For once, money was never a defining trait of aristocracy (as any Jane Austen book will tell, and she reports quite succinctly about the heredity problems of UK aristocrats, too), but influence, political power, and being the upper class in society.
None of which can be maintained without adequate resources. If the next generation always has to start from scratch- with nothing- regardless of influence, political power, and class they will be facing an uphill climb. Nobody with influence wants to talk to people who have nothing.
Second, from somebody with your nick name I would have expected that you know that the fall of the Vanderbilt empires (and others of that time) are not caused by estate taxes, but by changes in means of production (i.e., the technical relations of production) where they were not successful to adapt to.
Partially- but each of those empires built up enough money and resources in their own time to take care of many successive generations doing almost nothing, if they had been allowed to pass those resources down to their kids. The damage this does can be shown in what happened to the real Waltons (of Wal-Mart Fame) after Sam died.
Concerning your last question, the answer is very easy: In Germany, where I live.
Really? I never thought of it- but that could be where we got it. I certainly know the germanic branch of my family is far more conservative than the French-Canadian branch.
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And vice versa. Who uses DB2 at home? Or Oracle? Or SQL Server? But I'll bet anybody using Open Office Base has as many ODB files lying around as a Microsoft Office Access user had MDB files lying around.
The needs of the enterprise and the needs of the individual are different- might they not be better served by different formats?
Doesn't matter- in America, the treatment for both is exactly the same: You lose your job, your house, your family, and you end up on the street trying to make a living begging.
Aristocrats -- you mean, like, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Stanford, Carnegie, Ford, Flagler, and all the other robber barons?
Thanks for bringing this up. Let's see if you can spot the difference between the old robber barons, and the new crop of American Aristocrats:
Or do you mean their modern equivalent -- the Bush family estate, Kennedies, the persons who control Haliburton?
The difference is heredity. Strong estate taxes kept the first set from passing their money down, like the second set does. Thus while Bush has given us two Presidents, Carnegie set up a system of public libraries, for example.
They might not have "von" or "de" or other aristocratic parts in their name, but they are aristocrats for all that matters. Remember the duck test: When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
You are quite correct. I said in my original post that law was supposed to be the ruling class, rather than human beings and families. That system is quite obviously broken, but does not reduce respect for the law that is almost unique to American culture. Where else in the world will you find a car stopping for a red light at 2:00am with NO other traffic?
The American Experiment was an abject failure. The reason is obvious- they choose a system that offered the freedom to do good, but ALSO the freedom to do evil. Thus Americans abused the system to do evil, which has an immediate reward, ignoring the freedom to do good, which requires a longer term point of view.
I wasn't aware those were out yet. My old IPAQ had an SDHC slot- but it's been about a year since I looked at the market, as my new TMobile MDA only has a MiniSDHC slot.
I didn't know CP/M had hard drive support at all in the version that got ripped off- a 5MB Winchester drive in those days was in the low $1500 range. But the standard was 33% in the old days. You had to change 33% of the user interface. Certainly ripping of most of the interrrupt code was NOT changing the interface 33%.
Supposedly, anybody with the brains and eventually the proper search engine, can become a lawyer (anybody else notice that 99% of what makes a good lawyer a good lawyer, knowing and applying precedents, could be done by an expert system running on a laptop?). As opposed to a hereditary aristocracy, where only those "worthy" of being nobility can.
They do, but the format is SD (there's a standard SD slot) and the maximum I've seen an SD card so far is 8GB.
Still, I've seen 8GB cards for under $80, so aside from screen size, you could EASILY upgrade the $199 version to the same internal capabilities as the $299 version for under $80.
Please explain the difference between being an altruistic human being and having a "complete lack of business sense". From my point of view, these are one and the same- as everybody I can name who has "business sense" are scumbucket sociopaths interested only in profit.
Why is America so ridiculously obsessed with trials, laws, and all that crap they love such as patents or imaginary property, to the point of turning so-called justice into an industry of fat, vicious thugs who make up anything to sue for a living, exploit ludicrous legal loopholes, or live on patents?
Because it was better than the previous option, where instead of rule of law we had rule of the retarded hemophiliacs that Europe choose to call "Aristocrats".
Apparently, despite Tim Patterson's denial, QDOS "ripped off" CP/M, specifically in the user interface, which in 1980 was the defining characteristic of software copyright law. QDOS of course was sold by Patterson to Bill Gates, who used it as the basis of PC Dos 1.0 and MS DOS, which was the creation of the monopoly that eventually became Windows.
This is ALL about look and feel, which was 100% of the definition of software copyright in 1980.
The difference here is that Apple is selling with a healthy profit, increasing their financial position for each item sold and delivered, whereas this alledged scammer would go bust the very moment he tried to deliver the promised goods.
Not necessarily. I'm reminded of the story of how the Apple II microcomputer came into being back in the 1970s. A couple of high school kids, both named Steve, came up with the Apple I kit computer. Only a few hundred ever existed. They went to New York to a computer show, and came home with THOUSANDS of orders- for which they didn't have the inventory. The original Apple II was an optimization of the Apple I main board with fewer chips, and a new plastic case to replace the handsome oak (real wood!) case of the Apple I. And that's what they used to fullfill the orders.
So far, I'm mistrusting mainly because this is an eastern European promising things he can't seem to fullfill- but Apple Computer was in the EXACT same situation in 1976.
What is so hard about adding a socket to the lights to plug the access point into, then have a policy about shutting off those lights when they lock up the building? And turning on the lights when they unlock the building because they are open for business? Your access points CAN boot up without you being in attendance, can't they?
No, what it's unpossible to do is have cloned mac addresses on the same LAN as the original. The fact that the original device starts slowing down and dropping packets MIGHT be a clue something is going on.
Backbone. It all DOES come from the same place, eventually. Everything coming to you over the Internet is likely coming through one single giant pipe. Now imagine 2000 people with 40GB fiber trying to use one 20 TB backbone. Not everybody is going to get the full use of their 40GB.
I'll root for the home team the day they get a competent coach who knows something about basic tactics and the proper use of overwhelming force, as well as how to budget properly.
Wait- you only have 20 wireless networked devices? Why don't you just check MAC address on your soekris boxen against a master list of 20 pre-approved MAC addresses, and if it isn't one, firewall the connection?
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Go talk to a homeless person- most of them are mentally ill with one or more of this class of problems.
For once, money was never a defining trait of aristocracy (as any Jane Austen book will tell, and she reports quite succinctly about the heredity problems of UK aristocrats, too), but influence, political power, and being the upper class in society.
None of which can be maintained without adequate resources. If the next generation always has to start from scratch- with nothing- regardless of influence, political power, and class they will be facing an uphill climb. Nobody with influence wants to talk to people who have nothing.
Second, from somebody with your nick name I would have expected that you know that the fall of the Vanderbilt empires (and others of that time) are not caused by estate taxes, but by changes in means of production (i.e., the technical relations of production) where they were not successful to adapt to.
Partially- but each of those empires built up enough money and resources in their own time to take care of many successive generations doing almost nothing, if they had been allowed to pass those resources down to their kids. The damage this does can be shown in what happened to the real Waltons (of Wal-Mart Fame) after Sam died.
Concerning your last question, the answer is very easy: In Germany, where I live.
Really? I never thought of it- but that could be where we got it. I certainly know the germanic branch of my family is far more conservative than the French-Canadian branch.
And vice versa. Who uses DB2 at home? Or Oracle? Or SQL Server? But I'll bet anybody using Open Office Base has as many ODB files lying around as a Microsoft Office Access user had MDB files lying around.
The needs of the enterprise and the needs of the individual are different- might they not be better served by different formats?
Doesn't matter- in America, the treatment for both is exactly the same: You lose your job, your house, your family, and you end up on the street trying to make a living begging.
Aristocrats -- you mean, like, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Stanford, Carnegie, Ford, Flagler, and all the other robber barons?
Thanks for bringing this up. Let's see if you can spot the difference between the old robber barons, and the new crop of American Aristocrats:
Or do you mean their modern equivalent -- the Bush family estate, Kennedies, the persons who control Haliburton?
The difference is heredity. Strong estate taxes kept the first set from passing their money down, like the second set does. Thus while Bush has given us two Presidents, Carnegie set up a system of public libraries, for example.
They might not have "von" or "de" or other aristocratic parts in their name, but they are aristocrats for all that matters. Remember the duck test: When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
You are quite correct. I said in my original post that law was supposed to be the ruling class, rather than human beings and families. That system is quite obviously broken, but does not reduce respect for the law that is almost unique to American culture. Where else in the world will you find a car stopping for a red light at 2:00am with NO other traffic?
The American Experiment was an abject failure. The reason is obvious- they choose a system that offered the freedom to do good, but ALSO the freedom to do evil. Thus Americans abused the system to do evil, which has an immediate reward, ignoring the freedom to do good, which requires a longer term point of view.
I wasn't aware those were out yet. My old IPAQ had an SDHC slot- but it's been about a year since I looked at the market, as my new TMobile MDA only has a MiniSDHC slot.
I didn't know CP/M had hard drive support at all in the version that got ripped off- a 5MB Winchester drive in those days was in the low $1500 range. But the standard was 33% in the old days. You had to change 33% of the user interface. Certainly ripping of most of the interrrupt code was NOT changing the interface 33%.
Supposedly, anybody with the brains and eventually the proper search engine, can become a lawyer (anybody else notice that 99% of what makes a good lawyer a good lawyer, knowing and applying precedents, could be done by an expert system running on a laptop?). As opposed to a hereditary aristocracy, where only those "worthy" of being nobility can.
They do, but the format is SD (there's a standard SD slot) and the maximum I've seen an SD card so far is 8GB.
Still, I've seen 8GB cards for under $80, so aside from screen size, you could EASILY upgrade the $199 version to the same internal capabilities as the $299 version for under $80.
Please explain the difference between being an altruistic human being and having a "complete lack of business sense". From my point of view, these are one and the same- as everybody I can name who has "business sense" are scumbucket sociopaths interested only in profit.
Not so sure of that- they ended up changing copyright law to get rid of those lawsuits, and today you need to prove direct copying of source code.
Why is America so ridiculously obsessed with trials, laws, and all that crap they love such as patents or imaginary property, to the point of turning so-called justice into an industry of fat, vicious thugs who make up anything to sue for a living, exploit ludicrous legal loopholes, or live on patents?
Because it was better than the previous option, where instead of rule of law we had rule of the retarded hemophiliacs that Europe choose to call "Aristocrats".
My original JE on the topic:
Apparently, despite Tim Patterson's denial, QDOS "ripped off" CP/M, specifically in the user interface, which in 1980 was the defining characteristic of software copyright law. QDOS of course was sold by Patterson to Bill Gates, who used it as the basis of PC Dos 1.0 and MS DOS, which was the creation of the monopoly that eventually became Windows.
This is ALL about look and feel, which was 100% of the definition of software copyright in 1980.
The difference here is that Apple is selling with a healthy profit, increasing their financial position for each item sold and delivered, whereas this alledged scammer would go bust the very moment he tried to deliver the promised goods.
Not necessarily. I'm reminded of the story of how the Apple II microcomputer came into being back in the 1970s. A couple of high school kids, both named Steve, came up with the Apple I kit computer. Only a few hundred ever existed. They went to New York to a computer show, and came home with THOUSANDS of orders- for which they didn't have the inventory. The original Apple II was an optimization of the Apple I main board with fewer chips, and a new plastic case to replace the handsome oak (real wood!) case of the Apple I. And that's what they used to fullfill the orders.
So far, I'm mistrusting mainly because this is an eastern European promising things he can't seem to fullfill- but Apple Computer was in the EXACT same situation in 1976.
Does anybody actually use alternative URIs other than http: file: https: mailto: and ftp:? I wasn't even aware that other ones were being registered!
What is so hard about adding a socket to the lights to plug the access point into, then have a policy about shutting off those lights when they lock up the building? And turning on the lights when they unlock the building because they are open for business? Your access points CAN boot up without you being in attendance, can't they?
If you're closed and you've turned the mobile computers off, why haven't you ALSO turned off the WIFI access points?
No, what it's unpossible to do is have cloned mac addresses on the same LAN as the original. The fact that the original device starts slowing down and dropping packets MIGHT be a clue something is going on.
Backbone. It all DOES come from the same place, eventually. Everything coming to you over the Internet is likely coming through one single giant pipe. Now imagine 2000 people with 40GB fiber trying to use one 20 TB backbone. Not everybody is going to get the full use of their 40GB.
Are there any servers that are able to stream 1500 HDTV channels simultaneously?
With this coach, the second is the better option; but like most bad coaches he doesn't know when to forfiet.
I'll root for the home team the day they get a competent coach who knows something about basic tactics and the proper use of overwhelming force, as well as how to budget properly.
Wait- you only have 20 wireless networked devices? Why don't you just check MAC address on your soekris boxen against a master list of 20 pre-approved MAC addresses, and if it isn't one, firewall the connection?
Exactly right- and he even gave the real answer in the article:
sort of like the lone IT manager in a small shop.
That is EXACTLY the position a jack of all trades should be going for.