You're exhorting us to feel pity for Doctors and Lawyers? HAH!
You might as well ask me to feel sorry for professional athletes, because they get in trouble for molestation and have to retire at a young age. Or dentists, because they get no respect from anyone.
I've heard this theory before, but it's certainly an interesting one. I suppose it will be pretty hard to verify though -- nothing destroys evidence like building a city over it.
Makes me glad I ditched my TV years ago. Push mediums have always been for suckers anyway. They're far too prone to abuse. Give me the Internet's pull-paradigm any day.
When was the last time an executive got any comeuppance of any kind?
I'm just curious, because I've never heard of any executives going to jail. If I stole millions of dollars from my employer, I'd go to jail for a long, long, time. And yet if I did the same thing after getting an MBA, I would simply be asked to resign with a cushy severance package.
Seriously -- the law ends at the doors of business school.
We fear business classes and marketing classes because we've met the people who take those classes.
They're dumb (statistically, business students have the lowest GPAs in any school).
They're amoral (business departments are the only departments in ANY University that don't expel you summarily for cheating).
Seriously -- business people are a cancer. The world could thrive without them, but they insist on insinuating themselves into every financial transaction and leeching away the profits.
This is the same crappy, overly conservative province that wouldn't let Madonna perform a concert.
This is NOT a place where free expression is valued, let's just say that. I'm surprised they didn't launch a lawsuit against the makers, like Florida did with GTA Vice City.
Real artists support file-sharing, because it disseminates their work widely. Only hacks who are in it exclusively for the money worry about file-sharing.
The French used to have the right idea about how to deal with uppity rich people. In case you're unfamiliar with it, it starts with 'g' and ends with "uillotine". I do hope the French people keep in mind that the old ways are the best ways.:)
Some of those images are pretty generic stuff, but some are quite interesting aesthetically. Ironically, I just came from my school's gallery, and was musing on how painfully uncreative and uninspired the works there are. Yet a silly little contest over the internet can produce some very creative pieces of work. It sure makes ya think.
Incidentally, if you have any plans of studying art at a University, rethink those plans immediately. Art college may be expensive, but I've seen the quality of the work from the local art college and it absolutely embarasses the theory-trained hacks who populate my University's art school.
It's nice that some state governments are willing to look after their constituents. It's just too bad that the US federal government (and most other governments worldwide) are unwilling to take such measures.
The history classes I've taken seem to suggest a time when western governments actually worked for their citizens, rather than against them. It would sure be nice to see a return to such days. (smarminess intended)
Companies don't need to compete. If the government can provide a service better than businesses, then they should. The public wins by getting better service at a lower price. What on earth could be wrong with that?
There's nothing worse than people who are willing to suffer inferior service at bloated prices, just to conform to some ridiculous capitalist ideal.
(Note that Red Hat charges a lot more than that for support, but Linus Torvalds and others who created their product gets no compensation linked to those charges.)
So I suppose the fact that Linus owns heaps of Red Hat stock (which is definitely linked to what Red Hat charges) means nothing? Stock, incidentally, that Red Hat GAVE to Linus gratis? I suppose ignorance is preferable to knowledge when you want to cast idealists in a negative light.
Is that why both Intel and AMD deliberately make their chips over-clockable?
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Why are companies so utterly retarded about these things? They should go out of their way to SUPPORT this kind of thing. It provides zero-cost research to the company, and increases value to the customer. Besides, as long as everyone is in understanding that it voids the car's warranty, why would they discourage it?
The same goes for Microsoft and their crappy console, and the thousands of other companies that blatantly spit on their best customers.
The ethnocentrism comes from the fact the Americans are the main people resisting IPv6. America has most of the IPv4 addresses, so they don't see a problem, and don't care about those without.
Kind of the entire American situation in a nutshell.
The history of computation is the history of war. From the Greeks and their studies of quadratics, to Galileo's ballistics tables (which funded all his later work), the Difference Engine, early mechanical calculators, etcetera.
War has always been the driving force behind computation, sadly.
Just look at super computers -- the US military keeps building new record holders JUST to model nuclear deterioration and detonation! Many physics simulations (the exact same ones that make cars safe now) were invented to test rocket, artillery, and bullet design.
Is it possible to download the elegant universe series? I hate having to watching things in QuickTime or RealPlayer -- they are quite easily the worst two media players ever devised.
Only about 7% of Elementary and Secondary education funding [census.gov] comes from the Federal government.
That right there is exactly the problem. American public schools are broke. The federal government could give them more money; but they value tanks more highly than literacy, and don't want to deprive the wealthy of even a single ounce of caviar by taxing them.
All I did was take an opposing view. Conversely, what you've just done is to try to rebuke me with an accusation, rather than actually say I'm wrong. If I was actually wrong, you'd say so. But you're not sure, so you accuse me of something. That's what the article is about.
The only reason they can't do things is because of the government. In fact, corporations DO do those things in some countries (like many parts of Africa, where government is non-existent). They even did some of those things in America, back before the US government exerted real control over America.
Remember slavery? The US government was the one that banned it, while it was business interests who decided that slavery was so great that it was worth a civil war.
Funny how unemployed people never support privatizing welfare. Private welfare nothing more than a way for greedy affluent people to keep more money in their pocket at the expense of the poor.
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You might as well ask me to feel sorry for professional athletes, because they get in trouble for molestation and have to retire at a young age. Or dentists, because they get no respect from anyone.
I've heard this theory before, but it's certainly an interesting one. I suppose it will be pretty hard to verify though -- nothing destroys evidence like building a city over it.
Makes me glad I ditched my TV years ago. Push mediums have always been for suckers anyway. They're far too prone to abuse. Give me the Internet's pull-paradigm any day.
I'm just curious, because I've never heard of any executives going to jail. If I stole millions of dollars from my employer, I'd go to jail for a long, long, time. And yet if I did the same thing after getting an MBA, I would simply be asked to resign with a cushy severance package.
Seriously -- the law ends at the doors of business school.
They're dumb (statistically, business students have the lowest GPAs in any school).
They're amoral (business departments are the only departments in ANY University that don't expel you summarily for cheating).
Seriously -- business people are a cancer. The world could thrive without them, but they insist on insinuating themselves into every financial transaction and leeching away the profits.
This is NOT a place where free expression is valued, let's just say that. I'm surprised they didn't launch a lawsuit against the makers, like Florida did with GTA Vice City.
Real artists support file-sharing, because it disseminates their work widely. Only hacks who are in it exclusively for the money worry about file-sharing.
The French used to have the right idea about how to deal with uppity rich people. In case you're unfamiliar with it, it starts with 'g' and ends with "uillotine". I do hope the French people keep in mind that the old ways are the best ways. :)
Incidentally, if you have any plans of studying art at a University, rethink those plans immediately. Art college may be expensive, but I've seen the quality of the work from the local art college and it absolutely embarasses the theory-trained hacks who populate my University's art school.
It's nice that some state governments are willing to look after their constituents. It's just too bad that the US federal government (and most other governments worldwide) are unwilling to take such measures.
The history classes I've taken seem to suggest a time when western governments actually worked for their citizens, rather than against them. It would sure be nice to see a return to such days. (smarminess intended)
Companies don't need to compete. If the government can provide a service better than businesses, then they should. The public wins by getting better service at a lower price. What on earth could be wrong with that?
There's nothing worse than people who are willing to suffer inferior service at bloated prices, just to conform to some ridiculous capitalist ideal.
Is that why both Intel and AMD deliberately make their chips over-clockable?
Why are companies so utterly retarded about these things? They should go out of their way to SUPPORT this kind of thing. It provides zero-cost research to the company, and increases value to the customer. Besides, as long as everyone is in understanding that it voids the car's warranty, why would they discourage it?
The same goes for Microsoft and their crappy console, and the thousands of other companies that blatantly spit on their best customers.
Ever wonder why only Americans complain about IPv4?
Isn't funny how Asian nations, which you ignorantly claim have so many IPv4 addresses available, are the principal backers of IPv6 right now?
Don't feel bad -- most people are incapable of believing in any problem that doesn't affect them personally.
The ethnocentrism comes from the fact the Americans are the main people resisting IPv6. America has most of the IPv4 addresses, so they don't see a problem, and don't care about those without.
Kind of the entire American situation in a nutshell.
Yet another example of how America is sticking its head in the sand, and opening the way for serious countries to become the new world powers.
Ummm... MOST Windows users? Virtually EVERYONE? Look at the figures, dude. That's exactly what people do -- even some businesses do it.
The history of computation is the history of war. From the Greeks and their studies of quadratics, to Galileo's ballistics tables (which funded all his later work), the Difference Engine, early mechanical calculators, etcetera. War has always been the driving force behind computation, sadly. Just look at super computers -- the US military keeps building new record holders JUST to model nuclear deterioration and detonation! Many physics simulations (the exact same ones that make cars safe now) were invented to test rocket, artillery, and bullet design.
Is it possible to download the elegant universe series? I hate having to watching things in QuickTime or RealPlayer -- they are quite easily the worst two media players ever devised.
All I did was take an opposing view. Conversely, what you've just done is to try to rebuke me with an accusation, rather than actually say I'm wrong. If I was actually wrong, you'd say so. But you're not sure, so you accuse me of something. That's what the article is about.
The only reason they can't do things is because of the government. In fact, corporations DO do those things in some countries (like many parts of Africa, where government is non-existent). They even did some of those things in America, back before the US government exerted real control over America.
Remember slavery? The US government was the one that banned it, while it was business interests who decided that slavery was so great that it was worth a civil war.
Funny how unemployed people never support privatizing welfare. Private welfare nothing more than a way for greedy affluent people to keep more money in their pocket at the expense of the poor.
Shelter are precisely a form of welfare. Not the form you may be used to, but they are indeed a form of it.