I love people like this...saying "you all" to the people who don't, and didn't, approve of it. You know, we can vote and write letters all we want, the people getting the kickbacks don't give a shit.
Yeah, you write letters. But when circumstances are such that citizens of other nations would be engaged in meaningful revolution, you either steal televisions from each other or hide, waiting for your masters to reassert control. You're a bunch of cowards.
Just once, I'd like to read about a young person losing the plot and shooting white collar criminals, or people who manufacture weapons of mass destruction, or corrupt political figures instead of shooting up their classmates. Never happens though. But keep writing letters...
What are we talking about? Multi-file uploads. How many people *really* need that, and how often? Given that Internet Explorer doesn't support it, photo sites usually provide a Java or Flash applet or a client application for batch uploads. This doesn't exactly make the issue high-priority, does it?
You must have missed the part where he was venting his frustration at being forced to use flash to allow people to complete common tasks.
Are you unaware that Facebook and Myspace were some of the most popular websites in the world? If my friends are any indication, even the most technologically challenged people are using multi-file uploads to post their pictures on a weekly basis.
Because, collectively, you all got blinded by greed and put too much faith in the shell game that is economics. In the name of this shell game, you stood by and allowed your government to transform every piece of common wealth into someone elses private property. Now, they own everything and they run everything in an arbitrary fashion, and they're trying to expand this dominion over the entire globe.
You talk about "paying for" these people, what a joke. You have no choices anymore. Look at the housing market. Years of construction, millions of people paying every month for years, and with the stroke of a pen, money is printed, currency is devalued, public wealth is transferred to ensure all those defaulted loans are covered. The white collar crooks get the loan money repaid by the government and more importantly, by the time the money becomes utterly devalued, they'll own the deeds for half the country.
If you want to understand what's going on around you, I'd suggest you start reading up about the Great Depression.
When I was preparing to switch to Linux, I spent months prepping myself by seeking out and using open source software on Windows, playing OpenArena and Wesnoth, using OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird, etc. The switch was easy after having accustomed myself to using these programs.
If he wants to increase market penetration, it might be a wise idea for Shuttleworth to put together a comprehensive Application Pack for Windows and Mac made exclusively of open source software that is available on Ubuntu.
Speaking for myself, our whole household has been running Ubuntu pretty painlessly for the better part of a year. We have a two servers (LAMP, Shorewall), 3 workstations and a Mythbuntu box, all of which were easy to set up. My girlfriend and my 7 year old daughter both find it extremely easy to use, and everyone who visits finds Mythbuntu impressive. My girlfriend particularly likes Synaptic, which she's referred to as "like a free ebay for software". The only thing that ever gave us difficulties was enabling multiple monitors in X using multiple video cards from different vendors. Personally, I doubt we'll ever use a proprietary OS ever again.
The Microsoft tax isn't that big a deal, at least not in the Thinkpad price range.
If it was possible to burn the money in a fire instead of giving it to Microsoft, then format the laptop and put Linux on it, then no, it wouldn't be a big deal. But that's not the case here. Microsoft is actually getting stronger off that tax, and I think we'll all agree, that is a big deal...
If it were feasible, total self sufficiency would be kinda cool, but even with the technology you mentioned it's going to be impractical for any individual to do everything for themselves - we built up a society full of specialists and tradespeople for a reason.
Yes. To keep us unable to look after ourselves, highly dependent, easily ruled. The point is not to have every person perform every task, the point is to have every person involved in the structures that sustain their own life, instead of estranged from them. Ignorance and disenfranchisement paired with pervasive propaganda render democracy moot. Even the stupidest of us can tell which guy cares about them, which guy doesn't, which guy knows whats going on, which guy doesn't have a clue and is all talk. IF THEY ARE INVOLVED.
You can be the most brilliant man in the world in your field, but you should still know what's going on in those aspects of society that directly sustain your life. If you don't, everything you see around you is like a crufty legacy system, where you see things wrong all over the place but you don't have a coherent enough view to change anything out of fear that it will bring the whole thing crashing down. Which is where we are now, bunch of overworked people, afraid for their existence, desperate to keep the slaves enslaved so they won't abandon us to die in our ignorance.
As far as I'm concerned the same thing can be said of religion. Thousands of years ago, before we scientifically understood everything, we had religion to give us an inaccurate but constructive understanding of our world and our existence. However now religion has become obsolete and more accurate and scientific things are taking its place. This is obvious to me. I don't understand why all the Republicans don't get it.
The scientific method requires that you have a longer lifespan than the time required to conduct an experiment. Therefore, it cannot answer questions regarding human social problems. Religions as you see them today have a quality that is relevant to human social problems. That is, these religions didn't kill off their believers like so many others did. They have been subjected to evolutionary pressure and survived. This quality is measured in the number of generations of mankind that have survived under the system from conception to destruction, or from conception to current day, whichever.
Knock on wood is a psychological tool to put things out of your mind so you don't dwell on them.
Some superstitions are externally based and come from probability and intuition, not really caring if it's deterministic causation, probabilistic causation or purely co-relational. Others serve the purpose of regulating the internal world, controlling perspectives and where the mind is focused. Self administered psychotherapy, so to speak. Covet not thy neighbours wife, or you will dwell in hell, not because you're going to go there later, but because you're dismissing what you have for what you don't have and putting yourself in hell in your own head, that sort of shit.
I think you're wrong. I believe that it IS practical for every person to participate in the creation of every thing they want. Look at the state of the art in Rapid Prototyping, look at the promise of the RepRap project. IBM had devices 5 years ago that print cell phones, all you had to do was load the 3D model, print, put in batteries. Look at Open Source, it operates under the same principles as I am discussing.
I am not interested in being a hunter-gatherer, I'm interested in empowering individuals and breaking the centralized control over everything possible. The internet has made strong strides in achieving this in publishing. Mesh networks have the potential to push it farther, by eradicating the control that the copper/fiber infrastructure brings.
After these technologies have been made common, we will have access to a great deal more plenty. The areas of scarcity will be reduced, and at that point, we need a co-opearative and democratic means to administer the common resources.
This has the potential to create more wealth, more informed peers, and more liberty. To argue against its practicality is useful, to argue against its merit just shows your ignorance.
Look, if you believe in those other things you're speaking of, then you're in the wrong country. They are completely against the very reason this country was founded
Yes, I think your country is evil, and must be stopped. If that's how you want to put it, then yes, I'm in favour of forced labour and anarchy.
Life forces you to eat. You should be forced to participate in the production of food, because the alternative is that you force others to produce your food while you do not participate, not even to a degree that leaves you informed as to how food production operates.
Life requires that you have shelter. Therefore, you should be forced to participate in the creation of shelter. You should not be permitted to have others do it for you, and you should not be permitted to vote on how these affairs should be governed from a position of utter ignorance, which is what you're doing if you're not involved.
Beyond that, there are enterprises that are not necessities, but arbitrary frivolities. No one should be compelled to dedicate a single moment of time to those frivolities so they can have their needs met. If you cannot entice them to work by virtue of what you are attempting to achieve, then the work should not be done.
These are the fundamental principles of my political view. As far as I'm concerned, your nation is based on conspiracy, usury, colonialism and empire. Your values are evil, dependent and fundamentally self-destructive. I'm enjoying the spectacle of watching your country move from the status of empire to nation, and I expect it will conclude with disintegration and the abandonment of your cultural values. I'm quite looking forward to it.
In a system made of informed free men and women co-operating, there is no place for Police, period. They exist only in a system based on the secrecy, back-room conspiracy, the rule of law and the application of leverage. So, there would be no reason for your police officer to exist.
As for contributing money, that's easy to fix. Get rid of money. Make taxes payable in labour, socialize each and every necessity, and for ventures that go above and beyond the necessity, voluntary participation due to exemplary leadership is required.
Anonymous ballots are all about sacrificing awareness, involvement and self-determination for ignorance, conspiracy and plausible deniability. The old saying you referred to is the justification for my position, not yours.
"Look at that. He voted for John Thompson. That guy's completely opposed to our corporate agenda, unlike that Tom Johnson fellow.
Mr. W0lf, would you come in here? We need to have a little talk."
Yeah... all of us workers noticed that all of you executives voted for Tom Johnson. So, we're walking off the job.
WHAT!?!
Don't get the wrong idea... this isn't a strike. We quit. We hear some people up north have started this structure kind of like a co-operative, and they're doing well, so, we're all kicking in and doing the same. We're going to compete with you and drive you out of business. Good luck finding staff.
It's a secret ballot. You can't oversee it. Therefore, it's reasonable to assume that it's been corrupted. If you want an election that can't be rigged, you have to do away with the secret ballot and make the votes, and who cast them, public information. You need a receipt for the voter and receipt for the witness.
Insert Disk, start DVDDecrypter, hit "Go", burn iso to disk...
Of course DVDDecrypter is not exactly legal these days. Which is a shame, because it strips all that nasty region coding and other crap out of the image as it goes along.
It's been a long time since "being legal" was something to aspire to. The only actions that are legal in this arena are those that harm the average man on the street. Being criminal is the same as being a freedom fighter these days.
This is bullshit. The terms of the challenge indicate that you cannot disassemble the drive. Real life does not operate under such arbitrary rules, therefore, a failure to meet this challenge does not in any way establish that you cannot recover data from a drive that was treated in this fashion. All it establishes is that 3 random data recovery services are not confident in their ability to use the electronics integrated in the drive to recover the data off the platters. Or, they're not interested in participating in some contest because they've got paying clients to service. Can the data be recovered in a clean room with highly sensitive specialized tools? Who knows?
I noticed they claim 1,000,000+ h MTBF, but they only warranty for less than 10,000 h (or 20,000 in some cases). What makes you wonder why they have so little faith in their product (or in their own reliability estimate).
Makes you wonder why they're permitted to claim 1,000,000+ h MTBF in their literature when they don't give any assurance. Seems kind of like the sort of scummy propaganda that ought to be illegal. Saturate the media with consistent but unsubstantiated claims, and you make bullshit into gospel.
Who's the idiot who modded this as Flamebait? Any person with an IQ greater than 50 would figure out that that is the reason China keeps selling its goods in exchange for the green toilet paper.
Yes, that has been the way of things for many years, and is one of the major historical sources of US wealth... they trade their money for other countries goods, then the other country uses them as a world currency to trade for oil with a third party country.
Thing is, they're all bad cheques. It's like if I paid the butcher with a bad cheque and took his meat, then he paid the baker with my cheque, then he paid the candlestick maker with my cheque. The candlestick maker, he put it in his wall safe for a rainy day.
It's great for me, I get all my shit for free. And as long as no one tries to cash the cheques I write, no one notices that I'm ripping everyone off.
Iraq started breaking stride with the other oil producing nations and allowing Euros to be traded instead of US Dollars. Then they got invaded, and that put a stop to that.
I wonder if the US has the military capacity to stop a second nation from breaking stride? I don't think so, but we'll see.
If the Chinese government dumped the goods that were made for export into the ocean, they wouldn't have any less for themselves. They don't get anything in exchange for the US currency. It means nothing. China knows they're not getting anything back from the US, not now, not in the future. They keep going they way they are because it's a way to keep the citizens busy so they won't make trouble.
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I love people like this...saying "you all" to the people who don't, and didn't, approve of it. You know, we can vote and write letters all we want, the people getting the kickbacks don't give a shit.
Yeah, you write letters. But when circumstances are such that citizens of other nations would be engaged in meaningful revolution, you either steal televisions from each other or hide, waiting for your masters to reassert control. You're a bunch of cowards.
Just once, I'd like to read about a young person losing the plot and shooting white collar criminals, or people who manufacture weapons of mass destruction, or corrupt political figures instead of shooting up their classmates. Never happens though. But keep writing letters...
Firefox has priorities, just like everybody else.
What are we talking about? Multi-file uploads. How many people *really* need that, and how often? Given that Internet Explorer doesn't support it, photo sites usually provide a Java or Flash applet or a client application for batch uploads. This doesn't exactly make the issue high-priority, does it?
You must have missed the part where he was venting his frustration at being forced to use flash to allow people to complete common tasks.
Are you unaware that Facebook and Myspace were some of the most popular websites in the world? If my friends are any indication, even the most technologically challenged people are using multi-file uploads to post their pictures on a weekly basis.
Because, collectively, you all got blinded by greed and put too much faith in the shell game that is economics. In the name of this shell game, you stood by and allowed your government to transform every piece of common wealth into someone elses private property. Now, they own everything and they run everything in an arbitrary fashion, and they're trying to expand this dominion over the entire globe.
You talk about "paying for" these people, what a joke. You have no choices anymore. Look at the housing market. Years of construction, millions of people paying every month for years, and with the stroke of a pen, money is printed, currency is devalued, public wealth is transferred to ensure all those defaulted loans are covered. The white collar crooks get the loan money repaid by the government and more importantly, by the time the money becomes utterly devalued, they'll own the deeds for half the country.
If you want to understand what's going on around you, I'd suggest you start reading up about the Great Depression.
When I was preparing to switch to Linux, I spent months prepping myself by seeking out and using open source software on Windows, playing OpenArena and Wesnoth, using OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird, etc. The switch was easy after having accustomed myself to using these programs.
If he wants to increase market penetration, it might be a wise idea for Shuttleworth to put together a comprehensive Application Pack for Windows and Mac made exclusively of open source software that is available on Ubuntu.
Speaking for myself, our whole household has been running Ubuntu pretty painlessly for the better part of a year. We have a two servers (LAMP, Shorewall), 3 workstations and a Mythbuntu box, all of which were easy to set up. My girlfriend and my 7 year old daughter both find it extremely easy to use, and everyone who visits finds Mythbuntu impressive. My girlfriend particularly likes Synaptic, which she's referred to as "like a free ebay for software". The only thing that ever gave us difficulties was enabling multiple monitors in X using multiple video cards from different vendors. Personally, I doubt we'll ever use a proprietary OS ever again.
The Microsoft tax isn't that big a deal, at least not in the Thinkpad price range.
If it was possible to burn the money in a fire instead of giving it to Microsoft, then format the laptop and put Linux on it, then no, it wouldn't be a big deal. But that's not the case here. Microsoft is actually getting stronger off that tax, and I think we'll all agree, that is a big deal...
If it were feasible, total self sufficiency would be kinda cool, but even with the technology you mentioned it's going to be impractical for any individual to do everything for themselves - we built up a society full of specialists and tradespeople for a reason.
Yes. To keep us unable to look after ourselves, highly dependent, easily ruled. The point is not to have every person perform every task, the point is to have every person involved in the structures that sustain their own life, instead of estranged from them. Ignorance and disenfranchisement paired with pervasive propaganda render democracy moot. Even the stupidest of us can tell which guy cares about them, which guy doesn't, which guy knows whats going on, which guy doesn't have a clue and is all talk. IF THEY ARE INVOLVED.
You can be the most brilliant man in the world in your field, but you should still know what's going on in those aspects of society that directly sustain your life. If you don't, everything you see around you is like a crufty legacy system, where you see things wrong all over the place but you don't have a coherent enough view to change anything out of fear that it will bring the whole thing crashing down. Which is where we are now, bunch of overworked people, afraid for their existence, desperate to keep the slaves enslaved so they won't abandon us to die in our ignorance.
As far as I'm concerned the same thing can be said of religion. Thousands of years ago, before we scientifically understood everything, we had religion to give us an inaccurate but constructive understanding of our world and our existence. However now religion has become obsolete and more accurate and scientific things are taking its place. This is obvious to me. I don't understand why all the Republicans don't get it.
The scientific method requires that you have a longer lifespan than the time required to conduct an experiment. Therefore, it cannot answer questions regarding human social problems. Religions as you see them today have a quality that is relevant to human social problems. That is, these religions didn't kill off their believers like so many others did. They have been subjected to evolutionary pressure and survived. This quality is measured in the number of generations of mankind that have survived under the system from conception to destruction, or from conception to current day, whichever.
Knock on wood is a psychological tool to put things out of your mind so you don't dwell on them.
Some superstitions are externally based and come from probability and intuition, not really caring if it's deterministic causation, probabilistic causation or purely co-relational. Others serve the purpose of regulating the internal world, controlling perspectives and where the mind is focused. Self administered psychotherapy, so to speak. Covet not thy neighbours wife, or you will dwell in hell, not because you're going to go there later, but because you're dismissing what you have for what you don't have and putting yourself in hell in your own head, that sort of shit.
I think you're wrong. I believe that it IS practical for every person to participate in the creation of every thing they want. Look at the state of the art in Rapid Prototyping, look at the promise of the RepRap project. IBM had devices 5 years ago that print cell phones, all you had to do was load the 3D model, print, put in batteries. Look at Open Source, it operates under the same principles as I am discussing.
I am not interested in being a hunter-gatherer, I'm interested in empowering individuals and breaking the centralized control over everything possible. The internet has made strong strides in achieving this in publishing. Mesh networks have the potential to push it farther, by eradicating the control that the copper/fiber infrastructure brings.
After these technologies have been made common, we will have access to a great deal more plenty. The areas of scarcity will be reduced, and at that point, we need a co-opearative and democratic means to administer the common resources.
This has the potential to create more wealth, more informed peers, and more liberty. To argue against its practicality is useful, to argue against its merit just shows your ignorance.
Look, if you believe in those other things you're speaking of, then you're in the wrong country. They are completely against the very reason this country was founded
Yes, I think your country is evil, and must be stopped. If that's how you want to put it, then yes, I'm in favour of forced labour and anarchy.
Life forces you to eat. You should be forced to participate in the production of food, because the alternative is that you force others to produce your food while you do not participate, not even to a degree that leaves you informed as to how food production operates.
Life requires that you have shelter. Therefore, you should be forced to participate in the creation of shelter. You should not be permitted to have others do it for you, and you should not be permitted to vote on how these affairs should be governed from a position of utter ignorance, which is what you're doing if you're not involved.
Beyond that, there are enterprises that are not necessities, but arbitrary frivolities. No one should be compelled to dedicate a single moment of time to those frivolities so they can have their needs met. If you cannot entice them to work by virtue of what you are attempting to achieve, then the work should not be done.
These are the fundamental principles of my political view. As far as I'm concerned, your nation is based on conspiracy, usury, colonialism and empire. Your values are evil, dependent and fundamentally self-destructive. I'm enjoying the spectacle of watching your country move from the status of empire to nation, and I expect it will conclude with disintegration and the abandonment of your cultural values. I'm quite looking forward to it.
You're talking crap.
In a system made of informed free men and women co-operating, there is no place for Police, period. They exist only in a system based on the secrecy, back-room conspiracy, the rule of law and the application of leverage. So, there would be no reason for your police officer to exist.
As for contributing money, that's easy to fix. Get rid of money. Make taxes payable in labour, socialize each and every necessity, and for ventures that go above and beyond the necessity, voluntary participation due to exemplary leadership is required.
Anonymous ballots are all about sacrificing awareness, involvement and self-determination for ignorance, conspiracy and plausible deniability. The old saying you referred to is the justification for my position, not yours.
"Look at that. He voted for John Thompson. That guy's completely opposed to our corporate agenda, unlike that Tom Johnson fellow.
Mr. W0lf, would you come in here? We need to have a little talk."
Yeah... all of us workers noticed that all of you executives voted for Tom Johnson. So, we're walking off the job.
WHAT!?!
Don't get the wrong idea... this isn't a strike. We quit. We hear some people up north have started this structure kind of like a co-operative, and they're doing well, so, we're all kicking in and doing the same. We're going to compete with you and drive you out of business. Good luck finding staff.
Why are you standing in the window like that?
It's a secret ballot. You can't oversee it. Therefore, it's reasonable to assume that it's been corrupted. If you want an election that can't be rigged, you have to do away with the secret ballot and make the votes, and who cast them, public information. You need a receipt for the voter and receipt for the witness.
Someone mod this guy up.
why are drug traffickers held accountable?
Because they don't work for the US Government. If you don't buy your drugs from the US Government, how are they going to pay for all those black ops?
Insert Disk, start DVDDecrypter, hit "Go", burn iso to disk... Of course DVDDecrypter is not exactly legal these days. Which is a shame, because it strips all that nasty region coding and other crap out of the image as it goes along.
It's been a long time since "being legal" was something to aspire to. The only actions that are legal in this arena are those that harm the average man on the street. Being criminal is the same as being a freedom fighter these days.
This is bullshit. The terms of the challenge indicate that you cannot disassemble the drive. Real life does not operate under such arbitrary rules, therefore, a failure to meet this challenge does not in any way establish that you cannot recover data from a drive that was treated in this fashion. All it establishes is that 3 random data recovery services are not confident in their ability to use the electronics integrated in the drive to recover the data off the platters. Or, they're not interested in participating in some contest because they've got paying clients to service. Can the data be recovered in a clean room with highly sensitive specialized tools? Who knows?
He seems to have a handle on that problem...
I noticed they claim 1,000,000+ h MTBF, but they only warranty for less than 10,000 h (or 20,000 in some cases). What makes you wonder why they have so little faith in their product (or in their own reliability estimate).
Makes you wonder why they're permitted to claim 1,000,000+ h MTBF in their literature when they don't give any assurance. Seems kind of like the sort of scummy propaganda that ought to be illegal. Saturate the media with consistent but unsubstantiated claims, and you make bullshit into gospel.
They gave him a bunch of free drives to play with. Therefore, they are better. Don't you understand how these reviews work?
Who's the idiot who modded this as Flamebait? Any person with an IQ greater than 50 would figure out that that is the reason China keeps selling its goods in exchange for the green toilet paper.
The Nile is a river in Egypt.
Yeah, I've been watching that closely. I hope they stick to their guns.
Yes, that has been the way of things for many years, and is one of the major historical sources of US wealth... they trade their money for other countries goods, then the other country uses them as a world currency to trade for oil with a third party country.
Thing is, they're all bad cheques. It's like if I paid the butcher with a bad cheque and took his meat, then he paid the baker with my cheque, then he paid the candlestick maker with my cheque. The candlestick maker, he put it in his wall safe for a rainy day.
It's great for me, I get all my shit for free. And as long as no one tries to cash the cheques I write, no one notices that I'm ripping everyone off.
Iraq started breaking stride with the other oil producing nations and allowing Euros to be traded instead of US Dollars. Then they got invaded, and that put a stop to that.
I wonder if the US has the military capacity to stop a second nation from breaking stride? I don't think so, but we'll see.
If the Chinese government dumped the goods that were made for export into the ocean, they wouldn't have any less for themselves. They don't get anything in exchange for the US currency. It means nothing. China knows they're not getting anything back from the US, not now, not in the future. They keep going they way they are because it's a way to keep the citizens busy so they won't make trouble.
American money is like Air Miles.
Hardly balanced but China needs the U.S. as bad as the U.S. needs China. This alone will probably keep the peace.
Why does China need the US again? I must have forgotten.