Its not in any way shape or form reasonable, the fact that they are using secrecy to hide from the public all of the atrocities that are happening in government and the illusionary free market system, no longer makes it justifiable. They should be promoting and encouraging transparency in our government, there is no reason to hide anything from anyone, for any reason what so ever.
He's a menace..... He thinks he's opening up communications and transparency. He's wrong, he'll just drive it deeper and encourage tighter controls and less information sharing across all industries and in government. He's also encouraged a number of people to co-opt their values for his child-like vision of a utopian society of no private information.
Whats good about this is that the situation with all of the corruption is going to blow up much, much fast than anticipated. Its really better if things get worse because of that fact. Finally people are going to start waking up to what is going on around them. Im all for it, keep the information flowing, the worse it gets, the stronger the change that will happen when the dust settles.
Right, you actually believe that if people dont have incentive, they wont work? Thats a load of crap. People have needs and they will find other ways to make it. The whole system of capitalism depends on scarcity. Which is flawed by its very nature. More people need to start business of their own, the whole idea of working for another company in this day and age amounts to slavery as someone else dictates terms to how you are going to survive.
Last I checked, Ireland doesn't really have much to attract corporations - minimal natural resources, geographically disadvantaged in moving goods into continental Europe, and a labour force that is reasonably skilled but a bit expensive (i.e. not particularly competitive). That leaves the almost sole competitive advantage being... Taxes./blockquote Our whole economic system needs to be abolished for this very reason. It only serves the rich and wealthy and it only addresses one motive, profit. There are more than just this one motive to make products. Some people make products to help other people, some make things because they enjoy the act of creation. We have system that serves only one purpose and a select group of people, the rest try to get themselves into the rich and wealthy group while the rest who choose to not focus so much on making money for the sake of making money suffer. Its pretty insane if you ask me when you think about the underlining issues of capitalism. The resources of this world should be shared by everyone for everyone.
Any people that get rich while their poor people suffer deserve nothing. If you dont understand the dynamics of what cause people to loose everything they have then you are just offloading your resentment on people who dont deserve it. We need to move selfish people to their own island some where, see how long they last. Everyone is in this world together and we need to help people when we can.
Yeah I dont know if that is such a good idea, I think certain things should be private, until it starts effecting other people, and then we should be collectively working together on making things better. We are all on this planet together and I think we all need to agree on certain things being equal. The common good has an important part to play as well.
Which is exactly what the people in power what so they can justify more intrusiveness into our lives. Im sure some of the terrorist attacks are done by our own jackals to increase the fear of the population. Its been done on numerous occasions in other countries by our government, why not do the same thing in our home country.
If you think we live in a democracy, you are living in a dream world my friend. Pretty much everything you have said has been proven otherwise. There was overwhelming support to defeat the bailout package, which is why it got voted down, and then you have Paulson (No conflict of interest there) and congress making a backroom deal without the consent of the American people. Yep, thats a democracy for sure.
So when (not if) someone in the US commits a suicide bombing in a crowded public place like an airport or train station or sporting event or political rally, the authorities will start screening people just as invasively to get into those as well. They've already started with metal detectors and bag searches in some of these places, and it's just going to get worse. Step by step, we're moving toward becoming a search-and-surveillance society, in which the Fourth Amendment might keep you secure from search and seizure in your home (because that public-safety rationale doesn't apply there), but not when you venture out into public places.
The real goal of all this extra security, IMHO is to make it so difficult to travel that people stop trying. As we move closer and closer to a currency collapse its going to be panic in the streets and by then, they will have the necessary security in place to restrict people from leaving the country. You will likely see slow roll out of other security measures like facial recognition cameras and audio surveillance devices that pick out key words of people that don't support the current government agenda. All this is going to be added slowly over time as to not arouse too much resistant as more people become used to the new security measures and it be comes part of our lives. The did the same thing during World War II, The Third Reich convinced many countries to buy into allowing the them occupy their country, over time they kept imposing restriction after restriction until for enough people it became a normal part of every day living. By the time the realized their country had been taking from them, it was too late.
It might be a good idea to conciser that something similar is happening this country, there is enough evidence from various incidents from 911 to the all the crap the bush administration pushed though to at least come to the conclusion that something about all this isn't quite right if you read about some of the facts that lead up to all of this hysterical war on terror bullshit.
I know its not easy to think about, but we might be in a situation where we might be the generation that will pay the price, if we dont stop deny what our conscious is telling us.
I know it sound like a conspiracy nut but man, I cant deny what is happening right now.. I hope more people become aware of what is going on instead of listening to what the mainstream media is telling them.
What you can do about it is write to the president and your representatives and let them know this is an issue that matters to you and one you'll vote on. The only hope of getting the practice changed any time soon is to get the president to order it halted, or congress to pass a law preventing it.
Yeah, like when we called our representatives to opposed the bailout bill with overwhelming support and look what happened? Good luck with that.
You know what im actually ashamed of our country in that we have to have people from other countries weigh in on how an actual public health care system works that is cost effective and benefits everyone.
Who cares who made the fucking quote, the only thing your post is doing is side stepping the truth that is easily apparent in the message. The fact that you are looking for wrong doings in it just makes you look silly and shows you cant think for yourself. The fact of the matter is a life of service to others is the only life worth living and when you work for the good of others it helps the many instead of the few. Our country is better off in a place of service to others than it is panhandling to the wealthy. If you cant figure that out then there is no hope for you and you might as well stop spewing your bullshit right now, nobody is buying into it.
Maybe for some people. Personally, I get hung up on the claims that the quote makes. First, that the average age of great civilizations was 200 years. This seems to be a carefully chosen date to correlate with the democratic revolutions that took place in France, the U.S., Mexico, and many other countries at the end of the last major colonial/imperial age. That is, chosen to be particularly relevant right about when the quotation is published. Any of my attempts at verifying that figure independently have used that quote as a primary source (that is, it cannot be verified independently and is likely bunk).
I say "is" because this quotation has been re-used several times in history (from 1951 to 2000) particularly around election times and other politically important events.
Also, the quote treats this pattern as a proven and established pattern, even though democracy in it's modern form and the way we have it (with a constitution and checks of power) is relatively recent.
That is, the author makes an unsupported argument and uses careful weasel-wording and timing to appeal to his audience.
If you've read Frank Herbert's Dune, it's very similar to the Missionary Protectiva concept: slight of hand with careful timing to spur action.
It is a great quote for sure, but one to be skeptical of and to carefully examine, not to take at face value. -- while(1) attack(People.Sandy);
We need to help people that cant afford health insurance to make health insurance work in this country. Coverage for just the people that can afford it is more self serving than anything. If you want to live that way, take you and your self-center practices and move to an island by yourself and see how long that selfish view is going to help you. Working together to meet the needs of all people is what makes this country great.
This whole left and right thing just takes a away from the truth of the matter. and the truth is that whatever your politics are, this country, regardless of how well the economy should be doing, has some deep seated problems with special interests dominating our existence. When you work toward fixing this problem its going to get worse before it gets better, but at least we are dealing with the root of the problem and not the symptoms. I think too many people are focusing on the symptoms(ECONOMY) instead of what the root cause of the problem (CORRUPTION). Corruption by special interests are what is causing most of the problems in this country right now and if you wat to fix it you have to deal with that first and work your way up. Health care should be run by a body of people that dont have a monetary stake in the outcome of peoples health, that is a basic fact that you cannot deny. The focus of money at the expense of the American people is not going to fix these deep seat problems. Congress needs to be run by PEOPLE for THE PEOPLE. Not by PEOPLE for THE BUSINESS. If im centered in any direction weather left or right, its going to be HEART-CENTERED and you should think about which serves our needs most. LEFT, RIGHT OR HEART.
Not only are you allowing some outside influence effect your decision making, you are subjecting yourself to a form of control that this country's special interests excel in. Prevent the public from making their own decisions by flooding the media with false claims like this and it seems like way to many people in this country fall for it.
This is the core reason why nothing will change in this country. If everyone thinks they will get to the top, nobody will want to put any effort into changing the system. We have a majority of the population that is jumping up and down for some of the table scraps, but they will never, ever become part of the stupid-elite. The fact that so many people are delusional enough to assume that money equals happiness proves that we have to many people that have their priorities mixed up. Money isnt going to fix your life its only going to complicate the many problems you already have that you are not dealing with on a personal level and those problems will be transferred to innocent people because you have money and dont know how to use it. I dont hate you for it. I feel sad for you wasting your life for something that matters little in the grand scheme of things.:(
If you cant control your own work you have nothing accept what other people say you have. Money is a byproduct of what you invest in to make life better for everyone. When you give that power away to people who dont have the same stake in it you lose apart of who are you are as you are giving people control over a part of your life. No amount of money is worth that and the fact that so many people dont look at the big picture, is the very reason why, as authors, writers, coders we lose more and more of our lively hood to centralized interests that dont have there heart in the right place when it comes to making informed decisions on a product that can be valued as an important part of our culture and society. We dont want our culture controlled by special interests. You should think about that before you start talking about doing it for the fun. There is more too it then that.
Fuck apple, I dont even know why developers deal with their bullshit. I would never subject my applications to a process like that. Its only for people that dont want control over their own work..
IMHO troops have a part to play. they are being used as pawns for a war that we should not even be involved in. Everyone needs to work out for themselves what cause is worth taking a human life and I think its everyone responsibility to account for that. We would have none of the atrocities we have now if more people were taking a stand. Instead our people are letting this country be taken over by greedy psychopaths.
Intellectual Property is an illusion. You can't claim ownership over ideas no matter how many laws you make. People are always going to take someone else's Idea, change it, use it, make it better, what ever, get over it.
The real ecnomic future is when we stop claiming ownership over stupid things like ideas and in some cases expression of ideas and let the community work out the best way to make it work. You don't have a god given right to make money off of something you do, the people decide when, where and why you get to make that money. The internet is transforming the way we think about this and you better get on board before you get your ass left behind. Its as simple as that.
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Its not in any way shape or form reasonable, the fact that they are using secrecy to hide from the public all of the atrocities that are happening in government and the illusionary free market system, no longer makes it justifiable. They should be promoting and encouraging transparency in our government, there is no reason to hide anything from anyone, for any reason what so ever.
Whats good about this is that the situation with all of the corruption is going to blow up much, much fast than anticipated. Its really better if things get worse because of that fact. Finally people are going to start waking up to what is going on around them. Im all for it, keep the information flowing, the worse it gets, the stronger the change that will happen when the dust settles.
Money is Debt.
Omg you are focusing in the wrong place, you have completely missed the post of the original post.
Right, you actually believe that if people dont have incentive, they wont work? Thats a load of crap. People have needs and they will find other ways to make it. The whole system of capitalism depends on scarcity. Which is flawed by its very nature. More people need to start business of their own, the whole idea of working for another company in this day and age amounts to slavery as someone else dictates terms to how you are going to survive.
Any people that get rich while their poor people suffer deserve nothing. If you dont understand the dynamics of what cause people to loose everything they have then you are just offloading your resentment on people who dont deserve it. We need to move selfish people to their own island some where, see how long they last. Everyone is in this world together and we need to help people when we can.
There helping by focusing on technologies that will be part of the future while the music industry is not helping or contributing to the process.
Yeah I dont know if that is such a good idea, I think certain things should be private, until it starts effecting other people, and then we should be collectively working together on making things better. We are all on this planet together and I think we all need to agree on certain things being equal. The common good has an important part to play as well.
Which is exactly what the people in power what so they can justify more intrusiveness into our lives. Im sure some of the terrorist attacks are done by our own jackals to increase the fear of the population. Its been done on numerous occasions in other countries by our government, why not do the same thing in our home country.
If you think we live in a democracy, you are living in a dream world my friend. Pretty much everything you have said has been proven otherwise. There was overwhelming support to defeat the bailout package, which is why it got voted down, and then you have Paulson (No conflict of interest there) and congress making a backroom deal without the consent of the American people. Yep, thats a democracy for sure.
The real goal of all this extra security, IMHO is to make it so difficult to travel that people stop trying. As we move closer and closer to a currency collapse its going to be panic in the streets and by then, they will have the necessary security in place to restrict people from leaving the country. You will likely see slow roll out of other security measures like facial recognition cameras and audio surveillance devices that pick out key words of people that don't support the current government agenda. All this is going to be added slowly over time as to not arouse too much resistant as more people become used to the new security measures and it be comes part of our lives. The did the same thing during World War II, The Third Reich convinced many countries to buy into allowing the them occupy their country, over time they kept imposing restriction after restriction until for enough people it became a normal part of every day living. By the time the realized their country had been taking from them, it was too late.
It might be a good idea to conciser that something similar is happening this country, there is enough evidence from various incidents from 911 to the all the crap the bush administration pushed though to at least come to the conclusion that something about all this isn't quite right if you read about some of the facts that lead up to all of this hysterical war on terror bullshit.
I know its not easy to think about, but we might be in a situation where we might be the generation that will pay the price, if we dont stop deny what our conscious is telling us.
I know it sound like a conspiracy nut but man, I cant deny what is happening right now.. I hope more people become aware of what is going on instead of listening to what the mainstream media is telling them.
Yeah, like when we called our representatives to opposed the bailout bill with overwhelming support and look what happened? Good luck with that.
You know what im actually ashamed of our country in that we have to have people from other countries weigh in on how an actual public health care system works that is cost effective and benefits everyone.
agreed.
Who cares who made the fucking quote, the only thing your post is doing is side stepping the truth that is easily apparent in the message. The fact that you are looking for wrong doings in it just makes you look silly and shows you cant think for yourself. The fact of the matter is a life of service to others is the only life worth living and when you work for the good of others it helps the many instead of the few. Our country is better off in a place of service to others than it is panhandling to the wealthy. If you cant figure that out then there is no hope for you and you might as well stop spewing your bullshit right now, nobody is buying into it.
-4 Troll; and Flaimbait to boot.
We need to help people that cant afford health insurance to make health insurance work in this country. Coverage for just the people that can afford it is more self serving than anything. If you want to live that way, take you and your self-center practices and move to an island by yourself and see how long that selfish view is going to help you. Working together to meet the needs of all people is what makes this country great.
This whole left and right thing just takes a away from the truth of the matter. and the truth is that whatever your politics are, this country, regardless of how well the economy should be doing, has some deep seated problems with special interests dominating our existence. When you work toward fixing this problem its going to get worse before it gets better, but at least we are dealing with the root of the problem and not the symptoms. I think too many people are focusing on the symptoms(ECONOMY) instead of what the root cause of the problem (CORRUPTION). Corruption by special interests are what is causing most of the problems in this country right now and if you wat to fix it you have to deal with that first and work your way up. Health care should be run by a body of people that dont have a monetary stake in the outcome of peoples health, that is a basic fact that you cannot deny. The focus of money at the expense of the American people is not going to fix these deep seat problems. Congress needs to be run by PEOPLE for THE PEOPLE. Not by PEOPLE for THE BUSINESS. If im centered in any direction weather left or right, its going to be HEART-CENTERED and you should think about which serves our needs most. LEFT, RIGHT OR HEART.
Mod Parent up.
Not only are you allowing some outside influence effect your decision making, you are subjecting yourself to a form of control that this country's special interests excel in. Prevent the public from making their own decisions by flooding the media with false claims like this and it seems like way to many people in this country fall for it.
This is the core reason why nothing will change in this country. If everyone thinks they will get to the top, nobody will want to put any effort into changing the system. We have a majority of the population that is jumping up and down for some of the table scraps, but they will never, ever become part of the stupid-elite. The fact that so many people are delusional enough to assume that money equals happiness proves that we have to many people that have their priorities mixed up. Money isnt going to fix your life its only going to complicate the many problems you already have that you are not dealing with on a personal level and those problems will be transferred to innocent people because you have money and dont know how to use it. I dont hate you for it. I feel sad for you wasting your life for something that matters little in the grand scheme of things. :(
If you cant control your own work you have nothing accept what other people say you have. Money is a byproduct of what you invest in to make life better for everyone. When you give that power away to people who dont have the same stake in it you lose apart of who are you are as you are giving people control over a part of your life. No amount of money is worth that and the fact that so many people dont look at the big picture, is the very reason why, as authors, writers, coders we lose more and more of our lively hood to centralized interests that dont have there heart in the right place when it comes to making informed decisions on a product that can be valued as an important part of our culture and society. We dont want our culture controlled by special interests. You should think about that before you start talking about doing it for the fun. There is more too it then that.
Fuck apple, I dont even know why developers deal with their bullshit. I would never subject my applications to a process like that. Its only for people that dont want control over their own work..
IMHO troops have a part to play. they are being used as pawns for a war that we should not even be involved in. Everyone needs to work out for themselves what cause is worth taking a human life and I think its everyone responsibility to account for that. We would have none of the atrocities we have now if more people were taking a stand. Instead our people are letting this country be taken over by greedy psychopaths.
Intellectual Property is an illusion. You can't claim ownership over ideas no matter how many laws you make. People are always going to take someone else's Idea, change it, use it, make it better, what ever, get over it.
The real ecnomic future is when we stop claiming ownership over stupid things like ideas and in some cases expression of ideas and let the community work out the best way to make it work. You don't have a god given right to make money off of something you do, the people decide when, where and why you get to make that money. The internet is transforming the way we think about this and you better get on board before you get your ass left behind. Its as simple as that.