I am not exactly known around here as a great believer in imaginary property either, but this has nothing whatsover to do with IP.
GenCon was given by LucasFilm some physical memorabilia, presumably various props from movie sets and the like, as a donation for Make-A-Wish, which GenCon was supposed to auction thus turning them into cash which then was supposed to be donated to the said charity. Instead, they auctioned the donated stuff and kept the money.
That is wishful thinking in the extreme. If any such technology comes along, it will not be transistor based. The very notion of a system composed of 100 billion times hundreds of thousands of transistors, no matter how streamlined and efficent is akin to someone in 1930s waxing lyrical about how in 1990 we will for sure have this mega-computing-machine composed of billions of vacuum tubes housed in 20 100-story buildings downtown New York and having its own hydro-elecric dam to power it. Moore's law will guarantee it!
Transistors are simply woefully inadequate for the job, very much the same way vacuum-tubes are.
Also "Moore's law" is nonsense. The growth of certain technologies, particularly at the stage of infancy, can be sometimes indeed exponential. But soon some hard limits are reached and the progress slows down radically. Just as is the case with modern x86 CISC CPUs, which having reached the boundaries of reasonable cost vs. performance are now essentially floundering in desperate directions involving simply multiplying the number of CPUs in hopes of some meaningful gains of performance.
To put it differently: we do not have at present any technology even remotely approaching the capabilities required. Will such a thing be invented and utilized in 20 years? Who knows. Note that in addition to the hardware capabilities needed, we also have, for all practical purposes, no clue as to actual functioning of most of neural systems, never you mind any insights into the nature of consciousness and how it relates to these functions.
But then again we were promised that all these problems will be solved 40 years back. Then just a little longer... just a little... HAL9000 was supposed to be zooming about to the moons of Jupiter in 2001, no?
This and commercial nuclear fusion, also "just around the corner" for the last 60 years or so.
Not only that, the GP (as many AI enthusiasts do) forgets that the synaptical connections are electro-chemical, not just purely electrical, and thus a whole new dimension of chemical communication enters the fray, complete with different functions of different neuro-transmitters at different synapses of the same cell, which can alter the functions of the said cell both short-term and long-term.
The more fair comparison to a neuron is not that of a transistor or even a logic gate but to a whole complete embedded microprocessor with up to 50 thousands I/O channels!
The complicated contraption of fixed magnets attached to the motor might be what is known as a "magnetic brake", a system which uses the magnetic forces of fixed magnets to offer a resisting force opposing any attempts at rotating the thing. The same kind of idea is used extensively in excercise equipment where sets of fixed magnets offer resistance to the person excercising on the machine. Look at any excercise equipment catalogue with fixed bicycles or rowing machines to get an idea.
Consider this: with the coil opened the current in the coil is 0, true, but the passive, fixed-magnet "manetic break" attached to the motor puts a load of, say, 100 watts on the motor by capturing that energy and dissipating it as heat. Then you short the coil which due to a clever arrangement disrupts the magnetic break effect of fixed magnets via its own induced magnetic field due to the current that flows in it. The current in the coil results in, say, 20 Watts of power being consumed by the coil, but the gain from the coil disabling the magnetic break is 100-20=80 Watts total. The motor speeds up under reduced load.
Welcome to the libertarian paradise of free enterprise running everything. Let "feee markets" decide! Do no not like American Water(TM) least-cost-maximum-profit product? You as a consumer are free to rip your house up by its foundations and walk with it (paying affordable $10/ft toll fees to American Roadways(TM) along the way) to where US Water(TM) is supplying its least-cost-maximum-profit wares, or even the mere 1023 miles to the Consolidated Mega Water Works(TM) territory, where the water poisoning lawsuit rates are the lowest in the country at only 1 per 1000 citizens per month, thanks to the privatization of the Justice Departament operations in that area!
Isn't free market just grand!?
What you do not like?! You mean you are not in awe of the One and True Way of Our Lord Greed?!! You filthy Communist!!! You Che Guevara loving Socialist you!!! Just wait till our privatized re-education corps catches up with you!! Blackwater!! Blackwater officers, we got a live one here!!!
How else? All of these "free marketeers" are all about privatized profits and... socialized expenses.
Which of course requires secrecy because even the most gullible of goofuses who pass for "citizens" these days might catch on and could have possibly made some noises. That is why you will find all of these "libertarian capitalists" so quickly try to change subject as soon as logical questions about their fundamentalist economic religion come to things such as roads, water and even air. That is because their honest answers would frighten even the most apathetic of couch potatos into vigorous political action opposing them.
And so instead they make vague promises of "propserity" and attempt to play on the most base insticts of people by suggesting that they are somehow getting "ripped off" by some nebulous "freeloaders", while they are busy stealing the rug from under the very people they are preaching their dogma at. And on and on and on...
Not cutting the beard is obligation. A person who cuts a beard is committing a sin...
Aaaaand so scratch logic off the list...
You turkeys are just as irrational and silly as the next bunch of deluded believers in their invisible man/donkey/winged snake in the sky who instructs them to pick their noses with a left pinky but only on every second Tuesday and dictates what sorts of fish will he smite them with lightning for eating.
Logic is not something that mixes with your lunacy too well, so do not even bother pretending. No one is getting fooled (well with the exception of you yourself perheaps).
Aaah, so with stories like that it seems that all these "libertarians" are finally admitting to their true convictions, of which we long have suspected them based on the logic and conclusions of their arguments, and so they are declaring themselves what they always were: feudalists.
And that pretty much ends any discussion. A feudalist like you is a mortal enemy of anyone who holds his or her liberty dear. The only argument that can be had with the likes of a feudalist is via a barrel of a gun. A terminal and final argumemt.
No offense, but "They're gonna take our AIR next!" is a stupid reason for opposing privatization of some resource.
Air is no different than any other natural resource. If you can make an argument to "privatize" any other communal resource, then you can also make an identical argument to privatize air.
That is the point I am making. I am showing you that your logic, if applied universally and consistently, must lead to privatization of air. Or are you in favour of applying your logic to things arbitrarily, whenever it suits you and not doing so whenever some disastrous consequence looms for you personally?
It is a non sequitur, a thing that doesn't follow from the original assumptions.
It does follow perfectly logically. You are simply refusing to accept it because such a disastrous outcome conflicts with your "free market" religious dogma. In that dogma private always trumps communal and therefore a set of conditions in which privatization leads to a societal disaster cannot exist or the dogma breaks apart and is shown for what it is, yet another effort in one of the longest running pursuits of man: an attempt to justify your own greed.
Except for obvious things like comparative advantage. It still makes no sense for me to make everything I use.
Neither it makes sense for you to buy everything you need to exist, for if taken to its logical, proper conclusion (something you desperately are trying to avoid) then no one would be able to afford to live and would begin to get immediately and irrevokably in debt the momemnt they are born, promplty becoming indentured slaves. That is why some, who wish to be in the position to be the receivers of that debt, argue so incessantly for this kind of insane "society", skipping of course any mention of that key element of your plan.
In a "society" where there is no communal property, there is NO communal property. That means everything is private property, including the Sun and the air you breathe. No exceptions. The moment you make an exception, claiming that something is better left as communal property, then it is easy to point out that great many things are more efficient, more equitable, far more humane and actually sane to be left as such communal, public property... such as roads and scientific knowledge.
I'm puzzled by what you are trying to claim. Clearly, there's still huge advantage to groups and trade. That hasn't changed.
Not if the cost of the participation in such society far outweighs any possible gains. In a society of 100% private property everyone with the exception of the ruling class gets to be born as a slave and accumulates debt to the lords far faster then he/she can earn income. What allows people today to escape that fate is the fact that many things we desperately need in our lives are communal and available to all irrespective of their income and social status. Such as roads and libraries.
As I see it, there's no obvious reason why society suddenly becomes more greedy than it has ever been.
The very notion of every street being a toll-street is precisely an example of the "society" (or more precisely sociopathic freaks like you within it) getting insanely greedy.
All I see here is sloppy logical fallacies
Such as? So far all that have you shown is your own sociopathic greed.
That is a complete lunacy. The society has evolved with the expectation that societal, common things are available to all equitably because that is the fucking definition of a fucking society!!
If you privatize everything then there is no reasomn whatsoever for individuals to band into any socially coherent group because everyone is everybody elses mortal enemy looking only for some way to take a quick advantage of you, to use and to abuse you to make a buck. That is not a society but a band of Hyenas. As a matter of fact a band of Hyenas has some social order and communal activities, this wouldn't.
Or to put it another way, if there is no advantage (as in getting something free, built and paid by others that you can use, with the caveat that you get to build things others will come to use fore free - such as roads, language, science and on and on and on) from gathering into a group, then there is no fucking point to it!!
You "free market" religious freaks will be the end of American (and any other that you manage you get your infinitely greedy paws on) society, collapsing it promptly into a really vicious neo-feudal order where people get to pay per use of each letter of the latin alphabet, for each ray of sunlight and for each gulp of air to some "proprerty holder".
Boundless, vicious, insane, sociopathic greed masquarading as "free market ideology" will be the force that unravels the US society (as tenuous as it is already) and consequently the nation itself.
Which, as I already poined out, is a travesty in a modern society, and if taken to its logical conclusion it would paralyse the entire economy and all functions of that society. The only reason it does not is because the crooks involved are careful to maintain the levels of their thievery and graft just below the threshold of violent reaction by the populace. In some countries, rightfully, that threshold is zero. In the USA and some others, the crooks have been working steadily to de-sentisize the population to ever expanding levels of theft of communal, societal properties, a trend which if sucessful will eventually result in its inevietable end result: return of the feudal order complete with tithies, taxes and tariffs on goods travelling via the borders of various new fiefdoms and roads and bridges owned by the local lords, barons and petty warlords to whom you will have to swear fealty (in nice conractual terms) before you can set foot on a road leading to "your" house.
It's that last part that is tough. How do you keep different transmitters on the same frequency from tripping over each other?
I already answered that question: Carrier Sense Multiple Access is an ancient protocol designed specifically for radio communications where multiple trasnceivers are operating on the same frequency without any pre-arranged synchronization. Of course being so old and simple I only listed it as an example, much more modern broad-spectrum frequency-hopping systems are available today.
For the sake of arguement, lets assume that frequency interference is not an technical issue - what makes you think it can still be controlled?
See above. WiFi is an example of such a system in play. Everyone and their dog has a WiFi network and yet due to the reasonably clever design of the thing they can all co-exist with a reasonable result.
All the government has to do upon establishing the protocols and access rules is to certify the devices sold as compliant and to persecute any idiot making modifications to his which result in unacceptable interference. This being radio we are talking about, the government would simply use triangulation to get his ass.
But as we saw in actual land rushes, some "comers" are more equal than others, and grow and quickly conflicts develop. Practically, how is the FCC to regulate that? It is hell to prove intentional interference when the licenses are separated into certain frequencies - how are they to do it when everyone has equal access to all bands?
They would not have to. Some frequencies are more dificult to use, which results in more expensive equiment, which would make them more likely to be inhabited by commercial concerns, some others would be the domain of Joe Public and his radio garage opener and local home game network. As long as the access protocols are followed and all equiment adheres to them, it matters not. If some large scale company wishes to start a telephone service using frequency range x-y, then if some other people are using the thing already what happens is that everyone in x-y range gets slower as the bandwith is allocated to each user by the protocols used, not by money spent. So the telco would be well advised to head into a difficult to access frequency range where there are few takers. Of course as technology advances, others would arrive there to contend with it and so there would be always pressure to find new. higher frequency ranges or come up with better, more efficent sharing algorithms and protocols and get them approved by the government for existing ranges.
All of which still leaves them in a position to gouge the public for access to public's own property. All these arguments are about how "beneficial" it is for you to have your house taken and then rented back to you. It is really that simple and clear-cut.
You are asking "well yea, my house is now being rented back to me, but if we like ask them to not to use my house to host fascist troops or anything, and if I like can go to the bathroom without paying, then its cool!"
How, exactly, do you propose to do that? Send out 275 million transceivers?
No, you design and enforce access protocols, which could be as dumb as Carrier Sense Multiple Access and as sophisticated as the scientists can make them. Depending on usage, some bandwidth ranges could be controlled by government run non-profit backbone infrastructure which could be accessible using those protocols. Etc and so on.
So, which is more in the public interest - giving away a property worth billions of dollars, or selling a property worth billions of dollars with the proceeds going to the government, which is (at least nominally) representing the people?
False dichotomy. Neither of these is a good choice, the correct one is to establish access protocols and to manage such access, as it is with many other things owned by the public, such as roads.
Then, as I pointed out previously, you would have found nothing wrong with the government "equitably" selling all roads, bridges and airspace above 100 feet to the highest bidder, following which these local monopolies would be free to charge you $10 (and up) per yard of travel in any direction by any means. You would be free of course to "compete" with them by, for example, inventing a Star Trek style teleporter or using the powers of occult to transport yourself in ways that do not cross their property, out of which they would be getting their "most valuable use (with the financial backing)" with the bill being sent to you.
"Equitable" as in for example estabilishing a publicly-owned access infrastructure along with the rules of accessing it, say like, oh I dunno... roads? Electrical grid?
This is no different, merely a different set of technical issues has to be addressed. Note that this does not imply government running a "business" but rather a type of civil engineering activity governments were involved in since times immemorial, such as road and bridge building.
The "sounding pretty smart to you" method involves selling what is not theirs to sell, in order to allow some monopolist to gouge the public unopposed, while the government gets to pocket a one time bribe and spend it promptly on some wacko foreign military adventure, thus throwing the money down the drain with no return possible to the taxpayer.
In this way the worst possible outcome is achieved: a unique public resuorce is effectively stolen by private interests in exchange for a bribe and the general public is shafted with no recourse.
This idiotic scenario is a direct equivalent of a government selling all roads and bridges in the country to the highest bidder, thus ensuring that toll-booths pop up right at the end of everybody's drive-way asking for $10 fee to travel every yard or some such, regardless of the direction you take driving, cycling or walking.
what business exactly does a government have selling a unique public resource to some private interest (thus automatically establishing a govenment backed monopoly), rather then presiding over equitable sharing and access to the said resource by all citizens?
Not entirely true, I simply provided a convenient but last-resort method (in case of some catastrofic failure of normal DHT operation) which is likely to remain practical indefinitely as 100% legitimate and legal trackers are likely to be always around, such as those of major Linux distros.
But this despearate method is unlikely to be necessary as there are always permanent "peers" in operation run by software developers involved in making of BitTorrent clients, whose only task is to act as DHT nodes to keep the DHT infrastructure running. Their locations are included with the client DHT software updates. Since these "peers" host no torrents themselves, the chances of them getting shut down are very slim.
Then there is of course manual seeding method: the IP addresses of the statrer DHT nodes are simply in a text file for most clients and such a regularly-updated list can be published by someone on some website, a trick which is used with various obscure distributed P2P clients which have a similiar "initialization" problem, such as the Japanese P2P networks "Share" and "PerfectDark".
Go to some torrent site, find any torrent that has a huge numner of peers, start download using the traditional.torrent method. After 10 minutes your client will have info about a lot of other peers, many of them supporting DHT, and so the DHT will now work. Disconnect and delete the torrent, without shutting down the client and DHT keeps running (many clients will show you DHT stats so you can confirm this).
Clients supporting the trackerless torrent feature can become ad-hoc trackers on demand and they can be found by other peers via the DHT protocol which is also part of the trackerless torrent scheme. DHT is essentially a search engine which can locate trackers/peers via the "hash" checksum of a given torrent.
A common trick for websites listing torrents is to identify such (potentially) trackerless torrents via a "magnet" url which is essentially an ASCI-friendly version of the torrent "hash" instead of a link to a.torrent file. That way even the.torrent file is stored in a distrubuted manner.
An Anonymous Coward called me a liar! Ah, what a blow! Straight to my heart! I am getting weaker... lights are fading.... such a burden... such a collosal, towering, monumental authority has weighted against me! Has life any meaning left after this!? Oh the horror! The terror! Oh will my epithaph say: "Here lies he who was called a liar by a cowardly Anonymous Coward"? Will the future generations bear this?! Will the planet Earth explode?! Will the Universe collapse upon itself because of this?!
It is the typical dishonest attempt at the "Heads I win, Tails you lose!" all-time classic of religious "argument". If the tenets do not work, thats the fault of "bad apples", atheists, heathens, wiccans, Satanists, [fill-in-your-boogeyman-here], for the tenets are divinely true! And if they do work, that's because they are divinely true!!
Then there are fun facts such as this: If you take statistics of atheists you will find the crime rates much, much lower then those representative of members of any major religion. I am sure that one fits nicely with your argument...
Why? The reason of course being that most atheists lived in totalitarian states where the side-effect of everpresent surveilance/police aparatus was very, very low crime rate amongst the population.
Also speaking of "bad apples". Wasn't that witch hunt/burning business Christians so loved like a whole village enterntainment? Mobs of Good God Fearing Christians, in pretty much every village and town in Europe, roamed about in search of witches, not satisfied until some woman was on the stake. Fun for the whole family!
Oh and then are the religious wars, neighbours against neighbour, trying to see who can stake and disembowel more men, skin their wives and skewer their children. In the name of God!
And then all those "Bad Apple" Germans in 1930-40s, some 40 million of them....
And on and on and on... "bad apples" one after another... whole barrels of them.... rivers... sea of bad apples....
No I think finding "good apples" amongst Christians and other organized, power-hungry religious lunacies, amongst all that pig-headed, ignorant, bigotted, self-centered, hypocritical assholery is the needle in the haystack type of search indeed.
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I am not exactly known around here as a great believer in imaginary property either, but this has nothing whatsover to do with IP.
GenCon was given by LucasFilm some physical memorabilia, presumably various props from movie sets and the like, as a donation for Make-A-Wish, which GenCon was supposed to auction thus turning them into cash which then was supposed to be donated to the said charity. Instead, they auctioned the donated stuff and kept the money.
That is wishful thinking in the extreme. If any such technology comes along, it will not be transistor based. The very notion of a system composed of 100 billion times hundreds of thousands of transistors, no matter how streamlined and efficent is akin to someone in 1930s waxing lyrical about how in 1990 we will for sure have this mega-computing-machine composed of billions of vacuum tubes housed in 20 100-story buildings downtown New York and having its own hydro-elecric dam to power it. Moore's law will guarantee it!
Transistors are simply woefully inadequate for the job, very much the same way vacuum-tubes are.
Also "Moore's law" is nonsense. The growth of certain technologies, particularly at the stage of infancy, can be sometimes indeed exponential. But soon some hard limits are reached and the progress slows down radically. Just as is the case with modern x86 CISC CPUs, which having reached the boundaries of reasonable cost vs. performance are now essentially floundering in desperate directions involving simply multiplying the number of CPUs in hopes of some meaningful gains of performance.
To put it differently: we do not have at present any technology even remotely approaching the capabilities required. Will such a thing be invented and utilized in 20 years? Who knows. Note that in addition to the hardware capabilities needed, we also have, for all practical purposes, no clue as to actual functioning of most of neural systems, never you mind any insights into the nature of consciousness and how it relates to these functions.
But then again we were promised that all these problems will be solved 40 years back. Then just a little longer ... just a little ... HAL9000 was supposed to be zooming about to the moons of Jupiter in 2001, no?
This and commercial nuclear fusion, also "just around the corner" for the last 60 years or so.
Not only that, the GP (as many AI enthusiasts do) forgets that the synaptical connections are electro-chemical, not just purely electrical, and thus a whole new dimension of chemical communication enters the fray, complete with different functions of different neuro-transmitters at different synapses of the same cell, which can alter the functions of the said cell both short-term and long-term.
The more fair comparison to a neuron is not that of a transistor or even a logic gate but to a whole complete embedded microprocessor with up to 50 thousands I/O channels!
Each cell!
Now multiply times 100 billion...
The complicated contraption of fixed magnets attached to the motor might be what is known as a "magnetic brake", a system which uses the magnetic forces of fixed magnets to offer a resisting force opposing any attempts at rotating the thing. The same kind of idea is used extensively in excercise equipment where sets of fixed magnets offer resistance to the person excercising on the machine. Look at any excercise equipment catalogue with fixed bicycles or rowing machines to get an idea.
Not necessarily.
Consider this: with the coil opened the current in the coil is 0, true, but the passive, fixed-magnet "manetic break" attached to the motor puts a load of, say, 100 watts on the motor by capturing that energy and dissipating it as heat. Then you short the coil which due to a clever arrangement disrupts the magnetic break effect of fixed magnets via its own induced magnetic field due to the current that flows in it. The current in the coil results in, say, 20 Watts of power being consumed by the coil, but the gain from the coil disabling the magnetic break is 100-20=80 Watts total. The motor speeds up under reduced load.
Welcome to the libertarian paradise of free enterprise running everything. Let "feee markets" decide! Do no not like American Water(TM) least-cost-maximum-profit product? You as a consumer are free to rip your house up by its foundations and walk with it (paying affordable $10/ft toll fees to American Roadways(TM) along the way) to where US Water(TM) is supplying its least-cost-maximum-profit wares, or even the mere 1023 miles to the Consolidated Mega Water Works(TM) territory, where the water poisoning lawsuit rates are the lowest in the country at only 1 per 1000 citizens per month, thanks to the privatization of the Justice Departament operations in that area!
Isn't free market just grand!?
What you do not like?! You mean you are not in awe of the One and True Way of Our Lord Greed?!! You filthy Communist!!! You Che Guevara loving Socialist you!!! Just wait till our privatized re-education corps catches up with you!! Blackwater!! Blackwater officers, we got a live one here!!!
How else? All of these "free marketeers" are all about privatized profits and ... socialized expenses.
Which of course requires secrecy because even the most gullible of goofuses who pass for "citizens" these days might catch on and could have possibly made some noises. That is why you will find all of these "libertarian capitalists" so quickly try to change subject as soon as logical questions about their fundamentalist economic religion come to things such as roads, water and even air. That is because their honest answers would frighten even the most apathetic of couch potatos into vigorous political action opposing them.
And so instead they make vague promises of "propserity" and attempt to play on the most base insticts of people by suggesting that they are somehow getting "ripped off" by some nebulous "freeloaders", while they are busy stealing the rug from under the very people they are preaching their dogma at. And on and on and on ...
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Aaaaand so scratch logic off the list ...
You turkeys are just as irrational and silly as the next bunch of deluded believers in their invisible man/donkey/winged snake in the sky who instructs them to pick their noses with a left pinky but only on every second Tuesday and dictates what sorts of fish will he smite them with lightning for eating.
Logic is not something that mixes with your lunacy too well, so do not even bother pretending. No one is getting fooled (well with the exception of you yourself perheaps).
Aaah, so with stories like that it seems that all these "libertarians" are finally admitting to their true convictions, of which we long have suspected them based on the logic and conclusions of their arguments, and so they are declaring themselves what they always were: feudalists.
And that pretty much ends any discussion. A feudalist like you is a mortal enemy of anyone who holds his or her liberty dear. The only argument that can be had with the likes of a feudalist is via a barrel of a gun. A terminal and final argumemt.
Air is no different than any other natural resource. If you can make an argument to "privatize" any other communal resource, then you can also make an identical argument to privatize air.
That is the point I am making. I am showing you that your logic, if applied universally and consistently, must lead to privatization of air. Or are you in favour of applying your logic to things arbitrarily, whenever it suits you and not doing so whenever some disastrous consequence looms for you personally?
It does follow perfectly logically. You are simply refusing to accept it because such a disastrous outcome conflicts with your "free market" religious dogma. In that dogma private always trumps communal and therefore a set of conditions in which privatization leads to a societal disaster cannot exist or the dogma breaks apart and is shown for what it is, yet another effort in one of the longest running pursuits of man: an attempt to justify your own greed.
Neither it makes sense for you to buy everything you need to exist, for if taken to its logical, proper conclusion (something you desperately are trying to avoid) then no one would be able to afford to live and would begin to get immediately and irrevokably in debt the momemnt they are born, promplty becoming indentured slaves. That is why some, who wish to be in the position to be the receivers of that debt, argue so incessantly for this kind of insane "society", skipping of course any mention of that key element of your plan.
In a "society" where there is no communal property, there is NO communal property. That means everything is private property, including the Sun and the air you breathe. No exceptions. The moment you make an exception, claiming that something is better left as communal property, then it is easy to point out that great many things are more efficient, more equitable, far more humane and actually sane to be left as such communal, public property ... such as roads and scientific knowledge.
Not if the cost of the participation in such society far outweighs any possible gains. In a society of 100% private property everyone with the exception of the ruling class gets to be born as a slave and accumulates debt to the lords far faster then he/she can earn income. What allows people today to escape that fate is the fact that many things we desperately need in our lives are communal and available to all irrespective of their income and social status. Such as roads and libraries.
The very notion of every street being a toll-street is precisely an example of the "society" (or more precisely sociopathic freaks like you within it) getting insanely greedy.
Such as? So far all that have you shown is your own sociopathic greed.
That is a complete lunacy. The society has evolved with the expectation that societal, common things are available to all equitably because that is the fucking definition of a fucking society!!
If you privatize everything then there is no reasomn whatsoever for individuals to band into any socially coherent group because everyone is everybody elses mortal enemy looking only for some way to take a quick advantage of you, to use and to abuse you to make a buck. That is not a society but a band of Hyenas. As a matter of fact a band of Hyenas has some social order and communal activities, this wouldn't.
Or to put it another way, if there is no advantage (as in getting something free, built and paid by others that you can use, with the caveat that you get to build things others will come to use fore free - such as roads, language, science and on and on and on) from gathering into a group, then there is no fucking point to it!!
You "free market" religious freaks will be the end of American (and any other that you manage you get your infinitely greedy paws on) society, collapsing it promptly into a really vicious neo-feudal order where people get to pay per use of each letter of the latin alphabet, for each ray of sunlight and for each gulp of air to some "proprerty holder".
Boundless, vicious, insane, sociopathic greed masquarading as "free market ideology" will be the force that unravels the US society (as tenuous as it is already) and consequently the nation itself.
Which, as I already poined out, is a travesty in a modern society, and if taken to its logical conclusion it would paralyse the entire economy and all functions of that society. The only reason it does not is because the crooks involved are careful to maintain the levels of their thievery and graft just below the threshold of violent reaction by the populace. In some countries, rightfully, that threshold is zero. In the USA and some others, the crooks have been working steadily to de-sentisize the population to ever expanding levels of theft of communal, societal properties, a trend which if sucessful will eventually result in its inevietable end result: return of the feudal order complete with tithies, taxes and tariffs on goods travelling via the borders of various new fiefdoms and roads and bridges owned by the local lords, barons and petty warlords to whom you will have to swear fealty (in nice conractual terms) before you can set foot on a road leading to "your" house.
I already answered that question: Carrier Sense Multiple Access is an ancient protocol designed specifically for radio communications where multiple trasnceivers are operating on the same frequency without any pre-arranged synchronization. Of course being so old and simple I only listed it as an example, much more modern broad-spectrum frequency-hopping systems are available today.
See above. WiFi is an example of such a system in play. Everyone and their dog has a WiFi network and yet due to the reasonably clever design of the thing they can all co-exist with a reasonable result.
All the government has to do upon establishing the protocols and access rules is to certify the devices sold as compliant and to persecute any idiot making modifications to his which result in unacceptable interference. This being radio we are talking about, the government would simply use triangulation to get his ass.
They would not have to. Some frequencies are more dificult to use, which results in more expensive equiment, which would make them more likely to be inhabited by commercial concerns, some others would be the domain of Joe Public and his radio garage opener and local home game network. As long as the access protocols are followed and all equiment adheres to them, it matters not. If some large scale company wishes to start a telephone service using frequency range x-y, then if some other people are using the thing already what happens is that everyone in x-y range gets slower as the bandwith is allocated to each user by the protocols used, not by money spent. So the telco would be well advised to head into a difficult to access frequency range where there are few takers. Of course as technology advances, others would arrive there to contend with it and so there would be always pressure to find new. higher frequency ranges or come up with better, more efficent sharing algorithms and protocols and get them approved by the government for existing ranges.
All of which still leaves them in a position to gouge the public for access to public's own property. All these arguments are about how "beneficial" it is for you to have your house taken and then rented back to you. It is really that simple and clear-cut.
You are asking "well yea, my house is now being rented back to me, but if we like ask them to not to use my house to host fascist troops or anything, and if I like can go to the bathroom without paying, then its cool!"
No, you design and enforce access protocols, which could be as dumb as Carrier Sense Multiple Access and as sophisticated as the scientists can make them. Depending on usage, some bandwidth ranges could be controlled by government run non-profit backbone infrastructure which could be accessible using those protocols. Etc and so on.
False dichotomy. Neither of these is a good choice, the correct one is to establish access protocols and to manage such access, as it is with many other things owned by the public, such as roads.
Then, as I pointed out previously, you would have found nothing wrong with the government "equitably" selling all roads, bridges and airspace above 100 feet to the highest bidder, following which these local monopolies would be free to charge you $10 (and up) per yard of travel in any direction by any means. You would be free of course to "compete" with them by, for example, inventing a Star Trek style teleporter or using the powers of occult to transport yourself in ways that do not cross their property, out of which they would be getting their "most valuable use (with the financial backing)" with the bill being sent to you.
No?
"Equitable" as in for example estabilishing a publicly-owned access infrastructure along with the rules of accessing it, say like, oh I dunno ... roads? Electrical grid?
This is no different, merely a different set of technical issues has to be addressed. Note that this does not imply government running a "business" but rather a type of civil engineering activity governments were involved in since times immemorial, such as road and bridge building.
The "sounding pretty smart to you" method involves selling what is not theirs to sell, in order to allow some monopolist to gouge the public unopposed, while the government gets to pocket a one time bribe and spend it promptly on some wacko foreign military adventure, thus throwing the money down the drain with no return possible to the taxpayer.
In this way the worst possible outcome is achieved: a unique public resuorce is effectively stolen by private interests in exchange for a bribe and the general public is shafted with no recourse.
This idiotic scenario is a direct equivalent of a government selling all roads and bridges in the country to the highest bidder, thus ensuring that toll-booths pop up right at the end of everybody's drive-way asking for $10 fee to travel every yard or some such, regardless of the direction you take driving, cycling or walking.
what business exactly does a government have selling a unique public resource to some private interest (thus automatically establishing a govenment backed monopoly), rather then presiding over equitable sharing and access to the said resource by all citizens?
Not entirely true, I simply provided a convenient but last-resort method (in case of some catastrofic failure of normal DHT operation) which is likely to remain practical indefinitely as 100% legitimate and legal trackers are likely to be always around, such as those of major Linux distros.
But this despearate method is unlikely to be necessary as there are always permanent "peers" in operation run by software developers involved in making of BitTorrent clients, whose only task is to act as DHT nodes to keep the DHT infrastructure running. Their locations are included with the client DHT software updates. Since these "peers" host no torrents themselves, the chances of them getting shut down are very slim.
Then there is of course manual seeding method: the IP addresses of the statrer DHT nodes are simply in a text file for most clients and such a regularly-updated list can be published by someone on some website, a trick which is used with various obscure distributed P2P clients which have a similiar "initialization" problem, such as the Japanese P2P networks "Share" and "PerfectDark".
Go to some torrent site, find any torrent that has a huge numner of peers, start download using the traditional .torrent method. After 10 minutes your client will have info about a lot of other peers, many of them supporting DHT, and so the DHT will now work. Disconnect and delete the torrent, without shutting down the client and DHT keeps running (many clients will show you DHT stats so you can confirm this).
Now start your DHT search.
Clients supporting the trackerless torrent feature can become ad-hoc trackers on demand and they can be found by other peers via the DHT protocol which is also part of the trackerless torrent scheme. DHT is essentially a search engine which can locate trackers/peers via the "hash" checksum of a given torrent.
A common trick for websites listing torrents is to identify such (potentially) trackerless torrents via a "magnet" url which is essentially an ASCI-friendly version of the torrent "hash" instead of a link to a .torrent file. That way even the .torrent file is stored in a distrubuted manner.
An Anonymous Coward called me a liar! Ah, what a blow! Straight to my heart! I am getting weaker ... lights are fading .... such a burden ... such a collosal, towering, monumental authority has weighted against me! Has life any meaning left after this!? Oh the horror! The terror! Oh will my epithaph say: "Here lies he who was called a liar by a cowardly Anonymous Coward"? Will the future generations bear this?! Will the planet Earth explode?! Will the Universe collapse upon itself because of this?!
Then again maybe not.
That is, of course, total nonsense.
It is the typical dishonest attempt at the "Heads I win, Tails you lose!" all-time classic of religious "argument". If the tenets do not work, thats the fault of "bad apples", atheists, heathens, wiccans, Satanists, [fill-in-your-boogeyman-here], for the tenets are divinely true! And if they do work, that's because they are divinely true!!
Then there are fun facts such as this: If you take statistics of atheists you will find the crime rates much, much lower then those representative of members of any major religion. I am sure that one fits nicely with your argument...
Why? The reason of course being that most atheists lived in totalitarian states where the side-effect of everpresent surveilance/police aparatus was very, very low crime rate amongst the population.
Also speaking of "bad apples". Wasn't that witch hunt/burning business Christians so loved like a whole village enterntainment? Mobs of Good God Fearing Christians, in pretty much every village and town in Europe, roamed about in search of witches, not satisfied until some woman was on the stake. Fun for the whole family!
Oh and then are the religious wars, neighbours against neighbour, trying to see who can stake and disembowel more men, skin their wives and skewer their children. In the name of God!
And then all those "Bad Apple" Germans in 1930-40s, some 40 million of them....
And on and on and on ... "bad apples" one after another ... whole barrels of them .... rivers ... sea of bad apples ....
No I think finding "good apples" amongst Christians and other organized, power-hungry religious lunacies, amongst all that pig-headed, ignorant, bigotted, self-centered, hypocritical assholery is the needle in the haystack type of search indeed.