"The government" is only evil to the extent that it uses its power to support those with the power and wealth.
Redistributing that wealth on a democratic mandate is not evil, except in the eyes of the poor rich fucks who have to admit they are a part of society and not precious snowflakes above the common run of humanity.
I have a deeply entrenched belief that people are people, and that people who gravitate to power and wealth often do so by unethical means, and that the people in the Occupy movement would be just as bad if they came into power. If someone has some amazing way to ensure justice and decent treatment for all of us, I'm all for it, but in the absence of that, the current system is as good as it gets.
What political illiterates like you fail to realise is that the Occupy movement would at least set up a fair SYSTEM. It's the system that's wrong, individuals just have to work within that system.
It's not the fault of the sociopathic people at the top, it's the fault of a system that requires people to be sociopathic to get to the top. A CEO should not earn 100x what a cleaner does. Both of them are part of the organisation and have specific roles to play, so should be paid the same, or at the most the CEO should earn two or three times what the cleaner does.
Yes, this is some form of communism. There's no point in bleating about the evils of pure capitalism while simultaneously believing that pure capitalism is the best way of organising things.
People on slashdot don't like the Occupy movement because they are essentially anti-pure-capitalism, and most people here seem to be in love with capitalism with as little an admixture of socialism as possible.
If you succeed in destroying someone's deeply entrenched beliefs using facts and logic, that person won't change his mind but will hate your guts forever.
You must hang around with a lot of stupid people then.
13-year-olds aren't going to understand the code, and neither are their teachers. If you want to read the code, feel free to buy a developer's license for it as all the mod developers have done.
Not if we never give them a chance and assume they're too young to get into coding, anyways.
This is a general, compulsory subject. Whatever people on slashdot like to think, not every child is going to be interested in coding. I'm all in favour of encouraging kids to learn programming, but making it compulsory is not going to work.
I think debt should never be an asset but a liability. Do the accountants know something I do not? Logically, if you borrow $1,000 then an equal liability for $1000 should be there as well?
Perhaps surprisingly, accountants are indeed familiar with the concept of double entry bookkeeping. If you borrow $1000 you get an asset of $1000 in the form of an increase in your bank balance and a liability of $1000 in the form of a loan due.
Bizarrely your assets always equal your liabilities (or, rather, your debits equal your credits). Anyone who wants to ask "how do you make any money then" can sign up for my online double entry bookkeeping course, $1000, all major cards accepted, no refunds.
I dont want a crap 1tb SLOW ass drive, id be happy with just 256gb SSD, or 500gb hybrid. Want more space? Get an external, you arent going to watch 5 weeks of movies unless your shipwrecked.
I was one of those folks who learned how to program not in the 1990's but rather in the 1970's on 110 baud teletype terminals with crusty yellow paper and the ability to use punch tape for data storage. That was using the real Dartmouth BASIC and not the fancy stuff that later 8-bit microcomputers did to pervert the language.
I didn't have to teach them to read, they taught themselves.
Yeah, well my kids are so smart they taught themselves how to read inside their mother's womb. At six months, they'd read War & Peace. After teaching themselves Russian first, of course.
Can we please stop using the untimely before the word death? Placing that adjective in front implies that there are timely deaths, which is never the case.
"Untimely" just means "before the expected time" when you apply it to deaths. It doesn't mean "undeserved" or anything similar. Anyone who dies before 80 is pretty much an untimely death in the modern developed world.
You're going to get a lot of flack for using the word "stealing". As any fule no, it wasn't theft because JSTOR still had the documents after he had downloaded them.
Somehow, on slashdot, that makes it all right, as though as long as you don't commit physical theft, you're OK.
Do you see what happened here? Charge with 35 years offer 6-24 mos. In the context of the trial, sounds like a great deal. In the context of reality --- WTF? Two years in prison for what?
Americans are becoming enslaved -- quite literally -- to the special interest groups that can afford to buy legislation. Welcome to fascism -- government for the benefit of the mega-corporation.
As noted in the frank exchange of views between Americano and fredprado above, breaking and entering could get you 20 years in prison in the state of Massachusetts, so the fault here is more with the harsh overall levels of sentencing in the US more than anything else.
To make it burglary you need to do it with the intention of committing a crime inside. If everything you do is to enter some building, with no one inside, it is just trespassing and at most destruction of property if you damage anything in your way in.
And when it is not legal and you use a crowbar you get up to 30 days of prison in the worst case scenario for trespassing, but when you do it electronically it magically becomes 35 years.
Yeah, I'm sure if you were caught crowbarring your way into someone's house they'd let you off with a trespassing charge.
As anyone with a vague notion of computing can attest to, these are simply 'problem-solving techniques'
A soldier shooting an enemy soldier who's firing at him in the head is employing a problem-solving technique too. Your point is meaningless. If the problem requires breaking the law, in the real world you are a criminal.
If you want to argue that, well, depression is a clinical term, so therefore it is an illness, you are stating a tautology. A (group of) biased human beings sets those standards on what is a depression. And that even though you might define it like that, it still does not say so much about the actual causes of what has been defined a depression.
That's clever and everything, except that Aaron Swartz had been suffering from depression intermittently his whole life, even when he was a young, rich genius with no threat of prison hanging over him. His depression was not some blue sky event caused by teh evil government.
See Cory Doctorow's piece on Boing Boing, he knew him for ten years and was aware of the depression all along. Someone like that could kill themselves at almost any time.
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How is that not working?
Does GDP not go up? What does income and wealth distribution have to do with it?
Or are you referring to what the "will trickle down to the poor" part of the name, but everyone knows that's garbage so why resurrect it?
The people who invented "trickle down" economics most certainly did say that it would make everyone richer, and thus "trickle down to the poor".
Remember "a rising tide floats both large and small boats" or whatever other metaphor sounded good?
As someone says below, GDP in itself doesn't prove anything.
Because nothing is perfect we should never try to be better than we are? Really?
That is pretty much the basis of conservative politics.
You either believe in progress or you don't, and conservatives don't: they always think that things were better fifty or a hundred years ago.
Redistributing that wealth on a democratic mandate is not evil, except in the eyes of the poor rich fucks who have to admit they are a part of society and not precious snowflakes above the common run of humanity.
I have a deeply entrenched belief that people are people, and that people who gravitate to power and wealth often do so by unethical means, and that the people in the Occupy movement would be just as bad if they came into power. If someone has some amazing way to ensure justice and decent treatment for all of us, I'm all for it, but in the absence of that, the current system is as good as it gets.
What political illiterates like you fail to realise is that the Occupy movement would at least set up a fair SYSTEM. It's the system that's wrong, individuals just have to work within that system.
It's not the fault of the sociopathic people at the top, it's the fault of a system that requires people to be sociopathic to get to the top. A CEO should not earn 100x what a cleaner does. Both of them are part of the organisation and have specific roles to play, so should be paid the same, or at the most the CEO should earn two or three times what the cleaner does.
Yes, this is some form of communism. There's no point in bleating about the evils of pure capitalism while simultaneously believing that pure capitalism is the best way of organising things.
People on slashdot don't like the Occupy movement because they are essentially anti-pure-capitalism, and most people here seem to be in love with capitalism with as little an admixture of socialism as possible.
If you succeed in destroying someone's deeply entrenched beliefs using facts and logic, that person won't change his mind but will hate your guts forever.
You must hang around with a lot of stupid people then.
The guy graduated from one of the best schools in the country
In the UK there are plenty of posh thickos in highly paid jobs who went to the right public school and university.
Unless I'm missing something, why would such a relatively small amount make any difference to a multi-billion dollar corporation?
13-year-olds aren't going to understand the code, and neither are their teachers. If you want to read the code, feel free to buy a developer's license for it as all the mod developers have done.
Not if we never give them a chance and assume they're too young to get into coding, anyways.
This is a general, compulsory subject. Whatever people on slashdot like to think, not every child is going to be interested in coding. I'm all in favour of encouraging kids to learn programming, but making it compulsory is not going to work.
I think debt should never be an asset but a liability. Do the accountants know something I do not? Logically, if you borrow $1,000 then an equal liability for $1000 should be there as well?
Perhaps surprisingly, accountants are indeed familiar with the concept of double entry bookkeeping. If you borrow $1000 you get an asset of $1000 in the form of an increase in your bank balance and a liability of $1000 in the form of a loan due.
Bizarrely your assets always equal your liabilities (or, rather, your debits equal your credits). Anyone who wants to ask "how do you make any money then" can sign up for my online double entry bookkeeping course, $1000, all major cards accepted, no refunds.
the problem was that they made out even when the compan(ies) they were buying/merging did really poorly
It's not so much a problem as a fucking business plan.
I dont want a crap 1tb SLOW ass drive, id be happy with just 256gb SSD, or 500gb hybrid. Want more space? Get an external, you arent going to watch 5 weeks of movies unless your shipwrecked.
One word: pr0n.
I can't support MIT after they killed Aaron Swartz.
Duh, it was the Zionist-Communist-Muslim-New-World-Order guys who killed Aaron Swartz.
MIT killed JFK.
I was one of those folks who learned how to program not in the 1990's but rather in the 1970's on 110 baud teletype terminals with crusty yellow paper and the ability to use punch tape for data storage. That was using the real Dartmouth BASIC and not the fancy stuff that later 8-bit microcomputers did to pervert the language.
Shall we all get off your lawn now?
I didn't have to teach them to read, they taught themselves.
Yeah, well my kids are so smart they taught themselves how to read inside their mother's womb. At six months, they'd read War & Peace. After teaching themselves Russian first, of course.
In related news, he vehemently criticized the President's kill-list:
http://www.infowars.com/obamas-kill-list-critic-found-dead-in-new-york-city/
Do not criticize the kill-list, ever.
Yeah, we know, if you dare to speak out about the President's kill-list, or try to make any sort of pro-gun statement, ZOG will have you killed.
I can hope that MIT's review will honor the spirit of Jason Schwartz' work
They could start by getting his name right.
Can we please stop using the untimely before the word death? Placing that adjective in front implies that there are timely deaths, which is never the case.
"Untimely" just means "before the expected time" when you apply it to deaths. It doesn't mean "undeserved" or anything similar. Anyone who dies before 80 is pretty much an untimely death in the modern developed world.
A frustrated child may scream: "I'm going to hold my breathe until I turn blue!" The wise parent, however, will not succumb to the ploy.
It's fun watching them try, though.
Somehow, on slashdot, that makes it all right, as though as long as you don't commit physical theft, you're OK.
Do you see what happened here? Charge with 35 years offer 6-24 mos. In the context of the trial, sounds like a great deal. In the context of reality --- WTF? Two years in prison for what?
Americans are becoming enslaved -- quite literally -- to the special interest groups that can afford to buy legislation. Welcome to fascism -- government for the benefit of the mega-corporation.
As noted in the frank exchange of views between Americano and fredprado above, breaking and entering could get you 20 years in prison in the state of Massachusetts, so the fault here is more with the harsh overall levels of sentencing in the US more than anything else.
Stop it girls, you're just being spiteful now.
To make it burglary you need to do it with the intention of committing a crime inside. If everything you do is to enter some building, with no one inside, it is just trespassing and at most destruction of property if you damage anything in your way in.
YANAL, I hope.
And when it is not legal and you use a crowbar you get up to 30 days of prison in the worst case scenario for trespassing, but when you do it electronically it magically becomes 35 years.
Yeah, I'm sure if you were caught crowbarring your way into someone's house they'd let you off with a trespassing charge.
As anyone with a vague notion of computing can attest to, these are simply 'problem-solving techniques'
A soldier shooting an enemy soldier who's firing at him in the head is employing a problem-solving technique too. Your point is meaningless. If the problem requires breaking the law, in the real world you are a criminal.
If you want to argue that, well, depression is a clinical term, so therefore it is an illness, you are stating a tautology. A (group of) biased human beings sets those standards on what is a depression. And that even though you might define it like that, it still does not say so much about the actual causes of what has been defined a depression.
That's clever and everything, except that Aaron Swartz had been suffering from depression intermittently his whole life, even when he was a young, rich genius with no threat of prison hanging over him. His depression was not some blue sky event caused by teh evil government.
See Cory Doctorow's piece on Boing Boing, he knew him for ten years and was aware of the depression all along. Someone like that could kill themselves at almost any time.