Art is not patented. Software can be patented. Software writing legally then is a creative engineering type discipline, falling into "Science" but not "Art". If they want to make it pure Art, then stick with copyright and give up patents. Engineering efforts can be inspiring, graceful, beautiful-but are not pure Art.
OR, allow patents on anything else like that, novels, music, paintings, etc.
Who does a windows or mac person call now? How expensive is it? I know my local whitebox shops make a killing on windows crapware, I mean a killing,it's probably their primary income source, so I don't know why those folks with "busted computers" just don't "call" microsoft instead if that was an easy option. Macs, no idea, can you call apple for free and get help whenever you want to? I know when I used to run mac classic I never needed to, so I honestly don't know. And is it free, or what?
I'm not unfamiliar with the Mac way of doing things, I come from a mac classic background, not windows or unix. I *detest* the CLI. I never liked DOS and way back then never even saw anything unixy so never learned it, probably wouldn't have liked it. Yes, I liked the ability to just stick an app anyplace. This is possible in linux, you just need all the dependencies to be included with the app, and not use any shared libraries, etc Most distros/managers don't do it that way,but you *could* do it if you wanted to.
I switched to linux when steve jobs priced me out of the mac market,after being a mac guy since the late 80's, (I still have my 512k and my LC for example) and no I don't want a teeny mac mini. Linux works plenty good enough and the hardware is just tremendously cheaper now. When I can get a brand new Mac running their latest OS for 200-300$ let me know, because I can get a decent system now for that and run Linux on it. Not the top of the line, but plenty good enough for my purposes. I lack for nothing when it comes to apps, and I do everything from the GUI. It "just works" now. I don't need to spend a grand or more just to do simple computing, and then shell out an extra 100 clams a year for a few apps and an OS. Plus, and it's a BIG plus, I fully embrace the GPL now and I think it's the best idea for the long term. And Apple has already made thousands off of me, time to move on, I am just not going to keep dropping that sort of cash any longer on computing gear, there is no need from my POV. I was an early adopter, but I have also noticed it's the 21st century and stuff is cheap now. and really, the time spent installing apps is so freekingly neglibile as to be near non existant. how many people just sit around installing and uninstalling and moving apps around on their drive? when i go to install now (if it's not already included with the OS install", it really is as simple as selecting what i want, mash "apply", then it goes and does it. I can do it (I am a neo geezer sort of grandpa age dood), so most generic grandmas could do it too, it just really isn't that hard now. I can't see spending an extra 100 bucks every year and having to pop for twice as expensive hardware just to save (literally) a few mouse clicks, that's just silly. When it was between insane buggy dos/windows and mac,, and the hardware no matter what you got was over one thousand dollars, ya, I could see the savings and lack of headaches and security features,and I *did* put my money where my heart was and bought macs (always though the GUI was the best), but now, nope, linux is plenty good enough and just orders of magnitudes cheaper in the gestalt. And I don't do "video games", never got the addiction, so could care less about that aspect of computing. I shoot real guns whenever I feel like it, and I operate real heavy equipment with lots of pedals and levers that does a lot of nifty cool stuff, etc. Killing cartoon aliens has never been any "must have" for me so I don't need windows or mac for that either. For instance I put some of my money into a small solar PV system. Quite literally it's about the same as a decent gaming rig now for a very basic entry level solar system of a couple of panels and some batts and a charger/controller. It's lowend but there ya go, I just have different priorities that go along with both my geeky bent of wanting gadgets and the power to run them and also being a long time conservationist for near 5 decades now. My dad was a big iron guy since ww2 and they existed so I grew up around chunks of hardware kicking around the house and all sorts of TVs and radios, etc, and kept the bug. It's fun, but I'm not going to pay the big bucks any longer for stuff that is ridiculously cheap to manufacture. Already done did that! HAHAHAHA! So Apple is going to have to get real on that end from my POV. It's very close to being the same hardware now and soon it will be *all* the same hardware except for a DRM chip on the mobo, so paying double is not going to be an option, I just ain't that sill
one click app installs exist on linux from places like Linspire, so it's possible that other distros could do it as well. And a front end like synaptic makes it pretty darn easy, and is more advanced than what redmond offers.
Linux is ready for the desktop,*especially* for grandma, it just needs to be preinstalled and sold like that in the big retail shops. And frankly, with hard drive sizes like there are now, getting a computer with dozens/hundreds of apps preinstalled and available in the GUI menu tree would tend to negate any reason for grandma to even go looking for more apps. And people who actually have a need for more exotic apps usually have the wherewithal to go find them and install them, on any platform.
Power goes out a lot where I live rural, but the landline usually stays at least semi functional, albeit "noisy" during a storm. If the grid power is down for more than an hour or two I just use an old truck battery I have that I keep charged up and a voltage adapter, and can be back on the net quickly using an older powerbook I have. The one battery lasts at least a full day easily. I've never run it flat so I don't know exactly how long it would really last. Cheap backup. And if it stays down for a longer time I can recharge it from my (very modest) solar array I have installed on my RV, which uses 4 golf cart batts for energy storage.
But ya, on laptops and their internal batts. Seems to me if folks weren't as fixated on having the lightest laptops, we could have around 10lb laptops (like from not too many years ago in size basically) with nice cpus, etc, but with decent sized and redundant cheap batteries. It's having small,light AND long lasting that is the problem there. You just can't get the manufactuers to make one, well, at least I haven't seen one for sale lately like that. It would be a niche market, but most markets ARE niche markets when you get down to it. Modern designs use a lot less power, so if they just used modern tech with the older size/form factor with laptops and actually included decent sized batteries you could have something that lasted beyond a few hours. As it is now you have to cobjob it, but it's still doable.
I don't know if that is an official term (probably not) but it's what I call it. Say you are stopped at a redlight, you and a line of cars. Light turns green. You can see the light change, but you can't go yet, you have to WAIT for the person in front of you to get going, and on up the line. it's nutz! People are looking at the back of the car in front of them, waiting for that car to move. You can see it happen, lead car gets going, then the next, then the next, etc., ie, the centipede effect. The result is a huge waste of time at a limited green interval just getting back up to speed, whereas if everyone looked at the light and just went, it would allow faster and more coordinated acceleration and smoother traffic flow. Drivers education would help here obviously, but it isn't taught like that.
Perhaps something like these speed governors, but timed with lights via wifi or something like that. Away from the lights you have normal throttle control, near the lights the speed sensors coordinate stopping and starting, so the line of cars could be smoother during the frustrating transition periods.
NASA did take the camera and the film, I remember reading about it when it happened. It is probably googleable and I believe it was discussed on slashdot before during that time frame. Haven't kept up with it though so don't know what they did with it.
--I just got some old Flash Gordon episodes from that bin. Seriously funny stuff because I remember watching it on a tiny screen B/W TV-auxiliary room heater when it was the cool sci-fi show on.
Back then to go to the indoor movies where there was AIR CONDITIONING cost 35 cents, or 15 cents under one lawn mowed by me. And they had cartoons before the feature, too.
maybe, it doesn't matter really, I know thousands of people read it. I write for readers, not for karma. Starting way back in the 60s for that matter.
There's a lot of decent people in government service, it's just the *system* that sucks now. There's a reason they had to pass those toy "whistleblower" laws. And even with those the criminality continues. It's too far gone to fix, IMO. I have YET to meet anyone in meatspace who worked for any governmental...place...who didn't have horror stories of waste, fraud and abuse. This is civil and military, local, state and fed.And the D and R cojoined racket is just pathetic.
Story. The man is deceased now, but I used to work for the daughter of a VERY high up D powerbroker. Not a name brand dude in the news, but a behind the scenes heavyweight that insiders and political junkies would recognize.
Spent several hours talking to him off and on when he would come to his daughters place and visit and I was working there.. He was SO far away from what "the common man" is it ain't funny. Absolutely no comprehension on what it is like to be a joe regular ole blue collar working stiff in the USA. I have no idea why he would unload these thoughts to me other than the whiskey he was chugging, heh, but basically think undisguised contempt for rube voters. He thought of the "grassroots" as beyond pawns, beyond "useful idiots". Can't describe it any better, just a total feudal outlook on life, the elite,with him in it, and everyone else. But he was an advisor to presidents,a Party leader, for the party of the "common man"! Freekin hysterical really.
...someone else brought this up. The military has advanced flying craft. Too many eyewitnesses and little leaks to ignore now, their denials are ludicrous. The stuff we see, and that they admit to owning in public, is the dumbed down three (whatever) generations old stuff. Now whether or not they have direct to orbit and back again craft, not sure, but I wouldn't bet against it. Space-the high ground-has always been a military endeavor first, they just sold some of the aspects of it to the public as a "civilian" effort.
come up with a new rack design that occupies the same floor space but can hold two distinct offerings via a physical separator. Offer the stores the alternative rack if they want to carry two competiting products and up their chances of a sale. My guess is they will take you up on the offer. If they do, then let the OTHER guy worry about whether or not HIS product can co exist in the rack you provided for free.
You got it. Governmental "progressives" have a thoroughly dismal record of taking peoples property via government scams/seizures like the "endangered species act" and so forth. A nice example would be to revisit what happened to thousands of people in Klamath Falls Oregon with that little "progressive" fiasco. How about "stakeholders viewscapes", that's another "progressive" winner. Of course that's usually leet urbanites seizing property from poor rural people thousands of miles away, but hey-it's progressive!
They are just as much to blame as so called "conservatives" when it comes to thievery, being bribed or blackmailed, or being in the pockets of fascist transnational corporations.
Bottom line, if it's elected, appointed or hired on and it comes from government, expect to lose if you have something they want. Labels mean nothing beyond "private citizen or governmental employee", those are the ones that count. And for that matter, pay no attention to those ridiculous D and R labels, they are designed to keep the rabble occupied thinking they have some vague "voice" in government. There's about as much difference as between the Crips and the Blood.
This quote "My current belief is that the free market will do quite a good job of punishing defectors on its own; thus, increasing virality is a bad move."
Where is this mythical "free market"? Really, I would like Eric to point to this geographical area so I can move there. The only example I am aware of that is a "free market" is the so called "black market" which is that market which is not under any governmental regulations, and as such is usually quite illegal everywhere. Outside of that, the "market" is highly regulated, and as such there will be laws, licenses, regulations, etc. Ther "market" in most places is also usually the playground for the already rich and powerful who are able to bribe their way into continuuing their monopolies. usually those folks are the ones who continually use that phrase to justify either their parasitism or lack of skills.
The so called "free market" is a term widely used and argued about, yet it does *not* exist. It is a weak academic theory only.
...over government actions now, because of the internet and the ease of idea transfer and instant publishing. It used to be a royal PITA to get any contrarian views published outside of letters to the editor or expensive vanity press. For all I know, back in 54 it might have been contentious,we don't really know, but now when government does something that angers people, millions can and do say something about it. It's much easier now, people are reacting almost instantly to governmental transgressions. We don't have to get filtered through some millionaires corporate newspaper chain to get published, or go to some shady vanity press outfit and shell out the big bucks. Maybe if we had the internet sooner we wouldn't have such a screwed up system, it's corrupt and bogus. All the judges are POLITICAL APPOINTED CORRUPT TO THE CORE LACKEYS. PUPPETS. All of them. They ALL have paid their dues in the democrat and republican government hijacker mafias, or they never would have gotten close to being appointed and confirmed. The US Government as it stands now-all the branches and agencies and departments- is a for-profit criminal racket,using threat of armed force to steal people blind over and over again, it's just easier to expose it and take action now. We can actually get our voices heard, it's just starting in earnest the past few years now, and they are desparate to contain it and control it, you can see it in their actions.
The next step is to fight back after the words are spoken or posted to the web, this proposed seizure of the judges land is just one excellent example of the people fighting back against corporo/fascistic so called "government". It's TIME these career-criminal bozos got a taste of their own medicine, in this issue or any number of critical freedom issues.
What happened in the past is then, this is NOW, which is way more important in the over-all scheme of things.
...because you need to run the latest open solaris in its native environment. You can't use ancient antique sparcs, they need to be at least new enough to be reasonable. You don't want to use x86 because that is for linux and winders and they can't touch solaris because of internet cooties....
Or the truth, if you can't have a new computer that is cool to you, that means no new jewelry that is cool to her at gift giving season, because all the old jewelry is "good enough" and no need for more. Two ears=two earrings, check-enough. One neck-one necklace = enough, and etc.....that's the excuse I use anyway, seems to work....
...they are going heavy into gaming, consoles, media centers, cell phones, etc. Looks to me like they are diversifying/adding products as fast as possible, that and raking cash out of the system and turning it into tangibles as well, to stay ahead of inflation and the dollar devaluing. And they patent something every day, too. It all adds up. I don't think they are terribly worried about things yet-concerned yes, aware, yes, but worried, nope.
That's some funny stuff, man! Used to see those signs all the time when I was a kid, but hadn't even thought about them for decades now.
And for you younger geeks, ya they existed, little signs placed every so often along the road, always a rhyme that ended in burma shave. I guess a modern equivalent might be an animated gif banner ad or a flash ad that changes.
...it would put me way over 100$ a month for not very much more speed so I don't care.
Had dialup since very low baud rate days(acoustic modems, etc), guess I can wait a bit more until cheap wireless hits. I'll take the (to me) tradeoff benefits of living rural. Like I lose on broadband speeds with inet, but have a whopper garden, grow some beef, and now a full size commercial greenhouse,so we save thousands a year on groceries and it's fresh and organic.
5-600 dollars and up to a thousand for the hardware, then I think around 90 a month or so for the service, but I haven't looked for a few months either. There are also some new players getting into the sat broadband field so maybe prices will drop now.
That intitial start up cost is the main reason I haven't gone for it yet. Well that and it's windows only so far, according to the websites I have visitied.
Just for rural dialup now I am paying around 80 clams, that's for the landline and two ISPs. I use two because I use the service a lot and I also want redundancy. I am hoping the next year or two get the wireless bandwagon going in the rural areas. I don't mind so much the monthly cost, I seem to be eating it OK, just want the faster speeds, although cheaper *and* faster would be very nice!
Millions and millions of people are outside of hard wired xDSL or cable access areas, let alone "wifi" coffee shop access points. There are no alternatives currently except very expensive laggy satellite service for anything resembling broadband. This service is for those areas. It's a humongous untapped market and they will probably do well with it would be my guess
Can you sell used disks to someone legally in Europe? If so here's a scenario that might satisfy the law technically and allow people to get cheap media-you sell a used disk of music or a movie to your friend for one euro, he now makes a legal single copy from his legal original. He sells you the original back for the same amount of money. He keeps his copy. Not loan for free, sell for money. Laws are constantly argued on technical points, this seems to satisfy the copyright laws then.
Looks like no laws broken then unless there's a law that if you no longer have the original you must destroy your one legal backup copy.
Seems like disk buying and selling clubs could be established almost like a library, but purchasing and reselling back for the same price.
The major split in the R party (paleocon traditional conservative versus what came to be called neocon) occurred in the 64 election cycle, when the eastern establishment NWO globalist Rs sabotaged Goldwaters campaign on purpose. They threw the election to get Johnson in so that he would take the heat for Nam while they made the money off of it. It suceeded for them, too, BTW.
I worked that election, got a huge education then in power politics.
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Art is not patented. Software can be patented. Software writing legally then is a creative engineering type discipline, falling into "Science" but not "Art". If they want to make it pure Art, then stick with copyright and give up patents. Engineering efforts can be inspiring, graceful, beautiful-but are not pure Art.
OR, allow patents on anything else like that, novels, music, paintings, etc.
wouldn't that be interesting.......
Who does a windows or mac person call now? How expensive is it? I know my local whitebox shops make a killing on windows crapware, I mean a killing,it's probably their primary income source, so I don't know why those folks with "busted computers" just don't "call" microsoft instead if that was an easy option. Macs, no idea, can you call apple for free and get help whenever you want to? I know when I used to run mac classic I never needed to, so I honestly don't know. And is it free, or what?
I'm not unfamiliar with the Mac way of doing things, I come from a mac classic background, not windows or unix. I *detest* the CLI. I never liked DOS and way back then never even saw anything unixy so never learned it, probably wouldn't have liked it. Yes, I liked the ability to just stick an app anyplace. This is possible in linux, you just need all the dependencies to be included with the app, and not use any shared libraries, etc Most distros/managers don't do it that way,but you *could* do it if you wanted to.
I switched to linux when steve jobs priced me out of the mac market,after being a mac guy since the late 80's, (I still have my 512k and my LC for example) and no I don't want a teeny mac mini. Linux works plenty good enough and the hardware is just tremendously cheaper now. When I can get a brand new Mac running their latest OS for 200-300$ let me know, because I can get a decent system now for that and run Linux on it. Not the top of the line, but plenty good enough for my purposes. I lack for nothing when it comes to apps, and I do everything from the GUI. It "just works" now. I don't need to spend a grand or more just to do simple computing, and then shell out an extra 100 clams a year for a few apps and an OS. Plus, and it's a BIG plus, I fully embrace the GPL now and I think it's the best idea for the long term. And Apple has already made thousands off of me, time to move on, I am just not going to keep dropping that sort of cash any longer on computing gear, there is no need from my POV. I was an early adopter, but I have also noticed it's the 21st century and stuff is cheap now. and really, the time spent installing apps is so freekingly neglibile as to be near non existant. how many people just sit around installing and uninstalling and moving apps around on their drive? when i go to install now (if it's not already included with the OS install", it really is as simple as selecting what i want, mash "apply", then it goes and does it. I can do it (I am a neo geezer sort of grandpa age dood), so most generic grandmas could do it too, it just really isn't that hard now. I can't see spending an extra 100 bucks every year and having to pop for twice as expensive hardware just to save (literally) a few mouse clicks, that's just silly. When it was between insane buggy dos/windows and mac,, and the hardware no matter what you got was over one thousand dollars, ya, I could see the savings and lack of headaches and security features,and I *did* put my money where my heart was and bought macs (always though the GUI was the best), but now, nope, linux is plenty good enough and just orders of magnitudes cheaper in the gestalt. And I don't do "video games", never got the addiction, so could care less about that aspect of computing. I shoot real guns whenever I feel like it, and I operate real heavy equipment with lots of pedals and levers that does a lot of nifty cool stuff, etc. Killing cartoon aliens has never been any "must have" for me so I don't need windows or mac for that either. For instance I put some of my money into a small solar PV system. Quite literally it's about the same as a decent gaming rig now for a very basic entry level solar system of a couple of panels and some batts and a charger/controller. It's lowend but there ya go, I just have different priorities that go along with both my geeky bent of wanting gadgets and the power to run them and also being a long time conservationist for near 5 decades now. My dad was a big iron guy since ww2 and they existed so I grew up around chunks of hardware kicking around the house and all sorts of TVs and radios, etc, and kept the bug. It's fun, but I'm not going to pay the big bucks any longer for stuff that is ridiculously cheap to manufacture. Already done did that! HAHAHAHA! So Apple is going to have to get real on that end from my POV. It's very close to being the same hardware now and soon it will be *all* the same hardware except for a DRM chip on the mobo, so paying double is not going to be an option, I just ain't that sill
one click app installs exist on linux from places like Linspire, so it's possible that other distros could do it as well. And a front end like synaptic makes it pretty darn easy, and is more advanced than what redmond offers.
Linux is ready for the desktop,*especially* for grandma, it just needs to be preinstalled and sold like that in the big retail shops. And frankly, with hard drive sizes like there are now, getting a computer with dozens/hundreds of apps preinstalled and available in the GUI menu tree would tend to negate any reason for grandma to even go looking for more apps. And people who actually have a need for more exotic apps usually have the wherewithal to go find them and install them, on any platform.
Power goes out a lot where I live rural, but the landline usually stays at least semi functional, albeit "noisy" during a storm. If the grid power is down for more than an hour or two I just use an old truck battery I have that I keep charged up and a voltage adapter, and can be back on the net quickly using an older powerbook I have. The one battery lasts at least a full day easily. I've never run it flat so I don't know exactly how long it would really last. Cheap backup. And if it stays down for a longer time I can recharge it from my (very modest) solar array I have installed on my RV, which uses 4 golf cart batts for energy storage.
But ya, on laptops and their internal batts. Seems to me if folks weren't as fixated on having the lightest laptops, we could have around 10lb laptops (like from not too many years ago in size basically) with nice cpus, etc, but with decent sized and redundant cheap batteries. It's having small,light AND long lasting that is the problem there. You just can't get the manufactuers to make one, well, at least I haven't seen one for sale lately like that. It would be a niche market, but most markets ARE niche markets when you get down to it. Modern designs use a lot less power, so if they just used modern tech with the older size/form factor with laptops and actually included decent sized batteries you could have something that lasted beyond a few hours. As it is now you have to cobjob it, but it's still doable.
Just put up an article on this new xMax tech, you might be interested in it. At my technocrat link.
I don't know if that is an official term (probably not) but it's what I call it. Say you are stopped at a redlight, you and a line of cars. Light turns green. You can see the light change, but you can't go yet, you have to WAIT for the person in front of you to get going, and on up the line. it's nutz! People are looking at the back of the car in front of them, waiting for that car to move. You can see it happen, lead car gets going, then the next, then the next, etc., ie, the centipede effect. The result is a huge waste of time at a limited green interval just getting back up to speed, whereas if everyone looked at the light and just went, it would allow faster and more coordinated acceleration and smoother traffic flow. Drivers education would help here obviously, but it isn't taught like that.
Perhaps something like these speed governors, but timed with lights via wifi or something like that. Away from the lights you have normal throttle control, near the lights the speed sensors coordinate stopping and starting, so the line of cars could be smoother during the frustrating transition periods.
NASA did take the camera and the film, I remember reading about it when it happened. It is probably googleable and I believe it was discussed on slashdot before during that time frame. Haven't kept up with it though so don't know what they did with it.
--I just got some old Flash Gordon episodes from that bin. Seriously funny stuff because I remember watching it on a tiny screen B/W TV-auxiliary room heater when it was the cool sci-fi show on.
Back then to go to the indoor movies where there was AIR CONDITIONING cost 35 cents, or 15 cents under one lawn mowed by me. And they had cartoons before the feature, too.
maybe, it doesn't matter really, I know thousands of people read it. I write for readers, not for karma. Starting way back in the 60s for that matter.
There's a lot of decent people in government service, it's just the *system* that sucks now. There's a reason they had to pass those toy "whistleblower" laws. And even with those the criminality continues. It's too far gone to fix, IMO. I have YET to meet anyone in meatspace who worked for any governmental...place...who didn't have horror stories of waste, fraud and abuse. This is civil and military, local, state and fed.And the D and R cojoined racket is just pathetic.
Story. The man is deceased now, but I used to work for the daughter of a VERY high up D powerbroker. Not a name brand dude in the news, but a behind the scenes heavyweight that insiders and political junkies would recognize.
Spent several hours talking to him off and on when he would come to his daughters place and visit and I was working there.. He was SO far away from what "the common man" is it ain't funny. Absolutely no comprehension on what it is like to be a joe regular ole blue collar working stiff in the USA. I have no idea why he would unload these thoughts to me other than the whiskey he was chugging, heh, but basically think undisguised contempt for rube voters. He thought of the "grassroots" as beyond pawns, beyond "useful idiots". Can't describe it any better, just a total feudal outlook on life, the elite,with him in it, and everyone else. But he was an advisor to presidents,a Party leader, for the party of the "common man"! Freekin hysterical really.
...someone else brought this up. The military has advanced flying craft. Too many eyewitnesses and little leaks to ignore now, their denials are ludicrous. The stuff we see, and that they admit to owning in public, is the dumbed down three (whatever) generations old stuff. Now whether or not they have direct to orbit and back again craft, not sure, but I wouldn't bet against it. Space-the high ground-has always been a military endeavor first, they just sold some of the aspects of it to the public as a "civilian" effort.
come up with a new rack design that occupies the same floor space but can hold two distinct offerings via a physical separator. Offer the stores the alternative rack if they want to carry two competiting products and up their chances of a sale. My guess is they will take you up on the offer. If they do, then let the OTHER guy worry about whether or not HIS product can co exist in the rack you provided for free.
You got it. Governmental "progressives" have a thoroughly dismal record of taking peoples property via government scams/seizures like the "endangered species act" and so forth. A nice example would be to revisit what happened to thousands of people in Klamath Falls Oregon with that little "progressive" fiasco. How about "stakeholders viewscapes", that's another "progressive" winner. Of course that's usually leet urbanites seizing property from poor rural people thousands of miles away, but hey-it's progressive!
They are just as much to blame as so called "conservatives" when it comes to thievery, being bribed or blackmailed, or being in the pockets of fascist transnational corporations.
Bottom line, if it's elected, appointed or hired on and it comes from government, expect to lose if you have something they want. Labels mean nothing beyond "private citizen or governmental employee", those are the ones that count. And for that matter, pay no attention to those ridiculous D and R labels, they are designed to keep the rabble occupied thinking they have some vague "voice" in government. There's about as much difference as between the Crips and the Blood.
This quote "My current belief is that the free market will do quite a good job of punishing defectors on its own; thus, increasing virality is a bad move."
Where is this mythical "free market"? Really, I would like Eric to point to this geographical area so I can move there. The only example I am aware of that is a "free market" is the so called "black market" which is that market which is not under any governmental regulations, and as such is usually quite illegal everywhere. Outside of that, the "market" is highly regulated, and as such there will be laws, licenses, regulations, etc. Ther "market" in most places is also usually the playground for the already rich and powerful who are able to bribe their way into continuuing their monopolies. usually those folks are the ones who continually use that phrase to justify either their parasitism or lack of skills.
The so called "free market" is a term widely used and argued about, yet it does *not* exist. It is a weak academic theory only.
...over government actions now, because of the internet and the ease of idea transfer and instant publishing. It used to be a royal PITA to get any contrarian views published outside of letters to the editor or expensive vanity press. For all I know, back in 54 it might have been contentious,we don't really know, but now when government does something that angers people, millions can and do say something about it. It's much easier now, people are reacting almost instantly to governmental transgressions. We don't have to get filtered through some millionaires corporate newspaper chain to get published, or go to some shady vanity press outfit and shell out the big bucks. Maybe if we had the internet sooner we wouldn't have such a screwed up system, it's corrupt and bogus. All the judges are POLITICAL APPOINTED CORRUPT TO THE CORE LACKEYS. PUPPETS. All of them. They ALL have paid their dues in the democrat and republican government hijacker mafias, or they never would have gotten close to being appointed and confirmed. The US Government as it stands now-all the branches and agencies and departments- is a for-profit criminal racket,using threat of armed force to steal people blind over and over again, it's just easier to expose it and take action now. We can actually get our voices heard, it's just starting in earnest the past few years now, and they are desparate to contain it and control it, you can see it in their actions.
The next step is to fight back after the words are spoken or posted to the web, this proposed seizure of the judges land is just one excellent example of the people fighting back against corporo/fascistic so called "government". It's TIME these career-criminal bozos got a taste of their own medicine, in this issue or any number of critical freedom issues.
What happened in the past is then, this is NOW, which is way more important in the over-all scheme of things.
I think a better business instead of a hotel and museum for the seized judges land would be a brothel. It has more appropriate symbolism.
...because you need to run the latest open solaris in its native environment. You can't use ancient antique sparcs, they need to be at least new enough to be reasonable. You don't want to use x86 because that is for linux and winders and they can't touch solaris because of internet cooties....
....that's the excuse I use anyway, seems to work....
Or the truth, if you can't have a new computer that is cool to you, that means no new jewelry that is cool to her at gift giving season, because all the old jewelry is "good enough" and no need for more. Two ears=two earrings, check-enough. One neck-one necklace = enough, and etc.
...they are going heavy into gaming, consoles, media centers, cell phones, etc. Looks to me like they are diversifying/adding products as fast as possible, that and raking cash out of the system and turning it into tangibles as well, to stay ahead of inflation and the dollar devaluing. And they patent something every day, too. It all adds up. I don't think they are terribly worried about things yet-concerned yes, aware, yes, but worried, nope.
That's some funny stuff, man! Used to see those signs all the time when I was a kid, but hadn't even thought about them for decades now.
And for you younger geeks, ya they existed, little signs placed every so often along the road, always a rhyme that ended in burma shave. I guess a modern equivalent might be an animated gif banner ad or a flash ad that changes.
http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/networking/puis/ch01 _04.htm
""It was not designed from the start to be secure. It was designed with the necessary characteristics to make security serviceable.""
no idea who is right
...it would put me way over 100$ a month for not very much more speed so I don't care.
Had dialup since very low baud rate days(acoustic modems, etc), guess I can wait a bit more until cheap wireless hits. I'll take the (to me) tradeoff benefits of living rural. Like I lose on broadband speeds with inet, but have a whopper garden, grow some beef, and now a full size commercial greenhouse,so we save thousands a year on groceries and it's fresh and organic.
5-600 dollars and up to a thousand for the hardware, then I think around 90 a month or so for the service, but I haven't looked for a few months either. There are also some new players getting into the sat broadband field so maybe prices will drop now.
That intitial start up cost is the main reason I haven't gone for it yet. Well that and it's windows only so far, according to the websites I have visitied.
Just for rural dialup now I am paying around 80 clams, that's for the landline and two ISPs. I use two because I use the service a lot and I also want redundancy. I am hoping the next year or two get the wireless bandwagon going in the rural areas. I don't mind so much the monthly cost, I seem to be eating it OK, just want the faster speeds, although cheaper *and* faster would be very nice!
Millions and millions of people are outside of hard wired xDSL or cable access areas, let alone "wifi" coffee shop access points. There are no alternatives currently except very expensive laggy satellite service for anything resembling broadband. This service is for those areas. It's a humongous untapped market and they will probably do well with it would be my guess
Can you sell used disks to someone legally in Europe? If so here's a scenario that might satisfy the law technically and allow people to get cheap media-you sell a used disk of music or a movie to your friend for one euro, he now makes a legal single copy from his legal original. He sells you the original back for the same amount of money. He keeps his copy. Not loan for free, sell for money. Laws are constantly argued on technical points, this seems to satisfy the copyright laws then.
Looks like no laws broken then unless there's a law that if you no longer have the original you must destroy your one legal backup copy.
Seems like disk buying and selling clubs could be established almost like a library, but purchasing and reselling back for the same price.
The major split in the R party (paleocon traditional conservative versus what came to be called neocon) occurred in the 64 election cycle, when the eastern establishment NWO globalist Rs sabotaged Goldwaters campaign on purpose. They threw the election to get Johnson in so that he would take the heat for Nam while they made the money off of it. It suceeded for them, too, BTW.
I worked that election, got a huge education then in power politics.