part the standard is only what the disc is physically, not what's on it. The main reason people stopped with the Compact Disc(c) logo, is they had to shovel off a couple pennies to Sony each time they printed it, and that wasn't worth it.
Compact Discs have to adhere to a standard that allows them to be read with standard equipment, otherwise, I could take this record and trim it with scissors and call it a compact disc. DRM is not a part of the compact disc standard, therefore, if some circular disc of metal and plastic has DRM, it's not a compact disc, and won't work like a compact disc, and isn't permitted to be sold as a compact disc.
Does you mom know about that Sony rootkit? How about your sister?
She doesn't know it was a rootkit, but she knows there was something about music cds you buy from the store putting a virus on your computer, because it was in newspapers and on television around the world.
Give it a rest with the attempted justifications. The disc was specifically labeled. It didn't even say "Not suitable for PCs", which might confuse Mac users who think their machines are made of Steve Job's semen imbued with life by God above. It specifically said "Don't put this in your fucking Mac" and it had a picture because Mac users can't understand things that don't have pictures.
Bullshit. That fiasco with Sony installing rootkits on peoples machines was common knowledge. If that didn't slap you in the face and wake you up to the dangers of inserting unknown media into your computer, well, this is just the sort of abuse you have to suffer with for being a moron in the modern world.
Who takes an unknown disc that they find in a newspaper and sticks it into their machine without so much as reading the cover? It says right on the thing, don't use it in a Mac. Then they want to complain?
I wrote my first game... it was a 2 player ASCII sword fighting game on my VIC-20 and played it with my younger siblings. Player 1 used AS for foward back, EDC for shield elevation(leg/chest/head), RFV for sword elevation. Player 2 was similar, but on the right hand side of the keyboard, and we had to scrunch together by the keyboard. I would have been six or seven years old, I guess.
Though I was playing monopoly and cards and whatnot before that, so it may not count.
If there are 300+ million people living in the USA and 75% of them are working while 25% of them are dependent, then in relatively short order that balance changes to 55% working and 45% dependent, what do you think is going to happen to the critical infrastructure?
Now the 20% that became dependent, suppose half of them were the most skilled in the population, and that those critical infrastructures relied on people with their highly specialized skills. What ramifications do you think that's going to have?
If you want to see the canary in the coal mine, look at Japan. They're ahead of the rest of the world on this curve, and there is a story on the front page about how they're working on building exoskeletons so their old farmers can keep picking turnips into their retirement.
Do you really think this is all going to pan out smoothly?
Conference calling either through one of the many 1-800 conference calling numbers or through Skype goes a long way towards making things more human in my experience. If you have a one hour chat every week to catch up and use email and instant messaging to fill in the gaps, that one hour makes a big difference even if you don't know what you ought to be talking about.
Teleworking works better for problems that you can and do structure around very sharply defined areas of responsibility and a great deal of autonomy within them. People that like to micromanage or projects where you need to overlap several people in the same problem domain, they don't work so well.
When you can break a project into a bunch of pieces and have expressed "contracts" with each other about how your chunk is going to mesh with their chunk, everyone can do what they know best, with relative autonomy, in parallel. These are the types of situations where teleworking shines.
Self employed means that the corporate world has lost you. It means you've grown so disillusioned with them that you've built something of your own. I am also self employed. We are what the corporate recruiters are complaining about.
Recession isn't when there isn't enough money, recession is when the money is hoarded and no longer used for exchange, leading those who are the owners of the real capital to foreclose on everyone and scoop up ownership of anything that isn't already theirs, and causing hardship because everyone just stops working.
The problem with a recession is that everyone just sits around doing nothing with no direction, not that the money supply dried up. It's a testament to the power of sheeple.
So, if people have nothing to do that will make them a quick buck one way or the other, and they haven't yet lost their tools of the trade, there's every reason to think they might contribute more just because they are idle.
Of course, when they've taken your house, it's kind of hard to write software while you're living in a tent city...
So you're not really making money then. You may get hired later because of something you released into the wild, onto the net, but what's the likelihood of that? I've fasted for 3 weeks before but I wouldn't want to rely on the hope that someone will donate money or hire me because they liked what open source code I released. I know about being homeless and living on the streets, and I don't particularly want to live that way.
Well, maybe you ought to get off your lazy ass and use it as a way to develop relationships with people who are using it and have money to give the guy who will make their problems go away, like I said in the post you replied to. You think you're entitled to get paid to sit around and do squat because you released some code? Releasing the code under liberal license is how you reassure people it's safe to get into a business relationship with you. It's like an exit strategy. You seem to think you can just skip the whole business part of things and just get money. It doesn't work that way.
Wow...I wonder what has caused this extreme pessimism?
Capitalism and womens rights were the major ones. This whole society is suffering from terminal post traumatic stress disorder caused by the world wars. Healthy societies are based on co-operation, and ours isn't. It's been disintegrating for quite a while, and it will die with a pathetic whimper before too much longer.
If you can't look at a woman who sterilizes herself so she can compete for the money to buy that new car and successfully gets it at the expense of a young family who are forced to do without, if you can't look at this and know that the writing is on the wall, you're most likely going to be one of the multitude who die wondering where it all went wrong.
Personally, I haven't been surprised by anything for a long time. This handbasket is going to hell in a very predictable fashion.
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Imagine you were, well you, and you were standing under King Kong's foot. If he steps on you, the obvious happens. Kong demands "a $2 discount" from you, even though you are his banana supplier. The question of the day is, does Kong get his bananas for $2 less? For extra credit, can you explain why reverse would not be true, if you attempted to demand a $2 on Kong's security services he's providing you?
Qualifying questions:
If I give Kong a discount, am I still going to be able to eat? Or am I going to die slow? Can I feed my bananas to another monkey and have them grow while Kong shrinks? Do I enjoy my life enough that I wouldn't just tell Kong to fuck off out of spite?
Wal-Mart are a short ways from collapse at all times, it's a consequence of their "Keep no back stock" policy. They run everything at the edge, and at some point, it's going to bite them hard.
In the end, didn't King Kong get killed when everyone united against them?
That's easy.
You make Medicare something that you have an equal entitlement to regardless of income, and you pay for it out of taxes.
Then you make it utterly illegal for anyone to practice medicine privately, so the people who have the money and the power know that if they let the public Medicare slide, there will be no Medicare for them.
Bingo... suddenly everyone who used to be asking for tax breaks so they could afford medicine is asking for more medical spending and better oversight, right from the richest on down.
But then, everyone knows you can do that, because a large portion of the world does, and they generally have a higher standard of living than the US too.
Like I said before... baby boomer DINKs getting medicare before your parents. That's what this stuff is about, preparing for the coming wave of no longer able bodied and making sure that the number of those monopoly bucks the Fed prints are still what gets you into line.
Thank you for saving me the effort. Good post.
Traitors is a very good word for those two. Should be dealt with accordingly.
A CD is a piece of plastic that meets a standard. Your ranting doesn't change anything. They're not CDs, they don't play in CD players, and if they get caught calling them CDs, they get charged with fraud. Your arguments have all been made, in court, and those arguments LOST. It's really that cut and dried, and none of your attempts to split hairs change a thing. You can call it a coaster if you want, but legally, you can't call it a CD.
If it doesn't have the "CD" logo on the label, it's because it isn't.
You are just plain wrong. It is illegal for them to call it a CD. There are no new CDs for sale on Amazon. Look for them, check the images of the product front and back. You won't find them. And the reason why you can't find them is because it has already been judged to be a fraudulent act to label what are being sold these days as CDs.
They are not CDs. They are not called CDs, they are not labeled CDs, they are materially NOT CDs. None of the babble you put forth about how everyone is ignorant and assumes means nothing at all.
As a matter of fact, that pretty much is the definition of a Compact Disc(c). Compact Disk does include such things as discs with SecuROM and other DRM. But for the most part the standard is only what the disc is physically, not what's on it. The main reason people stopped with the Compact Disc(c) logo, is they had to shovel off a couple pennies to Sony each time they printed it, and that wasn't worth it.
Compact Discs have to adhere to a standard that allows them to be read with standard equipment, otherwise, I could take this record and trim it with scissors and call it a compact disc. DRM is not a part of the compact disc standard, therefore, if some circular disc of metal and plastic has DRM, it's not a compact disc, and won't work like a compact disc, and isn't permitted to be sold as a compact disc.
Does you mom know about that Sony rootkit? How about your sister?
She doesn't know it was a rootkit, but she knows there was something about music cds you buy from the store putting a virus on your computer, because it was in newspapers and on television around the world.
Give it a rest with the attempted justifications. The disc was specifically labeled. It didn't even say "Not suitable for PCs", which might confuse Mac users who think their machines are made of Steve Job's semen imbued with life by God above. It specifically said "Don't put this in your fucking Mac" and it had a picture because Mac users can't understand things that don't have pictures.
Bullshit. That fiasco with Sony installing rootkits on peoples machines was common knowledge. If that didn't slap you in the face and wake you up to the dangers of inserting unknown media into your computer, well, this is just the sort of abuse you have to suffer with for being a moron in the modern world.
Simple Fixes for Simple People.
Who takes an unknown disc that they find in a newspaper and sticks it into their machine without so much as reading the cover? It says right on the thing, don't use it in a Mac. Then they want to complain?
Bunch of Flakes.
They never show any logic, or sanity for that matter when it comes to this issue.
An "information wants to be free" is somehow more sane or logical than "you need to pay us when you hear that song."?
What is this "Information Wants To Be Free" bullshit anyways?
I wrote my first game... it was a 2 player ASCII sword fighting game on my VIC-20 and played it with my younger siblings. Player 1 used AS for foward back, EDC for shield elevation(leg/chest/head), RFV for sword elevation. Player 2 was similar, but on the right hand side of the keyboard, and we had to scrunch together by the keyboard. I would have been six or seven years old, I guess.
Though I was playing monopoly and cards and whatnot before that, so it may not count.
If there are 300+ million people living in the USA and 75% of them are working while 25% of them are dependent, then in relatively short order that balance changes to 55% working and 45% dependent, what do you think is going to happen to the critical infrastructure?
Now the 20% that became dependent, suppose half of them were the most skilled in the population, and that those critical infrastructures relied on people with their highly specialized skills. What ramifications do you think that's going to have?
If you want to see the canary in the coal mine, look at Japan. They're ahead of the rest of the world on this curve, and there is a story on the front page about how they're working on building exoskeletons so their old farmers can keep picking turnips into their retirement.
Do you really think this is all going to pan out smoothly?
Conference calling either through one of the many 1-800 conference calling numbers or through Skype goes a long way towards making things more human in my experience. If you have a one hour chat every week to catch up and use email and instant messaging to fill in the gaps, that one hour makes a big difference even if you don't know what you ought to be talking about.
Teleworking works better for problems that you can and do structure around very sharply defined areas of responsibility and a great deal of autonomy within them. People that like to micromanage or projects where you need to overlap several people in the same problem domain, they don't work so well.
When you can break a project into a bunch of pieces and have expressed "contracts" with each other about how your chunk is going to mesh with their chunk, everyone can do what they know best, with relative autonomy, in parallel. These are the types of situations where teleworking shines.
Self employed means that the corporate world has lost you. It means you've grown so disillusioned with them that you've built something of your own. I am also self employed. We are what the corporate recruiters are complaining about.
Pirate FLOSS: Something you steal from freighter ships labeled "Crest".
What they've failed to account for is, all the old bastards who can afford this, well, their eyes aren't really that great anymore.
Or, to put it another way...
"Sorry Sonny, I can't see a difference... just let me get my bifocals out..."
Recession isn't when there isn't enough money, recession is when the money is hoarded and no longer used for exchange, leading those who are the owners of the real capital to foreclose on everyone and scoop up ownership of anything that isn't already theirs, and causing hardship because everyone just stops working.
The problem with a recession is that everyone just sits around doing nothing with no direction, not that the money supply dried up. It's a testament to the power of sheeple.
So, if people have nothing to do that will make them a quick buck one way or the other, and they haven't yet lost their tools of the trade, there's every reason to think they might contribute more just because they are idle.
Of course, when they've taken your house, it's kind of hard to write software while you're living in a tent city...
Yeah, just make sure you never use the grinding tool you used to make the powdered aluminum on anything else.
Grinding aluminum is also a real pain in the ass. It has a tendency to gum up your tools something fierce.
Wow, they invented movie theaters that run on internet streams.
This is supposed to be exciting?
So you're not really making money then. You may get hired later because of something you released into the wild, onto the net, but what's the likelihood of that? I've fasted for 3 weeks before but I wouldn't want to rely on the hope that someone will donate money or hire me because they liked what open source code I released. I know about being homeless and living on the streets, and I don't particularly want to live that way.
Well, maybe you ought to get off your lazy ass and use it as a way to develop relationships with people who are using it and have money to give the guy who will make their problems go away, like I said in the post you replied to. You think you're entitled to get paid to sit around and do squat because you released some code? Releasing the code under liberal license is how you reassure people it's safe to get into a business relationship with you. It's like an exit strategy. You seem to think you can just skip the whole business part of things and just get money. It doesn't work that way.
I meant sell as in talking something up. As in "Sell the sizzle, not the steak." or "He was sold on the idea."
Did you know being pedantic when people try to communicate with you is a good way to not have any friends? I saw it on TV or something.
Wow...I wonder what has caused this extreme pessimism?
Capitalism and womens rights were the major ones. This whole society is suffering from terminal post traumatic stress disorder caused by the world wars. Healthy societies are based on co-operation, and ours isn't. It's been disintegrating for quite a while, and it will die with a pathetic whimper before too much longer.
If you can't look at a woman who sterilizes herself so she can compete for the money to buy that new car and successfully gets it at the expense of a young family who are forced to do without, if you can't look at this and know that the writing is on the wall, you're most likely going to be one of the multitude who die wondering where it all went wrong.
Personally, I haven't been surprised by anything for a long time. This handbasket is going to hell in a very predictable fashion.
A general manual that you sell isn't the best idea, because it relies on the copyright enforcers to create revenue after the work is done.
A better idea would be to approach large groups and get paid in advance to help them write tightly focused internal use manuals.
The #1 rule to making money, which everyone in the IT sector seems to forget, is this:
Demand payment upfront.
I can't slashdot yet, it's running off a cable modem out of my home office while I finish integrating the various third party systems and negotiating with translation services. I should be live and have grown enough to have a dedicated fiber line within a few months, and I'll post a story then.