We can build our own computers, write our own operating systems, wash our own cars, and change our own oil too.
Companies and the government could make plenty of money off of legalized pot. In addition to convenience, companies could offer year-round consistency and filters that would make commercial purchases worthwhile.
You can read obscure rants from marginally intelligent blogs that have only three readers.
Hey! That's my blog!!
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Disposable Camcorder
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Actually, what this company is suggesting is superior to recycling. The cameras themselves are reusable. So, rather than say melting the plastics and reforming them (which itself would be difficult if at all possible), the camera frame can be used verbatim without expending the large energy costs associated with recycling.
First off, it takes a village to live reasonably well in the wilderness.
True. That's the point I hoped to make. There is some charm to living in the wilderness, but civilization has greatly altered our sense of what living "reasonably well" means. Of course, I would point out that you are perfectly free to convince however many people you feel are necessary to accompany you to the wilderness.
As for land costs, I was thinking more along the lines of Wyoming. The land is arable and cheap. You should be able to eek out some kind of life there.
You bring up a good point about barter taxes. That makes it harder to opt-out. I would argue that this is a flaw with our tax system rather than with capitalism, however. There is nothing in the capitalist ideology that prescribes taxes. Personally, I feel that if you can get a group of folks to move out to the middle of nowhere and you do not use any public goods, then the government has no right to bother you.
I want to emphasize that I don't desire to kick you out of our society because of your opinion. Rather, I think you ought to be given the opportunity to leave if you disagree with the rules that the rest of us follow. I like the goods of capitalism like fresh produce, health care, and interesting web sites. However, I don't wish to force these things on you. If you can create things which are more valuable to you with a different system, then I would encourage you to do it.
nuclear and biological weapons, taxes, prisons, schooling (instead of education), pollution, destruction of a sense of community, and so on.
I believe that all of these are unrelated to capitalism. The Socialists participated with us in the arms race. Virtually any pro-capitalist economics professor is in favor of lowering taxes. Prisons are a reaction to committing crimes. Schooling rather than education is a result of parents not wanting to deal with their children (again, opt-out by home schooling). Pollution is caused by the government failing to price externalities into the consumption of a public good. (Almost all pro-capitalist economics professors favor taxing gasoline consumption because doing so will limit damage from its use.) The destruction of a sense of community is too complicated for me to address. I tentatively propose, however, that communities form as a result of human nature. Due to capitalism, Nike and Reebok employees form opposing communities. Even under full unemployment, however, they might find other differences to align themselves along.
I acknowledge your comments about Native Americans and Iraqis. Again, I would argue that these are features of American policy, not capitalist policy. I doubt that colonizing Britishers slaughtered Native Americans to form corporations. They just didn't understand that the existing population was doing anything worthwhile. I'll even point out that if there had been a governing body to protect the Native Americans' collective property rights (as there is now), they would have been treated better.
If capitalism is so evil and you believe in full unemployment, why not set an example? If you live in the US, there is plenty of wilderness that can be had for virtually nothing. You can take your family, build a house, knit your own clothes, perform your own healthcare, and grow your own crops.
Personally, I believe that capitalism is not a failure because the system has produced a lot of things that I like. No one is forcing you to participate though. Capitalism is an opt-in system.
I think you are confusing capitalism with patent and copyright law. Ridiculously strong intellectual property is not a requirment for capitalism.
I suspect that the problems that annoy you are related to the fact that media companies have Congress in their pocket so copyrighted works last longer than they should. As important works are about to come into the public domain, Congress extends the copyright. This flaw is with our governmental system, not with capitalism. Your other complaints are probably have similar explanations.
You might be happier in a world with capitalism with more reasonable intellectual property laws.
All property is theft
Maybe, but that doesn't make property a bad thing. I take care of the trees outside my house because it is my property. I don't chop down my neighbor's tree for firewood because it is my neighbhor's property.
You're right that property hinders human beings. However, it also gives people incentives to be good stewards of what they own.
Keep in mind that the Google statistic reflects the number of machines currently in use (and how often their users use them). Assuming Linux is outselling Apple, it will take a number of years for all the old Apple machines that are currently doing Google searches to be retired.
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Well stated. I've always thought that the Open Source movement had a lot to learn from drug dealers about how to get people hooked on their products.
Yeah, except for the fact that Indians invented the number 0.
Do you really want to play the game of preventing those who arrived second from being allowed to compete?
Please copy this note onto other threads... editors are putting a -1 on this quickly to avoid discussion of this subject.
Yes, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that
1. you are an idiot
2. your tendency to use all caps makes you sound like an idiot
3. you don't understand how a modern free economy is supposed to work to create wealth for all countries
I hope you're happy. I responded to your -1 troll comment, so the slashdot moderators haven't squelched your free speech...unfortunately.
Go ahead and boycott slashdot. Spend your days here: http://www.hireamericancitizens.org/
First, they ignore you,
Then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you,
Then you win.
SCO have been ignored, laughed at, are being fought at the moment, so do you expect them to win too?
I think it's worthwhile clarifying Gandhi's statement. He intends to say that when the opponent chooses to fight, you have already won. The "then" in the last line is deceptive. The message is that when the enemy attacks unfairly (fights), it is an admission of failure. At that very moment, you have won.
In this regard, it is unfair to say SCO has been "fought" against. With the exception of the unfortunate DOS attack a while ago, the attacks on SCO are justified, reasoned arguments. Thus Gandhi's aphorism doesn't apply.
Following the recent price drops, the Pentium 4 3.0GHz (800 mhz bus) is the same price as the 2.8GHz last month. The marginal cost between a 2.8 and 3.0 is about $60, but to go from 3.0 to 3.2 is about $120.
To me, this comment epitomizes everyone's complaints about this article. The the-marginal-cost-of-cpu-performance-starts-to-sho ot-up-here logic has nothing to do with their application and can be used to justify almost anything.
I want to be clear on what you're asking for here. You actually desire a situation where you send the government a list of things you happen to be interested in on any particular day?
I agree that pursuit based on desperation is to be avoided. However, I think the advice that most people need to hear is to be more aggressive.
It may be different for you, but I don't get many women expressing their interest in me. I have to first express my interest and establish my personality with confidence. I can't sit around hoping the girl gets interested in me without any work on my part.
IANAPimp, but I recommend everyone go to iTunes and download Bust A Move by Young MC.
I've only spent about 5 minutes thinking about it, but a slightly less biased (but not neutral) measure would involve counting works translated into multiple languages.
You say Murray's method is not neutral. Then you suggest a method that you believe to be not neutral. What's the solution though? The topic is important to policy makers, so why shouldn't we investigate it and see what we find? I'd rather collect data and correct for the bias in it as best I can than refuse to address the topic entirely.
Are there any pioneering studies of mathemtical algorithms in sanscrit? I would like to see that.
They exist, but they are quite old. India used to be a leader in mathematics a couple of millenia ago.
If you want something in English based on ancient Sanskrit texts, check out "Vedic Mathematics or Sixteen Simple Mathematical Formulae from the Vedas" by Sri Bharati Krisna Tirthaji
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We can build our own computers, write our own operating systems, wash our own cars, and change our own oil too.
Companies and the government could make plenty of money off of legalized pot. In addition to convenience, companies could offer year-round consistency and filters that would make commercial purchases worthwhile.
You can read obscure rants from marginally intelligent blogs that have only three readers. Hey! That's my blog!!
Actually, what this company is suggesting is superior to recycling. The cameras themselves are reusable. So, rather than say melting the plastics and reforming them (which itself would be difficult if at all possible), the camera frame can be used verbatim without expending the large energy costs associated with recycling.
Give me reuse over recycling any day.
He would have been ground to a pulp by a stifiling, corrupt bureaucracy.
First off, it takes a village to live reasonably well in the wilderness. True. That's the point I hoped to make. There is some charm to living in the wilderness, but civilization has greatly altered our sense of what living "reasonably well" means. Of course, I would point out that you are perfectly free to convince however many people you feel are necessary to accompany you to the wilderness. As for land costs, I was thinking more along the lines of Wyoming. The land is arable and cheap. You should be able to eek out some kind of life there. You bring up a good point about barter taxes. That makes it harder to opt-out. I would argue that this is a flaw with our tax system rather than with capitalism, however. There is nothing in the capitalist ideology that prescribes taxes. Personally, I feel that if you can get a group of folks to move out to the middle of nowhere and you do not use any public goods, then the government has no right to bother you. I want to emphasize that I don't desire to kick you out of our society because of your opinion. Rather, I think you ought to be given the opportunity to leave if you disagree with the rules that the rest of us follow. I like the goods of capitalism like fresh produce, health care, and interesting web sites. However, I don't wish to force these things on you. If you can create things which are more valuable to you with a different system, then I would encourage you to do it. nuclear and biological weapons, taxes, prisons, schooling (instead of education), pollution, destruction of a sense of community, and so on. I believe that all of these are unrelated to capitalism. The Socialists participated with us in the arms race. Virtually any pro-capitalist economics professor is in favor of lowering taxes. Prisons are a reaction to committing crimes. Schooling rather than education is a result of parents not wanting to deal with their children (again, opt-out by home schooling). Pollution is caused by the government failing to price externalities into the consumption of a public good. (Almost all pro-capitalist economics professors favor taxing gasoline consumption because doing so will limit damage from its use.) The destruction of a sense of community is too complicated for me to address. I tentatively propose, however, that communities form as a result of human nature. Due to capitalism, Nike and Reebok employees form opposing communities. Even under full unemployment, however, they might find other differences to align themselves along. I acknowledge your comments about Native Americans and Iraqis. Again, I would argue that these are features of American policy, not capitalist policy. I doubt that colonizing Britishers slaughtered Native Americans to form corporations. They just didn't understand that the existing population was doing anything worthwhile. I'll even point out that if there had been a governing body to protect the Native Americans' collective property rights (as there is now), they would have been treated better.
If capitalism is so evil and you believe in full unemployment, why not set an example? If you live in the US, there is plenty of wilderness that can be had for virtually nothing. You can take your family, build a house, knit your own clothes, perform your own healthcare, and grow your own crops. Personally, I believe that capitalism is not a failure because the system has produced a lot of things that I like. No one is forcing you to participate though. Capitalism is an opt-in system.
I think you are confusing capitalism with patent and copyright law. Ridiculously strong intellectual property is not a requirment for capitalism. I suspect that the problems that annoy you are related to the fact that media companies have Congress in their pocket so copyrighted works last longer than they should. As important works are about to come into the public domain, Congress extends the copyright. This flaw is with our governmental system, not with capitalism. Your other complaints are probably have similar explanations. You might be happier in a world with capitalism with more reasonable intellectual property laws.
All property is theft Maybe, but that doesn't make property a bad thing. I take care of the trees outside my house because it is my property. I don't chop down my neighbor's tree for firewood because it is my neighbhor's property. You're right that property hinders human beings. However, it also gives people incentives to be good stewards of what they own.
Keep in mind that the Google statistic reflects the number of machines currently in use (and how often their users use them). Assuming Linux is outselling Apple, it will take a number of years for all the old Apple machines that are currently doing Google searches to be retired.
Well stated. I've always thought that the Open Source movement had a lot to learn from drug dealers about how to get people hooked on their products.
You can't get fired for trying to form a union. If you do, you have a right to sue.
Yeah, except for the fact that Indians invented the number 0. Do you really want to play the game of preventing those who arrived second from being allowed to compete?
Great. Tomorrow there's going to be a post about two dozen hackers around the world caught exposing themselves to children.
Yes, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that
1. you are an idiot
2. your tendency to use all caps makes you sound like an idiot
3. you don't understand how a modern free economy is supposed to work to create wealth for all countries
I hope you're happy. I responded to your -1 troll comment, so the slashdot moderators haven't squelched your free speech...unfortunately.
Go ahead and boycott slashdot. Spend your days here: http://www.hireamericancitizens.org/
SCO have been ignored, laughed at, are being fought at the moment, so do you expect them to win too?
I think it's worthwhile clarifying Gandhi's statement. He intends to say that when the opponent chooses to fight, you have already won. The "then" in the last line is deceptive. The message is that when the enemy attacks unfairly (fights), it is an admission of failure. At that very moment, you have won.
In this regard, it is unfair to say SCO has been "fought" against. With the exception of the unfortunate DOS attack a while ago, the attacks on SCO are justified, reasoned arguments. Thus Gandhi's aphorism doesn't apply.
To me, this comment epitomizes everyone's complaints about this article. The the-marginal-cost-of-cpu-performance-starts-to-sho ot-up-here logic has nothing to do with their application and can be used to justify almost anything.
I want to be clear on what you're asking for here. You actually desire a situation where you send the government a list of things you happen to be interested in on any particular day?
I agree that pursuit based on desperation is to be avoided. However, I think the advice that most people need to hear is to be more aggressive.
It may be different for you, but I don't get many women expressing their interest in me. I have to first express my interest and establish my personality with confidence. I can't sit around hoping the girl gets interested in me without any work on my part.
IANAPimp, but I recommend everyone go to iTunes and download Bust A Move by Young MC.
You say Murray's method is not neutral. Then you suggest a method that you believe to be not neutral. What's the solution though? The topic is important to policy makers, so why shouldn't we investigate it and see what we find? I'd rather collect data and correct for the bias in it as best I can than refuse to address the topic entirely.
They exist, but they are quite old. India used to be a leader in mathematics a couple of millenia ago.
If you want something in English based on ancient Sanskrit texts, check out "Vedic Mathematics or Sixteen Simple Mathematical Formulae from the Vedas" by Sri Bharati Krisna Tirthaji
financial firms such as MerrylLynch, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and others have their own biased stance.
PricewaterhouseCoopers is an auditor, not a financial firm. There reason for existence is to not have a biased stance.