Dude, most of the stuff I order on ebay super cheap from China, is actually decent quality. Most of the decent quality stuff I buy at Walmart or other discount stores, it all says "Made in China." I don't even have a "Made in USA" item to compare it to, most of the time. So if they can build everything else cheaper and of decent quality, it's only a matter of time til they beat us at cost and amount of weapons.
It's called nationalizing. Sometimes it's done in the best interest of the public of the nation. Such as USRA was a nationalizing of all private rail during WWI in the USA, only to be spun off again in the 1920's as private enterprises. In fact USRA was a nationalization of rail twice, once during WWI, and one in the 70's related to Conrail. See the first two entries at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
Hey it's nowhere near as bad. I for one, living in the USA, would have been shot long long time ago for running my mouth like I do here on Slashdot, had I been doing all this in 1980's KGB Soviet Union. (I grew up in the Eastern Bloc, I remember standing in line for bread.) At the very least I would have ended up at some Siberian Gulag.
What I hate is when I go to a website for some good porn, and they got all these young skin and bone chicks that look like some anorexic runway fashion models, who are supposedly legal age, but they are certified 18 year olds that look 17 and 16 and 15, etc. Why can't I see some 20 or 22? What's with this 17.99 year old crap? It's constantly fed before you, when all you wanna see is just some full grown well shaped naked women, not children, and especially not skin and bone, but healthy ones. I'd almost rather look at an ancient greek stone statue than some of these anorexic "beauties." Balance is the key even in the amount of fat a woman packs. It's like it's become the standard way to downing anyone with a computer these days, force feed him some child porn images, by popping random pages he never clicked on, then go audit his computer. He "hides" child porn, oo hoo. 50 years ago you had pictures of kids naked and nobody gave a damn, because it was not sexually attractive to anyone, but these days people get off on all kinds of sick stuff, not just kids, and the same picture these days could be reasonably considered offensive, and lost its grandfathered rights. And the definition of child is also an issue here, because in the past routinely aged people married women considered underage, like Lavoisier's wife was 13 when he was 28, Henry the VIII, chopping all those wives' head of his for treason, one of them was 16 when he was over 40, and I think Charlie Chaplin too was like 48 and hooked up with a 16 year old, and the Jewish Bible allows women who hit their periods, age 13, to pick a mate, of their choosing, same has gone on in Africa for a lot of tribes that danced around naked, around age 13, so the biological sexual maturity has a lot to do with what's right or wrong beyond what the law says, including a 25 year old not wishing to talk to a 36 year old because of age difference is acceptable as an excuse, but if a 17 year old who can't hold a credit card because of not being legal age messes around with a 36 year old, there is something not completely kosher there, and the law looks closely, and depending on how hot she is, what her other reproductive chances are, deems it as an exploitation and statutory rape if she's really hot, and can do better, but looks the other way if she's not, because then she's making wise choices, uses her youth to reproduce before she may not be as desirable. Unfortunately there is this thing that men prefer younger women when offered a choice, and this includes 80 year olds prefer to look at 20-25 year olds than 70 or 60 year olds. And even the same goes for women, 80 year olds would rather look at a 20's hunk then an 80 year old of the same age as themselves. But that's images, statues, porn, not relationships. It's a whole different story if there is an actual relationship between people. Like I might be interested in looking at nude images of some 18 year olds that were well shaped and really hot, but that does not mean that if I'm a coworker with these very same women I would not act blind, so to speak, of their hotness, and just deal with them as plain coworkers, as if they had no sex, male or female, just be another person. Now if they assault me with all kinds of mind games and flirting, that's a different story. It's usually the young person's prerogative under such circumstances, because she's sacrificing so much of her other options, and the older person is like hitting the lottery. But of course it gets complicated, because my old priest, who's dead now, complained how even 5 year old girls are shaking it, it's insane, there is a woman already in a 5 year old playing mind games and trying to flirt with a 50 year old priest even, and of course such a thing is wrong. It must be something instinctive, as priests dress up in a really status way, and people wag tail to them instinctively, and I don't envy priests or other people dressed in ridiculously status emphasizing ways, for the child molestation they are subjected to, coming at them from the children themselves. I mean
That's a neat graph. I think there might have been little oxygen because they overgrazed the vegetation, and there wasn't enough green to keep up with it, so the equilibrium point was at a lower o2 level, lower vegetation abundance, and those dinos that could drag it out long on very little food, or minimum food, but able to graze anything that sprouts, proliferated. This requires cold blood like snakes that can go for a whole year without feeding. (Humans can only do it for a few weeks on fat reserves before massive protein tissue loss hits.) This also requires low abundance of predators to keep a high grazing population equilibrium, and there might have been massive oscillations in green stuff vs. grazers vs. predators flirting with extinction like collapses. Cold blood is also a bad thing to have in an ice age. I wonder what the CO2 levels were, on the same graph. And right before them there were times when oxygen levels were near 30% - ammonia would burn in that, I think, unlike today. Also if we ever invented time travel, we'd probably fall asleep in the 12% O2 level the dinos were living in, or at least feel very lethargic and slow speed, plus lactic acid muscle burn that high speed athletes get, running on stored oxygen energy, not requiring breathing, might set in very fast, and marathon runners dependent more fully on external oxygen, would not be able to do as well. They must have been moving really slow, and that's why inertial things, like having huge tails with huge masses that take forever to turn under rotational inertia, did not really matter for the predators, because it was a quick sprint, and if you had to turn, it was too late, lactic acid built up in your muscles - a cheetah can only chase for so many seconds before it runs out of breath, and this must have been much shorter in a low O2 environment for those predators back then, possibly as short as 5 seconds, and then stalking up to a prey slowly becomes everything. Also it might have been a really slow motion elephant like world, at least with the big ones, while you might have had quick snakes and scorpions. Bugs must have really suffered in size, because their two-way trachei are not as efficient as blood and lungs in extracting and transporting oxygen to the cells.
In absence of an ice-age, the mammalian womb is just a major time wasting exercise compared to an external egg. Prepare for our biotech Monsanto future of phosphorescent humans to be like that. In fact a neat trick for a lab scientist at Monsanto would be to make people glow in the dark only when they are sexually aroused, but not otherwise. Then even black people, who have been able to hide well in the dark, will shine, and everyone will know what they just been thinking about. That would be a neat prank, wouldn't it? Unleash a gene-modifying virus infection into the world that makes humans glow in the dark like fireflies if they think about sex.
HG Wells in the Short History Of the World, says, that right before they went extinct, dinosaurs highly proliferated in extremely great variety, but then ice-age hit. Only a few species made it through the ice age, and 37C temperature mammalian wombs or even hotter, 42C but externally heated bird eggs, that hugged and nurtured their offspring in warm fur or feather arms once born, had an upper hand in fighting against cold, compared to plain lizards that just left their eggs behind. In fact he says ice-ages were responsible for most of the major extinctions. Some of it may be an asteroid hit, some of it might be solar output drop, if the solar output fluctuates. Of course he could be wrong too.
Seriously, by the time of Alien, 3 billion years from now, humans, or whatever you wanna call them, will have ditched mammalian wombs, and go for external eggs instead, and men will have disappeared, or at least shrunk to the status of the males of a beehive, where they get tossed around as soon as the queen collects a good dose of sperm in her storage reservoir, and keeps the sperm alive like that for years. And by the way reproductive duties will have been specialized by the females too, as highly social insects are more powerful than individual insects, and proliferate as a society, and highly social also means specialized, as in born to be a soldier ant, queen ant, worker ant, male drone, etc., and only the queen reproduces among the females. Humans, or whatever you wanna call these creatures 3 billion years from now that descend from them, will have only selected members born to reproduce, even though all others will feel the urge. Even in a well structured and well functioning wolf pack, only the alpha wolves reproduce, and the rest sit by and watch them do it, like cuckolds do in some porn.
Nuclear waste is not waste forever. It's full of energy. They should stop melting it into a cement slab form, or glass, where it's hard to recoup later, or if they do, make sure it's not too dilute, but very concentrated. The only time it stops being nuclear waste is when it has no energy left in it to extract. Though, true, the simple and brand new and highly abundant ore is a whole lot cheaper to mess with than the complex reprocessing needing spent fuel. But eventually someone's gonna figure out correct efficient reprocessing technology, with ion exchange resins or organic highly specific chelating compounds, and reprocess everything as fuel, at great profit. Though those days are not here yet, we're still very clumsy with the simple things. But in 50, or 100 years... then you still have to figure out a way to motivate people want to mess with it instead of using cheap new ore that's fairly abundant. So today they could pay into this storage fee, yearly, for decades, and watch it grow over the years as the lottery keeps growing to mega millions when there are no winners, and when the incentive is high enough, someone might be willing to claim the stuff and clean it up. That's what you'd call free market, though it's very dangerous to apply free market principles to the nuclear industry, at least as long as we have crazy terrorists blowing up things all over the place. All the nuclear industry should be run by the military in every country, or at least be made up of at least 70% military personnel.
That's what we do in the USA with regular trash. We dump it into a pit, called a landfill, and just leave it standing there. It's cheaper than messing with it. By the way there's gotta be a way to solve heat exchanger leak issues, if they really pitted their minds against it, as that is the single biggest routine issue (as in noncatastrophic watch what can go wrong to get a meltdown related safety issue, such as, as I heard, an operator with a security guard type job of watch the numbers and try not to fall asleep falling asleep at the console, being bored out of his mind, knocking some control buttons over, like it happened at the 3 mile island incident.) And by far the worst type of heat exchanger leak issue is that with liquid sodium spraying into the room, or, if they happen to use water on the other side, spurting into the water side. Nastay.. That's what's holding back GE and Mitsubishi and BW and Westinghouse from messing with liquid sodium: leaks.
Steam locomotives, boilers, and any chemical heat exchange using plants anywhere in the world have one major topic: tube leaks, due to constant corrosion, and constant welding, maintenance. As all efficient heat exchangers are the bank of tube design, in fact that's what got Stephenson into steam fame, the tube design, the single biggest invention in steam power history.
I keep seeing this word, simpleton, on/. , so I look it up in my American Heritage Talking Dictionary for Windows 95 (ver. 4.0, it's precious because it comes with no EULA, no license agreement, so default copyright law applies), and it says: "simpleton ( sm“pl-tn) n. 1. A person who is felt to be deficient in judgment, good sense, or intelligence; a fool. [ simple -ton as in surnames such as Chesterton] ", and the synonyms are "1. (n.) A person lacking in good sense:
fool
imbecile
idiot
blockhead
moron
nincompoop
nitwit
dimwit
dullard
jackass
ninny
tomfool
twit
dope
goose
donkey
bonehead (informal)
ding-a-ling (informal)
dingbat (slang)
clod
boob (informal)
dummy
clodhopper
jerk (slang)
nit (British)
schmo
turkey
loon
mooncalf
genius (antonym)
expert (antonym)
master (antonym)
sage (antonym)
savant (antonym)
"
Coal with carbon capture? And where are you gonna stick all that captured CO2? Up your ass? If you could sell it to green houses, or hydrocarbon recycling renewable places(where transportation costs of recycling might make ammonia a better option, not needing recycling) but I have yet to see a coal power plant capture all its CO2 in the form of CO2, liquefied gas cylinders, which is the only way it would make sense. Unless you have a direct empty pipeline to a fully exhausted natural gas field, to pump back into, but who has these laying around in just the right quantity, nearby? It makes sense economically to transport the fuel to the consumer, but the reverse part, transporting the CO2 carbon capture is in very dire situation, lacking good arguments, compared to simple atmospheric venting. Transportation costs are huge, unless you have a good market for pure CO2, such as carbonated beverages, or greenhouses that double their tomato output from quadrupling the CO2 in their atmosphere.
And this stuff should be more precious than gold, oz for oz. Unfortunately nobody likes working with molten liquid sodium, even the machoest of machoest chemical workers, they balk at the idea of a liquid sodium jet spraying them from a heat exchanger leak. Maintenance is a bitch. But if the best minds, the kinds that are pitted at coming up with the latest ipods and gagdgets, focused on this topic, they could probably come up with some good solution, and the profits to reap are tremendous, as soon as the price of gas hits $5/gal, while the whole thing did not even deserve attention at gas prices of $1/gal out of which most of it back then was taxes, and the crude price was $0.15-0.20/gal, and nowadays it's more like $2-2.50/gal. That's a 10x increase even today, and such 10x things make or break profitability. Helium cooling instead of sodium cooling is not a panacea either, because of lower heat transfer coefficient, and also moderation (so you could use Argon not to moderate, as all Th and U238 reactors require fast neutrons, unlike the U235 ones, the U238 enrichment waste from U235 enrichment is just as precious as the Th waste from mines, or even the U235.), so because of the lower heat transfer and heat carrying capacity you need lots of contact surface area, along the lines of a car radiator shape, and fast gas velocities, and any kind of pluggage in the uniform gas velocity distribution can create local overheating, and local nuclear meltdown, unlike with car radiators, and unlike with liquid sodium immersion where the high heat transfer ability of the liquid molten metal ensures that no voids are left, and no great velocity with highly uniform distribution is required. Molten lead/bismuth eutectic is a bit better than sodium in the getting sprayed all over the place goes, but it melts at higher temperature, and as the Russian submarine experiments prove it, it's a bitch to get flowing and unstuck with an external torch when it freezes. So sodium it is, it's very unsafe if it leaks, but it melts easier, and alloyed as NaK it competes with Hg for low melting point. Maybe the Japs will come up with the nuclear robots, as they are smart, and the most energy dependent on such a technology. Perhaps that's why they had a Fukushima accident, so that, unlike the Germans, which killed their nuclear program in face of a helium gas cooled stacked pyramid of nuclear fuel balls shifting unsafely, the Japanese are supposed to hold the other cheek instead, and bounce back by coming up with robots, that instead of being human companions that looks like anime teenie weenie characters with panties and huge tits and blow out of the water any human female's tongue and lips at the ability to give a sensual blow job, they could focus on something more important to the welfare of their people, and national security, such as designing remote control robots, that piss on being sprayed by liquid sodium, or taking a high total body radiation dose, in fact they get off on bathing in that shit, and keep score on how much total body irradiation their hafnium free zirconium limbs took that day.
I'm fuckin insane, dood. I'm the illest nigga on this block. Hold me back, hold me back, or I'll tell it like it is, in yo face, mutha fuckas. They are trying to turn me into some kind of terrorist, through some psychological warfare. Terrorist in the making. Fuck that. The only kind of terrorist I'll ever be is a verbal one, plug ya eeyas if u don't like it. I'll make y'all feel uncomfortable, and nobody is safe, I'll pick equally on everybody. And if you don't like it, you don't have to read my post, just skip it, move on to the next one please. I'm all anti violence. I'm half ass vegetarian. I stick up for bugs, against Da Man, represented by Monsanto, and y'all who mow your lawns, y'all are Da Man fucking up nature. All I ask is that you leave half of your lot unmowed. 50/50. Or at least a patch. And by the way the 50/50 guiding principle could go for things like stock market profits vs. jobs, share the income or revenue or whatever you can come up with, halfway. If the company makes 20 million, 10 million goes to the owners and stockholders, 10 million goes to the union. If stockholders elect a president who seeks improved quarterly bottom lines by screwing the workers out of their 50%, regulators could get involved. Families around the country depend on jobs. And the concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, way about 10 million, what good does that do for the world? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for people having 20 million dollar yachts, but they should get it by also providing 20 million to their workers if their company has over 20 people. Not screwing them out of their creative value. Then everybody wins. Not 99/1, either which way, and if it has to be 99/1, it should be the union getting 99, and the owners 1, not the other way around like it is in this fully abusive property world. Like book publishers and science article publishers, and music labels, etc. They should split the bounty halfway, don't abuse contracts and property rights just because you got the upper hand. The Romans with Pontius Pilate had some kind of don't abuse your power mentality, but by Caligula it degraded into absolute porn and deviance and dogfights and gladiators vs. lions cutting each other down alive for entertainment, and abuse, like trying to introduce the statue of the Caesar as a God to be worshipped, into the Temple of Jerusalem. It's like it was better for the Temple to be destroyed, then suffer such a thing. I don't understand, what's so complicated about all this do not abuse your upper hand thing? It's called finding a middle ground, a golden middle way, between an abusive property exploitative world, where the high class bourgeoisie exploits the proletariat working class, and an unrealistic communist world, where the proletariat guillotined or at least chased away the bourgeoisie, but without property, but liberty, fraternity, and equality, nobody gives a damn, nor cares, nor feels any incentive to do anything about overgrazing in the tragedy of the commons. Why can't we all figure out a way for everyone to live well.
Location location location matters. NY is a truly extreme example, as only an idiot would want to live there who cares about sane housing cost, but there are lots of places with $400,000 houses sitting on $40,000 lots, that I wouldn't exactly call a mansion, just an over sized wooden house. And by the way, in the middle of the desert I hear they got pretty cheap real estate. The problem there is that there is no water, or it's pretty hard to get your hands on any.
The title of the main topic is free cell phone unlocking, as opposed to not being so before, due to power mongering corporations. Issues such as the whole purpose of the corporation, the sole reason for its existence, is the allowing for lack of responsibility, so entrepreneurs can freely take on risk, and everyone has to be aware that they are dealing with a not so responsible corporation, vs. a sole proprietorship or partnership where the owners can lose their underwear too, or an LLC which is a blend, there is at least one guy who can lose his underwear and is responsible, but most of the other actors in it denounce any responsibility, just like in a corporation. So a credit default swap goes directly on this topic of corporate responsibility, which is like an oxymoron. If a corporation wanted to be responsible, saying the buck stops here, it would be a partnership, or at least an LLC. Being a corporation says I'm not responsible, but also, I'm willing to start a business and give people an opportunity to have a job, because they let me, personally, evade the responsibility of what risks my business can bring unto me. Allowing lack of responsibility spurs the economy, increases business startups, and creates jobs. It's like this guy I was told about, living on the East Coast, who was engaged to his fiancee, the wedding date was set, but then he found out she was pregnant and he ran all the way to the West coast, he got so scared of the responsibility. When it comes to starting a business, allowing for corporate irresponsibility - the nouns corporation and irresponsibility being synonyms - keeps people from running to the West Coast. And creates jobs. There are at least two sides to every story, yin yang.
On a similar topic, these days we have a corporate-like irresponsible proliferation of premarital sex, children born out of wedlock, in a baby daddy baby momma fashion, and society accepts over 50% divorce rate as a norm, and people whose parents are not divorced hang out of the crowd to the point where they develop an inferiority complex of being too different from the norm. Also the welfare system has to foot a lot of these baby momma bills, and payroll taxes are increasing to help with the burden, taking away from those who would responsibly reproduce and sustain their families themselves and giving it to those who breed out of control and are irresponsible financially.
And those 7 acres were the Irish potato famine average per starving family, as far as I know. With today's biotech, and super efficient crops, the limit might be as low as 1 acre.
The initial copyright Act of the US was for 14 years, renewable to 28. Right now patents are at 20 years from date of filing, increased from 17 from date of approval, so that delay tactics can't be used. All we need is excuses to keep increasing it. How long until patent protection lasts lifetime of inventor + 70 years? These limits are a mere choice, and there has to be a balance between the interest of the public, and interest of the public in the Adam Smith's On the Wealth Of Nations, self interest seeking behavior generating greatest public benefit. That's fucking bullshit! The self interest seeking Pharaoh's of Egypt did not create greatest public interest for the enslaved Jews. Neither did Caligula trying to introduce his own statue, to be worshipped, as a 2nd God, in the Temple of Jerusalem. He was merely seeking his own self interest, in the Adam Smith way. Property is essential to life, but there has to be a balance. What do these stock owners, and intellectual property publishers contribute to society? They contribute to the wealth by "owning" by sitting back and collecting, by blackmailing everybody else through hogging access rights. Why is a fucking scientific article $35 when the authors only get 25 cents or less? It should be 2 dollars, the authors getting $1.95, and 5 cents, the equivalent of the value these publishers contribute, by marketing, selling, and holding it in a database. Also why do college textbooks cost over $100? And why don't the authors, the creators, get $90 of $100 at least? This "tapping" of the collective "intellectual" wealth is equivalent to a predator living off of prey, but overconsuming prey. By the way all of us, you and I, are predators, parasites, on other life, until Monsanto comes up with a green, photosynthetic baby, that lives off of sunshine without having to eat other life. (But there isn't enough density of energy to get mobile from that, so one little parasyte, like a human, has to eat a lot of photosynthetic ones, with a lot of surface area, to keep alive, on the order of 7 acres for a family of 4 or 5 barely enough green area to produce food through the most efficient crop, potato. A human does not have an acre of surface area on his body, so he has to be a predator or parasite.) So there is no in and of itself, a priori, argument against being a predator, or having predators, that's life, we're all like that. But there is this issue of property rights not in balance with the maximum public good, and Adam Smith was dead wrong on maximum self interest, just like minimum self interest is wrong too. Confucius' Yin Yang is The Way of the Tao, the way Qi flows in the Universe. In a lot of things, balance brings about optimums.
If they want to protect Mickey Mouse, they should call it like that, by name - the Mickey Mouse intellectual property right protection exemption act, whereby all the science books from 1935 are public domain, but Mickey Mouse stays a property of Disney. And they should have a list of shame exemptions, codified into the law, renewable periodically, that did not expire in 70 years, but maintain perpetual intellectual property protection, such as Disney keeping Mickey Mouse in 2098, just like we have DMCA exemptions, with the opposite being true, not being a DMCA exemption being a shame. Call it the Mickey Mouse exemption to copyright protection lapse.
It must be terrible to live in a land where Big Corporations can claim property rights one everything, including intellectual property rights on methodologies and technologies related to the sequence of steps you take to wipe your own ass, or how many clicks you do to complete an online purchase, 1-click shopping methodology being OPP, of Amazon, who's down with it, yeah you know me. I must be some fucking communist spy to be bitchin about overbearing and reaching excesses of property rights, such as intellectual, and copyright term extensions, etc, etc. Fuck Disney, and fuck Mickey Mouse, for extending copyright another 20 years, in 2000. It's 2014, and I could be reading science books from 1935 for free, but because of Disney and they gay ass Mickey mouse, I'm stuck at 1923. It's time for Mickey Mouse to enter public domain, it's a cliche way past it's cliche prime. In fact someone should make porn fucking Mickey Mouse without paying royalties to Disney over it, and get sued over it, as a form of protest. Dear Mickey Mouse, here comes a big black cock up your ass!
One interesting issue with "corporations iz people" is that it's impossible to sell life insurance to a corporation, because it can die freely, unlike with people, who are reluctant to die, so life insurance costs can be estimated very predictably, and sold at a good profit, to anyone who's interested. Corporations are not reluctant to die at all, and if there is money to be made off of one dying, the incentive to die and spawn a new replacement corporation that takes over the remnants instead is very great. In this sense no corporation is responsible, because bad decisions don't follow them around, if they are willing to die and start over. Like, only corporations who maintained existence for decades have been responsible for EPA and asbestos claims, when it fact back then using asbestos was status quo, everyone did it, and a whole lot of businesses that have went bankrupt and the title cleared that way, and the buildings, employees and chattel picked up by a replacement corporation at auction, did not have to pay for it. Such EPA and OSHA asbestos litigations might have been that spurred this great variety of I can't keep track of great company names anymore, like HP instruments for 70 years had the highest reputation, and now they are called Agilent, and so goes for a bunch of other things, spin offs, bankruptcies, mergers, to evade responsibility that, they feel, shouldn't be responsibility in the first place. Suing a corporation for installing asbestos tile in the 60's? Everyone did it. You can sue them for hiding information they knew about, such as lung cancer, that could be a criminal case, against the actual employees, not the deep pocket of the corporations. But even that is dubious, as even today, I can work with silica dust, and carbon black, and welding smoke, and cigarette smoke, or even just simple atmospheric dust, that pollutes the lungs. That's why the nasal cavity first goes up, then down, to create a mini-cyclone, to filter the dust into snot, then most really tiny ones that do end up in the lungs are small enough for phagocytes to carry them away. And there is this intermediate fraction, that's impossible to deal with and deposits continuously, around 0.2-1.5 micron, and life's answer to that is to just fuck it, make a brand new lung, called a child. So you have to watch the total amount of time you spend in a lifetime working with asbestos, dry airborne toothpaste silica, carbon black, dusty jackhammers at an asphalt road repair that kick the dust up all over the place, welding smoke, etc., but cigarette smoke is downright doing it to yourself, so how can people pick on asbestos when they don't pick on cigarette smoke? It's insane. Asbestos has these mini fibers that fly in the air and deposit crap in your lungs. So does cigarette smoke, and road repair jackhammers, and spray painters, anything that kicks up dust, such as a soccer game in a drought ridden or arid area, etc.
PS. When are they gonna start enforcing the DMCA on cars? Someone claiming intellectual property on it, hacking, such as reverse engineering to figure out what makes it tick, and repairing the problems or creating derivatives with addons, is a violation of intellectual property. Fuck intellectual property. When you spend 20 grand on a car, they can't tell you you have no right to repair it. It's up in the air with cell phones. If you spend only 2 cents on it, they could say buy a new one, and you cannot violate the DMCA. If you spend over 2 dollars on a set, unit, then it's a different story. Watch for free cellphones that cost less that 2 cents, and only come with a service with free cellphone replacement, even if you need 1000 of them per month replaced only costing 20 bucks, and a DMCA sustaining intellectual property agreement. The powers that be are working on it.
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Yeah, and put a leash on your dick, dawg. Just because you got a big black cock, and all women, white and black are addicted to it, and find it irresistible, it does not mean you're not economically responsible to back these baby mommas up with a child support payment too. Nigga can't get no job. Nigga can't keep no job. Then nigga fuck that booty in the ass, please. Ass, the other vagina.
Yeah, housing cost has pretty much turned into a Dutch Tulip Mania, where the free market perceived value is totally disconnected from the true economic value or usefulness of the object, when it comes to prices vs. other prices. People kept bidding up the price not because of the economic usefulness, but expectations of future price, that had nothing to do with reality. See the Wikipedia page on it. $700,000 for a wood house? If it was a castle built of stone then yeah, 10 million, but $700,000 for a wood house? When I can get a used computer for $30 that lasts me 5 years, and compared the economic value of that to my rent, or even a gutter system that costs $18,000, or whatever the siding cost, on a house, there is a massive abyss, and orders of magnitude difference, as in a totally different mindset, one is living in a dreamworld. You know what? Let the rain fall to the ground, fuck the gutters. Fuck the housing code, tell the inspectors to take their code book and shove it up their own asses, then take it out and choke on it. For thousands of years people had houses without gutters, and lived and died, and went about their business just fine.
One of these days a toll bridge is gonna be really profitable, and possibly maintained by a private owner with better overall economic efficiency than a corrupt tax collecting government that only cares about stuffing their own and constituents pockets, contributors pockets, from the tragedy of the commons treasury. The treasury needs a private owner, called a monarch, because this land of the free home of the brave all men are created equal communist creation failed miserably against the upper class landlord-nobility/free-yeoman/tenant-servant class based system. I'm not a member of any political party, but if I had to join one, hands down it would be the Tea Party. Expenses and taxes are sucking the living life out of me, and do no allow me to have a family. And one of them, lawn mowing, is an outright crime - exterminating bugs and plants that are self sufficient, welfare free, and instead maintaining a welfare supported pesticide and insecticide hosed lawn that has no useful purpose other than someone distorted sense of beauty, while everyone is bankrupt, and while they do it they overcharge on it, so they can make a profit, and live, all at my expense, so I can die. That's what taxes have degraded into, give it to one guy, so he can live, and take it from another guy, so he can die, by exterminating his ability to have a family. Or turn him into a liar, who cares none about credit, and fair give and take. The government right now collects taxes not for military defense or to support the elderly, and infrastructure like roads, but to support young breeders, on welfare, breeding out of control, not watching their external resource limit, because there isn't any, other than the availability of tax money. And I have yet to ever see property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes go down, they always keep inching higher and higher. Reagen & Bush, have tried, but the government debt is ever increasing, and the solution is to raise payroll taxes, and by far the biggest cost is the Social Security Welfare State, not the military, and in that, it's not the aged baby boomers, but people of their prime. It's impossible to compete in the global market place on price, in absence of import tariffs, when your basic expenses demand a humongous minimum wage. And in the basic expenses by far the biggest one is housing. They are trying to say, no, it's health insurance. Bullshit. Everyone pays for housing. I just read a story on how a girl bitten by a poisonous snake in Papua needed 7 hrs to get to the hospital by canoe, jungle, etc., and was saved. How great hospitals are! You know what? Girls like her have been bitten by snakes for hundreds of thousands of years in Papua, and died, but the village survived, because it was one of them picked off, here and there. When everyone has to bear a massive abusive health care cost, and housing cost, the life is sucked out of everybody because they cannot afford to propagate it, and make children, and the whole village and community collapses and dies in disarray, and the remnants have to start from scratch. Economics is the stuff of life. The Mayas collapsed economically by overgrowing their resources, but the remnants, the people lived on, without their grandiose village, or culture that built the pyramids and computed astronomical orbits to higher precision than the Europeans or anyone in the world up to that point. They lost all that culture and technology during the collapse. Same with Angkor Wat, as far as we can tell, it was an economic collapse, and the architectural skill, the technological good life, was lost with it. If people don't put a leash on their dicks, instead of let it run all over the place, generating a bunch of economically fucked baby mommas who have to pull the whole weight themselves, we're gonna have just such a thing, but the royalists and nobility fans at the top of the government want exactly just that.
Uber and Lyft are privatizing the taxi business by removing corrupt paternalistic and abusive government checks, and allowing the free market to optimize
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Dude, most of the stuff I order on ebay super cheap from China, is actually decent quality. Most of the decent quality stuff I buy at Walmart or other discount stores, it all says "Made in China." I don't even have a "Made in USA" item to compare it to, most of the time. So if they can build everything else cheaper and of decent quality, it's only a matter of time til they beat us at cost and amount of weapons.
It's called nationalizing. Sometimes it's done in the best interest of the public of the nation. Such as USRA was a nationalizing of all private rail during WWI in the USA, only to be spun off again in the 1920's as private enterprises. In fact USRA was a nationalization of rail twice, once during WWI, and one in the 70's related to Conrail. See the first two entries at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
Hey it's nowhere near as bad. I for one, living in the USA, would have been shot long long time ago for running my mouth like I do here on Slashdot, had I been doing all this in 1980's KGB Soviet Union. (I grew up in the Eastern Bloc, I remember standing in line for bread.) At the very least I would have ended up at some Siberian Gulag.
What I hate is when I go to a website for some good porn, and they got all these young skin and bone chicks that look like some anorexic runway fashion models, who are supposedly legal age, but they are certified 18 year olds that look 17 and 16 and 15, etc. Why can't I see some 20 or 22? What's with this 17.99 year old crap? It's constantly fed before you, when all you wanna see is just some full grown well shaped naked women, not children, and especially not skin and bone, but healthy ones. I'd almost rather look at an ancient greek stone statue than some of these anorexic "beauties." Balance is the key even in the amount of fat a woman packs. It's like it's become the standard way to downing anyone with a computer these days, force feed him some child porn images, by popping random pages he never clicked on, then go audit his computer. He "hides" child porn, oo hoo. 50 years ago you had pictures of kids naked and nobody gave a damn, because it was not sexually attractive to anyone, but these days people get off on all kinds of sick stuff, not just kids, and the same picture these days could be reasonably considered offensive, and lost its grandfathered rights. And the definition of child is also an issue here, because in the past routinely aged people married women considered underage, like Lavoisier's wife was 13 when he was 28, Henry the VIII, chopping all those wives' head of his for treason, one of them was 16 when he was over 40, and I think Charlie Chaplin too was like 48 and hooked up with a 16 year old, and the Jewish Bible allows women who hit their periods, age 13, to pick a mate, of their choosing, same has gone on in Africa for a lot of tribes that danced around naked, around age 13, so the biological sexual maturity has a lot to do with what's right or wrong beyond what the law says, including a 25 year old not wishing to talk to a 36 year old because of age difference is acceptable as an excuse, but if a 17 year old who can't hold a credit card because of not being legal age messes around with a 36 year old, there is something not completely kosher there, and the law looks closely, and depending on how hot she is, what her other reproductive chances are, deems it as an exploitation and statutory rape if she's really hot, and can do better, but looks the other way if she's not, because then she's making wise choices, uses her youth to reproduce before she may not be as desirable. Unfortunately there is this thing that men prefer younger women when offered a choice, and this includes 80 year olds prefer to look at 20-25 year olds than 70 or 60 year olds. And even the same goes for women, 80 year olds would rather look at a 20's hunk then an 80 year old of the same age as themselves. But that's images, statues, porn, not relationships. It's a whole different story if there is an actual relationship between people. Like I might be interested in looking at nude images of some 18 year olds that were well shaped and really hot, but that does not mean that if I'm a coworker with these very same women I would not act blind, so to speak, of their hotness, and just deal with them as plain coworkers, as if they had no sex, male or female, just be another person. Now if they assault me with all kinds of mind games and flirting, that's a different story. It's usually the young person's prerogative under such circumstances, because she's sacrificing so much of her other options, and the older person is like hitting the lottery. But of course it gets complicated, because my old priest, who's dead now, complained how even 5 year old girls are shaking it, it's insane, there is a woman already in a 5 year old playing mind games and trying to flirt with a 50 year old priest even, and of course such a thing is wrong. It must be something instinctive, as priests dress up in a really status way, and people wag tail to them instinctively, and I don't envy priests or other people dressed in ridiculously status emphasizing ways, for the child molestation they are subjected to, coming at them from the children themselves. I mean
That's a neat graph. I think there might have been little oxygen because they overgrazed the vegetation, and there wasn't enough green to keep up with it, so the equilibrium point was at a lower o2 level, lower vegetation abundance, and those dinos that could drag it out long on very little food, or minimum food, but able to graze anything that sprouts, proliferated. This requires cold blood like snakes that can go for a whole year without feeding. (Humans can only do it for a few weeks on fat reserves before massive protein tissue loss hits.) This also requires low abundance of predators to keep a high grazing population equilibrium, and there might have been massive oscillations in green stuff vs. grazers vs. predators flirting with extinction like collapses. Cold blood is also a bad thing to have in an ice age. I wonder what the CO2 levels were, on the same graph. And right before them there were times when oxygen levels were near 30% - ammonia would burn in that, I think, unlike today. Also if we ever invented time travel, we'd probably fall asleep in the 12% O2 level the dinos were living in, or at least feel very lethargic and slow speed, plus lactic acid muscle burn that high speed athletes get, running on stored oxygen energy, not requiring breathing, might set in very fast, and marathon runners dependent more fully on external oxygen, would not be able to do as well. They must have been moving really slow, and that's why inertial things, like having huge tails with huge masses that take forever to turn under rotational inertia, did not really matter for the predators, because it was a quick sprint, and if you had to turn, it was too late, lactic acid built up in your muscles - a cheetah can only chase for so many seconds before it runs out of breath, and this must have been much shorter in a low O2 environment for those predators back then, possibly as short as 5 seconds, and then stalking up to a prey slowly becomes everything. Also it might have been a really slow motion elephant like world, at least with the big ones, while you might have had quick snakes and scorpions. Bugs must have really suffered in size, because their two-way trachei are not as efficient as blood and lungs in extracting and transporting oxygen to the cells.
In absence of an ice-age, the mammalian womb is just a major time wasting exercise compared to an external egg. Prepare for our biotech Monsanto future of phosphorescent humans to be like that. In fact a neat trick for a lab scientist at Monsanto would be to make people glow in the dark only when they are sexually aroused, but not otherwise. Then even black people, who have been able to hide well in the dark, will shine, and everyone will know what they just been thinking about. That would be a neat prank, wouldn't it? Unleash a gene-modifying virus infection into the world that makes humans glow in the dark like fireflies if they think about sex.
HG Wells in the Short History Of the World, says, that right before they went extinct, dinosaurs highly proliferated in extremely great variety, but then ice-age hit. Only a few species made it through the ice age, and 37C temperature mammalian wombs or even hotter, 42C but externally heated bird eggs, that hugged and nurtured their offspring in warm fur or feather arms once born, had an upper hand in fighting against cold, compared to plain lizards that just left their eggs behind. In fact he says ice-ages were responsible for most of the major extinctions. Some of it may be an asteroid hit, some of it might be solar output drop, if the solar output fluctuates. Of course he could be wrong too.
Seriously, by the time of Alien, 3 billion years from now, humans, or whatever you wanna call them, will have ditched mammalian wombs, and go for external eggs instead, and men will have disappeared, or at least shrunk to the status of the males of a beehive, where they get tossed around as soon as the queen collects a good dose of sperm in her storage reservoir, and keeps the sperm alive like that for years. And by the way reproductive duties will have been specialized by the females too, as highly social insects are more powerful than individual insects, and proliferate as a society, and highly social also means specialized, as in born to be a soldier ant, queen ant, worker ant, male drone, etc., and only the queen reproduces among the females. Humans, or whatever you wanna call these creatures 3 billion years from now that descend from them, will have only selected members born to reproduce, even though all others will feel the urge. Even in a well structured and well functioning wolf pack, only the alpha wolves reproduce, and the rest sit by and watch them do it, like cuckolds do in some porn.
Nuclear waste is not waste forever. It's full of energy. They should stop melting it into a cement slab form, or glass, where it's hard to recoup later, or if they do, make sure it's not too dilute, but very concentrated. The only time it stops being nuclear waste is when it has no energy left in it to extract. Though, true, the simple and brand new and highly abundant ore is a whole lot cheaper to mess with than the complex reprocessing needing spent fuel. But eventually someone's gonna figure out correct efficient reprocessing technology, with ion exchange resins or organic highly specific chelating compounds, and reprocess everything as fuel, at great profit. Though those days are not here yet, we're still very clumsy with the simple things. But in 50, or 100 years... then you still have to figure out a way to motivate people want to mess with it instead of using cheap new ore that's fairly abundant. So today they could pay into this storage fee, yearly, for decades, and watch it grow over the years as the lottery keeps growing to mega millions when there are no winners, and when the incentive is high enough, someone might be willing to claim the stuff and clean it up. That's what you'd call free market, though it's very dangerous to apply free market principles to the nuclear industry, at least as long as we have crazy terrorists blowing up things all over the place. All the nuclear industry should be run by the military in every country, or at least be made up of at least 70% military personnel.
That's what we do in the USA with regular trash. We dump it into a pit, called a landfill, and just leave it standing there. It's cheaper than messing with it. By the way there's gotta be a way to solve heat exchanger leak issues, if they really pitted their minds against it, as that is the single biggest routine issue (as in noncatastrophic watch what can go wrong to get a meltdown related safety issue, such as, as I heard, an operator with a security guard type job of watch the numbers and try not to fall asleep falling asleep at the console, being bored out of his mind, knocking some control buttons over, like it happened at the 3 mile island incident.) And by far the worst type of heat exchanger leak issue is that with liquid sodium spraying into the room, or, if they happen to use water on the other side, spurting into the water side. Nastay.. That's what's holding back GE and Mitsubishi and BW and Westinghouse from messing with liquid sodium: leaks.
Steam locomotives, boilers, and any chemical heat exchange using plants anywhere in the world have one major topic: tube leaks, due to constant corrosion, and constant welding, maintenance. As all efficient heat exchangers are the bank of tube design, in fact that's what got Stephenson into steam fame, the tube design, the single biggest invention in steam power history.
I keep seeing this word, simpleton, on /. , so I look it up in my American Heritage Talking Dictionary for Windows 95 (ver. 4.0, it's precious because it comes with no EULA, no license agreement, so default copyright law applies), and it says: "simpleton ( sm“pl-tn) n. 1. A person who is felt to be deficient in judgment, good sense, or intelligence; a fool. [ simple -ton as in surnames such as Chesterton] ", and the synonyms are "1. (n.) A person lacking in good sense:
fool
imbecile
idiot
blockhead
moron
nincompoop
nitwit
dimwit
dullard
jackass
ninny
tomfool
twit
dope
goose
donkey
bonehead (informal)
ding-a-ling (informal)
dingbat (slang)
clod
boob (informal)
dummy
clodhopper
jerk (slang)
nit (British)
schmo
turkey
loon
mooncalf
genius (antonym)
expert (antonym)
master (antonym)
sage (antonym)
savant (antonym)
"
Coal with carbon capture? And where are you gonna stick all that captured CO2? Up your ass? If you could sell it to green houses, or hydrocarbon recycling renewable places(where transportation costs of recycling might make ammonia a better option, not needing recycling) but I have yet to see a coal power plant capture all its CO2 in the form of CO2, liquefied gas cylinders, which is the only way it would make sense. Unless you have a direct empty pipeline to a fully exhausted natural gas field, to pump back into, but who has these laying around in just the right quantity, nearby? It makes sense economically to transport the fuel to the consumer, but the reverse part, transporting the CO2 carbon capture is in very dire situation, lacking good arguments, compared to simple atmospheric venting. Transportation costs are huge, unless you have a good market for pure CO2, such as carbonated beverages, or greenhouses that double their tomato output from quadrupling the CO2 in their atmosphere.
And this stuff should be more precious than gold, oz for oz. Unfortunately nobody likes working with molten liquid sodium, even the machoest of machoest chemical workers, they balk at the idea of a liquid sodium jet spraying them from a heat exchanger leak. Maintenance is a bitch. But if the best minds, the kinds that are pitted at coming up with the latest ipods and gagdgets, focused on this topic, they could probably come up with some good solution, and the profits to reap are tremendous, as soon as the price of gas hits $5/gal, while the whole thing did not even deserve attention at gas prices of $1/gal out of which most of it back then was taxes, and the crude price was $0.15-0.20/gal, and nowadays it's more like $2-2.50/gal. That's a 10x increase even today, and such 10x things make or break profitability. Helium cooling instead of sodium cooling is not a panacea either, because of lower heat transfer coefficient, and also moderation (so you could use Argon not to moderate, as all Th and U238 reactors require fast neutrons, unlike the U235 ones, the U238 enrichment waste from U235 enrichment is just as precious as the Th waste from mines, or even the U235.), so because of the lower heat transfer and heat carrying capacity you need lots of contact surface area, along the lines of a car radiator shape, and fast gas velocities, and any kind of pluggage in the uniform gas velocity distribution can create local overheating, and local nuclear meltdown, unlike with car radiators, and unlike with liquid sodium immersion where the high heat transfer ability of the liquid molten metal ensures that no voids are left, and no great velocity with highly uniform distribution is required. Molten lead/bismuth eutectic is a bit better than sodium in the getting sprayed all over the place goes, but it melts at higher temperature, and as the Russian submarine experiments prove it, it's a bitch to get flowing and unstuck with an external torch when it freezes. So sodium it is, it's very unsafe if it leaks, but it melts easier, and alloyed as NaK it competes with Hg for low melting point. Maybe the Japs will come up with the nuclear robots, as they are smart, and the most energy dependent on such a technology. Perhaps that's why they had a Fukushima accident, so that, unlike the Germans, which killed their nuclear program in face of a helium gas cooled stacked pyramid of nuclear fuel balls shifting unsafely, the Japanese are supposed to hold the other cheek instead, and bounce back by coming up with robots, that instead of being human companions that looks like anime teenie weenie characters with panties and huge tits and blow out of the water any human female's tongue and lips at the ability to give a sensual blow job, they could focus on something more important to the welfare of their people, and national security, such as designing remote control robots, that piss on being sprayed by liquid sodium, or taking a high total body radiation dose, in fact they get off on bathing in that shit, and keep score on how much total body irradiation their hafnium free zirconium limbs took that day.
I'm fuckin insane, dood. I'm the illest nigga on this block. Hold me back, hold me back, or I'll tell it like it is, in yo face, mutha fuckas. They are trying to turn me into some kind of terrorist, through some psychological warfare. Terrorist in the making. Fuck that. The only kind of terrorist I'll ever be is a verbal one, plug ya eeyas if u don't like it. I'll make y'all feel uncomfortable, and nobody is safe, I'll pick equally on everybody. And if you don't like it, you don't have to read my post, just skip it, move on to the next one please. I'm all anti violence. I'm half ass vegetarian. I stick up for bugs, against Da Man, represented by Monsanto, and y'all who mow your lawns, y'all are Da Man fucking up nature. All I ask is that you leave half of your lot unmowed. 50/50. Or at least a patch. And by the way the 50/50 guiding principle could go for things like stock market profits vs. jobs, share the income or revenue or whatever you can come up with, halfway. If the company makes 20 million, 10 million goes to the owners and stockholders, 10 million goes to the union. If stockholders elect a president who seeks improved quarterly bottom lines by screwing the workers out of their 50%, regulators could get involved. Families around the country depend on jobs. And the concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, way about 10 million, what good does that do for the world? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for people having 20 million dollar yachts, but they should get it by also providing 20 million to their workers if their company has over 20 people. Not screwing them out of their creative value. Then everybody wins. Not 99/1, either which way, and if it has to be 99/1, it should be the union getting 99, and the owners 1, not the other way around like it is in this fully abusive property world. Like book publishers and science article publishers, and music labels, etc. They should split the bounty halfway, don't abuse contracts and property rights just because you got the upper hand. The Romans with Pontius Pilate had some kind of don't abuse your power mentality, but by Caligula it degraded into absolute porn and deviance and dogfights and gladiators vs. lions cutting each other down alive for entertainment, and abuse, like trying to introduce the statue of the Caesar as a God to be worshipped, into the Temple of Jerusalem. It's like it was better for the Temple to be destroyed, then suffer such a thing. I don't understand, what's so complicated about all this do not abuse your upper hand thing? It's called finding a middle ground, a golden middle way, between an abusive property exploitative world, where the high class bourgeoisie exploits the proletariat working class, and an unrealistic communist world, where the proletariat guillotined or at least chased away the bourgeoisie, but without property, but liberty, fraternity, and equality, nobody gives a damn, nor cares, nor feels any incentive to do anything about overgrazing in the tragedy of the commons. Why can't we all figure out a way for everyone to live well.
Location location location matters. NY is a truly extreme example, as only an idiot would want to live there who cares about sane housing cost, but there are lots of places with $400,000 houses sitting on $40,000 lots, that I wouldn't exactly call a mansion, just an over sized wooden house. And by the way, in the middle of the desert I hear they got pretty cheap real estate. The problem there is that there is no water, or it's pretty hard to get your hands on any.
The title of the main topic is free cell phone unlocking, as opposed to not being so before, due to power mongering corporations. Issues such as the whole purpose of the corporation, the sole reason for its existence, is the allowing for lack of responsibility, so entrepreneurs can freely take on risk, and everyone has to be aware that they are dealing with a not so responsible corporation, vs. a sole proprietorship or partnership where the owners can lose their underwear too, or an LLC which is a blend, there is at least one guy who can lose his underwear and is responsible, but most of the other actors in it denounce any responsibility, just like in a corporation. So a credit default swap goes directly on this topic of corporate responsibility, which is like an oxymoron. If a corporation wanted to be responsible, saying the buck stops here, it would be a partnership, or at least an LLC. Being a corporation says I'm not responsible, but also, I'm willing to start a business and give people an opportunity to have a job, because they let me, personally, evade the responsibility of what risks my business can bring unto me. Allowing lack of responsibility spurs the economy, increases business startups, and creates jobs. It's like this guy I was told about, living on the East Coast, who was engaged to his fiancee, the wedding date was set, but then he found out she was pregnant and he ran all the way to the West coast, he got so scared of the responsibility. When it comes to starting a business, allowing for corporate irresponsibility - the nouns corporation and irresponsibility being synonyms - keeps people from running to the West Coast. And creates jobs. There are at least two sides to every story, yin yang.
On a similar topic, these days we have a corporate-like irresponsible proliferation of premarital sex, children born out of wedlock, in a baby daddy baby momma fashion, and society accepts over 50% divorce rate as a norm, and people whose parents are not divorced hang out of the crowd to the point where they develop an inferiority complex of being too different from the norm. Also the welfare system has to foot a lot of these baby momma bills, and payroll taxes are increasing to help with the burden, taking away from those who would responsibly reproduce and sustain their families themselves and giving it to those who breed out of control and are irresponsible financially.
And those 7 acres were the Irish potato famine average per starving family, as far as I know. With today's biotech, and super efficient crops, the limit might be as low as 1 acre.
The initial copyright Act of the US was for 14 years, renewable to 28. Right now patents are at 20 years from date of filing, increased from 17 from date of approval, so that delay tactics can't be used. All we need is excuses to keep increasing it. How long until patent protection lasts lifetime of inventor + 70 years? These limits are a mere choice, and there has to be a balance between the interest of the public, and interest of the public in the Adam Smith's On the Wealth Of Nations, self interest seeking behavior generating greatest public benefit. That's fucking bullshit! The self interest seeking Pharaoh's of Egypt did not create greatest public interest for the enslaved Jews. Neither did Caligula trying to introduce his own statue, to be worshipped, as a 2nd God, in the Temple of Jerusalem. He was merely seeking his own self interest, in the Adam Smith way. Property is essential to life, but there has to be a balance. What do these stock owners, and intellectual property publishers contribute to society? They contribute to the wealth by "owning" by sitting back and collecting, by blackmailing everybody else through hogging access rights. Why is a fucking scientific article $35 when the authors only get 25 cents or less? It should be 2 dollars, the authors getting $1.95, and 5 cents, the equivalent of the value these publishers contribute, by marketing, selling, and holding it in a database. Also why do college textbooks cost over $100? And why don't the authors, the creators, get $90 of $100 at least? This "tapping" of the collective "intellectual" wealth is equivalent to a predator living off of prey, but overconsuming prey. By the way all of us, you and I, are predators, parasites, on other life, until Monsanto comes up with a green, photosynthetic baby, that lives off of sunshine without having to eat other life. (But there isn't enough density of energy to get mobile from that, so one little parasyte, like a human, has to eat a lot of photosynthetic ones, with a lot of surface area, to keep alive, on the order of 7 acres for a family of 4 or 5 barely enough green area to produce food through the most efficient crop, potato. A human does not have an acre of surface area on his body, so he has to be a predator or parasite.) So there is no in and of itself, a priori, argument against being a predator, or having predators, that's life, we're all like that. But there is this issue of property rights not in balance with the maximum public good, and Adam Smith was dead wrong on maximum self interest, just like minimum self interest is wrong too. Confucius' Yin Yang is The Way of the Tao, the way Qi flows in the Universe. In a lot of things, balance brings about optimums.
If they want to protect Mickey Mouse, they should call it like that, by name - the Mickey Mouse intellectual property right protection exemption act, whereby all the science books from 1935 are public domain, but Mickey Mouse stays a property of Disney. And they should have a list of shame exemptions, codified into the law, renewable periodically, that did not expire in 70 years, but maintain perpetual intellectual property protection, such as Disney keeping Mickey Mouse in 2098, just like we have DMCA exemptions, with the opposite being true, not being a DMCA exemption being a shame. Call it the Mickey Mouse exemption to copyright protection lapse.
It must be terrible to live in a land where Big Corporations can claim property rights one everything, including intellectual property rights on methodologies and technologies related to the sequence of steps you take to wipe your own ass, or how many clicks you do to complete an online purchase, 1-click shopping methodology being OPP, of Amazon, who's down with it, yeah you know me. I must be some fucking communist spy to be bitchin about overbearing and reaching excesses of property rights, such as intellectual, and copyright term extensions, etc, etc. Fuck Disney, and fuck Mickey Mouse, for extending copyright another 20 years, in 2000. It's 2014, and I could be reading science books from 1935 for free, but because of Disney and they gay ass Mickey mouse, I'm stuck at 1923. It's time for Mickey Mouse to enter public domain, it's a cliche way past it's cliche prime. In fact someone should make porn fucking Mickey Mouse without paying royalties to Disney over it, and get sued over it, as a form of protest. Dear Mickey Mouse, here comes a big black cock up your ass!
One interesting issue with "corporations iz people" is that it's impossible to sell life insurance to a corporation, because it can die freely, unlike with people, who are reluctant to die, so life insurance costs can be estimated very predictably, and sold at a good profit, to anyone who's interested. Corporations are not reluctant to die at all, and if there is money to be made off of one dying, the incentive to die and spawn a new replacement corporation that takes over the remnants instead is very great. In this sense no corporation is responsible, because bad decisions don't follow them around, if they are willing to die and start over. Like, only corporations who maintained existence for decades have been responsible for EPA and asbestos claims, when it fact back then using asbestos was status quo, everyone did it, and a whole lot of businesses that have went bankrupt and the title cleared that way, and the buildings, employees and chattel picked up by a replacement corporation at auction, did not have to pay for it. Such EPA and OSHA asbestos litigations might have been that spurred this great variety of I can't keep track of great company names anymore, like HP instruments for 70 years had the highest reputation, and now they are called Agilent, and so goes for a bunch of other things, spin offs, bankruptcies, mergers, to evade responsibility that, they feel, shouldn't be responsibility in the first place. Suing a corporation for installing asbestos tile in the 60's? Everyone did it. You can sue them for hiding information they knew about, such as lung cancer, that could be a criminal case, against the actual employees, not the deep pocket of the corporations. But even that is dubious, as even today, I can work with silica dust, and carbon black, and welding smoke, and cigarette smoke, or even just simple atmospheric dust, that pollutes the lungs. That's why the nasal cavity first goes up, then down, to create a mini-cyclone, to filter the dust into snot, then most really tiny ones that do end up in the lungs are small enough for phagocytes to carry them away. And there is this intermediate fraction, that's impossible to deal with and deposits continuously, around 0.2-1.5 micron, and life's answer to that is to just fuck it, make a brand new lung, called a child. So you have to watch the total amount of time you spend in a lifetime working with asbestos, dry airborne toothpaste silica, carbon black, dusty jackhammers at an asphalt road repair that kick the dust up all over the place, welding smoke, etc., but cigarette smoke is downright doing it to yourself, so how can people pick on asbestos when they don't pick on cigarette smoke? It's insane. Asbestos has these mini fibers that fly in the air and deposit crap in your lungs. So does cigarette smoke, and road repair jackhammers, and spray painters, anything that kicks up dust, such as a soccer game in a drought ridden or arid area, etc.
PS. When are they gonna start enforcing the DMCA on cars? Someone claiming intellectual property on it, hacking, such as reverse engineering to figure out what makes it tick, and repairing the problems or creating derivatives with addons, is a violation of intellectual property. Fuck intellectual property. When you spend 20 grand on a car, they can't tell you you have no right to repair it. It's up in the air with cell phones. If you spend only 2 cents on it, they could say buy a new one, and you cannot violate the DMCA. If you spend over 2 dollars on a set, unit, then it's a different story. Watch for free cellphones that cost less that 2 cents, and only come with a service with free cellphone replacement, even if you need 1000 of them per month replaced only costing 20 bucks, and a DMCA sustaining intellectual property agreement. The powers that be are working on it.
Yeah, and put a leash on your dick, dawg. Just because you got a big black cock, and all women, white and black are addicted to it, and find it irresistible, it does not mean you're not economically responsible to back these baby mommas up with a child support payment too. Nigga can't get no job. Nigga can't keep no job. Then nigga fuck that booty in the ass, please. Ass, the other vagina.
Yeah, housing cost has pretty much turned into a Dutch Tulip Mania, where the free market perceived value is totally disconnected from the true economic value or usefulness of the object, when it comes to prices vs. other prices. People kept bidding up the price not because of the economic usefulness, but expectations of future price, that had nothing to do with reality. See the Wikipedia page on it. $700,000 for a wood house? If it was a castle built of stone then yeah, 10 million, but $700,000 for a wood house? When I can get a used computer for $30 that lasts me 5 years, and compared the economic value of that to my rent, or even a gutter system that costs $18,000, or whatever the siding cost, on a house, there is a massive abyss, and orders of magnitude difference, as in a totally different mindset, one is living in a dreamworld. You know what? Let the rain fall to the ground, fuck the gutters. Fuck the housing code, tell the inspectors to take their code book and shove it up their own asses, then take it out and choke on it. For thousands of years people had houses without gutters, and lived and died, and went about their business just fine.
One of these days a toll bridge is gonna be really profitable, and possibly maintained by a private owner with better overall economic efficiency than a corrupt tax collecting government that only cares about stuffing their own and constituents pockets, contributors pockets, from the tragedy of the commons treasury. The treasury needs a private owner, called a monarch, because this land of the free home of the brave all men are created equal communist creation failed miserably against the upper class landlord-nobility/free-yeoman/tenant-servant class based system. I'm not a member of any political party, but if I had to join one, hands down it would be the Tea Party. Expenses and taxes are sucking the living life out of me, and do no allow me to have a family. And one of them, lawn mowing, is an outright crime - exterminating bugs and plants that are self sufficient, welfare free, and instead maintaining a welfare supported pesticide and insecticide hosed lawn that has no useful purpose other than someone distorted sense of beauty, while everyone is bankrupt, and while they do it they overcharge on it, so they can make a profit, and live, all at my expense, so I can die. That's what taxes have degraded into, give it to one guy, so he can live, and take it from another guy, so he can die, by exterminating his ability to have a family. Or turn him into a liar, who cares none about credit, and fair give and take. The government right now collects taxes not for military defense or to support the elderly, and infrastructure like roads, but to support young breeders, on welfare, breeding out of control, not watching their external resource limit, because there isn't any, other than the availability of tax money. And I have yet to ever see property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes go down, they always keep inching higher and higher. Reagen & Bush, have tried, but the government debt is ever increasing, and the solution is to raise payroll taxes, and by far the biggest cost is the Social Security Welfare State, not the military, and in that, it's not the aged baby boomers, but people of their prime. It's impossible to compete in the global market place on price, in absence of import tariffs, when your basic expenses demand a humongous minimum wage. And in the basic expenses by far the biggest one is housing. They are trying to say, no, it's health insurance. Bullshit. Everyone pays for housing. I just read a story on how a girl bitten by a poisonous snake in Papua needed 7 hrs to get to the hospital by canoe, jungle, etc., and was saved. How great hospitals are! You know what? Girls like her have been bitten by snakes for hundreds of thousands of years in Papua, and died, but the village survived, because it was one of them picked off, here and there. When everyone has to bear a massive abusive health care cost, and housing cost, the life is sucked out of everybody because they cannot afford to propagate it, and make children, and the whole village and community collapses and dies in disarray, and the remnants have to start from scratch. Economics is the stuff of life. The Mayas collapsed economically by overgrowing their resources, but the remnants, the people lived on, without their grandiose village, or culture that built the pyramids and computed astronomical orbits to higher precision than the Europeans or anyone in the world up to that point. They lost all that culture and technology during the collapse. Same with Angkor Wat, as far as we can tell, it was an economic collapse, and the architectural skill, the technological good life, was lost with it. If people don't put a leash on their dicks, instead of let it run all over the place, generating a bunch of economically fucked baby mommas who have to pull the whole weight themselves, we're gonna have just such a thing, but the royalists and nobility fans at the top of the government want exactly just that.
Uber and Lyft are privatizing the taxi business by removing corrupt paternalistic and abusive government checks, and allowing the free market to optimize