Regime change is currently listed as a terrorist activity, actions against the US government y'know... Tell you what, if you can send to us the secret prison without representation you're going to we'll all try to bake you a nail file into a cake or something. Nice knowing you!
Nobody at 6 years old wants to grow up to be a criminal. They all want to be one of the good guys.
I believe that if we continue with our current Justice Department trends we can rest assured that all the six year olds will all be safely defined as criminal before they have a chance to mislead themselves with hopes and dreams.
Generally, the performance of theory-above-all sorts (e.g. Marxists) in the world arena, vs. the historically-minded, intuitive pragmatists, isn't that great.
Theory, testing, revision. Part of the difficulty in Sociology is finding people (or stopping people) from making the experiments. I admit though, it would be nice if someone could come up with some theory or pattern that neatly followed Man from Sargon to salad forks and showed even a _little_ coherence in the predictive model. I'm not sure if we have enough data though to make those sorts of pat observations and predictions, maybe in 2200.
Money makes the world go round, everyone wants it and everyone needs it. The fact that people put up with us despite apparently despising everything we stand for (according to you) pretty much makes my point for me. How many people immigrate to Uganda? You can call bullshit all you like, but its true- he who has the gold makes the rules. You can like it or dislike it, but just like Everquest dictates a bar of success in the online gaming industry so does the United States. What the hell does Canada set the bar for? If you're not setting an example because you're not really on the map it doesn't matter how nice you are, just like having the greatest game ever doesn't mean diddly if the only people that are playing are you, your six friends and your mom.
Who said anything about billionaires? According to your notions a rich man has to have a billion dollars to be rich? I'm talking about lower end wealth, a person with a salary of 100k a year in Canada is going to be spending more of it on taxes to cover inferior socialist services where in the US they'll perhaps pay more for those services when needed but find lower constant government costs. That might change in a few years if the Republicans start deciding that everyone below the _very_ wealthy must cover the costs of invading other nations and ripping up the Constitution, but really I doubt it will ever get to the "bread and circuses" state of socialist nations. Americans just enjoy an ok standard of living without it. America is the Everquest of nations, even though people bitch about the weird and sometimes unfair economics it still enjoys wild popularity and is the benchmark that other games use to determine their own success.
Hmm. I can't believe I just said that. I've obviously drank too much diet coke today.
I'm saying that with socialism it never becomes about relative wealth but relative poorness. If the wealthy are denied the opportunity to keep their wealth then by the very nature of the beast you don't have wealthy people, only relative degrees of poor people. The only difference in dirt farmers in third world country X and Canada is that Canada institutionalizes the idea that you cannot be very wealthy and stay that way. I'm not familiar enough with Uganda enough to comment about the relationship between Canada and Uganda, but I'm sure the degree of poor is quite striking. Rich Ugandans probably make their way to America too, unless they're only rich relative to Ugandans in which case they might be better off having themselves supported by the Canadian welfare system.
To be honest, if you have to swim uphill all the time against a democracy run by the same people who keep Jerry Springer on television or people who consider sentence fragments like "Forgetting for the moment all the damage the US has done historically to non-Anglo cultures" good English
then I don't see why it's worth wasting anymore of my time trying to save it. Just like England was a worthless beast to be left for the pursuit of greater political freedoms, New Zealand seems unlikely to soon start the process of wholesale removal of liberties that the U.S. has and therefore like the American colonies seems to be a pretty good place to persue them. Plus they speak English and my Spanish is really poor.
Does this mean that the American legislative way will soon arrive here in New Zealand ?
No, this means that as soon as I have the money I might though. America is quickly becoming a place unfit for real Americans I think, let the bastards have it.
Greed and fear are great motivators, isn't it nice that we were able to develop satellites and send people to the moon thanks to buzzbombs? Or that we're able to have this discussion at all on the internet thanks to the military? Hey, let's look at basic metallurgy and materials - no contribution from the world of war there I guess. I'm not even sure if it's the "American" way - it's all human nature. Nothing gets people off their asses like money and power.
Of course if Microsoft opens it's own backdoor to the everyone's system then eventually someone will write a virus that spoofs itself as a Microsoft Update and tries to 'help out' everyone.
Everyone's cool with gambling as long as it only involves insurance then? What are you doing with insurance except putting money in with the hope that one day you might recoup your investment or maybe that "Giant Meteor Hits My House" clause comes in handy?
How much net profit have most players earned so far though? This just provides another incentive to play and covers costs of providing continuous development.
I think it's safe to say that most of the media providers don't 'get it' yet enough to provide a product to deliver that meets most people's expectations of the word 'premium'. I mean, duh - if I get HBO with my monthly broadband bill then that's premium. If I get access to a bunch of trailers and ads...um, no.
I don't know, I think subscriptions are exactly what people want. They just want subscriptions to be cheaper and broader than what any of the conventional media content providers think they should be. 50 dollars a year to stream music on demand from a complete catalog maybe, 45 cents more to download a song in a more permanent format, all on one bill. Streamed movies released two months after the DVD release for about the same, with a coupon for buying DVDs attached to it? Not a single print magazine released for a subscription, but a media catalog of print magazines for maybe 10-20 bucks a year. I think optimally a lot of this stuff would bill to my ISP too, because whether or not they like it my ISP is going probably be my primary media provider eventually anyways.
The Chinese aren't the most respectful nations towards IP anyway. I think they'll just cheerfully point out their Karl Marx, billion+ population, and nukes and ask SCO if they'd like a fortune cookie with that Chow Mein.
Perhaps, but Bill Gate's house is probably worth more than all of the money that SCO can hope to bring to bear on all these cases. That's a rather big difference in the realities of the two companies vs. the government.
I don't see why the government would have a problem with this.
Maybe because no one in the government ever wants to be perceived as flushing money down the toilet, and people used to exercising power and intimidation usually are the ones who take such tactics the worst? Letting a small company like SCO, with a poor public image and a bunch of ready enemies, bully around the federal government is NOT something that suits in office want. It sends a bad message. This isn't a class action suit of constituents, a corporation with a multi-billion dollar pull on the economy, the company that makes teddy bears, or a company that makes something that the media will get behind and push into the spotlight. All they're going to see is a PROBLEM and an EXPENSE.
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Regime change is currently listed as a terrorist activity, actions against the US government y'know... Tell you what, if you can send to us the secret prison without representation you're going to we'll all try to bake you a nail file into a cake or something. Nice knowing you!
Right. Right up there with Timothy McVeigh, Charles Manson, and the Unibomber. Great company.
Money makes the world go round, everyone wants it and everyone needs it. The fact that people put up with us despite apparently despising everything we stand for (according to you) pretty much makes my point for me. How many people immigrate to Uganda? You can call bullshit all you like, but its true- he who has the gold makes the rules. You can like it or dislike it, but just like Everquest dictates a bar of success in the online gaming industry so does the United States. What the hell does Canada set the bar for? If you're not setting an example because you're not really on the map it doesn't matter how nice you are, just like having the greatest game ever doesn't mean diddly if the only people that are playing are you, your six friends and your mom.
Hmm. I can't believe I just said that. I've obviously drank too much diet coke today.
I'm saying that with socialism it never becomes about relative wealth but relative poorness. If the wealthy are denied the opportunity to keep their wealth then by the very nature of the beast you don't have wealthy people, only relative degrees of poor people. The only difference in dirt farmers in third world country X and Canada is that Canada institutionalizes the idea that you cannot be very wealthy and stay that way. I'm not familiar enough with Uganda enough to comment about the relationship between Canada and Uganda, but I'm sure the degree of poor is quite striking. Rich Ugandans probably make their way to America too, unless they're only rich relative to Ugandans in which case they might be better off having themselves supported by the Canadian welfare system.
If you just want to be equally poor though, why not move to Uganda? Or, I suppose online that would be the still existing Text MUDs.
Just remember, all the wealthy Canadians live someplace else.
To be honest, if you have to swim uphill all the time against a democracy run by the same people who keep Jerry Springer on television or people who consider sentence fragments like "Forgetting for the moment all the damage the US has done historically to non-Anglo cultures" good English then I don't see why it's worth wasting anymore of my time trying to save it. Just like England was a worthless beast to be left for the pursuit of greater political freedoms, New Zealand seems unlikely to soon start the process of wholesale removal of liberties that the U.S. has and therefore like the American colonies seems to be a pretty good place to persue them. Plus they speak English and my Spanish is really poor.
Greed and fear are great motivators, isn't it nice that we were able to develop satellites and send people to the moon thanks to buzzbombs? Or that we're able to have this discussion at all on the internet thanks to the military? Hey, let's look at basic metallurgy and materials - no contribution from the world of war there I guess. I'm not even sure if it's the "American" way - it's all human nature. Nothing gets people off their asses like money and power.
Nuclear Reactor Barbie, now with real working plutonium gazongas...
Of course if Microsoft opens it's own backdoor to the everyone's system then eventually someone will write a virus that spoofs itself as a Microsoft Update and tries to 'help out' everyone.
Everyone's cool with gambling as long as it only involves insurance then? What are you doing with insurance except putting money in with the hope that one day you might recoup your investment or maybe that "Giant Meteor Hits My House" clause comes in handy?
How much net profit have most players earned so far though? This just provides another incentive to play and covers costs of providing continuous development.
All the money to be made in all industries is made by lawyers, didn't you get the memo?
I think it's safe to say that most of the media providers don't 'get it' yet enough to provide a product to deliver that meets most people's expectations of the word 'premium'. I mean, duh - if I get HBO with my monthly broadband bill then that's premium. If I get access to a bunch of trailers and ads...um, no.
I don't know, I think subscriptions are exactly what people want. They just want subscriptions to be cheaper and broader than what any of the conventional media content providers think they should be. 50 dollars a year to stream music on demand from a complete catalog maybe, 45 cents more to download a song in a more permanent format, all on one bill. Streamed movies released two months after the DVD release for about the same, with a coupon for buying DVDs attached to it? Not a single print magazine released for a subscription, but a media catalog of print magazines for maybe 10-20 bucks a year. I think optimally a lot of this stuff would bill to my ISP too, because whether or not they like it my ISP is going probably be my primary media provider eventually anyways.
It's not what you say, it's the way you say it.
The Chinese aren't the most respectful nations towards IP anyway. I think they'll just cheerfully point out their Karl Marx, billion+ population, and nukes and ask SCO if they'd like a fortune cookie with that Chow Mein.
Perhaps, but Bill Gate's house is probably worth more than all of the money that SCO can hope to bring to bear on all these cases. That's a rather big difference in the realities of the two companies vs. the government.
I guess it depends who donates the most to his election campaign, Hatch doesn't have his own politics really - just campaign contributers.