FWIW I agree. Laptops are a pain when traveling. Take loads of memory cards and enjoy the trip while not worrying so much about your bag being stolen. Internet Cafes are everywhere.
Ok, warm and fuzzies from the hunter-gather-one-with-nature lifestyle.
However, if you think that Australia could sustain it's current population (and the internet access which you appear to enjoy) if we all reverted to a hunter gatherer lifestyle then you have rocks in your head.
Personally, give me modern medicine, communication, education, science, travel etc. I grew up in a country which lacked a lot of it. I will leave the plastic food and sitcoms to others though.
Cats and foxes as well. The rabbits aren't taking out the bilby, little/fairy penguins etc.
Where's Emperor Nasi Goreng and his wall to keep the cats out!
"If I create a copyright, I sure as hell want my children to at least be able to profit from it, even if I suffer an untimely death."
Then, like most people, you can invest some of the money you make during your lifetime, from copyrighted works or otherwise, and leave that as part of your estate. Life insurance helps as well.
"Now let's take a situation I was in last week while installing Feisty on a buddy's notebook. Wireless drivers were not available for his USB Wireless NIC. I had to hit the web from another machine because...duh..."...you had not looked at what wireless NICs were supported before doing the install? Or, even better, booted the live cd and tested what worked and did not before writing to disk?
The only country I have been to that gets all it's tax from sales tax is Vanuatu.
Vanuatu is a corporate/rich person tax haven. There is advert after advert advertising this fact on the plane while arriving.
It works because Vanuatu has a proportionally large tourism industry of ~20-25% of the population in tourists each year, very low cash employment rate, low wages (except expat tax/financial consultants) and most of the local economy is subsistence agriculture in traditional villages - the people very rarely go hungry or lack a roof over their head if they have no money. IOW, they type of economy that could not exist in an OECD country.
Elevator music exists because royalties exist. Basically, someone/an organization puts together a CD (or whatever) of crappy/cheasy compositions (what we know as "elevator music") and sells it with a license allowing it to be played in public. This is much cheaper (and easier) than negotiating with individual record companies and artists.
Elevator music aptly demonstrates how copyrights promote the arts.
"Outside the US, capsicums and chillies aren't called "peppers"."
I have only heard capsicums them called capsicums in English speaking countries in the South Pacific. Capsicums are certainly called green/red/yellow peppers in the UK. Arguably, we (Australia) and NZ are the odd ones out.
In a recent survey 99% of the population of OECD countries admitted they would have trouble going for more than a few days without having a conversation, reading the news, watching TV, watching a movie listening to music, making a phone call, reading a book, writing a letter or paying a bill... amongst other things.
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"I get moded troll for an opinion that's commonly displayed in the Ubuntu forums."
Yes you do. Nowadays Ubuntu forums seems to be full of clueless noobs (no offense meant, I was one once as well) who are unable to search on the same 10 questions which seem to be asked 1000 times a day. I wouldn't be surprised if their opinion of KDE was a result of trying to install beryl, using autofuckits^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^Cautomatix to install nvidia drivers, some random.deb from some random persons blog while blaming linux for their noobness!!!
That feels better.
Depends which cult. The John Frum cult on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu did/do the runway thing.
However, look at the, now defunct, office cargo cults from this perspective:
Stone age Papua New Guinean sees fantastically wealthy - to a hitherto unknown level - white men arrive. His people have already figured out that they are not gods, but merely men with white skin. He takes notice of the fact that the white man sits in an office all day doing no more than passing paper around while the black fellas do all the work and do not get anywhere near as rich. He comes to the conclusion that the way to riches is to create an office and pass paper around.
How much of a modern western economy is based on shuffling papers? The right papers in the right order, but shuffling papers no less.
I let you off because this is slashdot and, by tradition, you probably live in you mum's basement, but there is this thing called a social life. You you should try it one day:).
"Why do so many vegetarians seem to eat simulated meat-products? Aren't they creative enough to come up with their own dishes?"
Maybe. However, the usual reason why I eat "simulated meat-products" is as a result of the lack of imagination on behalf of the meat eaters (well cooks/chefs really). The vegetarian option at the kind of restaurant that serves $20 steaks is likely to be a "simulated meat-product".
At home I cook mainly Asian and Mediterranean influenced food.
The reality is that Anglo/Germanic food is comparatively quite unimaginative (IMHO).
How else could you make a sandwich out of lentils and/or chickpeas anyway?
And "I do not particularly want my Saag Aloo tasting like a $20 steak thank you very much" would not have worked as well.
As a vegetarian, I for one appreciate (greatly) any establishment that does not cook meat. I do not particularly want my chickpea and lentil burger tasting like a $20 steak thank you very much.
Note: I am vegetarian, but do not think the above (well maybe a secret 0.5 - 1%). However, I hope you get my point though?
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Australia at 4th place is right next to Austria at 5th place. That sure is gonna confuse some!
FWIW I agree. Laptops are a pain when traveling. Take loads of memory cards and enjoy the trip while not worrying so much about your bag being stolen. Internet Cafes are everywhere.
Ok, warm and fuzzies from the hunter-gather-one-with-nature lifestyle. However, if you think that Australia could sustain it's current population (and the internet access which you appear to enjoy) if we all reverted to a hunter gatherer lifestyle then you have rocks in your head. Personally, give me modern medicine, communication, education, science, travel etc. I grew up in a country which lacked a lot of it. I will leave the plastic food and sitcoms to others though.
Cats and foxes as well. The rabbits aren't taking out the bilby, little/fairy penguins etc. Where's Emperor Nasi Goreng and his wall to keep the cats out!
"If I create a copyright, I sure as hell want my children to at least be able to profit from it, even if I suffer an untimely death."
Then, like most people, you can invest some of the money you make during your lifetime, from copyrighted works or otherwise, and leave that as part of your estate. Life insurance helps as well.
In Norway, only robots work oil rigs.
My set top box uses the same amount of power in standby as it does when it is on! Seriously, 9-10W IIRC according to my kill-a-watt.
So competition and economies of scale can exist without demand?
"Now let's take a situation I was in last week while installing Feisty on a buddy's notebook. Wireless drivers were not available for his USB Wireless NIC. I had to hit the web from another machine because...duh..." ...you had not looked at what wireless NICs were supported before doing the install? Or, even better, booted the live cd and tested what worked and did not before writing to disk?
"I couldn't find any command line programs to do it."
GNUpod?
The only country I have been to that gets all it's tax from sales tax is Vanuatu.
Vanuatu is a corporate/rich person tax haven. There is advert after advert advertising this fact on the plane while arriving.
It works because Vanuatu has a proportionally large tourism industry of ~20-25% of the population in tourists each year, very low cash employment rate, low wages (except expat tax/financial consultants) and most of the local economy is subsistence agriculture in traditional villages - the people very rarely go hungry or lack a roof over their head if they have no money. IOW, they type of economy that could not exist in an OECD country.
So, if, for example, I had a "good book" inside of which it is stated that there is a god, it doesn't prove there is a god?
Nope. Worse, it will perpetuate it.
Elevator music exists because royalties exist. Basically, someone/an organization puts together a CD (or whatever) of crappy/cheasy compositions (what we know as "elevator music") and sells it with a license allowing it to be played in public. This is much cheaper (and easier) than negotiating with individual record companies and artists.
Elevator music aptly demonstrates how copyrights promote the arts.
Do you have a cite for this? (Not doubting you, just want to have something to convince the missus that curry is healthy :)).
"Peppers I will agree with though."
Whoops, meant chillies are not called peppers outside of USA (North America?).
"Outside the US, capsicums and chillies aren't called "peppers"."
I have only heard capsicums them called capsicums in English speaking countries in the South Pacific. Capsicums are certainly called green/red/yellow peppers in the UK. Arguably, we (Australia) and NZ are the odd ones out.
Peppers I will agree with though.
Who you callin' a whore! (Sorry, bitch!)
In a recent survey 99% of the population of OECD countries admitted they would have trouble going for more than a few days without having a conversation, reading the news, watching TV, watching a movie listening to music, making a phone call, reading a book, writing a letter or paying a bill... amongst other things. More following this announcement from out sponsors.
"I get moded troll for an opinion that's commonly displayed in the Ubuntu forums." Yes you do. Nowadays Ubuntu forums seems to be full of clueless noobs (no offense meant, I was one once as well) who are unable to search on the same 10 questions which seem to be asked 1000 times a day. I wouldn't be surprised if their opinion of KDE was a result of trying to install beryl, using autofuckits^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^Cautomatix to install nvidia drivers, some random .deb from some random persons blog while blaming linux for their noobness!!!
That feels better.
"everyone would be rich."
Surely the value of the $CURRENCY would fall and/or inflation would rise dramatically instead?
Depends which cult. The John Frum cult on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu did/do the runway thing.
However, look at the, now defunct, office cargo cults from this perspective:
Stone age Papua New Guinean sees fantastically wealthy - to a hitherto unknown level - white men arrive. His people have already figured out that they are not gods, but merely men with white skin. He takes notice of the fact that the white man sits in an office all day doing no more than passing paper around while the black fellas do all the work and do not get anywhere near as rich. He comes to the conclusion that the way to riches is to create an office and pass paper around.
How much of a modern western economy is based on shuffling papers? The right papers in the right order, but shuffling papers no less.
You mean that there is no association between them?
I let you off because this is slashdot and, by tradition, you probably live in you mum's basement, but there is this thing called a social life. You you should try it one day :).
"Why do so many vegetarians seem to eat simulated meat-products? Aren't they creative enough to come up with their own dishes?" Maybe. However, the usual reason why I eat "simulated meat-products" is as a result of the lack of imagination on behalf of the meat eaters (well cooks/chefs really). The vegetarian option at the kind of restaurant that serves $20 steaks is likely to be a "simulated meat-product". At home I cook mainly Asian and Mediterranean influenced food. The reality is that Anglo/Germanic food is comparatively quite unimaginative (IMHO). How else could you make a sandwich out of lentils and/or chickpeas anyway? And "I do not particularly want my Saag Aloo tasting like a $20 steak thank you very much" would not have worked as well.
As a vegetarian, I for one appreciate (greatly) any establishment that does not cook meat. I do not particularly want my chickpea and lentil burger tasting like a $20 steak thank you very much.
Note: I am vegetarian, but do not think the above (well maybe a secret 0.5 - 1%). However, I hope you get my point though?