However homeless FREQUENTLY commit small crimes exactly because it gets them freem room&board for a few month, maybe up to a year. It is a common and well-known strategy among them homeless.
The election were not "stolen". Knowing the income distribution in Iran and the overwhelming support given to A. by the poor classes i have no trouble believing that he won. What I do see is another Western sponsored "Orange" Revolution in the making. I caution the Iranian people and advice them to look at the current situation in Georgia and Ukraine under their new rulers Saakashvili (started a foolish military adventure in South Ossetia, destabilizing the country and resulting in permanent loss of large chunks of territory, now brutally suppresses opposition) and Ushenko (ruined whatever was left of the economy, unable to form anything resembling a coalition with other opposition forces) to see what awaits them if they swallow the western bait.
"Peaceful" protesters setting buses and banks on fire. Iran is a poor country and these hip looking urban people look like spoilt kids of the Iranian elites. Ironic isn't it?
Someone up the thread said a very smart thing. Mosavi won the young Internet savvy crowd. Ahmadinejad won the rest of this relatively poor country. I've seen this happen in Russia twice over the last 10 years. Pro-western liberal reformers easily won every Internet poll. Yet ask a random Russian on the street what they think of the liberals and you are likely to get spit on and kicked. Populist Putin with his "Resurgent Russia" national idea easily rules the minds of an overwhelming majority of Russians. Internet is great for self-education, expanding your mind, getting to know people of different backgrounds and opinions. But it also makes it exceptionally easy to shut off into a comfortable little social circle where everyone thinks the same as you, so when IRL election results hit you, you are left wondering - Who are these people who voted for Ahmadinejad??? I mean everyone I KNOW voted for the other guy! Must be fraud!
Somalia? I guess you've never heard of the "Free State" project. Libertarians are taking over NH as we speak. Over 9000 libertarians have already signed up for relocation and around a 1000 have move in. Libertarian representatives played a key role in the recent defeat of the seat belt law. Pretty humiliating for the federal government. And Somalia already does better than several countries WITH GOVERNMENTS and I'm sure it will do much better once Eritrea and assorted Gulf states stop sponsoring Islamic militants.
Wow, a great way to rationalize your failures! Why do Americans no longer produce great cars. They are no longer interested! Nothing to do with inferior schooling and work ethics.
Well, for what it's worth I think the other explanation is more realistic. SU lacked the fleet of nuclear submarines and carriers and thus needed the long-range ballistic technology to ensure the delivery of it's a-bombs.
But the respect is almost gone now, now (almost) everyone wants to be a "manager" aka "office plankton". Working hard and earning a degree in math would land you a $200/month job at a research institute with no prospect of ever owning your own apartment, or even a nice used car. And there are negative words in Russian analogous to nerd - "bot" or "zaukan".
According to the American constitution artificial scarcity, also known as copyright was introduced to promote the progress of art and science. A brief look at the content produced by commercial film, music and software industry tells us that copyright has totally failed in the "progress" part. Conservatively, 50% of what they produce is crap (IMHO over 90% is a steaming pile of CRAP fit only for tv-zombie consumption). Instead the concept was hijacked by evil, soul destroying corporations that don't give a shit about "progress" only mega-profits. And the easiest way to do so is to produce for the LCD public. So they find a formula that works, COPYRIGHT it and then beet us over the head with endless sequels and corporate mass manufactured soulless bands. In such a "competitive" environment anything remotely novel and interesting suffers. Abolishing the copyright would stop them from endlessly benefiting from something they made once and the only way to distinguish yourself from the crowd and make money is by using the advantage of being the first to come up with something NEW thus actually promoting progress.
Agreed. Also most Slashdot visitors come from the USA where airing a shampoo commercial with a naked boob visible will get your TV station heavily fined or worse banned. I don't come from the USA and find it very strange and unnatural that a private citizen can purchase a semi-automatic version of a military rifle for home use. On the other hand I'm sure that many Americans will find it offensive that my country's penal code allows a man to kill his wife with a bladed weapon on a wedding night if he find out she is not a virgin.
In a free market as soon as C appears the already well established A and B will use their fat pocket's to lower the price to 0.10, undercut the new guy, bankrupt him and then raise the prices back to $1. Now D and E will think twice about entering the market. It is well known in ecomomics theory that free markets can not deal with this problem and the endgame is always monopoly.
Every time this subject comes up there are posts with quotes of paying in blood for your freedom and such. Yet Americans freedoms have eroded since 2001 and despite the country being choke full of privately owned firearms there is no Revolution, only stupid bbs venting. I've given it some though and I think I have a credible hypothesis. According to US Surgeon General 2/3 of Americans are either obese or overweight. Now, I personally find it hard to imagine a Revolution of the FAT. How can you expect an average American to take arms
against the corrupt government and endure the hardships of a long struggle if they can barely get up, get to the car, to the elevator, to the cubicle and back to the couch in front of the TV?
First of all I'd like to ask you a theoretical question. Do you think if copyright was abolished all creative content would cease? There would no longer be books, songs, movies, operating systems, games, etc..? I hope you answered 'no', because it's quite clear and supported by historical evidence that in the presence of demand for creative works and in absense of copyright new content would still be created. I mean civilization is rather older then the concept of copyright. Secondly nobody asks for elimination of venture capital and banking. This is how start-up work - you present a business plan and then someone gives you a large sum of money to create something that won't be available for years. I don't see a problem with a major studio with a proven portfolio obtaining credit to create Xmen-4.
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the GREEDY GOVERNMENT BASTARDS ever done for us??
Emacs and Vim work best when paired with a real Unix environment, I know because I can't stand VS and use mingw/msys with Emacs and Console2 when I'm forced to develop in Windows.
Amazing how people's attitude towards Free software changes once they learn the true cost of opening pictures with Photoshop and typing memos with MS Office. I do wish people came to Linux voluntarily but after 20 years of unrestrained piracy only threat of heavy fines can make people give up what they have come to believe is rightfully theirs.
My mom works at one of the research institutes in Akademgorodok, a major research center near Novosibirsk, she along with hundreds of others have been running pirated windows/office/photoshop/matlab for as long as I can remember. This time it seems the government is serious about the crackdown on illegal software. Each lab director got a direct order to either provide every scientist with lisenses for every piece of software or install linux. Well. they all have been running Ubuntu since yesterday. So far so good.
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However homeless FREQUENTLY commit small crimes exactly because it gets them freem room&board for a few month, maybe up to a year. It is a common and well-known strategy among them homeless.
The election were not "stolen". Knowing the income distribution in Iran and the overwhelming support given to A. by the poor classes i have no trouble believing that he won. What I do see is another Western sponsored "Orange" Revolution in the making. I caution the Iranian people and advice them to look at the current situation in Georgia and Ukraine under their new rulers Saakashvili (started a foolish military adventure in South Ossetia, destabilizing the country and resulting in permanent loss of large chunks of territory, now brutally suppresses opposition) and Ushenko (ruined whatever was left of the economy, unable to form anything resembling a coalition with other opposition forces) to see what awaits them if they swallow the western bait.
"Peaceful" protesters setting buses and banks on fire. Iran is a poor country and these hip looking urban people look like spoilt kids of the Iranian elites. Ironic isn't it?
Someone up the thread said a very smart thing. Mosavi won the young Internet savvy crowd. Ahmadinejad won the rest of this relatively poor country. I've seen this happen in Russia twice over the last 10 years. Pro-western liberal reformers easily won every Internet poll. Yet ask a random Russian on the street what they think of the liberals and you are likely to get spit on and kicked. Populist Putin with his "Resurgent Russia" national idea easily rules the minds of an overwhelming majority of Russians. Internet is great for self-education, expanding your mind, getting to know people of different backgrounds and opinions. But it also makes it exceptionally easy to shut off into a comfortable little social circle where everyone thinks the same as you, so when IRL election results hit you, you are left wondering - Who are these people who voted for Ahmadinejad??? I mean everyone I KNOW voted for the other guy! Must be fraud!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090614/ap_on_re_us/us_cats_mutilated
Nah, Junis is probably still busy downloading the first Baywatch season.
Somalia? I guess you've never heard of the "Free State" project. Libertarians are taking over NH as we speak. Over 9000 libertarians have already signed up for relocation and around a 1000 have move in. Libertarian representatives played a key role in the recent defeat of the seat belt law. Pretty humiliating for the federal government. And Somalia already does better than several countries WITH GOVERNMENTS and I'm sure it will do much better once Eritrea and assorted Gulf states stop sponsoring Islamic militants.
If I believed in God I'd say you will burn in Hell for doing this.
C# compiler is included in standard end-user dotnet distribution shipped with modern Windows.
On a geek BBS no one suggested running your own.
Wow, a great way to rationalize your failures! Why do Americans no longer produce great cars. They are no longer interested! Nothing to do with inferior schooling and work ethics.
Well, for what it's worth I think the other explanation is more realistic. SU lacked the fleet of nuclear submarines and carriers and thus needed the long-range ballistic technology to ensure the delivery of it's a-bombs.
An American graduate school is a place where Russian professors teach Chinese students.
But the respect is almost gone now, now (almost) everyone wants to be a "manager" aka "office plankton". Working hard and earning a degree in math would land you a $200/month job at a research institute with no prospect of ever owning your own apartment, or even a nice used car. And there are negative words in Russian analogous to nerd - "bot" or "zaukan".
According to the American constitution artificial scarcity, also known as copyright was introduced to promote the progress of art and science. A brief look at the content produced by commercial film, music and software industry tells us that copyright has totally failed in the "progress" part. Conservatively, 50% of what they produce is crap (IMHO over 90% is a steaming pile of CRAP fit only for tv-zombie consumption). Instead the concept was hijacked by evil, soul destroying corporations that don't give a shit about "progress" only mega-profits. And the easiest way to do so is to produce for the LCD public. So they find a formula that works, COPYRIGHT it and then beet us over the head with endless sequels and corporate mass manufactured soulless bands. In such a "competitive" environment anything remotely novel and interesting suffers. Abolishing the copyright would stop them from endlessly benefiting from something they made once and the only way to distinguish yourself from the crowd and make money is by using the advantage of being the first to come up with something NEW thus actually promoting progress.
Agreed. Also most Slashdot visitors come from the USA where airing a shampoo commercial with a naked boob visible will get your TV station heavily fined or worse banned. I don't come from the USA and find it very strange and unnatural that a private citizen can purchase a semi-automatic version of a military rifle for home use. On the other hand I'm sure that many Americans will find it offensive that my country's penal code allows a man to kill his wife with a bladed weapon on a wedding night if he find out she is not a virgin.
I'd like to start raping but I can't get a working torrent going :( Maybe I'll practice my l33t raping skillz on kittens in the meanwhile.
In a free market as soon as C appears the already well established A and B will use their fat pocket's to lower the price to 0.10, undercut the new guy, bankrupt him and then raise the prices back to $1. Now D and E will think twice about entering the market. It is well known in ecomomics theory that free markets can not deal with this problem and the endgame is always monopoly.
Every time this subject comes up there are posts with quotes of paying in blood for your freedom and such. Yet Americans freedoms have eroded since 2001 and despite the country being choke full of privately owned firearms there is no Revolution, only stupid bbs venting. I've given it some though and I think I have a credible hypothesis. According to US Surgeon General 2/3 of Americans are either obese or overweight. Now, I personally find it hard to imagine a Revolution of the FAT. How can you expect an average American to take arms against the corrupt government and endure the hardships of a long struggle if they can barely get up, get to the car, to the elevator, to the cubicle and back to the couch in front of the TV?
First of all I'd like to ask you a theoretical question. Do you think if copyright was abolished all creative content would cease? There would no longer be books, songs, movies, operating systems, games, etc..? I hope you answered 'no', because it's quite clear and supported by historical evidence that in the presence of demand for creative works and in absense of copyright new content would still be created. I mean civilization is rather older then the concept of copyright. Secondly nobody asks for elimination of venture capital and banking. This is how start-up work - you present a business plan and then someone gives you a large sum of money to create something that won't be available for years. I don't see a problem with a major studio with a proven portfolio obtaining credit to create Xmen-4.
The clearly misunderestimated him!
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the GREEDY GOVERNMENT BASTARDS ever done for us??
Emacs and Vim work best when paired with a real Unix environment, I know because I can't stand VS and use mingw/msys with Emacs and Console2 when I'm forced to develop in Windows.
Amazing how people's attitude towards Free software changes once they learn the true cost of opening pictures with Photoshop and typing memos with MS Office. I do wish people came to Linux voluntarily but after 20 years of unrestrained piracy only threat of heavy fines can make people give up what they have come to believe is rightfully theirs.
My mom works at one of the research institutes in Akademgorodok, a major research center near Novosibirsk, she along with hundreds of others have been running pirated windows/office/photoshop/matlab for as long as I can remember. This time it seems the government is serious about the crackdown on illegal software. Each lab director got a direct order to either provide every scientist with lisenses for every piece of software or install linux. Well. they all have been running Ubuntu since yesterday. So far so good.