Google's informal motto is actually "Don't be evil". There's a subtle difference.
Yes, and the subtle difference is that almost no one ever thinks they're being evil, or acts from delibertely evil motives. Evil consequences are just an unfortunate by-product of their actions.
Hitler or Stalin would have said they were doing the best thing for their country, not being evil. Only the occasional satanic serial killer would deliberately act in an evil way.
So "don't be evil" is weak and close to meaningless compared with "do no evil".
It's funny you mention that, because in a competitive capitalist market price approaches cost. Therefore, people get that lowest price for their labor and do not need to steal as much. In non-capitalist systems, where prices are elevated, people DO have to use unethical means to get food ( for example, in Soviet Russia, hoarding, sneaking, stealing food etc etc)
Incorrect. This is only true in free markets. In markets where cartels and price fixing are allowed, and information about pricing can be hidden, then prices can be artificially held well above cost.
Capitalism depends on the people with capital making a profit. If prices did equal costs, no one would bother being a capitalist.
So... lower corporate tax rates to the point where it's not worth the bother of jumping through these hoops.
You could only make tax avoidance pointless if you had 0% tax. There is an obvious flaw to having a rate that low, namely that you won't get any tax in at all.
For any figure greater than zero, it will always be worth a corporation's while to pay something to avoid tax.
You could argue, as many clueless morons do, that one could reduce the number of guns, even though all evidence shows that reducing access to guns do in fact not reduce the number of homicidal maniacs with access to guns.
No, in a country like the UK it is very difficult to acquire guns, so the number of people with access to guns is lower, and so by definition the number of homicidal maniacs with access to guns is lower.
There are still nutters who get access to guns, and we still get shootings from time to time, but I don't see how you can disagree that the number of gun crimes is reduced. The professional criminals who get illegal guns will do so regardless of the law, obviously, but for your average jilted lover it is next to impossible to get hold of firearms easily or to have them to hand whenever they finally snap and go berserk.
(I would reject an economically optimal 14 years in favour of an ethically optimal 0 year term).
So, in other words, you think it "ethical" that the game creators would not be allowed to make any money out of these games at all? I wish I lived in your world wher everyone was happily well off and could just do stuff for fun when they felt like it.
It's a story to do with someone suing the UK Pirate Party, that someone will obviously be some copyright holder or umbrella organisation. How hard can it be to work out it's the British Phonographic Industry when that's probably the first result you get on a google search?
It is self evident that the majority of people do not hate record companies and the BPI or else they wouldn't fucking sign up with them.
No one's forcing them.
What no one on slashdot appears able to believe is that it is in the artist's own interest to get on the record company/BPI gravy train, as obviously the benefits of marketing, distribution or whatever outweigh the disadvantages.
The majority of the population who are simply consumers of the industry's products also have the simple option of refusing to buy/support them if they find their stuff so hateful.
It's an attempt to provide a rounded education, I believe that should all have been done by the age of 18 before you go to college, but I get the impression that in the US you can graduate high school while being functionally illiterate.
2) study should not be fun, study/learning should be hard work
why? because it was for you?
No, because the workplace is hard work. If students get to the end of their studies without having developed some capacity to deal with hard work that they don't have any particular urge to do, then have we really done them any favours in the end?
Agreed. You end up with over-entitled recent graduates who think they shouldn't have to do all the boring stuff that everyone else does, because they're such precious snowflakes who need to express their creativity without distractions from the dreary everyday world.
There's a reason it's called "work" to differentiate it from "fun". At work, you are there to do what you're told, not what you want to do. If you have to spend a day photocopying (or something) too bad if it's not in your 1337 job description.
I carry a blanket, a bottle of water and a dead-tree road atlas when driving around England for fuck's sake.
Here in England you do suffer from brutal temperature extremes, from as low as 2 centigrade in winter to as high as 16 or 17 in the summer, plus you can be as much as a strenuous fifteen minute walk from the nearest shop.
One good thing is that you don't have to worry about dehydration, as it's always raining.
if you ever find yourself in a 45C environment, keep in mind that death can easily happen in a 5-6 hours as well if you're not prepared for it. What helps is shade, plenty of drinking water, staying put, and alcohol or caffeine.
Funny how missing out one little word like "no" can change the meaning of a phrase.
You sound like one of those whiny white, heterosexual, male, middle-class, well-educated, well-paid fuckbags who think that political correctness has taken over society, and that everyone in a position of power is a black lesbian.
Bar floozies. Both of these whores put the move on Julian, both seduced him, then both accused him of "misconduct". Whores. Bitches. Low life cunts. Sluts. How many synonyms do you need, to get the idea?
Respected feminists? FFS, there are other people who worship lowlife drug addicted pedophiles such as Michael Jackson. Respected? We should be impressed that someone is respected? The question is, "Respected by whom?"
Toss both of those cum guzzling gutter sluts back into the ditches where they were found.
Seek some therapy, you clearly have issues with adult women.
There would be untold societal benefits if everything in the world was available equally to everyone, so that no one ever got cold or hungry again. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. So whether you're a rock star, programmer, toilet cleaner or burger flipper, everyone gets the same basic wage. Everyone gets free education and healthcare and public housing and food and clothing. However, I doubt that most people here would actually be in favour of this form of Global World Communism.
In the meantime, I don't see why producers of culture should have to do it for free while lawyers, banking software programmers and network engineers get paid large sums of money purely in order to make money for the top fraction of a percent of the population.
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Google's informal motto is actually "Don't be evil". There's a subtle difference.
Yes, and the subtle difference is that almost no one ever thinks they're being evil, or acts from delibertely evil motives. Evil consequences are just an unfortunate by-product of their actions.
Hitler or Stalin would have said they were doing the best thing for their country, not being evil. Only the occasional satanic serial killer would deliberately act in an evil way.
So "don't be evil" is weak and close to meaningless compared with "do no evil".
Since so many corporations are already paying zero taxes, why would lowering them make any difference?
We need to introduce negative corporation tax rates in order to attract the best and brightest to our shores.
If you think the US Democrat party is anything even vaguely resembling Marxist, you are deluded.
It's funny you mention that, because in a competitive capitalist market price approaches cost. Therefore, people get that lowest price for their labor and do not need to steal as much. In non-capitalist systems, where prices are elevated, people DO have to use unethical means to get food ( for example, in Soviet Russia, hoarding, sneaking, stealing food etc etc)
Incorrect. This is only true in free markets. In markets where cartels and price fixing are allowed, and information about pricing can be hidden, then prices can be artificially held well above cost.
Capitalism depends on the people with capital making a profit. If prices did equal costs, no one would bother being a capitalist.
So... lower corporate tax rates to the point where it's not worth the bother of jumping through these hoops.
You could only make tax avoidance pointless if you had 0% tax. There is an obvious flaw to having a rate that low, namely that you won't get any tax in at all.
For any figure greater than zero, it will always be worth a corporation's while to pay something to avoid tax.
You could argue, as many clueless morons do, that one could reduce the number of guns, even though all evidence shows that reducing access to guns do in fact not reduce the number of homicidal maniacs with access to guns.
No, in a country like the UK it is very difficult to acquire guns, so the number of people with access to guns is lower, and so by definition the number of homicidal maniacs with access to guns is lower.
There are still nutters who get access to guns, and we still get shootings from time to time, but I don't see how you can disagree that the number of gun crimes is reduced. The professional criminals who get illegal guns will do so regardless of the law, obviously, but for your average jilted lover it is next to impossible to get hold of firearms easily or to have them to hand whenever they finally snap and go berserk.
(I would reject an economically optimal 14 years in favour of an ethically optimal 0 year term).
So, in other words, you think it "ethical" that the game creators would not be allowed to make any money out of these games at all? I wish I lived in your world wher everyone was happily well off and could just do stuff for fun when they felt like it.
It's a story to do with someone suing the UK Pirate Party, that someone will obviously be some copyright holder or umbrella organisation. How hard can it be to work out it's the British Phonographic Industry when that's probably the first result you get on a google search?
No one's forcing them.
What no one on slashdot appears able to believe is that it is in the artist's own interest to get on the record company/BPI gravy train, as obviously the benefits of marketing, distribution or whatever outweigh the disadvantages.
The majority of the population who are simply consumers of the industry's products also have the simple option of refusing to buy/support them if they find their stuff so hateful.
It's an attempt to provide a rounded education, I believe that should all have been done by the age of 18 before you go to college, but I get the impression that in the US you can graduate high school while being functionally illiterate.
2) study should not be fun, study/learning should be hard work
why? because it was for you?
No, because the workplace is hard work. If students get to the end of their studies without having developed some capacity to deal with hard work that they don't have any particular urge to do, then have we really done them any favours in the end?
Agreed. You end up with over-entitled recent graduates who think they shouldn't have to do all the boring stuff that everyone else does, because they're such precious snowflakes who need to express their creativity without distractions from the dreary everyday world.
There's a reason it's called "work" to differentiate it from "fun". At work, you are there to do what you're told, not what you want to do. If you have to spend a day photocopying (or something) too bad if it's not in your 1337 job description.
Anyone over 10 who uses that word seriously is a fucking moron.
I discourage getting me gifts, because I'm an adult male.
You must be a bundle of fucking laughs at Christmas.
Good APK post but you should have had at least one line in bold.
On one hand, this is awesome. On the other hand, the probability of having a grandfather still alive who served in WW2 is quickly dropping to zero.
We've only recently here in Britain seen the last surviving soldier from World War One die, so there must be a lot more from WW2 around.
I carry a blanket, a bottle of water and a dead-tree road atlas when driving around England for fuck's sake.
Here in England you do suffer from brutal temperature extremes, from as low as 2 centigrade in winter to as high as 16 or 17 in the summer, plus you can be as much as a strenuous fifteen minute walk from the nearest shop.
One good thing is that you don't have to worry about dehydration, as it's always raining.
My wife and I were driving in interior British Columbia, and the GPS tried to have us take a left turn off a thousand foot cliff
Don't keep us in suspense, did you or didn't you follow its advice?
if you ever find yourself in a 45C environment, keep in mind that death can easily happen in a 5-6 hours as well if you're not prepared for it. What helps is shade, plenty of drinking water, staying put, and alcohol or caffeine.
Funny how missing out one little word like "no" can change the meaning of a phrase.
Governments can't do thing like this any longer. Revolution is coming
Yeah, fucking governments and their rule of law.
They become red-faced with anger when we defy their authority and trade amongst ourselves without their authorization
You can trade with who the fuck you want to, but that doesn't mean you get to use other people's work. Make stuff yourself if you want to trade.
You sound like one of those whiny white, heterosexual, male, middle-class, well-educated, well-paid fuckbags who think that political correctness has taken over society, and that everyone in a position of power is a black lesbian.
Bar floozies. Both of these whores put the move on Julian, both seduced him, then both accused him of "misconduct". Whores. Bitches. Low life cunts. Sluts. How many synonyms do you need, to get the idea?
Respected feminists? FFS, there are other people who worship lowlife drug addicted pedophiles such as Michael Jackson. Respected? We should be impressed that someone is respected? The question is, "Respected by whom?"
Toss both of those cum guzzling gutter sluts back into the ditches where they were found.
Seek some therapy, you clearly have issues with adult women.
In the meantime, I don't see why producers of culture should have to do it for free while lawyers, banking software programmers and network engineers get paid large sums of money purely in order to make money for the top fraction of a percent of the population.
He was never IN solitary confinement
You have an interesting description of being locked in a small room for 23 hours a day and not being allowed visitors, including his lawyer.
What pray tell do you personally believe solitary confinement would be?
Obviously, if it wasn't 24 hours a day it wasn't truesolitary confinement.
But then wouldn't tax evasion also fall into the same category?
Only rich people evade taxes, so no.