The price problem is fundamental. Economics is the study of creating prices, assigning value to resources so they go to their best uses. Marxism and all its progeny were economic systems that were supposedly superior because they would solve the economic problem while providing social justice and superior efficiency.
Calculating a price is required feature #1, if it doesn't work, nothing else matters, it's trash and should be dumped. The dictatorship arises out of communism's failure to calculate prices because dictatorship is always what humans fall back on when things are going to hell, look to the strong man to lead us out of our problems.
$1 = 1 vote works just fine when that sort of voting is confined to its proper sphere. Should we open a new factory to produce more RAM? The prior accounting period's $ vote largely determines the answer to that question.
A plutocracy would have more stability in its high ranks. If you take a look at the richest 400 list you notice their wealth. If you look at it over 10 years, you notice how the list changes with very few being there every year.
The Republican party has long had an average contribution of around $50. The average Democrat party contribution is much higher, in the hundreds and the amount of millionaire money going to Democrats v. Republicans is heavily skewed towards the Democrats.
As for systems, The US is a republic as is most of the 1st world, the rest being monarchies. The republics generally get their leaders via democratic means and always have. It's technically true that the US is not a Democracy but so what? Pure democracy sucks compared to democratic-republicanism. The only thing wrong with democratic-republicanism is that it's just too long a label.
Please write laogai once for every political prisoner in the PRC. You should be done in a decade. Every communist system dials capitalism in and out at desire. Until the communists no longer have a monopoly on power, they can always bring back the economic idiocy at any time.
All communist experiments that have not turned totalitarian (and there were plenty, dating all the way back to before Marx) quickly failed. They are all unsustainable without massive outside subsidy (kibbutzes in Israel for instance) or totalitarianism (USSR, PRC, N. Korea, Cuba). The fundamental problem of communism is that it can't calculate a price properly, that is it can't quickly, accurately, and efficiently assign a proper value to a resource to ration its use in the many competing potential uses by the many competing potential users.
What happens after this is realized (by massive breakdowns in the economic life of the communist community) is either disbandment, subsidy from outside, or totalitarianism. There are no exceptions to this rule. European and Canadian social democracies, to the extent they are socialist, are sickly, weak things, as if they constantly were feeding on a non-lethal dose of cyanide.
duh! The entire science of economics is the science of rationing scarce goods in a world of infinite wants and desires.
Both capitalism and communism have always been economic systems, thus rationing systems. An abundance economy would make *both* irrelevant for the portions of the economy where abundance conditions held.
This printer, btw: will not create abundance in raw material extraction, in services, and in anything more durable than can be created by the best printer available and it's likely that the printers will not be able to make more of their kind (at identical quality).
In all of these areas, scarcity still rules which makes economics no longer irrelevant. But communism will still suck.
This is so uneducated, it beggars belief. They've published Lenin's papers, you know. If you've got the stomach for it, read them and see how much of a bloody, vicious dictator Vladimir Ilyich Ulanov really was.
Home Depot would probably shrink and put in a service bureau with huge, highly efficient 3D printers. Contractors could order a part by net, print it themselves if it's their own design, and just drop by to pick it up when they see their print is done.
But this has implications for customs and banned technology as well. Make your own weapons, for instance, wouldn't be as good as commercially made stuff but it certainly would put holes in unarmored people.
Does anybody read the actual license? Specifically, you have the right to export the songs, it's listed further down. You just have to be doing it for personal and non-commercial reasons. I've moved out of country does it. The Apple customer service rep blew it so Apple isn't perfect here but if you read the license, he should have gotten his stuff restored.
From the iTMS agreement "You shall be entitled to burn and export Products solely for personal, non-commercial use."
Now I don't know what that Apple rep did when he went through training but he seems to have missed that part. it's the 4th paragraph in the content usage rules section.
You can put your music online for fun on your own ISP account. There's nothing stopping people from parking their music anywhere on the NET. This isn't for that sort of musician.
Let me give you an example, I can see (especially after iTMS goes to Windows) a lot of religious music and ethnic music getting put on iTMS especially stuff from the former Soviet bloc. These countries have a significant diaspora and a lot of it isn't in the traditional immigrant landing places anymore. The diaspora has lots of money but they aren't concentrated and iTMS gives these sorts of artists a way to reach out to that dispersed audience. I can see Divertis making better money selling over the net than they do internationally touring.
I don't think you're going to be the one to fix this, Apple will, or they'll put out an iTunes SDK and a 3rd party developer will do it. All that needs to happen is the database the iTMS search function is searching against needs to be accessible via smart buylists. Making the database available is a pretty trivial problem.
The costs for laying our own infrastructure are high and the benefits are few and that's why it's not done, right?
But that's the case with Inernet-2. It's also the case when the old internet was started. In fact we're probably in a better spot because point to point business lines with no regulation on content are much cheaper today than ever before and are bought without legislative hiccup as a matter of routine.
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Eastern Catholics use vulgate (local language) and always have. Don't universalize a pissing match if it doesn't fit the facts. For a very long time, latin *was* vulgate and the western church never really wanted to let go of one language.
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Here's one suggestion on fighting back, incorporate. If the legal platform is tilted toward corporations, become one. It might take $1000/year to take care of all the filings, etc in fees and time spent dealing with it but it gets you on a different side of the table and you gain financial advantages as well (vast new tax deductions open up for corporate expenses).
I think that a lot of what is going in terms of problems is the fight to do essentially business activities (profit or non-profit) without the bother of incorporation.
So is your co-op up yet? Until I've got the spare cash to put mine up I'm generally staying out of the encouragement business. Set one up and include info about it when you advertise and people will be more likely to follow you as you've then demonstrated you know what you're talking about.
The Soviets made all sorts of rules in the Gulag so that no matter what you did, your day went well only because of the benevolence of the camp guards. Solzhenitsyn wrote about a guard who bet a zek a favor that, from his guard tower, he could name 20 rule violations the zek was guilty of right then. The zek lost.
When MS doesn't check student ID in order to up sales and then cries crocodile tears as they complain loudly to Congress about pirated sales it's a similar deal. It matters if you can do reasonable things with music you bought legally and not just technologically. Free men don't live by technical savvy outwitting slow, dumb oppressors, they just live their lives without interference by right.
Well SCO has made no representation that it's not in there. It's more of a suggestion to any IBM legal intern who might be trolling slashdot for the rare good idea. IBM will get to do this as part of the legal process known as discovery. Once they have the markers that SCO used they can go and check them against the BSD code base and see whether the SysV code is actually derived from BSD and then the BSD group can bitch slap SCO for trying to profit off of their work and we can all laugh as SCO's stock value goes through the floor.
Your music has to be encoded and submitted to Apple in their special format. $40 should cover the fellow typing in all the fields and making sure the encoding software works right. This is not even close to self-publishing. Unsigned authors probably spend more than $40 on postage and duplication to get their work to an agent and publisher who will work for 'free'.
OK, well let's assume Apple's going to eat their own dogfood. They've got a nice RAID that they sell, 3U with a max capacity of 2.52T for $11k, four of those babies come out to $44k and you'll need servers to go with that, let's say 8 X-Serves clustered. Their cluster configured system run $2.8k so there's another $23k so for $67k you actually get something decently functional in 20U of rack space to push out to Akamai which will do the heavy lifting of actually serving all that stuff out to the music buying masses just waiting for good old Engelbert to become available on this new distribution method.
CDBaby charges $40 for somebody to take your music and encode it and then upload it which is going to take at least an hour. That's a reasonable charge for encoding an album.
Apple pays bandwidth charges to Akamai and get charged on Mbps actually served. It's probably going to be a fraction of a penny per sale.
You never actually looked at iTunes, did you? They have this fun little thing called a smart playlist. I'm sure that you could, with very little effort, create a smart buy list that brought up all pan flute folk songs from the Balkans if that's what you're in the mood to buy or acid metal from Japan if that floats your boat today, listen to a few samples and spend your $0.99 getting something you never heard of before and might have never found with conventional searching.
The wading through sludge problem is 90% solved already if you weren't too technologically bigoted to actually see what they're doing. Oooh it's a Mac and therefore I must hate it even if it offers cool technology, makes life simple and lets me do things that I just can't do on other platforms like a universal scripting language (applescript) that can script GUI and CLI applications including ones that the software writer didn't intend for it to be scriptable (UI scripting). I can't wait for X11 to become scriptable.
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The price problem is fundamental. Economics is the study of creating prices, assigning value to resources so they go to their best uses. Marxism and all its progeny were economic systems that were supposedly superior because they would solve the economic problem while providing social justice and superior efficiency.
Calculating a price is required feature #1, if it doesn't work, nothing else matters, it's trash and should be dumped. The dictatorship arises out of communism's failure to calculate prices because dictatorship is always what humans fall back on when things are going to hell, look to the strong man to lead us out of our problems.
$1 = 1 vote works just fine when that sort of voting is confined to its proper sphere. Should we open a new factory to produce more RAM? The prior accounting period's $ vote largely determines the answer to that question.
A plutocracy would have more stability in its high ranks. If you take a look at the richest 400 list you notice their wealth. If you look at it over 10 years, you notice how the list changes with very few being there every year.
The Republican party has long had an average contribution of around $50. The average Democrat party contribution is much higher, in the hundreds and the amount of millionaire money going to Democrats v. Republicans is heavily skewed towards the Democrats.
As for systems, The US is a republic as is most of the 1st world, the rest being monarchies. The republics generally get their leaders via democratic means and always have. It's technically true that the US is not a Democracy but so what? Pure democracy sucks compared to democratic-republicanism. The only thing wrong with democratic-republicanism is that it's just too long a label.
Please write laogai once for every political prisoner in the PRC. You should be done in a decade. Every communist system dials capitalism in and out at desire. Until the communists no longer have a monopoly on power, they can always bring back the economic idiocy at any time.
All communist experiments that have not turned totalitarian (and there were plenty, dating all the way back to before Marx) quickly failed. They are all unsustainable without massive outside subsidy (kibbutzes in Israel for instance) or totalitarianism (USSR, PRC, N. Korea, Cuba). The fundamental problem of communism is that it can't calculate a price properly, that is it can't quickly, accurately, and efficiently assign a proper value to a resource to ration its use in the many competing potential uses by the many competing potential users.
What happens after this is realized (by massive breakdowns in the economic life of the communist community) is either disbandment, subsidy from outside, or totalitarianism. There are no exceptions to this rule. European and Canadian social democracies, to the extent they are socialist, are sickly, weak things, as if they constantly were feeding on a non-lethal dose of cyanide.
duh! The entire science of economics is the science of rationing scarce goods in a world of infinite wants and desires.
Both capitalism and communism have always been economic systems, thus rationing systems. An abundance economy would make *both* irrelevant for the portions of the economy where abundance conditions held.
This printer, btw: will not create abundance in raw material extraction, in services, and in anything more durable than can be created by the best printer available and it's likely that the printers will not be able to make more of their kind (at identical quality).
In all of these areas, scarcity still rules which makes economics no longer irrelevant. But communism will still suck.
This is so uneducated, it beggars belief. They've published Lenin's papers, you know. If you've got the stomach for it, read them and see how much of a bloody, vicious dictator Vladimir Ilyich Ulanov really was.
Home Depot would probably shrink and put in a service bureau with huge, highly efficient 3D printers. Contractors could order a part by net, print it themselves if it's their own design, and just drop by to pick it up when they see their print is done.
But this has implications for customs and banned technology as well. Make your own weapons, for instance, wouldn't be as good as commercially made stuff but it certainly would put holes in unarmored people.
Read further down. Export is legal. Apple's customer rep was full of it.
Does anybody read the actual license? Specifically, you have the right to export the songs, it's listed further down. You just have to be doing it for personal and non-commercial reasons. I've moved out of country does it. The Apple customer service rep blew it so Apple isn't perfect here but if you read the license, he should have gotten his stuff restored.
From the iTMS agreement "You shall be entitled to burn and export Products solely for personal, non-commercial use."
Now I don't know what that Apple rep did when he went through training but he seems to have missed that part. it's the 4th paragraph in the content usage rules section.
You can put your music online for fun on your own ISP account. There's nothing stopping people from parking their music anywhere on the NET. This isn't for that sort of musician.
Let me give you an example, I can see (especially after iTMS goes to Windows) a lot of religious music and ethnic music getting put on iTMS especially stuff from the former Soviet bloc. These countries have a significant diaspora and a lot of it isn't in the traditional immigrant landing places anymore. The diaspora has lots of money but they aren't concentrated and iTMS gives these sorts of artists a way to reach out to that dispersed audience. I can see Divertis making better money selling over the net than they do internationally touring.
I don't think you're going to be the one to fix this, Apple will, or they'll put out an iTunes SDK and a 3rd party developer will do it. All that needs to happen is the database the iTMS search function is searching against needs to be accessible via smart buylists. Making the database available is a pretty trivial problem.
The costs for laying our own infrastructure are high and the benefits are few and that's why it's not done, right?
But that's the case with Inernet-2. It's also the case when the old internet was started. In fact we're probably in a better spot because point to point business lines with no regulation on content are much cheaper today than ever before and are bought without legislative hiccup as a matter of routine.
Eastern Catholics use vulgate (local language) and always have. Don't universalize a pissing match if it doesn't fit the facts. For a very long time, latin *was* vulgate and the western church never really wanted to let go of one language.
Here's one suggestion on fighting back, incorporate. If the legal platform is tilted toward corporations, become one. It might take $1000/year to take care of all the filings, etc in fees and time spent dealing with it but it gets you on a different side of the table and you gain financial advantages as well (vast new tax deductions open up for corporate expenses).
I think that a lot of what is going in terms of problems is the fight to do essentially business activities (profit or non-profit) without the bother of incorporation.
So is your co-op up yet? Until I've got the spare cash to put mine up I'm generally staying out of the encouragement business. Set one up and include info about it when you advertise and people will be more likely to follow you as you've then demonstrated you know what you're talking about.
A smidgen better = better
You seem to be complaining that a good deal isn't a fantastic deal. Well, what's better?
The Soviets made all sorts of rules in the Gulag so that no matter what you did, your day went well only because of the benevolence of the camp guards. Solzhenitsyn wrote about a guard who bet a zek a favor that, from his guard tower, he could name 20 rule violations the zek was guilty of right then. The zek lost.
When MS doesn't check student ID in order to up sales and then cries crocodile tears as they complain loudly to Congress about pirated sales it's a similar deal. It matters if you can do reasonable things with music you bought legally and not just technologically. Free men don't live by technical savvy outwitting slow, dumb oppressors, they just live their lives without interference by right.
Well SCO has made no representation that it's not in there. It's more of a suggestion to any IBM legal intern who might be trolling slashdot for the rare good idea. IBM will get to do this as part of the legal process known as discovery. Once they have the markers that SCO used they can go and check them against the BSD code base and see whether the SysV code is actually derived from BSD and then the BSD group can bitch slap SCO for trying to profit off of their work and we can all laugh as SCO's stock value goes through the floor.
Your music has to be encoded and submitted to Apple in their special format. $40 should cover the fellow typing in all the fields and making sure the encoding software works right. This is not even close to self-publishing. Unsigned authors probably spend more than $40 on postage and duplication to get their work to an agent and publisher who will work for 'free'.
It's already done, just look at smart playlists with open eyes and you can see how easy it is to turn them into smart buylists.
OK, well let's assume Apple's going to eat their own dogfood. They've got a nice RAID that they sell, 3U with a max capacity of 2.52T for $11k, four of those babies come out to $44k and you'll need servers to go with that, let's say 8 X-Serves clustered. Their cluster configured system run $2.8k so there's another $23k so for $67k you actually get something decently functional in 20U of rack space to push out to Akamai which will do the heavy lifting of actually serving all that stuff out to the music buying masses just waiting for good old Engelbert to become available on this new distribution method.
CDBaby charges $40 for somebody to take your music and encode it and then upload it which is going to take at least an hour. That's a reasonable charge for encoding an album.
Apple pays bandwidth charges to Akamai and get charged on Mbps actually served. It's probably going to be a fraction of a penny per sale.
You never actually looked at iTunes, did you? They have this fun little thing called a smart playlist. I'm sure that you could, with very little effort, create a smart buy list that brought up all pan flute folk songs from the Balkans if that's what you're in the mood to buy or acid metal from Japan if that floats your boat today, listen to a few samples and spend your $0.99 getting something you never heard of before and might have never found with conventional searching.
The wading through sludge problem is 90% solved already if you weren't too technologically bigoted to actually see what they're doing. Oooh it's a Mac and therefore I must hate it even if it offers cool technology, makes life simple and lets me do things that I just can't do on other platforms like a universal scripting language (applescript) that can script GUI and CLI applications including ones that the software writer didn't intend for it to be scriptable (UI scripting). I can't wait for X11 to become scriptable.