That is contrary evidence that I'm not prepared to dispute, but I still have to wonder where all the CRTs and American-looking PC chassis in TFA's photos might have come from, if not the United States?
Are you just baiting us or do you really not know? Overseas is EXACTLY where all that stuff goes. Virtually none of it remains to be processed in the United States. Much of it also winds up in similar locations in China.
The VA folks you have encountered are all rank-and-file types and none of them top brass, correct? If so then your analogy is misleading, since the people we are discussing here are in fact the decision-makers and the adverse consequences of their decisions. While the rank and file folks may be very humane people, experience has (or should have) taught us that the majority of top brass in every human hierarchy are sociopaths, not humane people. Your anecdote is not representative of those people, and they are the subject here.
Sure there was. I had some. If there weren't any *games*, whose fault was that? You should've written or ported one. Regardless, the machine was significant enough to have spawned several clones.
Hey, no one was forcing you... you could've hooked up a floppy or disk drive to the expansion bus if you'd wanted! And it had a 68008 in it, "classic" games could've been ported from the Lisa/Mac.
It was a much more capable computer, and equally ahead of its time if not moreso. It also had a better keyboard than the ZX. I've regretted selling mine off to a coworker in 1993.
Why can't we put it behind us? Simple: it's not really behind us. Microsoft is still a corporation run by hyperambitious sociopaths who care only for themselves and their "circle" and nothing for the common good. (I'm not saying MS is unique in this.) That hasn't changed as a result of the antitrust action or anything more recent. Microsoft is still "evil", they just haven't been [i]caught[/i] being evil in a while. It's a natural effect of the human condition that sociopaths rise to the top of all hierarchies, and then the rest of us suffer to degrees.
Am I the only prophet in the room? We will never have true network neutrality until the physical medium is fully publicly owned. Our telecom companies should be contractors to the common good, not infrastructure owners. That is the core problem: when they own the infrastructure, there's little we can effectively do with laws to regulate their behavior with it.
The motivation for this differentiation *could* be evil, but it could also be well-intentioned: what if those reviews critical of at least part of the game are going straight to the QA or development team, rather than public relations?
Lacking any real information about said motivation, the article and summary have cynically leapt to the worst possible conclusion. Way to muck the rake, guys.
That's an impressive job of twisting what I said to confirm your own bias. I neither said nor even clearly implied what you claim.
What I did say is that consumers are (ignorant) idiots. What I implied in the process is that THEY NEED TO BE EDUCATED to avoid these sorts of bad choices that act against both their interest and those of other citizens and the market. Unfortunately, good luck trying to sufficiently educate the current typical crop of Homo sapiens to create a free market that actually works.
When they're made more like appliances that don't require education, yes. That applianc-ization doesn't have to include proprietary consumables, though.
(And this is precisely why the Libertarian free-market ideal doesn't work, because consumers are idiots that break the free market process every time.)
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That is contrary evidence that I'm not prepared to dispute, but I still have to wonder where all the CRTs and American-looking PC chassis in TFA's photos might have come from, if not the United States?
Are you just baiting us or do you really not know? Overseas is EXACTLY where all that stuff goes. Virtually none of it remains to be processed in the United States. Much of it also winds up in similar locations in China.
Or, just read the linked report by a team of ACTUAL scientists instead of a SCIENCE FICTION story written 35 years ago BY AN ACTUAL SCIENTIST.
FTFY.
The VA folks you have encountered are all rank-and-file types and none of them top brass, correct? If so then your analogy is misleading, since the people we are discussing here are in fact the decision-makers and the adverse consequences of their decisions. While the rank and file folks may be very humane people, experience has (or should have) taught us that the majority of top brass in every human hierarchy are sociopaths, not humane people. Your anecdote is not representative of those people, and they are the subject here.
Obtuse and dogmatic in the same breath. That takes talent.
Sure there was. I had some. If there weren't any *games*, whose fault was that? You should've written or ported one. Regardless, the machine was significant enough to have spawned several clones.
And there was loads of software for the ZX at launch, then?
Hey, no one was forcing you... you could've hooked up a floppy or disk drive to the expansion bus if you'd wanted! And it had a 68008 in it, "classic" games could've been ported from the Lisa/Mac.
It was a much more capable computer, and equally ahead of its time if not moreso. It also had a better keyboard than the ZX. I've regretted selling mine off to a coworker in 1993.
Why can't we put it behind us? Simple: it's not really behind us. Microsoft is still a corporation run by hyperambitious sociopaths who care only for themselves and their "circle" and nothing for the common good. (I'm not saying MS is unique in this.) That hasn't changed as a result of the antitrust action or anything more recent. Microsoft is still "evil", they just haven't been [i]caught[/i] being evil in a while. It's a natural effect of the human condition that sociopaths rise to the top of all hierarchies, and then the rest of us suffer to degrees.
I assumed it might, but these folks are in North Carolina. I guess Pisgah is a more common surname than I guessed?
You find another client.
Am I the only prophet in the room? We will never have true network neutrality until the physical medium is fully publicly owned. Our telecom companies should be contractors to the common good, not infrastructure owners. That is the core problem: when they own the infrastructure, there's little we can effectively do with laws to regulate their behavior with it.
Forwarded on [i]as well[/i]? Yeah, I'd agree that should have been done.
I know what is the usual ordering of the words in the idiom. License literary what I did is called.
The motivation for this differentiation *could* be evil, but it could also be well-intentioned: what if those reviews critical of at least part of the game are going straight to the QA or development team, rather than public relations?
Lacking any real information about said motivation, the article and summary have cynically leapt to the worst possible conclusion. Way to muck the rake, guys.
There's this:
https://medium.com/the-magazin...
One of the libraries in my county acquired one last year.
That's an impressive job of twisting what I said to confirm your own bias. I neither said nor even clearly implied what you claim.
What I did say is that consumers are (ignorant) idiots. What I implied in the process is that THEY NEED TO BE EDUCATED to avoid these sorts of bad choices that act against both their interest and those of other citizens and the market. Unfortunately, good luck trying to sufficiently educate the current typical crop of Homo sapiens to create a free market that actually works.
When they're made more like appliances that don't require education, yes. That applianc-ization doesn't have to include proprietary consumables, though.
Nope, no bigotry here.
Yeah, I know....
(And this is precisely why the Libertarian free-market ideal doesn't work, because consumers are idiots that break the free market process every time.)
This is the most counterproductive *coin propaganda I've yet seen. Well done!
You've never heard of 3D scanners, I guess? Or open-sourced downloadable 3D files?
Proprietary consumables? Seriously? When are we gonna get past this crap? Ever?
Of course none of your *ahem* observations while reading the article could possibly be due to personal bias or cynicism?