The problem is that the right worked - effectively - to shut down the public sector efforts to feed the hungry, house the homeless, provide public health, and educate, thinking that they were avoiding a "slippery slope" into world government.
Actually, that has nothing to do with the UN per se--the slippery slope is one of inappropriate government intervention in life on any level. But the key difference between right and left is that the left is incapable of trusting private individuals and the right is incapable of trusting government.
For instance, if the people of this country have agreed, through democratic process, that they don't want to be exposed to child porn, then they have a right in their country to defend against it.
Yes. But this must be done with guns. In other words, if China wants to go to war with us over comments that our citizens make about their government, well, let's get it on! But screw the idea of an international court system.
The burden is on the business (or server) to obey the laws of the land where they operate. Hosting a web site should not exclude a person or company from liability.
*IF AND ONLY IF* the server is located in the offended country.
If I print a newsletter in the US and then drop it by plane in France, I should adhere to French law.
Nope. Only if you're on the ground. If you're in the air and the French want to stop you, they'll have to shoot you down. Which is fine with me. The solution to a border incursion is military action, not a frickin' court case.
Why not be afraid of both? I swear up one side and down the other that this is going to cut both ways. The only solution is an end to the stupid 'world without borders' concept that some people are so infatuated with. The worst thing we can do is establish world courts, world laws, and a world government. There won't be anywhere left to run. I can assure you that freedom will *not* prevail in a world government.
Err, you're proving his point. The distmantling of borders and eradication of national sovereignty and independence is exactly the problem we are facing.
While what you say is partly true, there ARE indeed still portions of China that are agrihicultural and this is a problem in terms of building popular government and capitalism. Something similar to what Germany did in the mid 1800s and what Russia did in the first half of the 1900s are required before China can develop fully. But they're already on their way.
As for your gold-rush, I think we'll find that it will become a decreasingly geographic affair. With high speed data communications, I belive that location of programmers will become virtually irrelevant.
Unfortunately, it's so much simpler and much less intriguing than your analysis makes it. All that's really going on here is intellectual decline and laziness. People aren't willing to sit and listen carefully to well crafted music and attempt to understand it. They want something simple and bland in the background while they do dishes or drive home from work. They don't want to think about anything.
Enter the music labels. They don't want to control your mind--they simply want to make boatloads of money. They realize that complicated and interesting progressive music will NOT sell, so they don't produce it. (Actually, it would sell to some degree, but not as well or as cheaply as they can make NSync sell.) That's not to say that there isn't ANY good art being produced these days--just that it's well hidden and there's less of it. You might see this as being partially the result of radio, Internet, TV, and CD/DVD music. This makes it MUCH easier to hear music and requires very little work. Thus, we have mass produced music--just like we have mass produced cups, cars, computers, etc. There's very little sense of craft because there's no time for it--because this is MASS production.
So, there's no conspiracy to control your mind--just a lot of laziness.
As for the similarities, there's really not much unusual about that--the basics of tonal music (what we've been using for the past 350 years or so) are astonishingly simple--making things sound more complicated and interesting with tonal music requires a lot of enhancement of a few basic patterns. The pop writers are pushed for time so they just leave the patterns in their naked unaltered form. There are usually a few tricks pulled out of the bag in the studio--but studio time is expensive and the labels are there to make money and not to make art.
In the end, the labels have realized that catering to worn out yuppies and 14 year old girls is a hell of a lot more profitable than catering to musicians.
But remember that art has always been shaped by the tastes of those who have money. A thousand years ago, the Roman Catholic church had the most money, so THEY got to call the shots about what art should be. Now, we have Democratic art--the majority of the paying public wants Britney and NSync, so that's what gets emphasized. Ain't mob-rule...err, I mean Democracy great?
Teamplay is an old innovation. Try playing Teamfortress for Quake 1. ID as usual is far behind in the gameplay department.
Yes, I know. That's what I was trying to say. ID has such nice design ideals that it's nice to see them do some of it (although, they DID pass it off to Nerve but...it has their name on it!)
Ditto. Q2 is cool and all but CK, written for really low end hardware, has to be a tour de force of ingenious coding. Oh, and BTW RtCW rocks, John.;-) I like the teamwork aspect of the multiplayer a lot and think that taking the FPS genre in a more intellectual direction in the future is a great angle--maybe even integration of Adventure/Role-playing and FPS or adding combat flight-sim/tank-sim components? Could be cool....
No you are wrong. Of the people who buy RtCW, how many would be able to compile it?
Precompiled binaries.
And its only the source that is released, none of the graphics,sound, models etc.
But they *would* end up being distributed. They would be on thousands of gnutella hosts within hours. And it would be unstoppable. The only thing iD has going for it to render unauthorized copying useless is the master server authentication.
And what made the PC sell more than the S-100? The IBM name. "No one ever got fired for choosing IBM." This makes M$ even less responsible for their success than otherwise. I personally think that anybody with an OS (or CPU) in a new IBM PC back then would have made it big time.
Well, yes; but saying that he understood what the internet was back then (or even now) is really stretching it. Now, I'm sure that some of his staffers knew what the internet was and told him that supporting the project was a good idea. But he had no clue, almost certainly.
I'm from the US and am in full agreement. But what can you do? We've got a bunch of idealistic liberals who think internationalism is some kind of blessing from God.
Now I am almost cetain that if Russia arrested and jailed a pile of US Adobe employees when they visit russia to go to a conference, that there may be a outcry.
Probably. But that would be stupid. Russia SHOULDN'T have to give up their laws just because we don't like it. But so many in this day and age go all glittery and idealistic when you talk about internationalism that I suppose it'll happen eventually anyway. Stupid idiots.
If the server and/or business office is *IN* France, then you're right. If Yahoo has an office in France, then I think the French police should go over there and throw 'em all in jail or deport them immediately. But they still shouldn't be able to do anything to the US offices and servers.
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Actually, that has nothing to do with the UN per se--the slippery slope is one of inappropriate government intervention in life on any level. But the key difference between right and left is that the left is incapable of trusting private individuals and the right is incapable of trusting government.
And a utopian dream-world ruled by the UN acomplishes this how?
Don't hold your breath.
, we sure as hell aren't getting any with the WTO
Agreed.
Yes, reel-to-reel was certainly what he was talking about. Nobody masters on cassette! ;-)
Yes. But this must be done with guns. In other words, if China wants to go to war with us over comments that our citizens make about their government, well, let's get it on! But screw the idea of an international court system.
The burden is on the business (or server) to obey the laws of the land where they operate. Hosting a web site should not exclude a person or company from liability.
*IF AND ONLY IF* the server is located in the offended country.
If I print a newsletter in the US and then drop it by plane in France, I should adhere to French law.
Nope. Only if you're on the ground. If you're in the air and the French want to stop you, they'll have to shoot you down. Which is fine with me. The solution to a border incursion is military action, not a frickin' court case.
The solution is to *END* treaties and internationalism--not make more of them.
Why not be afraid of both? I swear up one side and down the other that this is going to cut both ways. The only solution is an end to the stupid 'world without borders' concept that some people are so infatuated with. The worst thing we can do is establish world courts, world laws, and a world government. There won't be anywhere left to run. I can assure you that freedom will *not* prevail in a world government.
Well, some of us did. It's just that we were called "right wing extremists" and "isolationists".
Err, you're proving his point. The distmantling of borders and eradication of national sovereignty and independence is exactly the problem we are facing.
Nice manners. What book did you learn them from? Or did you just pull them out of....
It would appear so. Kinda makes ya wanna wretch, huh?
As for your gold-rush, I think we'll find that it will become a decreasingly geographic affair. With high speed data communications, I belive that location of programmers will become virtually irrelevant.
Enter the music labels. They don't want to control your mind--they simply want to make boatloads of money. They realize that complicated and interesting progressive music will NOT sell, so they don't produce it. (Actually, it would sell to some degree, but not as well or as cheaply as they can make NSync sell.) That's not to say that there isn't ANY good art being produced these days--just that it's well hidden and there's less of it. You might see this as being partially the result of radio, Internet, TV, and CD/DVD music. This makes it MUCH easier to hear music and requires very little work. Thus, we have mass produced music--just like we have mass produced cups, cars, computers, etc. There's very little sense of craft because there's no time for it--because this is MASS production.
So, there's no conspiracy to control your mind--just a lot of laziness.
As for the similarities, there's really not much unusual about that--the basics of tonal music (what we've been using for the past 350 years or so) are astonishingly simple--making things sound more complicated and interesting with tonal music requires a lot of enhancement of a few basic patterns. The pop writers are pushed for time so they just leave the patterns in their naked unaltered form. There are usually a few tricks pulled out of the bag in the studio--but studio time is expensive and the labels are there to make money and not to make art.
In the end, the labels have realized that catering to worn out yuppies and 14 year old girls is a hell of a lot more profitable than catering to musicians.
But remember that art has always been shaped by the tastes of those who have money. A thousand years ago, the Roman Catholic church had the most money, so THEY got to call the shots about what art should be. Now, we have Democratic art--the majority of the paying public wants Britney and NSync, so that's what gets emphasized. Ain't mob-rule...err, I mean Democracy great?
Yes, I know. That's what I was trying to say. ID has such nice design ideals that it's nice to see them do some of it (although, they DID pass it off to Nerve but...it has their name on it!)
Whereabouts in NJ are you? I just moved to Fairfield (close to Parsippany) from South Carolina.
Ditto. Q2 is cool and all but CK, written for really low end hardware, has to be a tour de force of ingenious coding. Oh, and BTW RtCW rocks, John. ;-) I like the teamwork aspect of the multiplayer a lot and think that taking the FPS genre in a more intellectual direction in the future is a great angle--maybe even integration of Adventure/Role-playing and FPS or adding combat flight-sim/tank-sim components? Could be cool....
Precompiled binaries.
And its only the source that is released, none of the graphics,sound, models etc.
But they *would* end up being distributed. They would be on thousands of gnutella hosts within hours. And it would be unstoppable. The only thing iD has going for it to render unauthorized copying useless is the master server authentication.
Nope. But Linux is (with the low latency patch). It'll be really slick when we get the MusicKit using ALSA and port SynthBuilder.app. ;-)
Have you had trouble getting work (and do you think it's because you're female)? Just curious.
And what made the PC sell more than the S-100? The IBM name. "No one ever got fired for choosing IBM." This makes M$ even less responsible for their success than otherwise. I personally think that anybody with an OS (or CPU) in a new IBM PC back then would have made it big time.
Well, yes; but saying that he understood what the internet was back then (or even now) is really stretching it. Now, I'm sure that some of his staffers knew what the internet was and told him that supporting the project was a good idea. But he had no clue, almost certainly.
YES!!! See, that's the beautiful thing about borders--when some stupid law is made in one place, you can go somewhere else! Up with borders!
I'm from the US and am in full agreement. But what can you do? We've got a bunch of idealistic liberals who think internationalism is some kind of blessing from God.
Probably. But that would be stupid. Russia SHOULDN'T have to give up their laws just because we don't like it. But so many in this day and age go all glittery and idealistic when you talk about internationalism that I suppose it'll happen eventually anyway. Stupid idiots.
If the server and/or business office is *IN* France, then you're right. If Yahoo has an office in France, then I think the French police should go over there and throw 'em all in jail or deport them immediately. But they still shouldn't be able to do anything to the US offices and servers.