The "purpose" is to have thanks for being alive and the opportunity to be living well. While each of us are not physically created equal nor have chosen when and where to be born, it is to pay respects to a higher order above the human existence.
And that's the point; not to succumb to hubris and idolatry. Rather, to be humble for the good things we have in life.
Faith in God is funny in that you can pray to God, but can never actually have direct communication with him on this "Earthly" plane of existence. If by chance you do, you've met the second coming of Christ. Otherwise, it's a false prophet.
The people of Iran made a mistake this time. They attempted a revolution. You either do, or don't do. There is no try. That's the lesson to be learned here.
Every successful revolution involves giving it your 110% effort all the way through.
Jets are always complicated. But perhaps underneath the hood (and cockpit), it's about as basic as the Japanese Zero for its time. Quantity over quality might be the idea in patrolling airspace with superior firepower as quickly as possible. If so, that' also leads to other questions, such as...why?? Ponder that.
“I'm Having More Fun Than a Human Being Should Be Allowed to Have” Rush Limbaugh.
You either love him, or hate him. He sure knows how to tweak the offend-able. Not that I agree with that tactic, but he is Rush Limbaugh and he will change his character for no one. Perhaps not folding to the PC (politically correct) establishment is what offends people the most in fact and thus why he does it.
So what your saying is that detonating 7kg of TNT shortly after yelling "I'll kill you all" is more effective. I think we all understand the situation a little better now. Thank you.
because they are taking the jobs that no one wants
That's only one side of the story. At first, American DID want those jobs in the past, but quickly got undercutted by companies not following the labor laws. This led to a positive feed-back cycle that involves both illegal immigration and a change in the American work ethic culture in two ways.
1). Companies hire illegally to skip both payroll taxation and pay below minimum wage. 2). The first reason lead to an entire work force culture that's mainly Hispanic and speaks Spanish.
Mike Rowe provided an excellent presentation at TED, but he clearly missed the point as to why American's started down this path. The story MSNBC recently did dove-tales into this.
And I would say that by profit-seeking you are "feeding like a parasite off the backs of others".
Now that we've gotten the obligatory insulting rhetoric out of the way, we need to discuss what's better for people.
What's better for the people you say?? For starters, how about not being a fucking thief. Asshole! Second, if you really want free software, music, and entertainment. Obtain it from people willingly wanting to give it away.
Oh, and you said you retired on your 50th. How nice. I'll be working till I'm 90. But I sure as hell am not going to thieve my way to prosparity just so I can retire at 50 myself. I'll earn my way to an early retirement through capitalism. If you want to live a Marxist lifestyle, be my guest. Just don't force it on others.
And I would say that with piracy, you're feeding like a parasite off the backs of others. And at the very least, you're just tapping into the momentum of progress created by a capitalistic economic system. Short-it for too long, and I'm afraid that momentum would wind down to the point innovation and progress becomes stymied.
I know it sounds silly, but proponents of FOSS still have day-jobs themselves. At the end of the day, real economic forces must go on to live the current lifestyle we enjoy today. Including cheap food on the table.
Yes, often hacked to disable DRM protection and whatnot with included malware laced in. Most of the malware is easy to remove with modern free Anti-virus programs, but I still wouldn't the OS after that.
Funny you should say that. North Korea has their own national flavor called "Red Star" Linux. God knows, but I'm willing to bet that entire OS is one monolithic backdoor running on silicon. Every keystroke captured and uploaded no doubt.
Anyways, I wouldn't put it past other command-and-control nations to roll there own Linux distribution as well.
It's also worth mentioning that most of the pirated software found in China is sold laced with malware. Given all the SPAM and crap coming from that nation, I'd be curious to know the percentage of machine running pirated software constitute being the problem here.
As someone who's been to Shanghai for the past 6 years and walked the streets, I'd say it's more than 90% in the public market (mainly on whiteboxes) than an international business working inside china. Not sure about the offices of local Chinese companies however. But wouldn't be surprised to find pirated copies in user share folders too.
Seriously, you can find a pleathora of XP, MS Office, and Adobe Suite software on a corner street market. Not to mention the un-godly amount of ripped DVD movies and Telesyncs. Some will even sell you entire portable HDDs full of the stuff.
It's more basic then that. Every human being is made up of about 60 Trillion cells working together in a symbiotic relationship. So when breaking down the "Unit", at what level do you start addressing life? The Cell, the Human being, civilization, or the entire Biosphere?
No no, you don't understand. The new corporate model is that you're purchasing a "Service" The hardware and shit, that's just a tool to render the services they are providing you. When you hack their tools (what you may THINK is your hardware), you're rendering theft of "Service".
And the best part is, they don't intentionally brick their tools when your service contract expires. See, don't you feel loved doing business with Apple? Ya, warm fuzzies all around. Not!
Actually, the oil is out there. Lots of of it in fact. Once it gets expensive, coal gasification can be used to produce fuels that we would normally get from crude.
Look, it's all elementary. The resources are out there. If and when we start to run dry on Earth, we will recycle. If that's not enough, will just bring more back from outside our planet. It all comes down to law and the rule of man. While physics plays a very *small* part in this, the primary (if not only) limitation is the type of governance that a nation is governed by.
Lenin might very well be correct. But, when all the capitalists are hung, how will they survive after they are long gone?
They don't. Capitalist create and exploit resources. Under capitalism, the pie of resources grows with the system. Under communism, the system tends to partition the pie without actually growing it. Eventually, it shrinks as it's raped and plundered.
Should the western capitalist system fall, I really hope for China's sake this all part of their bigger plan to re-take the #1 spot in Super Power status. If not, they will be fucked with civil war at worst, and at best a fractured mainland. Their system as it stands doesn't seem very sustainable.
Both parties in the US want to grant amnesty. More specifically, they want their vote without alienating their local American base. The Hispanic community is a gigantic potential voting block that can't and will never be ignored. The temptation is just too great.
How about we build a giant Walmart spanning the entire US/Mexican border. One side will have the employee entrance, the other side will welcome customers. See? Now how hard was that?
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The "purpose" is to have thanks for being alive and the opportunity to be living well. While each of us are not physically created equal nor have chosen when and where to be born, it is to pay respects to a higher order above the human existence.
And that's the point; not to succumb to hubris and idolatry. Rather, to be humble for the good things we have in life.
Faith in God is funny in that you can pray to God, but can never actually have direct communication with him on this "Earthly" plane of existence. If by chance you do, you've met the second coming of Christ. Otherwise, it's a false prophet.
Well, I care. And yes Seumas, today you're trolling* and should be modded down as such.
not one to cast stones, I've done it myself before
The people of Iran made a mistake this time. They attempted a revolution. You either do, or don't do. There is no try. That's the lesson to be learned here.
Every successful revolution involves giving it your 110% effort all the way through.
Like the man said. His finger slipped on the trigger, 5 times. It can happen. ;)
That's a very good point.
Jets are always complicated. But perhaps underneath the hood (and cockpit), it's about as basic as the Japanese Zero for its time. Quantity over quality might be the idea in patrolling airspace with superior firepower as quickly as possible. If so, that' also leads to other questions, such as...why?? Ponder that.
Funny. I saw it as a Green Peace balloon-trial movement for War. Maybe even nuclear.
“I'm Having More Fun Than a Human Being Should Be Allowed to Have” Rush Limbaugh.
You either love him, or hate him. He sure knows how to tweak the offend-able. Not that I agree with that tactic, but he is Rush Limbaugh and he will change his character for no one. Perhaps not folding to the PC (politically correct) establishment is what offends people the most in fact and thus why he does it.
So what your saying is that detonating 7kg of TNT shortly after yelling "I'll kill you all" is more effective. I think we all understand the situation a little better now. Thank you.
In America, we call those Sting Operations.
because they are taking the jobs that no one wants
That's only one side of the story. At first, American DID want those jobs in the past, but quickly got undercutted by companies not following the labor laws. This led to a positive feed-back cycle that involves both illegal immigration and a change in the American work ethic culture in two ways.
1). Companies hire illegally to skip both payroll taxation and pay below minimum wage.
2). The first reason lead to an entire work force culture that's mainly Hispanic and speaks Spanish.
Mike Rowe provided an excellent presentation at TED, but he clearly missed the point as to why American's started down this path. The story MSNBC recently did dove-tales into this.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41182482/ns/business-us_business/
What's better for the people you say?? For starters, how about not being a fucking thief. Asshole! Second, if you really want free software, music, and entertainment. Obtain it from people willingly wanting to give it away.
Oh, and you said you retired on your 50th. How nice. I'll be working till I'm 90. But I sure as hell am not going to thieve my way to prosparity just so I can retire at 50 myself. I'll earn my way to an early retirement through capitalism. If you want to live a Marxist lifestyle, be my guest. Just don't force it on others.
And I would say that with piracy, you're feeding like a parasite off the backs of others. And at the very least, you're just tapping into the momentum of progress created by a capitalistic economic system. Short-it for too long, and I'm afraid that momentum would wind down to the point innovation and progress becomes stymied.
I know it sounds silly, but proponents of FOSS still have day-jobs themselves. At the end of the day, real economic forces must go on to live the current lifestyle we enjoy today. Including cheap food on the table.
So it can't be "completely" switched off? What does that mean even? That almost sounds like the perfect application for SSD storage.
So, is it just Software they are pirating?
Yes, often hacked to disable DRM protection and whatnot with included malware laced in. Most of the malware is easy to remove with modern free Anti-virus programs, but I still wouldn't the OS after that.
Funny you should say that. North Korea has their own national flavor called "Red Star" Linux. God knows, but I'm willing to bet that entire OS is one monolithic backdoor running on silicon. Every keystroke captured and uploaded no doubt.
Anyways, I wouldn't put it past other command-and-control nations to roll there own Linux distribution as well.
It's also worth mentioning that most of the pirated software found in China is sold laced with malware. Given all the SPAM and crap coming from that nation, I'd be curious to know the percentage of machine running pirated software constitute being the problem here.
I'm your citation.
As someone who's been to Shanghai for the past 6 years and walked the streets, I'd say it's more than 90% in the public market (mainly on whiteboxes) than an international business working inside china. Not sure about the offices of local Chinese companies however. But wouldn't be surprised to find pirated copies in user share folders too.
Seriously, you can find a pleathora of XP, MS Office, and Adobe Suite software on a corner street market. Not to mention the un-godly amount of ripped DVD movies and Telesyncs. Some will even sell you entire portable HDDs full of the stuff.
I'm so glad it wasn't a robotic mouth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_NdnYrDzY
It's more basic then that. Every human being is made up of about 60 Trillion cells working together in a symbiotic relationship. So when breaking down the "Unit", at what level do you start addressing life? The Cell, the Human being, civilization, or the entire Biosphere?
No no, you don't understand. The new corporate model is that you're purchasing a "Service" The hardware and shit, that's just a tool to render the services they are providing you. When you hack their tools (what you may THINK is your hardware), you're rendering theft of "Service".
And the best part is, they don't intentionally brick their tools when your service contract expires. See, don't you feel loved doing business with Apple? Ya, warm fuzzies all around. Not!
Actually, the oil is out there. Lots of of it in fact. Once it gets expensive, coal gasification can be used to produce fuels that we would normally get from crude.
Look, it's all elementary. The resources are out there. If and when we start to run dry on Earth, we will recycle. If that's not enough, will just bring more back from outside our planet. It all comes down to law and the rule of man. While physics plays a very *small* part in this, the primary (if not only) limitation is the type of governance that a nation is governed by.
Lenin might very well be correct. But, when all the capitalists are hung, how will they survive after they are long gone?
They don't. Capitalist create and exploit resources. Under capitalism, the pie of resources grows with the system. Under communism, the system tends to partition the pie without actually growing it. Eventually, it shrinks as it's raped and plundered.
Should the western capitalist system fall, I really hope for China's sake this all part of their bigger plan to re-take the #1 spot in Super Power status. If not, they will be fucked with civil war at worst, and at best a fractured mainland. Their system as it stands doesn't seem very sustainable.
Both parties in the US want to grant amnesty. More specifically, they want their vote without alienating their local American base. The Hispanic community is a gigantic potential voting block that can't and will never be ignored. The temptation is just too great.
How about we build a giant Walmart spanning the entire US/Mexican border. One side will have the employee entrance, the other side will welcome customers. See? Now how hard was that?