Corporations are treated as legal persons and like all people they will vehemently fight for life as death looms close.
At times Coporations should accepted a peaceful and dignified death in order to best serve the public good.
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one" -The Vulcans
Services such as http://pandora.com/ that introduce listeners to music that is not on the radio will allow independent and lesser known artists to succeed without the promotional value that signing with a big label confers. If so the big labels, radio stations, and music channels will lose some of their influence and thus power.
There is value is simply having strong evidence that intelligent order has been detected in the chaos of space noise. I agree with your sentiment that human being as we know oursleves today will not interact with aliens.
This post is about solutions to a problem that everyone already understands, not about redefining the problem from differing viewpoints or giving up (aka "move to India"). Please keep it on the right track, we may just find a solution.
Having said that, legal liability for when software causes businesses money/personal injury as a result of a bug, poor design etc...might encourage higher quality code, which in turn requires better skilled, qualified workers with credentials and experience. Let's use our strengths as Americans; we have a great university system in place, a government that can be bought and a populous that can be swayed in this direction. We as IT people would need to band together to fund politicians and raise awareness in order to out-do the big guys (with M$ being the biggest).
This is not a perfect solution and may set open source back quite a bit but it may also save our professions. Something to think about.
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Dr. Michio Kaku's Explorations can be found online at: http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=33
Corporations are treated as legal persons and like all people they will vehemently fight for life as death looms close. At times Coporations should accepted a peaceful and dignified death in order to best serve the public good. "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one" -The Vulcans
Services such as http://pandora.com/ that introduce listeners to music that is not on the radio will allow independent and lesser known artists to succeed without the promotional value that signing with a big label confers. If so the big labels, radio stations, and music channels will lose some of their influence and thus power.
There is value is simply having strong evidence that intelligent order has been detected in the chaos of space noise. I agree with your sentiment that human being as we know oursleves today will not interact with aliens.
This post is about solutions to a problem that everyone already understands, not about redefining the problem from differing viewpoints or giving up (aka "move to India"). Please keep it on the right track, we may just find a solution. Having said that, legal liability for when software causes businesses money/personal injury as a result of a bug, poor design etc...might encourage higher quality code, which in turn requires better skilled, qualified workers with credentials and experience. Let's use our strengths as Americans; we have a great university system in place, a government that can be bought and a populous that can be swayed in this direction. We as IT people would need to band together to fund politicians and raise awareness in order to out-do the big guys (with M$ being the biggest). This is not a perfect solution and may set open source back quite a bit but it may also save our professions. Something to think about.