You seem to believe that full mechanization is impossible. And it will remain that way as long as that attitude prevails. It's just more of that "man will never fly" routine. The things you mention already exist on a small scale. With the exception of the leaping fruits(but you never know what will happan with genetically modified foods). Your robot tractors would still have to pick them. When nano-tech and robo-tech are ready for prime time, you just might see "self-healing" roofs, pipes, roads, planes, trains, and automobiles. There such is a lot of talk about self-healing computers right now. If nature can do it, there's no reason to believe that we can't. The only thing holding us back is good old fashion politics, greed, lust for power, etc. We spend almost all of our energies keeping people down. This whole "you can't live here because you're not from here" thing must go. National borders are the last legal line of defense for economic stratification. All other methods, like race, sex, religion, etc. have been dutifully outlawed in the more progressive countries. It's time to tear down that last barrier.
Nobody should be obligated to work. Everybody should work based only on their desire. Those are the kind of people that produce the best results. And in a mechanized society there will never be a reason to obligate anybody. Let the machines pull the weight. That's why we invent them.
Now what I'm really wondering is that should we actually restrict education so that only the select few can get a degree. The information is there for all to see, but we spend an enormous amount of energy to restrict access. What in the world could possibly be wrong with allowing everybody to get a college degree?? What do people other than the powerful few have to gain by this? Is there some irrational fear of a well educated public? I can think of only one reason to do this. And that is to maintain a certain level of poverty. And the worse part is that so many people think that this is a good thing. That without poverty society would collapse. The only thing that will collapse is the current slave-master relationships we have maintained since the beginning. Well, I'm the freak that wants a P2P society. That was the idea(on paper anyway) behind the great American fairy tale. That all people were created equal. That our government, our juries were made up of our peers. I was never saying that there aren't people who like to work. But let's let them do it because they like it. Not because Mr. Rockefeller needs a maid. But if somebody actually wants to spend time cleaing his house, then more power to them. I would be the last one to stop them.
Ah, the old "Without poverty, who will do the work?" theory. Nothing more natural than using starvation to motivate people. Very successful it is, all over the world. We have to convince everybody that there is not enough. To think that some believe that knowledge is a limited resource, to be metered out only to those that are worthy. Pretty freaky I think. So far, the only unrenewable resource I have figured out is time. Everything else recycles. Funny that we actually choose to live that way as it becomes more obvious that we could all live like kings. I mean, it IS why we build machines, right? So we don't have to subjugate people any longer? Yes, I know. There are some who would feel naked without that power over others. What can I say? Power is a chick magnet. That "alpha male" thing works just as good with humans as it does with other animals. So let's all muzzle up and see if that power rubs off on us.
Yeah, I wasn't sure what it meant. It was from a long time ago. I only threw it up there because I don't know where or how to do a shareholder search on SBC or Comcast. I'm interested in seeing how much overlap there is.
...when the truth is that it's just an effort on the part of the people who own things...
These are people who claim to own things they have no real right to own. Hopefully, society will start to realize that. The societal problem arises from the utter hypocrisy of IP law. The government overextended their monoploy privileges. Is it immoral to "steal" from a thief? To take back what is rightfully everybody's?
Who cares about this too heavily pixelated "HD" crap anyway? Learn to be happy with a 5 inch black & white. Better yet, find a different way to pick up chicks. These people get away with this because we all gotta have the latest gizmo. And the lemmings are going to buy it, with or without DRM. Because the babes just can't resist a 60 inch plasma with 43% more dimensions(why limit yourself to only 3?)...and super-duper "UVRay" 3 million petabyte drive spinning at 40,000 rpm. Oh, and don't forget the polyester suit.
That wireless cell phone company could possibly own a big chunk of the cable company or vise versa. Competition is limited at best. The only real threat to the communications monopoly is ad-hoc wireless mesh, created by the users. If you are tied to a landline or corporate wireless, then you are owned by them.
Were I a company, I would say "Fuck you" to censorship, no matter what country it occurs. And then I would be developing software and/or hardware to subvert that censorship and make it impossible. And try to remember, despite their claims, China is not communist. They are a simple authoritarian dictatorship. Possibly more brutal than others, but not really any different. The Communist Party is in name only.
You will know it is as bad here as it is in china when you look down and see a car battery attached to your nuts. Until then, I think things here in the US are better than china.
For you maybe. Just what makes you so certain that there aren't a few car batteries attached to some American nuts...in America? You may not be noticing it, but the American government is getting more secretive all the time. You just might have a few "Abu Ghraib" prisons of your own that you haven't been made aware of yet. Don't be too surprised. As it is, the prison population numbers speak for themselves. And both countries have their share of "undocumented" prisoners.
It's impossible to have preferential service in a totally peer-based network.
And that's exactly what the owers of the pipe want. They and our governments don't want the continuesd existance of peer based networks. It's too hard to control the information that passes over such a network. No siree, if you want to keep the propaganda machine alive, you can't have just anybody uploading their subversive ideas for all to see. The tiered internet is about regaining this control. It isn't just about the money. And that's why it's so dangerous. Hopefully wireless mesh can take care of this little problem, in addition to protecting the users from people who like to snoop around. Like it or not, there will be two internets. The client-server corporate net for the lemmings and the adhoc, wireless, P2P net for the "criminals".
Yeah, and all that during the height of American/European support. Do you actually think that our governments give a tinker's damn about how many people he killed? He killed the "right" people. They were "terrorists". And the money and weapons just kept on flowing in. Saddam only got into trouble when he stepped on the wrong toes. Same with the Taliban. So come down off your high horse and make even the feeblest effort to see the whole picture. Rumsfeld and his other supporters should be held right along side of Saddam in that court room. Otherwise the trial truly is a farce.
The poor don't pay income tax. Sales taxes etc. still go in the pot, regardless of who they come from.
So...then...the illegals do pay a tax. Also, you should get it straight. It's the employer that fails to give a piece of the illegal's paycheck to the government. The illegal still pays indirectly throught the low wage. And the employer keeps the change. And it's probably the employer that had the truckloads of illegals shipped in. The employers are the real criminals. They are the ones doing the real stealing. And they are the ones reaping the real profits from their thievery. Any harsh legislation should be directed at them. But that could never happen when they "contribute" so much to the party of their choice. So let's just shift the blame to those unable to defend themselves. It's so much easier that way.
GPL uses copyright protection specifically to stop commercial interests from, say, enhancing the Linux kernel and selling the result as a closed source product. Without copyright protections, the commercial company COULD do this with impunity.
Care to explain how you can maintain "closed source" without copyright law?
No, another reason for the GPL is to keep anyone from taking free software, changing it, and not releasing the changes to the world.
Sigh...So many of you people still don't get it. Without copyright law, GPL is unnecessary! You won't need it. So what if a company doesn't release the source. Without copyright law, there is nothing to prevent me from disassembling the code myself. Let them take what they want. Without copyright law, there is nothing to prevent me from using it anyway. I lose nothing. You all really need to think these things through.
If copyright loses force, it's like everything is now BSD-licensed.
Wrong. Everything would be brought into the public domain immediately...where it belongs. Copyright law only delays the inevitable.
What...You think Hillary is going to make a difference? Please...don't hold your breath. There won't be any significant changes for at least 50 years. Don't delude yourself. Those who believe there's any real difference between the republicans and democrats are living in a dream world. Until you vote the majors out of office, what you see is what you'll get.
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You seem to believe that full mechanization is impossible. And it will remain that way as long as that attitude prevails. It's just more of that "man will never fly" routine. The things you mention already exist on a small scale. With the exception of the leaping fruits(but you never know what will happan with genetically modified foods). Your robot tractors would still have to pick them. When nano-tech and robo-tech are ready for prime time, you just might see "self-healing" roofs, pipes, roads, planes, trains, and automobiles. There such is a lot of talk about self-healing computers right now. If nature can do it, there's no reason to believe that we can't. The only thing holding us back is good old fashion politics, greed, lust for power, etc. We spend almost all of our energies keeping people down. This whole "you can't live here because you're not from here" thing must go. National borders are the last legal line of defense for economic stratification. All other methods, like race, sex, religion, etc. have been dutifully outlawed in the more progressive countries. It's time to tear down that last barrier.
Nobody should be obligated to work. Everybody should work based only on their desire. Those are the kind of people that produce the best results. And in a mechanized society there will never be a reason to obligate anybody. Let the machines pull the weight. That's why we invent them.
Now what I'm really wondering is that should we actually restrict education so that only the select few can get a degree. The information is there for all to see, but we spend an enormous amount of energy to restrict access. What in the world could possibly be wrong with allowing everybody to get a college degree?? What do people other than the powerful few have to gain by this? Is there some irrational fear of a well educated public? I can think of only one reason to do this. And that is to maintain a certain level of poverty. And the worse part is that so many people think that this is a good thing. That without poverty society would collapse. The only thing that will collapse is the current slave-master relationships we have maintained since the beginning. Well, I'm the freak that wants a P2P society. That was the idea(on paper anyway) behind the great American fairy tale. That all people were created equal. That our government, our juries were made up of our peers. I was never saying that there aren't people who like to work. But let's let them do it because they like it. Not because Mr. Rockefeller needs a maid. But if somebody actually wants to spend time cleaing his house, then more power to them. I would be the last one to stop them.
Ah, the old "Without poverty, who will do the work?" theory. Nothing more natural than using starvation to motivate people. Very successful it is, all over the world. We have to convince everybody that there is not enough. To think that some believe that knowledge is a limited resource, to be metered out only to those that are worthy. Pretty freaky I think. So far, the only unrenewable resource I have figured out is time. Everything else recycles. Funny that we actually choose to live that way as it becomes more obvious that we could all live like kings. I mean, it IS why we build machines, right? So we don't have to subjugate people any longer? Yes, I know. There are some who would feel naked without that power over others. What can I say? Power is a chick magnet. That "alpha male" thing works just as good with humans as it does with other animals. So let's all muzzle up and see if that power rubs off on us.
Silly goose. Because ignorance is strength. Whenever there is trouble, what's the first place the government shuts down? The universities of course.
That's why you get a #.1 version...after they run it through the spell check.
Yeah, I wasn't sure what it meant. It was from a long time ago. I only threw it up there because I don't know where or how to do a shareholder search on SBC or Comcast. I'm interested in seeing how much overlap there is.
Who cares about this too heavily pixelated "HD" crap anyway? Learn to be happy with a 5 inch black & white. Better yet, find a different way to pick up chicks. These people get away with this because we all gotta have the latest gizmo. And the lemmings are going to buy it, with or without DRM. Because the babes just can't resist a 60 inch plasma with 43% more dimensions(why limit yourself to only 3?)...and super-duper "UVRay" 3 million petabyte drive spinning at 40,000 rpm. Oh, and don't forget the polyester suit.
That wireless cell phone company could possibly own a big chunk of the cable company or vise versa. Competition is limited at best. The only real threat to the communications monopoly is ad-hoc wireless mesh, created by the users. If you are tied to a landline or corporate wireless, then you are owned by them.
That'll show the Chinese who can censor better.
Were I a company, I would say "Fuck you" to censorship, no matter what country it occurs. And then I would be developing software and/or hardware to subvert that censorship and make it impossible. And try to remember, despite their claims, China is not communist. They are a simple authoritarian dictatorship. Possibly more brutal than others, but not really any different. The Communist Party is in name only.
God doesn't want you peeking under his robe.
Yeah, and all that during the height of American/European support. Do you actually think that our governments give a tinker's damn about how many people he killed? He killed the "right" people. They were "terrorists". And the money and weapons just kept on flowing in. Saddam only got into trouble when he stepped on the wrong toes. Same with the Taliban. So come down off your high horse and make even the feeblest effort to see the whole picture. Rumsfeld and his other supporters should be held right along side of Saddam in that court room. Otherwise the trial truly is a farce.
Yes, your money is much safer if you give it to Charles Keating.
Wrong. Everything would be brought into the public domain immediately...where it belongs. Copyright law only delays the inevitable.
What...You think Hillary is going to make a difference? Please...don't hold your breath. There won't be any significant changes for at least 50 years. Don't delude yourself. Those who believe there's any real difference between the republicans and democrats are living in a dream world. Until you vote the majors out of office, what you see is what you'll get.