Just because half the human race is infuriated, and the other half feeling now justified in enslaving or worse the first half, does not make the research mistaken, wrong, or unfortunate. If I wanted to exterminate a few billion people, or all of them, I would not even think to look for an excuse or a reason - what might such be, after all? Policy (speaking as one who has been there) has nothing at all to do with facts. It has to do with advantage, in terms of mostly relative values, then coalition maintenance, then vested interests be they material or immaterial.
Facts come along when ordinary people discover that none of the policies work, unless they are bent to accommodate the facts.
There are lots of 500-year or longer historical trends - not enough for genetics but nearly enough for cultural stuff - that show that diverse populations that SURVIVE as diverse populations have to develop ways and means of turning same to advantage, which usually improves economic prospects as well. There APPEAR to be some differences in the means and medians for various characteristics, linked to gender or maybe predominant continent of origin. Perhaps this sort of diversity too is helpful.
Then there is the billiard ball theory, that everybody had to start somewhere, and kept going until the water got too darn deep. That would be to places like the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean coasts of the big Europe-Africa-Asia-Australia landmass, which might of course also be benefiting from (a) ocean harbors and (b) rivers draining hinterlands. Who knows but its fascinating.
DON'T LET THE PC POLICE waste any more of any one's time! Merge them with USA Homeland Security, and then abolish them totally!
Just think if everyone followed their league: absolutely refused to comply with laws and regulations particularly that part of that elites win, others lose pile of $^% that hides monopolistic bribe sharing behind a thin veil of concern for safety, equality, the environment, etc. As the so-called EU is one of the worst offenders, we might see their area returned to its 1945 condition, all their pathetic governments collapsed. And if all Europe could be totally freed from government, we could try it next in the USA.
Quantity has a quality all its own. But as no one REALLY wants to use these things, being able to spend one's competitors into the poor house is almost as good as winning an exchange of weapons, and far more environmentally sound...
The last thing on Earth that I desire is mobile empowerment. I find I have more than enough power as it is; often quite sufficient to cause me all sorts of hassles later. But yes progress is kinda cool. In college (1966) we had one of the first 'home' video setups, the camera was about the max size of a suitcase for checked airline baggage and weighed God only knows what it was on wheels; the recorder was about the size and weight of a washing machine; the media might fit in a bread box but I doubt it; and the whole thing cost us about $20,000.00 USD. There's a cell phone on my desk here (in case CommunistCast ISP goes down, uncommon but far from surprising); it was free and does video better; its half the size of a cigarette pack...the studio rig we bought was paid for by the USG, we got a grant to hire hookers and a suite to make a porn movie, for a class capstone project; made a profit selling 'the only copy' of the results to our customers, whose funds we (being gentlemen) let the working folks keep..
Sure it's a big deal. In theory, anything I could do a box could do as well, except be a person, and it may be that one day not to far off it could at least put on a reasonable person impersonation as well. If it were to happen on a cosmic scale, getting everything done without anyone working would probably result in everyone being unbelievably rich. Sounds good I suppose. But if it only gets part way and then slows way down, we'll simply become Eloi and Morlocks, except that the Morlocks won't be doing or having anything the Eloi care about, and the Eloi may decide to let the Morlocks all starve. Either way, our opinions as individuals or all of us together, and what any government decides, won't matter. Just the results will matter.
If someone had the desire and the resources, at least as to roads I've walked since they had both of those, sure they could make a list. So it's already possible. Or if I generally have them beside me when I walk, they'd either know or be able to mostly guess correctly, so I'm used to at least someone being able to do that. What does it matter if you all can? I chose what affects me, what happens in the universe or is done by others matters not very much at all...
Get rid of those oxymorons and the problem goes away. I would expect idiots to think, that if they were as rich as God and had both law, public opinion, and the constitution on there side, would natural attack someone who proved there property power influence and popularity to be entirely fictional. They would not be idiots if they just adjusted their expectations to reality, as those of us who have not the world's lawyers and armies at our calk are accustomed to doing.
Anything input into a computer is in the public domain, by definition, it will be abundantly evident one of these days. If it has to be put in a computer, then it is no longer owned nor private, simple as that. Might as well get used to it. And why is that a problem? If it's supposed to stay owned or private, don't let a computer find out about it, or at least don't tell one yourself. Give up the convenience and profit, maybe keep the ownership and property. I mean I don't buy a printed book, rip out the pages, scan them, digitally convert the content, and put it up as a torrent. Too much trouble for too little gain. Though I suppose that may change.
I'm a barbarian you see, I work when I please as I please. I'm a Lutheran, Hier stehe Ich. Ich kann nicht anders. And ya'll are headed for my world, the world without laws and property and money, the world with gossip and barter and community.
could be situational yes. But I think it's more that (a) the so-called (not by me!) social web at least are avatars of real people, very interesting whether by choice or evolution; (b) those are INTERACTIONS books are not. My self, I think people were built to ACT, and that our prime acts involve either our relations with others or the things we do together if not both. Me, I remember BOOKS. Not the sentences, but the world-situational images they evoke. But surely not the sentences lol. Facts are for sweeping out the door once the pattern is apprehended imho. Often the social web evokes images, at least of feeling/situations being represented to me by others. In other words, stuff whether I actually react (with action) or not, hits the buttons etc.
Around the time of cyrus - 200 generations ago - people first solved the problem of relative peace and prosperity over wide and fertile areas. So ever since, we are free to do most anything with no check on it but us...
Love AC/DC hope they get paid. Hate Apple, hope they don't. Apple is a communist outfit, where the totalitarian rules and the captive populace are the prison guards. Just like Russia lol. Slow stupid powerful and dangerous, enemies of freedom, both Apple and Russia.
AC/DC being apostles of freedom had multiple reasons for waiting lol.
Diversity is a fact and a pleasant one but not a goal. To the extent that I see something different in some person as might have that because of some other, irrelevant-to-me difference (sex age race religion ethnicity social class income wealth or whatever, which are diverse subjects too but not ones I give a hoot for), let me invite such folks closer. Or not. Diversity of ideas skills opinion commitment that sort of diversity actually is useful to me. The other sort is just irrelevant.
I am rather opposed to the idea that there even is such a thing as "intellectual property", with one exception: commercial and competitive use without payment: that seems unwise for all of us in the long run (I HATE fairness it's a devil theory, but. Not being reciprocal in important i.e. Survival or business related matters-that violates whatever - common sense, the Golden Rule, the Commandment, The US Constitution, and/or whatever few actually legitimate statutes as may exist).
2 GB/day might be better; maybe sometimes we have a fat iso or two videos to share under our personal interpretation of fair use. After all, what we want to do is what we do do; what we do do is what we think is right; what we think is right is what we ought to do; – all we really might get better at it starting with the right step, what we think is rightso my interpretation of any law IS the law as far as I care. Because if I do it, it’s clear just from that that though I have preferences as to the consequences, the consequences cannot change my preferences as to what I will do next. End of rant.
The reality is that I HATE greenies and dislike yuppies, and would not consider changing that no matter what. Oh I suppose I might claim to change under physical torture, but I really will die before I really will change any of my opinions, unless I feel like making an exception on grounds of loving the person who asks me to change an particular opinion. Then, it is possible; not otherwise. So I really don't care if this attitude is hated or tolerated, it makes no difference to me.
But I think it is INSANE to have opinions about other people's opinions and then try to use rewards, punishments, or indeed anything at all to enforce them. How can wishing it were so make it so? I don't really care what anyone else wants thinks says or does - that is their freedom. And so is the same for me, my freedom. I DO care how others feel, and I like convenience (for convenience sake, I usually don't mid rules nor mind observing them, but not if there were something especially inconvenient in so doing).
Interesting and informative. Science Fiction at it's best, combines what can be known about what people want to do or to have done, with current knowledge of fields where boundaries are exploding, to guess ways of using advances in such fields to achieve such goals. The result illuminates how it might feel to do all that, and sometimes the guess on HOW isn't that far off at all...
If it's true, what is done with a truth can be evil, neutral, helpful, etc. - it is interesting to find out what is what, consequences to people be damned, that's another question for people besides me to care about, because I don't.
Let's mine dangerous materials, assemble them carelessly, build polluting power plants, string inefficient transmission systems, produce heavy and inefficient batteries as fuel stores, and make Joe Greenie feel responsible as he drives his "pollution-free" electric car. One wonders what the multitudes buying electric cars any way will be called - "Reality Deniers" perhaps?
If it bleeds it leads. Entertainment its not, of interest to me its not, but news, it is; and if some copy it so what they decided, not the presenters of the tragic record of something someone actually did.
It's hard to like at first, whether one likes gesture/touch for input or not. And the interface formerly known as metro needs a lot of work. Even so, the boot time is responsive, its pretty good at stability and drivers for a new platform, the iso mount and hypervisor are cool and work well. I've mostly used just win8 and Ubuntu since February. In my view there are similarities between them...
There being no reason to conserve electricity - unless and until it were to become expensive - this whole thing is just like Iraq and Afghanistan: do something, preferably expensive and painful, to prove that one is on the same side as the idea's supporters; making matters worse for them and all others is not considered relevant. This is what happens with fragmented media politics and society with all "adults" voting. Voting becomes essentially self-affirmation. Bad policy multiplies, stupidity reigns.
I favor having all the Greenies screw some of those incandescent bulbs in, where the son don't shine.
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Just because half the human race is infuriated, and the other half feeling now justified in enslaving or worse the first half, does not make the research mistaken, wrong, or unfortunate. If I wanted to exterminate a few billion people, or all of them, I would not even think to look for an excuse or a reason - what might such be, after all? Policy (speaking as one who has been there) has nothing at all to do with facts. It has to do with advantage, in terms of mostly relative values, then coalition maintenance, then vested interests be they material or immaterial.
Facts come along when ordinary people discover that none of the policies work, unless they are bent to accommodate the facts.
There are lots of 500-year or longer historical trends - not enough for genetics but nearly enough for cultural stuff - that show that diverse populations that SURVIVE as diverse populations have to develop ways and means of turning same to advantage, which usually improves economic prospects as well. There APPEAR to be some differences in the means and medians for various characteristics, linked to gender or maybe predominant continent of origin. Perhaps this sort of diversity too is helpful.
Then there is the billiard ball theory, that everybody had to start somewhere, and kept going until the water got too darn deep. That would be to places like the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean coasts of the big Europe-Africa-Asia-Australia landmass, which might of course also be benefiting from (a) ocean harbors and (b) rivers draining hinterlands. Who knows but its fascinating.
DON'T LET THE PC POLICE waste any more of any one's time! Merge them with USA Homeland Security, and then abolish them totally!
Just think if everyone followed their league: absolutely refused to comply with laws and regulations particularly that part of that elites win, others lose pile of $^% that hides monopolistic bribe sharing behind a thin veil of concern for safety, equality, the environment, etc. As the so-called EU is one of the worst offenders, we might see their area returned to its 1945 condition, all their pathetic governments collapsed. And if all Europe could be totally freed from government, we could try it next in the USA.
Quantity has a quality all its own. But as no one REALLY wants to use these things, being able to spend one's competitors into the poor house is almost as good as winning an exchange of weapons, and far more environmentally sound...
The last thing on Earth that I desire is mobile empowerment. I find I have more than enough power as it is; often quite sufficient to cause me all sorts of hassles later. But yes progress is kinda cool. In college (1966) we had one of the first 'home' video setups, the camera was about the max size of a suitcase for checked airline baggage and weighed God only knows what it was on wheels; the recorder was about the size and weight of a washing machine; the media might fit in a bread box but I doubt it; and the whole thing cost us about $20,000.00 USD. There's a cell phone on my desk here (in case CommunistCast ISP goes down, uncommon but far from surprising); it was free and does video better; its half the size of a cigarette pack...the studio rig we bought was paid for by the USG, we got a grant to hire hookers and a suite to make a porn movie, for a class capstone project; made a profit selling 'the only copy' of the results to our customers, whose funds we (being gentlemen) let the working folks keep..
Sure it's a big deal. In theory, anything I could do a box could do as well, except be a person, and it may be that one day not to far off it could at least put on a reasonable person impersonation as well. If it were to happen on a cosmic scale, getting everything done without anyone working would probably result in everyone being unbelievably rich. Sounds good I suppose. But if it only gets part way and then slows way down, we'll simply become Eloi and Morlocks, except that the Morlocks won't be doing or having anything the Eloi care about, and the Eloi may decide to let the Morlocks all starve. Either way, our opinions as individuals or all of us together, and what any government decides, won't matter. Just the results will matter.
If someone had the desire and the resources, at least as to roads I've walked since they had both of those, sure they could make a list. So it's already possible. Or if I generally have them beside me when I walk, they'd either know or be able to mostly guess correctly, so I'm used to at least someone being able to do that. What does it matter if you all can? I chose what affects me, what happens in the universe or is done by others matters not very much at all...
Get rid of those oxymorons and the problem goes away. I would expect idiots to think, that if they were as rich as God and had both law, public opinion, and the constitution on there side, would natural attack someone who proved there property power influence and popularity to be entirely fictional. They would not be idiots if they just adjusted their expectations to reality, as those of us who have not the world's lawyers and armies at our calk are accustomed to doing.
Anything input into a computer is in the public domain, by definition, it will be abundantly evident one of these days. If it has to be put in a computer, then it is no longer owned nor private, simple as that. Might as well get used to it. And why is that a problem? If it's supposed to stay owned or private, don't let a computer find out about it, or at least don't tell one yourself. Give up the convenience and profit, maybe keep the ownership and property. I mean I don't buy a printed book, rip out the pages, scan them, digitally convert the content, and put it up as a torrent. Too much trouble for too little gain. Though I suppose that may change.
I'm a barbarian you see, I work when I please as I please. I'm a Lutheran, Hier stehe Ich. Ich kann nicht anders. And ya'll are headed for my world, the world without laws and property and money, the world with gossip and barter and community.
could be situational yes. But I think it's more that (a) the so-called (not by me!) social web at least are avatars of real people, very interesting whether by choice or evolution; (b) those are INTERACTIONS books are not. My self, I think people were built to ACT, and that our prime acts involve either our relations with others or the things we do together if not both. Me, I remember BOOKS. Not the sentences, but the world-situational images they evoke. But surely not the sentences lol. Facts are for sweeping out the door once the pattern is apprehended imho. Often the social web evokes images, at least of feeling/situations being represented to me by others. In other words, stuff whether I actually react (with action) or not, hits the buttons etc.
OMG a coder who is on time, with clean code, at 80% off? GIVE HIM A RAISE, make him a VP!
One wonders how this user can rate a very Vista-like OS that he can't even operate.
Around the time of cyrus - 200 generations ago - people first solved the problem of relative peace and prosperity over wide and fertile areas. So ever since, we are free to do most anything with no check on it but us...
Love AC/DC hope they get paid. Hate Apple, hope they don't. Apple is a communist outfit, where the totalitarian rules and the captive populace are the prison guards. Just like Russia lol. Slow stupid powerful and dangerous, enemies of freedom, both Apple and Russia.
AC/DC being apostles of freedom had multiple reasons for waiting lol.
Diversity is a fact and a pleasant one but not a goal. To the extent that I see something different in some person as might have that because of some other, irrelevant-to-me difference (sex age race religion ethnicity social class income wealth or whatever, which are diverse subjects too but not ones I give a hoot for), let me invite such folks closer. Or not. Diversity of ideas skills opinion commitment that sort of diversity actually is useful to me. The other sort is just irrelevant.
I am rather opposed to the idea that there even is such a thing as "intellectual property", with one exception: commercial and competitive use without payment: that seems unwise for all of us in the long run (I HATE fairness it's a devil theory, but. Not being reciprocal in important i.e. Survival or business related matters-that violates whatever - common sense, the Golden Rule, the Commandment, The US Constitution, and/or whatever few actually legitimate statutes as may exist).
2 GB/day might be better; maybe sometimes we have a fat iso or two videos to share under our personal interpretation of fair use. After all, what we want to do is what we do do; what we do do is what we think is right; what we think is right is what we ought to do; – all we really might get better at it starting with the right step, what we think is rightso my interpretation of any law IS the law as far as I care. Because if I do it, it’s clear just from that that though I have preferences as to the consequences, the consequences cannot change my preferences as to what I will do next. End of rant.
Excellent to see pro-progress pro-competition pro-openness stuff get political attention.
franchise laws like professional licensing laws and state insurance laws are an outrage, a defense of unearned wealth. good riddance.
The reality is that I HATE greenies and dislike yuppies, and would not consider changing that no matter what. Oh I suppose I might claim to change under physical torture, but I really will die before I really will change any of my opinions, unless I feel like making an exception on grounds of loving the person who asks me to change an particular opinion. Then, it is possible; not otherwise. So I really don't care if this attitude is hated or tolerated, it makes no difference to me.
But I think it is INSANE to have opinions about other people's opinions and then try to use rewards, punishments, or indeed anything at all to enforce them. How can wishing it were so make it so? I don't really care what anyone else wants thinks says or does - that is their freedom. And so is the same for me, my freedom. I DO care how others feel, and I like convenience (for convenience sake, I usually don't mid rules nor mind observing them, but not if there were something especially inconvenient in so doing).
Interesting and informative. Science Fiction at it's best, combines what can be known about what people want to do or to have done, with current knowledge of fields where boundaries are exploding, to guess ways of using advances in such fields to achieve such goals. The result illuminates how it might feel to do all that, and sometimes the guess on HOW isn't that far off at all...
If it's true, what is done with a truth can be evil, neutral, helpful, etc. - it is interesting to find out what is what, consequences to people be damned, that's another question for people besides me to care about, because I don't.
Well said. Perhaps the electric car fans might be called "Reality Deniers" lol.
Let's mine dangerous materials, assemble them carelessly, build polluting power plants, string inefficient transmission systems, produce heavy and inefficient batteries as fuel stores, and make Joe Greenie feel responsible as he drives his "pollution-free" electric car. One wonders what the multitudes buying electric cars any way will be called - "Reality Deniers" perhaps?
If it bleeds it leads. Entertainment its not, of interest to me its not, but news, it is; and if some copy it so what they decided, not the presenters of the tragic record of something someone actually did.
It's hard to like at first, whether one likes gesture/touch for input or not. And the interface formerly known as metro needs a lot of work. Even so, the boot time is responsive, its pretty good at stability and drivers for a new platform, the iso mount and hypervisor are cool and work well. I've mostly used just win8 and Ubuntu since February. In my view there are similarities between them...
There being no reason to conserve electricity - unless and until it were to become expensive - this whole thing is just like Iraq and Afghanistan: do something, preferably expensive and painful, to prove that one is on the same side as the idea's supporters; making matters worse for them and all others is not considered relevant. This is what happens with fragmented media politics and society with all "adults" voting. Voting becomes essentially self-affirmation. Bad policy multiplies, stupidity reigns.
I favor having all the Greenies screw some of those incandescent bulbs in, where the son don't shine.
ROTFFLMFAO. Amazing what can be done with public money!