The problem with a scheme like that is that those pictures with things wrong in them have to be generated by humans. If we had programs that could generate them then we'd have programs which could interpret them. So you have to expend human resources to make the list of puzzles so large that someone just couldn't go through once and figure out all the correct answers and plug the list into their spam bot.
But of course, there never seems to be a shortage of new bands polluting the airwaves, so I have to conclude that either your facts aren't entirely true, or aren't entirely complete. Afterall, SOMETHING is driving these bands to aspire for a big contract, and it's not poverty.
It's that desire-to-create-and-share-your-creation thing that everyone always points to as to why you don't need to have a massive money making recording industry in order to get good music.
uh... if one person was using 70% of the school's bandwidth, then ya'll didn't have shit to begin with. The problem there lies with a cheap skate school administration not wanting to buy a bigger pipe.
Oh grow up. You act like someone's actually being harmed by this. Corporations aren't people. If people are being hurt that's bad. But some large corps run by men who already have more money than they could ever hope to spend now are getting a little bit less-- big fucking deal. A much bigger issue is corporate subversion of our democratic process, or the commercialization and the top down nature of our culture.
I would say that the advantage your speaking of is that you aren't FORCED to pay anyone. There's nothing wrong with helping someone out who helps you, in fact, it's down right neighborly.
Second, the US is far, far, far away from bankrupt. Do you even understand what national debt is? Even if you don't - I have am in debt up to my ears but I am not bankrupt.
You have to look at future outlays vs GDP not current debt vs GDP.
please read
http://www.socialsecurity.org/dailys/03-19-03.html
Pfizer and every other pharmaceutical company would be unable to conduct their research without the stable business environment provided by the governments of the world and the accessible and flexible labor pool provided by We The People. We pay for the military and police to protect their plants. We can demand any price we want. Without our protection they would have nothing.
Oh and pfizer is a corporation. It's an artificial creation which is granted privileges by our government so it can serve the PUBLIC interest. Did we give the pharma corps the ability to sell stock and conduct business at no risk to anyone involved just so it could rip us off?
Funny, like many of the undriven, he skipped college because he had an excuse. I could buy the whole stifled intelligence B.S. if he had done something with his un-stifled intelligence after skipping college.
Uhm, what's "driven" about attending a university? It sounds like falling not driving. You can't think for yourself so you fall into doing what everyone else does. Being "driven" denotes some sort of internal energy not simple resonance with the current state of the herd.
You aren't allowed to question anything for the first 4 years. Then for the next few years you are allowed to question some things under strict guidelines. If you're lucky and work hard after 7 or 8 years you can recieve your Ph.D and then you are allowed to create your own ideas. Sure if you can afford 30k a year for good private school you might get a more stimulating environment then from your local state bourgeois widget factory, but not necessarily. Any intelligent person who attends a university should have to defend why they made that choice given the extreme limitations it puts your intellectual development, not the other way 'round. You shouldn't need an excuse to not pay thousands or tens of thousands of dollars a year in order to get told what books to read.
That's not entirely true. I personally know two different people who survived by selling everquest and AO items on ebay for real world CASH because they had high level characters... He's just not thinking enough.
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OH the guilt...
technology IS tyranny
The problem with a scheme like that is that those pictures with things wrong in them have to be generated by humans. If we had programs that could generate them then we'd have programs which could interpret them. So you have to expend human resources to make the list of puzzles so large that someone just couldn't go through once and figure out all the correct answers and plug the list into their spam bot.
one of the few insightful comments.
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If it was an X windows system; Xroach &.
It's that desire-to-create-and-share-your-creation thing that everyone always points to as to why you don't need to have a massive money making recording industry in order to get good music.
I was making fun of his language construction-- I've never said that. It would be the same as me saying that, though.
uh... if one person was using 70% of the school's bandwidth, then ya'll didn't have shit to begin with. The problem there lies with a cheap skate school administration not wanting to buy a bigger pipe.
To quote me: "Only idiots quote TV."
Yeah, *noooobody* had anywhere to live before landlords... everyone just ran around in circles at night.
Oh grow up. You act like someone's actually being harmed by this. Corporations aren't people. If people are being hurt that's bad. But some large corps run by men who already have more money than they could ever hope to spend now are getting a little bit less-- big fucking deal. A much bigger issue is corporate subversion of our democratic process, or the commercialization and the top down nature of our culture.
1-4, done.
some judge: I hereby find you guilty of not putting proper access restrictions on your information sharing devices!
You probably got ripped off on your house, too.
I would say that the advantage your speaking of is that you aren't FORCED to pay anyone. There's nothing wrong with helping someone out who helps you, in fact, it's down right neighborly.
Well, damn, if you want to be a dick about it. Some people aren't out to JACK other peoples.
And as it turns out Bush is a craven political tool who would invade a country, killing thousands of innocents to keep living in the big white house.
You have to look at future outlays vs GDP not current debt vs GDP. please read http://www.socialsecurity.org/dailys/03-19-03.html
I agree. Rheingold is way too old to have anything relevant to say about new technology. He should go play shuffleboard somewhere.
Pfizer and every other pharmaceutical company would be unable to conduct their research without the stable business environment provided by the governments of the world and the accessible and flexible labor pool provided by We The People. We pay for the military and police to protect their plants. We can demand any price we want. Without our protection they would have nothing. Oh and pfizer is a corporation. It's an artificial creation which is granted privileges by our government so it can serve the PUBLIC interest. Did we give the pharma corps the ability to sell stock and conduct business at no risk to anyone involved just so it could rip us off?
Uhm, what's "driven" about attending a university? It sounds like falling not driving. You can't think for yourself so you fall into doing what everyone else does. Being "driven" denotes some sort of internal energy not simple resonance with the current state of the herd.
You aren't allowed to question anything for the first 4 years. Then for the next few years you are allowed to question some things under strict guidelines. If you're lucky and work hard after 7 or 8 years you can recieve your Ph.D and then you are allowed to create your own ideas. Sure if you can afford 30k a year for good private school you might get a more stimulating environment then from your local state bourgeois widget factory, but not necessarily. Any intelligent person who attends a university should have to defend why they made that choice given the extreme limitations it puts your intellectual development, not the other way 'round. You shouldn't need an excuse to not pay thousands or tens of thousands of dollars a year in order to get told what books to read.
That's not entirely true. I personally know two different people who survived by selling everquest and AO items on ebay for real world CASH because they had high level characters... He's just not thinking enough.
Quoting the "does the set of sets that don't include themselves include themselves" paradox from "Goedel, Escher, Bach" once got me laid....once.