I was shocked when I went to Europe and found out the way people there throw perfectly good food away, for instance, because they made too much of it for a family dinner.
I guess they get shocked when they come to my country (Venezuela), and find out that we try not to waste any food. I don't know if all the families here do what mine does, but we sometimes have 2 or 3 recipients with leftovers (and we are a midclass family). It's convenient when don't have time/don't want to cook, and don't want to spend on a restaurant... most kinds of food tastes better the next day!!;-)
I recently read an article where they say that some media monopolies business fall quickly, among other things, because they underestimate the content they are pushing, i.e., they rely on the "coolness" of the technology, not in the content.
In broadcasting industry, it's the other way around: they rely on the fact that people won't stop watching their favorite content (show, artists, etc), so these fans will accept whatever they dictate, no matter how annoying it will be for them.
This behavior will increase popularity on broadcasters that won't use "the evil bit", and eventually will make them the market leaders. If (I hope) they won't get greedy or misadvised, they will be better at respecting users.
I think this will happen with all the RIAA, MPAA and Microsoft in their respective fields.
Some of USA's leaders are so focused on make people see dirt in every single spot where sex is mentioned in a non-educational way. Movies? => DIRTY! Magazines? => DIRTY! Radio shows? => DIRTY! TV content? => "DIRTY!" (not that I'm defending TV content, and so on. When I read or listen to them, I somehow picture them as a bunch of hypocritical, inquisitional judges in S. XXI costumes.
Come on, guys. Sex is part of our lives. It shouldn't be seen as something taboo.
I just came from a tour around Europe, and I saw a lot of women topless in the beach, and walking around like that in front of children. Were they shocked for that? No. Were their parents hand-blocking their eyes and say "scandal! don't look that way!" when one of those girls approached? No. It was a natural thing. It's like saying that puppies get shocked when they watch dog "boobies", or when they watch other dogs mating. In Europe, on television, there was this documental at 4:00pm about tattoos: naked people were showing their tattoos in "hidden" places (nothing extreme). Everything looked like yet another regular documental program. Same program in USA?: Same guys, but somehow they manage to make the whole thing "scandalous" (with background music or something).
Leaders shouldn't focus their effort in sex blocking. They should focus effort in sex education.
...but I have a C64 which, as soon as I get some time, Ill try to interface it with my PC to finish some *work in progress*. In golden days I tried to make my own assembler, and I was working with pen, pencil, BASIC (as a loader) and my cassette recorder.
Yes, I could use an emulator, but its not the same:-)
USA may be where Internet came from, but USA is just _one_ country in the whole world.
If the US imposes regulations the rest of the world don't agree with, sure there will be enough non-US tech people to build an "alternative Internet". Laugh all you want... it can be done, (actually it has been done before with other technologies, such as, excuse my lazy mind, napster).
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"Last time I went around to a computer store and askedif they had any [grounding strap] I was laughed out of the store.."
I think that was the time when you were wearing a "Chicks dig Linux" T-Shirt.
I was shocked when I went to Europe and found out the way people there throw perfectly good food away, for instance, because they made too much of it for a family dinner.
;-)
I guess they get shocked when they come to my country (Venezuela), and find out that we try not to waste any food. I don't know if all the families here do what mine does, but we sometimes have 2 or 3 recipients with leftovers (and we are a midclass family). It's convenient when don't have time/don't want to cook, and don't want to spend on a restaurant... most kinds of food tastes better the next day!!
Heh... the cultural differences.
" On the downside the third world countries could lose their dependance on the first world."
Downside for who?
For many 3rdW countries, it would be a great "upside".
"you get the shipment of food and distribute it to your tribe". ..or to your village ..or to your town ..or to your city. ..or to your neighborhood.
Hunger, as a social problem, is everywhere, not just in tribes.
In broadcasting industry, it's the other way around: they rely on the fact that people won't stop watching their favorite content (show, artists, etc), so these fans will accept whatever they dictate, no matter how annoying it will be for them.
This behavior will increase popularity on broadcasters that won't use "the evil bit", and eventually will make them the market leaders. If (I hope) they won't get greedy or misadvised, they will be better at respecting users.
I think this will happen with all the RIAA, MPAA and Microsoft in their respective fields.
Some of USA's leaders are so focused on make people see dirt in every single spot where sex is mentioned in a non-educational way. Movies? => DIRTY! Magazines? => DIRTY! Radio shows? => DIRTY! TV content? => "DIRTY!" (not that I'm defending TV content, and so on. When I read or listen to them, I somehow picture them as a bunch of hypocritical, inquisitional judges in S. XXI costumes.
Come on, guys. Sex is part of our lives. It shouldn't be seen as something taboo.
I just came from a tour around Europe, and I saw a lot of women topless in the beach, and walking around like that in front of children. Were they shocked for that? No. Were their parents hand-blocking their eyes and say "scandal! don't look that way!" when one of those girls approached? No. It was a natural thing. It's like saying that puppies get shocked when they watch dog "boobies", or when they watch other dogs mating. In Europe, on television, there was this documental at 4:00pm about tattoos: naked people were showing their tattoos in "hidden" places (nothing extreme). Everything looked like yet another regular documental program. Same program in USA?: Same guys, but somehow they manage to make the whole thing "scandalous" (with background music or something).
Leaders shouldn't focus their effort in sex blocking. They should focus effort in sex education.
...but I have a C64 which, as soon as I get some time, Ill try to interface it with my PC to finish some *work in progress*. In golden days I tried to make my own assembler, and I was working with pen, pencil, BASIC (as a loader) and my cassette recorder.
:-)
Yes, I could use an emulator, but its not the same
Armando
They should figure out a way to bill for popular transfers (i.e.: commercial music), and keep _free_ music _freely_ available.
Internet is built on technologies, not politics.
USA may be where Internet came from, but USA is just _one_ country in the whole world.
If the US imposes regulations the rest of the world don't agree with, sure there will be enough non-US tech people to build an "alternative Internet". Laugh all you want... it can be done, (actually it has been done before with other technologies, such as, excuse my lazy mind, napster).