Except during that time, the majority of the world embraced the opposite side from that, where the state owned everything, and 'planned' the economy. All it did was result in shortages, starvation, and misery.
Ideally, if the job takes up 40hours/week (basically the majority of your waking hours), it should pay enough for you to live reasonably comfortably, debt free. If it doesn't, there's something fundamentally wrong with the system. The whole point of this economy is to allow people to specialize and bring new advances to society without having to toil away in the fields growing food and maintaining basic structures. If it can't do this without beggaring people, then it has failed. It has been failing long and hard enough that growing numbers of people are wondering if they shouldn't just start growing their own food and living off grid. Of course, then the problem becomes property tax, which society uses to ensure unemployed (or those society has decreed as 'unemployable') people can't really live off grid. They are being squeezed.. If this continues, it's only a matter of time before society comes apart.
Attempts at democratic control of the means of production simply move the corruption from private entities into the state, where they now have the means and power to use the power of law to enforce their own interests at everyone else's expense. I fail to see how this really changes anything. In fact, it makes it worse.
It's called inflation. A US gallon of gasoline cost ~$1.10 in 1993. It's now regularly going up over $4.. A bag of chips that cost $0.89 in 1993, now costs $4. The price of fresh produce has skyrocketed in recent years. That, coupled with rising taxes, burns the candle from both ends. This is what is squeezing most of the middle class down towards destitution even while they're making $30k/year.. Unfortunately, employers aren't compensating for this inflation as they are just using employees as the cushion between this inflation and their profit. It wont' last forever though. When the rest of us fall flat, the entire stack of cards the ruling class live on will also tumble.
Sorry it's not that simple and you know it.. Kids in africa live in vastly different conditions basically bereft of rules. Essentially they can do 'whatever it takes' to survive and/or get ahead, and get away with it. Life there is brutal, but if you can find a niche, it's yours, and you're free to defend it pretty much any way you can simply because there's little if any state oversight. As low as the sky is, there, the sky still is the limit.
In western societies, the paths to success are so locked down, arbitrarily limited, and lined with mines by those who've come before, that it's nearly impossible to get beyond low level management if you do everything right, and very easy to lose it all with one tiny misstep. More and more people are realizing that these diminishing odds make the high road more risky than it's worth. College tuition is a fucking ripoff, and most of them are just paper mills, pumping out useless, now-indebted automatons, who, if lucky, get jobs due more to identity politics and/or knowing the right people than by skillset. It's too bad, but that's life I guess. Of course, egotistical people like you won't allow yourselves to see that the defining moments of success you've had was due more to the lottery of being in the right place at the right time than simply having skills and talent. It shouldn't be that way, but it is. Time to remove some of those restrictions.
Wikipedia's main goal is to ensure that its repository of knowledge remains available to all in perpetuity. The best way to ensure this is to house it in free-to-implement technical standards so that the content can be supported by playback vendors, cost-free, as well as ensure that the software needed to access the data is always available..
Native javascript? Now there's an oxymoron.. 'Native' means native machine language. Javascript is interpreted bytecode at best. While writing a video decoder in it might be possible, it'll run terribly on anything but the most powerful desktop cpus, and you can forget about anything over 640x480.
Turns out a website is a way of attempting to browbeat people into using hardware that some shadowy collection of self-appointed watchmen have judged pure enough for their tastes.
The same could be said of closed source licensors and their behavior towards users who desire some control over their hardware.
Compromise is not always the correct solution, though it is often depicted as the politically correct one.
While 1995 was a more benign time, today's state sponsored patent and copyright wars, extensions, and lawsuits suggest that the LPF was correct with their uncompromising stance.
I never said they existed solely because of tyranny. I said that the left in the US reenforces it. Angry, unhappy people make reliable voters.
You speak of education, yet the welfare state that system's a part of creates whole castes of cultural subservience, ignorance, and dependence, by feeding them the half truths you list. Your other social programs drive women from men, whites from non-whites and vice versa. You've destroyed family structure and sent modern youth into degenerate listlessness. Just look at the ghettos in any major city. They're a feral mess. How about detroit? The left spent the last half century running that place into the ground. As someone who went through this state funded 'education' system at one of the supposedly better schools, I can tell you that very very little of it was about learning to think, and a lot of it was about indoctrination of certain political values, rote memorization of certain 'facts', and a whole hell of a lot of obedience training. Meanwhile, these hypocrites are busy fighting the neocons' push to get the bible babble back in school. It's obvious both parties are using the system to push their bullshit and want to continue doing so. It's a contaminated shitpile that's got to go. Throwing more money at it will not solve these problems. It'll just make them bigger.
Wanting civil rights and liberties returned is NOT precious snowflake syndrome. Thinking they're entitled to 'redistribute' other people's resources, because of the attributes they claim shouldn't matter, definitely is. Which group does this, again? It's not just the rich who lose out. The poor do too. For the latter, every dollar counts a lot more, and inflation hurts them the most. What is causing most of the inflation? Out of control borrowing by the left. It's the state that chose to sic us into this debt/fiat currency system in the first place, not the business owner who, otherwise, works to put food on his table and a roof over his head. Your lovely system borrows in the name of the taxpayers, and then spends it on self-serving bullshit that does very little, but does it with great fanfare and blustering nonsense. Fuck you, and fuck the bankers your kind slept with. At the top of the pyramid there are no socialists, capitalists, or fascists, only tyrants.
I fail to see how prattling on about equality and diversity while twisting the meanings of the words to favor some at the expense of others isn't about as antisocial as one can get. Apparently, these special little snowflakes (and their wannabe mini tyrants like you) love deciding what qualifies as diverse and what 'must' be equal, and then using those twisted newspeak interpretations to pass law that encourages their defined castes to stay fragmented and distrustful of each other. Anything to maintain that voting block eh? Taking large chunks of people's livelihoods for themselves under the guise of 'The Greater Good', while indenturing them into slavery with irresponsible borrowing on their behalf is certainly the largest act of greed and arrogance possible. These behaviors are certainly acts of solipsistic, possibly histrionic nacissism, and a great, almost royal sense of entitlement.
Oh no, non white people chose to take offense, so we should.....what? ban things? Activities? Expression? I'm no fan of color run' s actions, but their event should not be censored just because some group chose to take offense.
Indians who aren't fans of freedom are welcome to go back to India. It takes monumental arrogance to emigrate to other countries and then demand the indigenous populations bow to your expectations.
Maybe intellectual property is an unenforceable farce, even with a total-information-awareness police state backing it. Markets lacking natural scarcity arent markets at all. They are actually privileges granted by the state that encourage all kinds of petty bickering and teenage-like territorial pissings. Lawyers, and the top 1 percent rich enough to afford them, are the only ones who benefit. To the rest of us, lP throws up minefields that block potential paths of innovation.
I feel sorry for him, but if Jackson intended to profit from his images, he shouldn't have made them available until after he was paid.
Not quite the same thing.. I don't make a habit of staring directly into the sun, so it does not shine directly into my eyes while my irises are wide open for night visiion..
the xenons already burn my retinas.. It's bad enough they don't control the UV+ emissions from these things that well.. LASER light can cause serious damage.
Did you know that for every car manufactured, at least 95% of them are involved in some kind of crime? From parking and traffic violations to human trafficking and murder, cars are the cornerstone for this EPIDEMIC!! ZOMG!
Soccer mom fear mongering doesn't make a good argument for (or against) anything.
Take your leftist anti gun rhetoric somewhere else. He didn't even mention guns. Also, it's not in the best interest of free societies to run around telling individuals that they should leave everything to unaccountable 'professionals' (who are also human, too, btw).
Commercial software projects have their own ways of stagnating.. Needed features disappear due to pressure from marketing's desire to segment the market so customers pay more for less with each new version. Security problems are routinely covered up because the vendor is more worried about image than the actual quality of their product. Large budgets can hinder as well as help development, Windows 8 is a good example where Microsoft just threw money/people at the problem instead of focusing on design coherency (which requires leadership), and what leadership was there had irrational, contradictory goals.
Of course, there are other user-caustic situations, such as when applications simply disappear because the company folds, leaving its users up a creek. This is especially true with SaaS. If an OSS project's leaders fold, the possibility is there to hire a few programmers to maintain the application as long as it's needed.
I can see corner cases for microkernels, like single-purpose/banking/ATM machines where security is paramount. SCADA (though latency might be an issue) might be another good application. However I bet there isn't hardware fast enough to compensate for them in performance critical systems like stock markets.
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Except during that time, the majority of the world embraced the opposite side from that, where the state owned everything, and 'planned' the economy. All it did was result in shortages, starvation, and misery.
Ideally, if the job takes up 40hours/week (basically the majority of your waking hours), it should pay enough for you to live reasonably comfortably, debt free. If it doesn't, there's something fundamentally wrong with the system. The whole point of this economy is to allow people to specialize and bring new advances to society without having to toil away in the fields growing food and maintaining basic structures. If it can't do this without beggaring people, then it has failed. It has been failing long and hard enough that growing numbers of people are wondering if they shouldn't just start growing their own food and living off grid. Of course, then the problem becomes property tax, which society uses to ensure unemployed (or those society has decreed as 'unemployable') people can't really live off grid. They are being squeezed.. If this continues, it's only a matter of time before society comes apart.
Attempts at democratic control of the means of production simply move the corruption from private entities into the state, where they now have the means and power to use the power of law to enforce their own interests at everyone else's expense. I fail to see how this really changes anything. In fact, it makes it worse.
It's called inflation. A US gallon of gasoline cost ~$1.10 in 1993. It's now regularly going up over $4.. A bag of chips that cost $0.89 in 1993, now costs $4. The price of fresh produce has skyrocketed in recent years. That, coupled with rising taxes, burns the candle from both ends. This is what is squeezing most of the middle class down towards destitution even while they're making $30k/year.. Unfortunately, employers aren't compensating for this inflation as they are just using employees as the cushion between this inflation and their profit. It wont' last forever though. When the rest of us fall flat, the entire stack of cards the ruling class live on will also tumble.
Sorry it's not that simple and you know it.. Kids in africa live in vastly different conditions basically bereft of rules. Essentially they can do 'whatever it takes' to survive and/or get ahead, and get away with it. Life there is brutal, but if you can find a niche, it's yours, and you're free to defend it pretty much any way you can simply because there's little if any state oversight. As low as the sky is, there, the sky still is the limit.
In western societies, the paths to success are so locked down, arbitrarily limited, and lined with mines by those who've come before, that it's nearly impossible to get beyond low level management if you do everything right, and very easy to lose it all with one tiny misstep. More and more people are realizing that these diminishing odds make the high road more risky than it's worth. College tuition is a fucking ripoff, and most of them are just paper mills, pumping out useless, now-indebted automatons, who, if lucky, get jobs due more to identity politics and/or knowing the right people than by skillset. It's too bad, but that's life I guess. Of course, egotistical people like you won't allow yourselves to see that the defining moments of success you've had was due more to the lottery of being in the right place at the right time than simply having skills and talent. It shouldn't be that way, but it is. Time to remove some of those restrictions.
Not if the goal is to ensure the content remains protected from patent trolls being used as weapons by those wishing to censor such content.
If true, then it's time to develop a truly open codec, not get further into bed with MPEG by switching to h264.
Wikipedia's main goal is to ensure that its repository of knowledge remains available to all in perpetuity. The best way to ensure this is to house it in free-to-implement technical standards so that the content can be supported by playback vendors, cost-free, as well as ensure that the software needed to access the data is always available..
Native javascript? Now there's an oxymoron.. 'Native' means native machine language. Javascript is interpreted bytecode at best. While writing a video decoder in it might be possible, it'll run terribly on anything but the most powerful desktop cpus, and you can forget about anything over 640x480.
Turns out a website is a way of attempting to browbeat people into using hardware that some shadowy collection of self-appointed watchmen have judged pure enough for their tastes.
The same could be said of closed source licensors and their behavior towards users who desire some control over their hardware.
Compromise is not always the correct solution, though it is often depicted as the politically correct one.
While 1995 was a more benign time, today's state sponsored patent and copyright wars, extensions, and lawsuits suggest that the LPF was correct with their uncompromising stance.
I never said they existed solely because of tyranny. I said that the left in the US reenforces it. Angry, unhappy people make reliable voters.
You speak of education, yet the welfare state that system's a part of creates whole castes of cultural subservience, ignorance, and dependence, by feeding them the half truths you list. Your other social programs drive women from men, whites from non-whites and vice versa. You've destroyed family structure and sent modern youth into degenerate listlessness. Just look at the ghettos in any major city. They're a feral mess. How about detroit? The left spent the last half century running that place into the ground. As someone who went through this state funded 'education' system at one of the supposedly better schools, I can tell you that very very little of it was about learning to think, and a lot of it was about indoctrination of certain political values, rote memorization of certain 'facts', and a whole hell of a lot of obedience training. Meanwhile, these hypocrites are busy fighting the neocons' push to get the bible babble back in school. It's obvious both parties are using the system to push their bullshit and want to continue doing so. It's a contaminated shitpile that's got to go. Throwing more money at it will not solve these problems. It'll just make them bigger.
Wanting civil rights and liberties returned is NOT precious snowflake syndrome. Thinking they're entitled to 'redistribute' other people's resources, because of the attributes they claim shouldn't matter, definitely is. Which group does this, again? It's not just the rich who lose out. The poor do too. For the latter, every dollar counts a lot more, and inflation hurts them the most. What is causing most of the inflation? Out of control borrowing by the left. It's the state that chose to sic us into this debt/fiat currency system in the first place, not the business owner who, otherwise, works to put food on his table and a roof over his head. Your lovely system borrows in the name of the taxpayers, and then spends it on self-serving bullshit that does very little, but does it with great fanfare and blustering nonsense. Fuck you, and fuck the bankers your kind slept with. At the top of the pyramid there are no socialists, capitalists, or fascists, only tyrants.
I fail to see how prattling on about equality and diversity while twisting the meanings of the words to favor some at the expense of others isn't about as antisocial as one can get. Apparently, these special little snowflakes (and their wannabe mini tyrants like you) love deciding what qualifies as diverse and what 'must' be equal, and then using those twisted newspeak interpretations to pass law that encourages their defined castes to stay fragmented and distrustful of each other. Anything to maintain that voting block eh? Taking large chunks of people's livelihoods for themselves under the guise of 'The Greater Good', while indenturing them into slavery with irresponsible borrowing on their behalf is certainly the largest act of greed and arrogance possible. These behaviors are certainly acts of solipsistic, possibly histrionic nacissism, and a great, almost royal sense of entitlement.
Look in the mirror, comrade.
Oh no, non white people chose to take offense, so we should .....what? ban things? Activities? Expression? I'm no fan of color run' s actions, but their event should not be censored just because some group chose to take offense.
Indians who aren't fans of freedom are welcome to go back to India. It takes monumental arrogance to emigrate to other countries and then demand the indigenous populations bow to your expectations.
Maybe intellectual property is an unenforceable farce, even with a total-information-awareness police state backing it. Markets lacking natural scarcity arent markets at all. They are actually privileges granted by the state that encourage all kinds of petty bickering and teenage-like territorial pissings. Lawyers, and the top 1 percent rich enough to afford them, are the only ones who benefit. To the rest of us, lP throws up minefields that block potential paths of innovation.
I feel sorry for him, but if Jackson intended to profit from his images, he shouldn't have made them available until after he was paid.
Just because people do that doesn't mean that facebook/nsa et al don't TAKE that communication.. They could choose to anonymize it. They don't.
Not quite the same thing.. I don't make a habit of staring directly into the sun, so it does not shine directly into my eyes while my irises are wide open for night visiion..
the xenons already burn my retinas.. It's bad enough they don't control the UV+ emissions from these things that well.. LASER light can cause serious damage.
"In soviet america, home automation automates you." Sounds about right..
Exactly, and the taxpayer foots the bill. we pay for our own oppression.
Those who with a car sometimes die by their own car....
Did you know that for every car manufactured, at least 95% of them are involved in some kind of crime? From parking and traffic violations to human trafficking and murder, cars are the cornerstone for this EPIDEMIC!! ZOMG!
Soccer mom fear mongering doesn't make a good argument for (or against) anything.
Take your leftist anti gun rhetoric somewhere else. He didn't even mention guns. Also, it's not in the best interest of free societies to run around telling individuals that they should leave everything to unaccountable 'professionals' (who are also human, too, btw).
Commercial software projects have their own ways of stagnating.. Needed features disappear due to pressure from marketing's desire to segment the market so customers pay more for less with each new version. Security problems are routinely covered up because the vendor is more worried about image than the actual quality of their product. Large budgets can hinder as well as help development, Windows 8 is a good example where Microsoft just threw money/people at the problem instead of focusing on design coherency (which requires leadership), and what leadership was there had irrational, contradictory goals.
Of course, there are other user-caustic situations, such as when applications simply disappear because the company folds, leaving its users up a creek. This is especially true with SaaS. If an OSS project's leaders fold, the possibility is there to hire a few programmers to maintain the application as long as it's needed.
I can see corner cases for microkernels, like single-purpose/banking/ATM machines where security is paramount. SCADA (though latency might be an issue) might be another good application. However I bet there isn't hardware fast enough to compensate for them in performance critical systems like stock markets.