Wingate Inns. Forget the chains that just don't GET IT!
Myself and a friend brainstormed about this in '96. Basically the idea for "free as in AC" is that businesses want mind-share. We planned to build out a broadcast (or app-driven) system like billboards so when one goes near a business then that businesses marketing comes up in to the app. Imagine shopping for a new TV but then on your PDA or notebook you see reviews and lots better context info than just the 9 bullets on the tag.
Stores gotta do it to compete with the Internet shopping experience.
Likewise, WiFi will be driven by technological advance. On one hand we have mafia, ISP, business, and gov spying on what one does on a computer... distributed WiFi makes this much harder to do. On another hand we have only a few major onramps to the net and also lots of people using a few ISP's whereas distributed WiFi means I can get content from the store nearby waaay faster than pulling it down from an ISP hosting it on the other side of the country (ok consider filesharing vs hosting if you don't dig). On yet another hand we have people paying high prices for something they can basically do for free. One has to wonder how much longer the net access prices can be upheld - and surely the phone prices could be ready to plummet alongside. Cable/Dish? God bless WiFi and distributed/fast computing. Just a few compeling reasons for free WiFi. I like the "free as in AC" the best. Totally compelling.
I stay at Wingate Inns because they have free net in the rooms and free WiFi in the common areas. So, it does make the business decision for me and them.
All,
I hereby notify everyone of my new product called "The". I also notify you of my plans to trademark this. A release of Linux called "The" and also a release of a database called "The". And also of lots of other software products. Do not even think of use the word "The" in your product descriptions any more.
Based on current legal precedents for the enforcement of common words used as product trademarks (notwithstanding windows, access, sql, CRM Server, and others), I believe I will have no problem upholding my trademarks in court.
In the future any documentation about an OS will have to use another word or simply blanks in place of "The". E.g. "The dot release of the Linux 4.x added the following features" would definitely attempt to defame and leverage "The"'s popularity so should be changed to "Current dot release of la Linux 4.x added some following features"
They must be fairly dense too since Open Source is evolution. Probably don't like metal roofs, alterative energy, small airlines, and other socio-tech evolutions. The real question is when this evolution in SW development will catch up with current product cycles. E.g. will data integration, BPM, and other current SW focii last for another 1/2 decade or will someone figure out how to cooperate and make an open source frawework faster than that!
Didn't read the article but read the quotes. I think Open Source is a natural evolution. The solved problems are being open sourced. You don't see any insurance company open-sourcing it's business rules. That's the IP. The code is cost.
From the quotes it is apparent the author doesn't realize the difference. Also apparent he/she never worked on any large SW projects. Open Sourcing an OS, rdbms, or compiler doesn't give you a tailored business system!
Also, Open Source and outsourcing are two totally different but very related animals. Why buy from Oracle, Microsoft, Accenture when you can use Open Source? Sure the newer technologies are not open yet but programming languages, databases, source control, and the like are. Why hire Americans when taxes are per person enormous compared to China, India, and Africa? Since I formerly lived in a [formerly] textile state I can assure you that Americans had better jump on Open Source pronto before the IT market is totally decimated. The household income where I lived was almost exactly 1/2 of the national. That's where we are headed if outsourcing continues. (Of course the government could raise tarriffs on par with income tax and/or abolish income tax and have sales tax or use tax; and, thus, stop punishing people for working in America and companies for employing Americans.)
TimJowers p.S> Open Source is anti-outsourcing because unpaid work does not need to be outsourced. But also Open Source products is the #1 set of products used ex-USA from what I can tell. So it's pro-outsourcing too. Outsourcing is a tax issue. Open Source is a technological advance issue.
For argument's sake... tell me again why we can read license tags from space but cannot get some decent pictures of the Mars surface? Since most of you are bashing the pseudo-scientists, perhaps you can defend the political views of yourself and Americans in general. Consider Ron Brown's death - things like this that the American media ignore and that we as Americans accept can actually have alot more to them. Politically speaking, Americans are probably worse critical thinkers than scientifically speaking! For instance, has anyone posting to this article even researched the claims of those who believe in prior life on Mars? I seriously doubt the educator who wrote the article did. Probably the children are more able to believe and accept radical ideas than we are. Lack of evidence in no way eliminates existence.
Not that I believe in Mar's face being a sculpture but I've browsed through some Mars photos and
1) Hard to see how some of the structures could be random and natural
2) Given 1, why are no closer in pictures taken or published. Hmmm.
TimJOwers
That's the same story I found in San Francisco. The wireless is at some coffee shops and expensive. Even back in Columbia, SC I could find some 70 free access points in one afternoon. It's a cultural thing as SF is so expensive that I conclude everything must be billed for and as much as possible.
But the Wireless ISP model is coming and coming fast. Companies being willing to set up free infrastructure in order to gain market share portend a real death to fixed connections for most of us. Also, the infrastructure costs for wireless just are not that much compared with $300k phone switches and all. Getting the access rights to the top of one of the largest buildings in town is probably the highest cost!!! I did a survey of rolling out a WISP in 98 and another a few months ago... the issue is the populous is fragmented with a significant % not using the Internet, most not knowing much but just dialup works, and the rest willing to do wireless but ignorant of how to set up networking.
Viva La Revolution... more Internet everywhere!
TimJOwers
You clearly are mistaking Christianity for something else. Bush is by no means a representative of Christians any more than you are of atheists. As to the "Christian Right" I cannot comment.
As for Bush, the election just cannot come soon enough!!!!!!!! Wonder if he'll try to pull a Juliani and try to stay in office?
TimJowers
P.S> A basic Christian belief is the Golden Rule "Do for others what you would have them do for you." This is why so many humanitarian organizations - these folks fundamentally believe in helping other people. Not mass slavery or corporate feudalism (our current economic system). If their neigbor is better off at the end of the day then they have fulfilled their belief. Hold Bush to the fire on this and all you need say is the USA is worse off now than when he came to office four years ago. It really is time for some true leaders and not just embezzlers.
If you ever flew over Bahamas and the carribean then you realize a not-so-large drop in sea levels would yeild an enormous country. The whole thing is basically a huge sandbar which today has 800-900 islands. Whether that civilization was advanced who knows but if the sea levels dropped some 30 feet then there'd be ALOT more people living tax free.:-)
Kudos to the ACLU for fighting for liberty. Shall they fail then Americans will coninue to suffer more tyranny than our forefathers who boldly passed the second amendment exactly for the case where no recourse other than arms was given to the citizenry. The colonists were under such duress from England that they were forced to bear arms; yet are we not under more taxation, more legal entanglement, more personal invasion, less representative government, and a larger loss of freedoms than they?
Let's continue to protest the tyranny and not expatriate like Accenture and hundreds of other ex-USA corporations have done. This is our country, not the 536 politicians who attempt to bankrupt it every day. Pick out the decent ones and vote out the rest.
TimJowers P.S> National sales tax means fair competition. Income tax means offshoring and salary stagnation. Who's running this country anyway?
Thanks for posting. Should you win your fight for freedom then no military fight need ensue. Unfortunately, our forefathers knew too well the tyranny that ignored the rights of the citizens and attempted to enslave them which is why they included the right to bear arms. When the rubber meets the road, the only thing to stop a jack-booted thug is a weapon. Take a look at what happened to the Jews in nazi Germany, the masses in Russia, and the masses in China.
As the present government is seeking to do exactly worse that England did to the colonies - the taxes, requirements, and legal restrictions placed on a person now probably far exceed those on 1776, surely they are fully aware of their excesses.
This is why the Patriot Act, mandatory id'ing, and tracking of citizens, and full gun registration are being instituted. Maybe the best one can do is ex-patriate like Accenture and over 100 other US corporations but for those of us who are true Americans wwe wish you the best in fighting for our rights and want to support freedom in America.
May God bless you and keep you,
TimJowers
Big gap between current technology and the buggy whips the RIAA and other US cartels are selling.
If a musician makes $1 on a $14 CD wouldn't you at least consider that the business of music production does not fulfill its need in society - providing music for people to listen to?
The innovations of MP3 copiers are as social as they are technical. The cartels failed to accept technology (computers) for playing files just as they still fail to accept Linux. My belief is that technology and society progresses. By trying to stop progression the RIAA will cause an uncontrolled flood in the future. Possibly encryption is a next big thing. Everyone will encrypt everything and not allow the sniffers to see what they are doing. This is illegal in the USA from what I heard. No citizen is allowed to encrypt in a form the US government cannot crack easily (or has a backdoor to crack).
If you believe like I do that the US government is more set on the two goals of backing cartels/monopolies and of removing personal freedoms from its citizenry, then you'll agree that the flood of innovations will come from elsewhere. This is well captured in the interview I think when the cartel rep. says UFB and the single person reminds of the promised player four years ago.
TimJOwers
Excellent quote. Maybe now I can remove the tracking device from my cell phone?
Technology advanced quite fine for tens of thousands of years without patents. The patent system does not produce scientists or engineers. And it never will. Likewise, when your competitor abuses the commons then you have to also to stay competitive. Reverse engineering is a requirement for competition whether for software protocols, sales tricks, or other aspects of everyday life.
TimJowers
Interesting proposition. Will be interesting to see how things evolve in a few years. I think the general idea of partnering amongst less dominant individuals is socially what the Internet makes possible: that is, individuals (e.g. open sourcers) can now work together for common goals rather than be subservient to dominant entities. I also noticed that the human birth rate seems 1.05 M to F and assume violent physical aggression is a male trait. Surely as more mature males compete then violence will resume. Funny that TB selected the violent baboons. hmmmm. Not to mention that the produced males may have been more closely blood related to the remaining females than is typical. Contrast with lions where the incoming king typically kills all kittens: maybe baboons do not do that?
Isn't anyone else surprised that the critters have never evolved new and better fighting styles? I mean a human in a forest could within an hour create enough weapons to fight off a single baboon or two (well, maybe not a chair-bound worker from America but you get my point:-). Why haven't these critters learned anything from humans?
I think more drugs invented, past patent, and prescribed properly are better. Seems like the onus is on the doctor to prescribe the proper medications rather than the one marketed most. One must wonder about the "rising cost of healthcare" and drugs when so much should be past its patent!!!! It's a good thing to have experts prescribing med.s rather than marketing firms; of course, the modern budgets of drug ad.s are > beer etc. so one may argue that prescriptions are somewhat driven by ad.s. As for me, my personal experience is the medical community is very quick to prescribe ritalin, paxil, and other psycho-altering drugs rather than investigating root causes. I suspect this is due to a doctor more easily prescribing a drug and that being socially acceptable rather than finding the root cause.
My question is, how can we outsource our healthcare to India? Since it is free there I am told by people from India and since doctors in the USA are by and large simply a venue for a drug prescription, surely this can be done from India. My assumption has been that once we can have a remote video conferencing software (s.a. netmeeting which is MSFT's free equivalent - viva la monopoly) which works weel enough then we can eliminate the need for expensive healthcare.
I guess you see my train of thought. Why have in the USA any jobs that could be done remotely?
TimJowers
But one point underlies the concept... drugs are no longer marketed once the patent expires. Strangely, very effective drugs (ecstasy for instance) are made illegal when they are not patented. Major drug companies try to sell drugs for which they have exclusive rights.
Oh yeah, lots of people seem to be disabled and other such things that put them on government handout programs. That'll probably be a new career for lots of people. And, as well, I have at least a few beggars a day here in 'frisco try to sell me on giving my fleeting salary to them... so probably sales will increase, door-to-door sales, and maybe flea markets. After this, companies would have to drop their prices to compete with the unemployed who are working on the side. The only gotcha is the high property taxes and hihg-barrier-to-entry laws that will prevent small farms and other such individual concerns.
You got it!!!! Anyone who supports outsourcing is inherently anti-war because when the jobs/tax base moves over-seas then the funding for the war machine falls apart. Over 50% of the federal spending, ya know?
How much, in dollars, do they pay in tax each year? I mean include everything. I think my taxes are well over 50% including income, property, gas, and other taxes.
Honda. And I pay extreme taxes. Some 10 times what counterparts in other countries pay. The smart companies and people are leaving the tax burden state. This will raise the taxes on the rest of us. We're already seeing this happen on a smaller scale with high-tax cities where everyone who can re-locates outside the city border. Soon this will spread to the high-tax states. Finally, the USA.
folks, USA commerce has no future at the current tax rates. It's just plain cheaper to do stuff overseas.
Wow, if some of you were the world's engineers then we'd still be living in caves. Just imagine how much that area of the world would develop if such a tunnel was made. Surely Japan and China are not the only places with people and resources! Once Russia was connected then you might see alot faster development. I'm sure when Al Gore funded the Internet he had little dream of the increases in productivity that it has brought.
Of course, when you look at the boondoggle called the Big Dig then you'd really rather the 536 people who decide where to spend our money would stop wasting our money. Surely a chunnel from East Bay to S. 'frisco makes alot more since than one from USA to Russia. I'll bet some Cubans, Bohemians, and others would like a chunnel to Florida too! Maybe the cost of the equipment and project is some indicator of how small humans really are.
I think C, Java etc. are made for manipulating bits. This doesn't map onto good GUI's or really even databases. Maybe one da the tools will integrate more cleanly into the languages.
As to a codified law, I worked for a prof. who did some work for Coast Guard by creating a rules system for Coast Guard procedures. E.g. when a lawmaker says "fire and disable engines" if the drug-runner does not stop, should this really be done for airplanes? Since the lawmakers cannot understand the ramifications of their laws and since common sense is dead or prosecuted by these laws, then a rules system is required for the US legal system to advance. We know a programmer can make tons of consulting dollars working with spaghetti code - that's what lawyers of today are doing IMHO. let me know if you find a nirvanna between GUI tools and progamming languages. Having programmed in C and now Java for 12 years I think GUI tools are the way to go.:-)
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Wingate Inns. Forget the chains that just don't GET IT!
Myself and a friend brainstormed about this in '96. Basically the idea for "free as in AC" is that businesses want mind-share. We planned to build out a broadcast (or app-driven) system like billboards so when one goes near a business then that businesses marketing comes up in to the app. Imagine shopping for a new TV but then on your PDA or notebook you see reviews and lots better context info than just the 9 bullets on the tag.
Stores gotta do it to compete with the Internet shopping experience.
Likewise, WiFi will be driven by technological advance. On one hand we have mafia, ISP, business, and gov spying on what one does on a computer... distributed WiFi makes this much harder to do. On another hand we have only a few major onramps to the net and also lots of people using a few ISP's whereas distributed WiFi means I can get content from the store nearby waaay faster than pulling it down from an ISP hosting it on the other side of the country (ok consider filesharing vs hosting if you don't dig). On yet another hand we have people paying high prices for something they can basically do for free. One has to wonder how much longer the net access prices can be upheld - and surely the phone prices could be ready to plummet alongside. Cable/Dish? God bless WiFi and distributed/fast computing. Just a few compeling reasons for free WiFi. I like the "free as in AC" the best. Totally compelling.
TimJOwers
I stay at Wingate Inns because they have free net in the rooms and free WiFi in the common areas. So, it does make the business decision for me and them.
All,
I hereby notify everyone of my new product called "The". I also notify you of my plans to trademark this. A release of Linux called "The" and also a release of a database called "The". And also of lots of other software products. Do not even think of use the word "The" in your product descriptions any more.
Based on current legal precedents for the enforcement of common words used as product trademarks (notwithstanding windows, access, sql, CRM Server, and others), I believe I will have no problem upholding my trademarks in court.
In the future any documentation about an OS will have to use another word or simply blanks in place of "The". E.g.
"The dot release of the Linux 4.x added the following features" would definitely attempt to defame and leverage "The"'s popularity so should be changed to
"Current dot release of la Linux 4.x added some following features"
Understood?
TimJowers
They must be fairly dense too since Open Source is evolution. Probably don't like metal roofs, alterative energy, small airlines, and other socio-tech evolutions. The real question is when this evolution in SW development will catch up with current product cycles. E.g. will data integration, BPM, and other current SW focii last for another 1/2 decade or will someone figure out how to cooperate and make an open source frawework faster than that!
Oh yeah, a real funny one is Google. Isn't Luserne an open sourced search engine? Yet the analysts love Google!!!
Didn't read the article but read the quotes. I think Open Source is a natural evolution. The solved problems are being open sourced. You don't see any insurance company open-sourcing it's business rules. That's the IP. The code is cost.
From the quotes it is apparent the author doesn't realize the difference. Also apparent he/she never worked on any large SW projects. Open Sourcing an OS, rdbms, or compiler doesn't give you a tailored business system!
Also, Open Source and outsourcing are two totally different but very related animals. Why buy from Oracle, Microsoft, Accenture when you can use Open Source? Sure the newer technologies are not open yet but programming languages, databases, source control, and the like are. Why hire Americans when taxes are per person enormous compared to China, India, and Africa? Since I formerly lived in a [formerly] textile state I can assure you that Americans had better jump on Open Source pronto before the IT market is totally decimated. The household income where I lived was almost exactly 1/2 of the national. That's where we are headed if outsourcing continues. (Of course the government could raise tarriffs on par with income tax and/or abolish income tax and have sales tax or use tax; and, thus, stop punishing people for working in America and companies for employing Americans.)
TimJowers
p.S> Open Source is anti-outsourcing because unpaid work does not need to be outsourced. But also Open Source products is the #1 set of products used ex-USA from what I can tell. So it's pro-outsourcing too. Outsourcing is a tax issue. Open Source is a technological advance issue.
Nice. I remember when the Face-It software won best in show in Comdex in like spring of 1994.
I think the name was "Face-It".
For argument's sake... tell me again why we can read license tags from space but cannot get some decent pictures of the Mars surface? Since most of you are bashing the pseudo-scientists, perhaps you can defend the political views of yourself and Americans in general. Consider Ron Brown's death - things like this that the American media ignore and that we as Americans accept can actually have alot more to them. Politically speaking, Americans are probably worse critical thinkers than scientifically speaking! For instance, has anyone posting to this article even researched the claims of those who believe in prior life on Mars? I seriously doubt the educator who wrote the article did. Probably the children are more able to believe and accept radical ideas than we are. Lack of evidence in no way eliminates existence. Not that I believe in Mar's face being a sculpture but I've browsed through some Mars photos and 1) Hard to see how some of the structures could be random and natural 2) Given 1, why are no closer in pictures taken or published. Hmmm. TimJOwers
That's the same story I found in San Francisco. The wireless is at some coffee shops and expensive. Even back in Columbia, SC I could find some 70 free access points in one afternoon. It's a cultural thing as SF is so expensive that I conclude everything must be billed for and as much as possible. But the Wireless ISP model is coming and coming fast. Companies being willing to set up free infrastructure in order to gain market share portend a real death to fixed connections for most of us. Also, the infrastructure costs for wireless just are not that much compared with $300k phone switches and all. Getting the access rights to the top of one of the largest buildings in town is probably the highest cost!!! I did a survey of rolling out a WISP in 98 and another a few months ago... the issue is the populous is fragmented with a significant % not using the Internet, most not knowing much but just dialup works, and the rest willing to do wireless but ignorant of how to set up networking. Viva La Revolution... more Internet everywhere! TimJOwers
Hey, I found out the swing in sea level is as much as 500 feet. Wow!
TimJowers
Dude,
You clearly are mistaking Christianity for something else. Bush is by no means a representative of Christians any more than you are of atheists. As to the "Christian Right" I cannot comment.
As for Bush, the election just cannot come soon enough!!!!!!!! Wonder if he'll try to pull a Juliani and try to stay in office?
TimJowers
P.S> A basic Christian belief is the Golden Rule "Do for others what you would have them do for you." This is why so many humanitarian organizations - these folks fundamentally believe in helping other people. Not mass slavery or corporate feudalism (our current economic system). If their neigbor is better off at the end of the day then they have fulfilled their belief. Hold Bush to the fire on this and all you need say is the USA is worse off now than when he came to office four years ago. It really is time for some true leaders and not just embezzlers.
Probably too afraid to say anything in class. Maybe they talk in whispers like in the SF novels.
If you ever flew over Bahamas and the carribean then you realize a not-so-large drop in sea levels would yeild an enormous country. The whole thing is basically a huge sandbar which today has 800-900 islands. Whether that civilization was advanced who knows but if the sea levels dropped some 30 feet then there'd be ALOT more people living tax free. :-)
Kudos to the ACLU for fighting for liberty. Shall they fail then Americans will coninue to suffer more tyranny than our forefathers who boldly passed the second amendment exactly for the case where no recourse other than arms was given to the citizenry. The colonists were under such duress from England that they were forced to bear arms; yet are we not under more taxation, more legal entanglement, more personal invasion, less representative government, and a larger loss of freedoms than they?
Let's continue to protest the tyranny and not expatriate like Accenture and hundreds of other ex-USA corporations have done. This is our country, not the 536 politicians who attempt to bankrupt it every day. Pick out the decent ones and vote out the rest.
TimJowers
P.S> National sales tax means fair competition. Income tax means offshoring and salary stagnation. Who's running this country anyway?
Thanks for posting. Should you win your fight for freedom then no military fight need ensue. Unfortunately, our forefathers knew too well the tyranny that ignored the rights of the citizens and attempted to enslave them which is why they included the right to bear arms. When the rubber meets the road, the only thing to stop a jack-booted thug is a weapon. Take a look at what happened to the Jews in nazi Germany, the masses in Russia, and the masses in China. As the present government is seeking to do exactly worse that England did to the colonies - the taxes, requirements, and legal restrictions placed on a person now probably far exceed those on 1776, surely they are fully aware of their excesses. This is why the Patriot Act, mandatory id'ing, and tracking of citizens, and full gun registration are being instituted. Maybe the best one can do is ex-patriate like Accenture and over 100 other US corporations but for those of us who are true Americans wwe wish you the best in fighting for our rights and want to support freedom in America. May God bless you and keep you, TimJowers
Big gap between current technology and the buggy whips the RIAA and other US cartels are selling. If a musician makes $1 on a $14 CD wouldn't you at least consider that the business of music production does not fulfill its need in society - providing music for people to listen to? The innovations of MP3 copiers are as social as they are technical. The cartels failed to accept technology (computers) for playing files just as they still fail to accept Linux. My belief is that technology and society progresses. By trying to stop progression the RIAA will cause an uncontrolled flood in the future. Possibly encryption is a next big thing. Everyone will encrypt everything and not allow the sniffers to see what they are doing. This is illegal in the USA from what I heard. No citizen is allowed to encrypt in a form the US government cannot crack easily (or has a backdoor to crack). If you believe like I do that the US government is more set on the two goals of backing cartels/monopolies and of removing personal freedoms from its citizenry, then you'll agree that the flood of innovations will come from elsewhere. This is well captured in the interview I think when the cartel rep. says UFB and the single person reminds of the promised player four years ago. TimJOwers
Excellent quote. Maybe now I can remove the tracking device from my cell phone? Technology advanced quite fine for tens of thousands of years without patents. The patent system does not produce scientists or engineers. And it never will. Likewise, when your competitor abuses the commons then you have to also to stay competitive. Reverse engineering is a requirement for competition whether for software protocols, sales tricks, or other aspects of everyday life. TimJowers
Interesting proposition. Will be interesting to see how things evolve in a few years. I think the general idea of partnering amongst less dominant individuals is socially what the Internet makes possible: that is, individuals (e.g. open sourcers) can now work together for common goals rather than be subservient to dominant entities. I also noticed that the human birth rate seems 1.05 M to F and assume violent physical aggression is a male trait. Surely as more mature males compete then violence will resume. Funny that TB selected the violent baboons. hmmmm. Not to mention that the produced males may have been more closely blood related to the remaining females than is typical. Contrast with lions where the incoming king typically kills all kittens: maybe baboons do not do that? :-). Why haven't these critters learned anything from humans?
Isn't anyone else surprised that the critters have never evolved new and better fighting styles? I mean a human in a forest could within an hour create enough weapons to fight off a single baboon or two (well, maybe not a chair-bound worker from America but you get my point
TimJowers
I think more drugs invented, past patent, and prescribed properly are better. Seems like the onus is on the doctor to prescribe the proper medications rather than the one marketed most. One must wonder about the "rising cost of healthcare" and drugs when so much should be past its patent!!!! It's a good thing to have experts prescribing med.s rather than marketing firms; of course, the modern budgets of drug ad.s are > beer etc. so one may argue that prescriptions are somewhat driven by ad.s. As for me, my personal experience is the medical community is very quick to prescribe ritalin, paxil, and other psycho-altering drugs rather than investigating root causes. I suspect this is due to a doctor more easily prescribing a drug and that being socially acceptable rather than finding the root cause. My question is, how can we outsource our healthcare to India? Since it is free there I am told by people from India and since doctors in the USA are by and large simply a venue for a drug prescription, surely this can be done from India. My assumption has been that once we can have a remote video conferencing software (s.a. netmeeting which is MSFT's free equivalent - viva la monopoly) which works weel enough then we can eliminate the need for expensive healthcare. I guess you see my train of thought. Why have in the USA any jobs that could be done remotely? TimJowers
But one point underlies the concept... drugs are no longer marketed once the patent expires. Strangely, very effective drugs (ecstasy for instance) are made illegal when they are not patented. Major drug companies try to sell drugs for which they have exclusive rights.
Oh yeah, lots of people seem to be disabled and other such things that put them on government handout programs. That'll probably be a new career for lots of people. And, as well, I have at least a few beggars a day here in 'frisco try to sell me on giving my fleeting salary to them... so probably sales will increase, door-to-door sales, and maybe flea markets.
After this, companies would have to drop their prices to compete with the unemployed who are working on the side. The only gotcha is the high property taxes and hihg-barrier-to-entry laws that will prevent small farms and other such individual concerns.
You got it!!!! Anyone who supports outsourcing is inherently anti-war because when the jobs/tax base moves over-seas then the funding for the war machine falls apart. Over 50% of the federal spending, ya know?
My question:
How much, in dollars, do they pay in tax each year? I mean include everything. I think my taxes are well over 50% including income, property, gas, and other taxes.
Honda. And I pay extreme taxes. Some 10 times what counterparts in other countries pay. The smart companies and people are leaving the tax burden state. This will raise the taxes on the rest of us. We're already seeing this happen on a smaller scale with high-tax cities where everyone who can re-locates outside the city border. Soon this will spread to the high-tax states. Finally, the USA.
folks, USA commerce has no future at the current tax rates. It's just plain cheaper to do stuff overseas.
Hangin' in there,
TimJowers
Wow, if some of you were the world's engineers then we'd still be living in caves. Just imagine how much that area of the world would develop if such a tunnel was made. Surely Japan and China are not the only places with people and resources! Once Russia was connected then you might see alot faster development. I'm sure when Al Gore funded the Internet he had little dream of the increases in productivity that it has brought.
Of course, when you look at the boondoggle called the Big Dig then you'd really rather the 536 people who decide where to spend our money would stop wasting our money. Surely a chunnel from East Bay to S. 'frisco makes alot more since than one from USA to Russia. I'll bet some Cubans, Bohemians, and others would like a chunnel to Florida too! Maybe the cost of the equipment and project is some indicator of how small humans really are.
I think C, Java etc. are made for manipulating bits. This doesn't map onto good GUI's or really even databases. Maybe one da the tools will integrate more cleanly into the languages.
:-)
As to a codified law, I worked for a prof. who did some work for Coast Guard by creating a rules system for Coast Guard procedures. E.g. when a lawmaker says "fire and disable engines" if the drug-runner does not stop, should this really be done for airplanes? Since the lawmakers cannot understand the ramifications of their laws and since common sense is dead or prosecuted by these laws, then a rules system is required for the US legal system to advance. We know a programmer can make tons of consulting dollars working with spaghetti code - that's what lawyers of today are doing IMHO.
let me know if you find a nirvanna between GUI tools and progamming languages. Having programmed in C and now Java for 12 years I think GUI tools are the way to go.