"free" = Anyone can participate.
"Market" = A set of rules governing transactions, the most basic of which are the rules of ownership.
IP laws basically state that ideas are private property and can be traded just like any other type of private property. The fact that anyone can buy and sell ideas means that the IP market IS a free market.
You could argue that they're more of a socialist imposition on the market by the state.
So, go on then, let's hear how a set of laws that declare ideas are private property that can freely be bought, sold, or rented, is a socialist imposition on the market.
Boohoo. Bradley Manning made an agreement with the government to not expose secret information lest he receive rather severe punishment. It's rather hard to feel sorry for him when he voluntarily signed the contract.
Or to paraphrase Q from STNG - "Guilty until proven innocent, since it would be unfair to subject an innocent man to a trial."
Individuality is also what makes humankind strong, the flip side of that coin you're stuck admiring one side of.:) If everyone was an unthinking conformist we'd have been far less likely to achieve our current level of development.
"No man is an island", the flip side of that coin is - "no man is a robot".
Your post is spot on, except for the "left-wing" comment that probably got you modded as flamebait. The GP's attitude is not a sign of their politics, it's a sign of their immaturity. Remeber growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional.
Speaking of definitions, everybody I have ever met is "unwilling to conform" to something, teenagers in "the hallways of high school" are certainly no exception. Also "success" (as in fame and fortune) is a very narrow definition of a "better adult". eg: Most people would like to have a beer with Feynman or Eienstien, but Newton was by all accounts a complete arsehole with very few friends.
People who complain that "process kills creativity" are just as stupid as people who implement inappropriate processes. Ironically, they lack the creativity to see how appropriate processes would enhance their productivity and freedom. As engineers say, "Form is liberating."
Excellent post, I had almost given up hope of finding someone in this thread worthy of the title of software engineer!.
You must be having a "seniors moment" because the states do NOT collect income taxes, that is the job of the federal government and it has been that way for over 60yrs.
you'll notice how you use the term "American" as a synonym to US citizen, ignoring 77% of the continent.
There are several continental naming conventions that contain varing numbers of continents. Under the 7 continent convention that is taught and used throught the english speaking world there are two continents called "North America" and "South America", the continent of America does not exist, rather America is universally understood to be short hand for the United States of America and it's citizens are called Americans.
That meme is even stupider that this report. You do know what the CC in IPCC stands for, right? If anyone tried to change the nomeculture it was Frank Luntz who was advising the Bush admin on strategies to play down the treat of AGW.
Yeah, everyone hires at least one dud, my mistake was to vote to hire someone who I thought didn't interview well but had been recommended by someone I trusted.
The GST never had, nor was it supposed to have, any restrictions on what it was used for. It simply replaced all the incomprehensible state sales taxes rules and rates with one federal flat rate sales tax which is then divied up and given back to the states who dump it into consolidated revenue, which is exactly the same as they did with revenue from sales taxes before GST. From both a business and consumer perspective it is a simple and transparent one size fits all system, for the taxpayer it saves money by removing multiple overlapping layers of opaque goverment beuracracy that existed under the previous state based systems.
Perhaps you're not old enough to remeber the complexity of complying with the old systems, or maybe you are just conviently forgetting the rampant corruption under the old systems where they were regularly used by state governments to legally bash companies in other states in order to give their local business mates a competetive edge.
I know someone who worked 36 hours solid at the end of a project with 16 hour days for weeks, and got RSI quite badly.
I worked on fishing trawlers in Bass Straight during the early 80's; it meant stuffing 100kg bags of shellfish into the cargo hold for 30hrs straight and staying awake for 60hrs (due to the travel time to the fishing grounds, and the impossibility of sleeping in 5-10 meter swells on a 20 meter boat). I didn't get RSI, but the resulting mental state from lack of sleep had me dodging one eyed goblins, poker dotted aborigines, and other hallucinatory road hazards on the 30min drive home. After that I got the wife to do the driving to and from the warf.
Somehow I've never found that to be very accurate.
Judging by the content of your post it would seem you have never experienced an A class manager.
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If you want to get a job programming, but have never written any software that you've published, then you are probably not worth hiring
This is just plain crap, I've been programming for almost 30yrs, proffesionally for the last 20. I don't have any published code to show anyone at an interview, and never have. The stuff I write in my own time is mainly so I can learn something new, once I have the gist of it I usually throw the code away. I've also interviewed ~100 programmers over the years and if you can't tell if someone knows their stuff just by talking to them for 5-10min, then I suggest you don't know yours.
There is a problem with the evolution theory. It is that so far not a single living cell was ever created artificially. Not a simplest cell.
No, there's a problem with your education. The theory of evolution is not about the origin of life, it's about the origin of species (it's in the fucking book title). The theory about the origin of life is called abiogenisis.
WTF? - A trademark is mearly a way to correctly identify "products people want", why people want it in the first place is an entirely different subject, it may be quality (Rolls Royce), price (WallMart), or just a slick advertising campaign (Nike).
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We only need to look at religious fundamentalists and associated scandals (usually involving sex) in the US to have an idea how this plays out.
Don't they usually appear before their followers blubbering, apologising, and begging for forgivness (that is never given).
Technically, the results were indeed random.
No, technically your conflating two different things, the random glitch, and the non-random output caused by the glitch.
"Market" = A set of rules governing transactions, the most basic of which are the rules of ownership.
IP laws basically state that ideas are private property and can be traded just like any other type of private property. The fact that anyone can buy and sell ideas means that the IP market IS a free market.
You could argue that they're more of a socialist imposition on the market by the state.
So, go on then, let's hear how a set of laws that declare ideas are private property that can freely be bought, sold, or rented, is a socialist imposition on the market.
Irony - A company with a policy of hiring non-conforming geeks will ensure applicants conform to the sterotype of both a non-conformist and a geek.
Obviously the writer was talking about success in one's vocation.
Then the writer should have used the word "successfull" rather than "better". ;)
Boohoo. Bradley Manning made an agreement with the government to not expose secret information lest he receive rather severe punishment. It's rather hard to feel sorry for him when he voluntarily signed the contract.
Or to paraphrase Q from STNG - "Guilty until proven innocent, since it would be unfair to subject an innocent man to a trial."
Individuality is also what makes humankind strong, the flip side of that coin you're stuck admiring one side of. :) If everyone was an unthinking conformist we'd have been far less likely to achieve our current level of development.
"No man is an island", the flip side of that coin is - "no man is a robot".
Most people in the west have a basic education that they simply take for granted. eg: Is the fact you can read and write due to training or education?
if nobody was a solitary individualist we'd still be living in caves.
Solitary individualists are still living in caves, they're called hermits.
Your post is spot on, except for the "left-wing" comment that probably got you modded as flamebait. The GP's attitude is not a sign of their politics, it's a sign of their immaturity. Remeber growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional.
many [geeks] have put up with, or found ways to avoid, being bullied, teased, and ostracized
This is true for everyone at some point in their childhood, a disproportinate number of geeks are simply slow learners when it comes to social skills.
the treatment [geeks] received from non-geeks has driven them together.
No, birds of a feather and all that is the driver. Same thing applies to any social group you care to name.
Irony - A company with a policy of hiring non-conforming geeks will ensure applicants conform to the sterotype of both a non-conformist and a geek.
Speaking of definitions, everybody I have ever met is "unwilling to conform" to something, teenagers in "the hallways of high school" are certainly no exception. Also "success" (as in fame and fortune) is a very narrow definition of a "better adult". eg: Most people would like to have a beer with Feynman or Eienstien, but Newton was by all accounts a complete arsehole with very few friends.
People who complain that "process kills creativity" are just as stupid as people who implement inappropriate processes. Ironically, they lack the creativity to see how appropriate processes would enhance their productivity and freedom. As engineers say, "Form is liberating."
Excellent post, I had almost given up hope of finding someone in this thread worthy of the title of software engineer!.
You must be having a "seniors moment" because the states do NOT collect income taxes, that is the job of the federal government and it has been that way for over 60yrs.
you'll notice how you use the term "American" as a synonym to US citizen, ignoring 77% of the continent.
There are several continental naming conventions that contain varing numbers of continents. Under the 7 continent convention that is taught and used throught the english speaking world there are two continents called "North America" and "South America", the continent of America does not exist, rather America is universally understood to be short hand for the United States of America and it's citizens are called Americans.
That meme is even stupider that this report. You do know what the CC in IPCC stands for, right? If anyone tried to change the nomeculture it was Frank Luntz who was advising the Bush admin on strategies to play down the treat of AGW.
Yeah, everyone hires at least one dud, my mistake was to vote to hire someone who I thought didn't interview well but had been recommended by someone I trusted.
That's not how it works in Oz, at best it lowers your insurance premium.
The GST never had, nor was it supposed to have, any restrictions on what it was used for. It simply replaced all the incomprehensible state sales taxes rules and rates with one federal flat rate sales tax which is then divied up and given back to the states who dump it into consolidated revenue, which is exactly the same as they did with revenue from sales taxes before GST. From both a business and consumer perspective it is a simple and transparent one size fits all system, for the taxpayer it saves money by removing multiple overlapping layers of opaque goverment beuracracy that existed under the previous state based systems.
Perhaps you're not old enough to remeber the complexity of complying with the old systems, or maybe you are just conviently forgetting the rampant corruption under the old systems where they were regularly used by state governments to legally bash companies in other states in order to give their local business mates a competetive edge.
I know someone who worked 36 hours solid at the end of a project with 16 hour days for weeks, and got RSI quite badly.
I worked on fishing trawlers in Bass Straight during the early 80's; it meant stuffing 100kg bags of shellfish into the cargo hold for 30hrs straight and staying awake for 60hrs (due to the travel time to the fishing grounds, and the impossibility of sleeping in 5-10 meter swells on a 20 meter boat). I didn't get RSI, but the resulting mental state from lack of sleep had me dodging one eyed goblins, poker dotted aborigines, and other hallucinatory road hazards on the 30min drive home. After that I got the wife to do the driving to and from the warf.
Without knowing how to create life it is absurd to research how it evolves.
That statement is too absurd to contemplate.
Somehow I've never found that to be very accurate.
Judging by the content of your post it would seem you have never experienced an A class manager.
If you want to get a job programming, but have never written any software that you've published, then you are probably not worth hiring
This is just plain crap, I've been programming for almost 30yrs, proffesionally for the last 20. I don't have any published code to show anyone at an interview, and never have. The stuff I write in my own time is mainly so I can learn something new, once I have the gist of it I usually throw the code away. I've also interviewed ~100 programmers over the years and if you can't tell if someone knows their stuff just by talking to them for 5-10min, then I suggest you don't know yours.
There is a problem with the evolution theory. It is that so far not a single living cell was ever created artificially. Not a simplest cell.
No, there's a problem with your education. The theory of evolution is not about the origin of life, it's about the origin of species (it's in the fucking book title). The theory about the origin of life is called abiogenisis.
WTF? - A trademark is mearly a way to correctly identify "products people want", why people want it in the first place is an entirely different subject, it may be quality (Rolls Royce), price (WallMart), or just a slick advertising campaign (Nike).