I'm glad for you that you don't see any fundamental wrongs with that. I prefer to aim for a society where everybody is equal under the law. When government starts deciding that some people are worth more than others, things get very bad. Just how bad? Wait and see... That is if what's already going on hasn't bothered you yet.
He's also written a paper on the "value of a statistical life year" suggesting that the government apply a formula to evaluate the value of someone's life when deciding how many benefits they should get.
Who knows? He might even get ousted after a huge sex scandal that shades what you listed. Think about it.
Why would you bring something like that up? Now I pictured him humping a secretary grunting "Developper Developper Developper!" and my brain bluescreened.
Good strategy though! If his stock is worth 15% more when he sells it because investors are glad to see him leave, he essentially improved his parting bonus by doing a rotten job the last few years.
The very first paragraph of that document also states clearly that the government only protects those freedoms so long as it deems reasonable to do so. There is no definition of what they think is reasonable. Regardless, the government does not acknowledge that the freedoms are yours to begin with, they are granted to you on their good will to do so and are theirs to offer or deny.
All in all, I think it's a nice problem to have. Compare that to the kernel being stagnant, it's great that being able to include submitted code safely and fast enough becomes an issue to look into. I doubt MS or any of the other big software companies have issues where features and improvements are being *produced* so fast that QA is unable to keep up. I suspect that they have more of an issue with them being *requested* faster than the company can provide.
In practice, you are right. In principle however, America did take a significant lead for a while. It stated clear principles and ideals. While they didn't apply as neatly in practice as they were stated, there least used to be agreement that these stated principles applied to everybody. That (in theory at least), nobody was above the law. Mr. Greenwald actually has a very very good pre-Snowden speech on this.
Makes me wonder... I somehow doubt that the PS3, Tivo or Asus Transformer have Silverlight so the DRM itself likely isn't a Silverlight exclusive. Why aren't there smart people foaming at the mouth to reverse-engineer that stuff? I guess Netflix is mostly a US service and countries where doing such reverse-engineering isn't illegal have no incentive? There are already plenty of people working on Blueray DRM and what not, I can't see this being as complicated.
One of my main issues is that while it is relatively easy to gut mammals and fish, the meat/feces ratio in insects is a bit above my threshold. I'm not familiar with the process but I don't think a lot of effort is made in insect cuisine to separate the meat from the insect's previous meals.
To be pedantic, the only thing that needs regulating (technically, enforcement) in a free market is the core non-compulsory principle. All exchanges in a free market *must* be voluntary. That means no fraud, no theft, no murder, no property-damage, etc... All the things that are already illegal without so-called market regulations.
Dominant players capture free markets by appropriating the compulsory powers of government, which is the entity with a legal monopoly on force. It can seize your land and hand it to someone, take your money and distribute it to their favoured lobbyists, write regulations that crush emerging competition, etc. You honestly think that corporations the size of say GE exist merely because people willingly buy whatever they are selling? Most of what they sell is paid for by government taxes and people pay those because they're not too keen on the consequences of doing otherwise. The irony is that we handed the government power to do such things in the hopes that it would protect us from abusive corporations. Give politicians more power, see them sell it to the highest bidder, it's really that simple.
At this point, we've given them power to give themselves more power and we wonder why it keeps getting worse. They can't even go broke, they issue their own currency (issue treasury bonds, have the central bank buy 'em). And in the case of the US, they can bomb the shit out of (or simply intimidate) anyone who refuses to take that money at face value.
Unless they have very large tomatoes, there's nothing mega about this! To me, a mini-mega would just be a burger where you skip the fifth layer of beef and maybe one of the transitory slices of bread.
I may be naive, but I think adapting the workflow to the interface is backward. The interface is there to allow you to work, it should adapt itself to *your* workflow. With Gnome 2, if you wanted a pannel on the right side of the screen, you put a pannel on the right side of the screen. If you wanted a taskbar on the left side, you put a taskbar on the left. If you wanted the notification area in a specific corner, you put it there.
People cling to Gnome 2 because it at least granted them the freedom to adjust the interface to their workflow and the ability to do so was built into the interface. You had various components and while the default layout was alright, it was only that, a default layout, you could lay them out however you pleased. Now it's all integrated for the sake of integration with no real benefit except perhaps if your workflow happened to meet the dev's vision.
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I'm glad for you that you don't see any fundamental wrongs with that. I prefer to aim for a society where everybody is equal under the law. When government starts deciding that some people are worth more than others, things get very bad. Just how bad? Wait and see... That is if what's already going on hasn't bothered you yet.
If you've read a bit of what he's written to date, 'both' is probably the right answer.
He's also written a paper on the "value of a statistical life year" suggesting that the government apply a formula to evaluate the value of someone's life when deciding how many benefits they should get.
... yesterday.
Hmmm, that might be why I had trouble with my aim... Still dizzy.
Nah, I'm here. The laser hadn't locked in yet. Do you know how hard it is to aim your head at something in frickin' space?! Gimme a break, jeez...
Who knows? He might even get ousted after a huge sex scandal that shades what you listed. Think about it.
Why would you bring something like that up? Now I pictured him humping a secretary grunting "Developper Developper Developper!" and my brain bluescreened.
Good strategy though! If his stock is worth 15% more when he sells it because investors are glad to see him leave, he essentially improved his parting bonus by doing a rotten job the last few years.
The very first paragraph of that document also states clearly that the government only protects those freedoms so long as it deems reasonable to do so. There is no definition of what they think is reasonable. Regardless, the government does not acknowledge that the freedoms are yours to begin with, they are granted to you on their good will to do so and are theirs to offer or deny.
All in all, I think it's a nice problem to have. Compare that to the kernel being stagnant, it's great that being able to include submitted code safely and fast enough becomes an issue to look into. I doubt MS or any of the other big software companies have issues where features and improvements are being *produced* so fast that QA is unable to keep up. I suspect that they have more of an issue with them being *requested* faster than the company can provide.
In practice, you are right. In principle however, America did take a significant lead for a while. It stated clear principles and ideals. While they didn't apply as neatly in practice as they were stated, there least used to be agreement that these stated principles applied to everybody. That (in theory at least), nobody was above the law. Mr. Greenwald actually has a very very good pre-Snowden speech on this.
Makes me wonder... I somehow doubt that the PS3, Tivo or Asus Transformer have Silverlight so the DRM itself likely isn't a Silverlight exclusive. Why aren't there smart people foaming at the mouth to reverse-engineer that stuff? I guess Netflix is mostly a US service and countries where doing such reverse-engineering isn't illegal have no incentive? There are already plenty of people working on Blueray DRM and what not, I can't see this being as complicated.
The most important rule of propaganda: If you can't discredit the message, discredit the messenger.
I'd go with a mechanical toggle switch.
Smart.
People can sue you if you didn't put a 'careful, hot' warning label on a coffee cup. You don't need regulations for that, trust me.
One of my main issues is that while it is relatively easy to gut mammals and fish, the meat/feces ratio in insects is a bit above my threshold. I'm not familiar with the process but I don't think a lot of effort is made in insect cuisine to separate the meat from the insect's previous meals.
I haven't looked at studies but I have a feeling that a sexually repressed population would tend to be more violent.
Hey, I look at pictures of kittens that I haven't seen before!
Everything I've heard from it was pretty good too... I still haven't seen it but I sure wish it success.
I wonder how many of those run the Access database that powers their HR/Payroll, surely they've outgrown Excel by now ;)
(Yeah, it's a troll, but I'm amused so there.)
To be pedantic, the only thing that needs regulating (technically, enforcement) in a free market is the core non-compulsory principle. All exchanges in a free market *must* be voluntary. That means no fraud, no theft, no murder, no property-damage, etc... All the things that are already illegal without so-called market regulations.
Dominant players capture free markets by appropriating the compulsory powers of government, which is the entity with a legal monopoly on force. It can seize your land and hand it to someone, take your money and distribute it to their favoured lobbyists, write regulations that crush emerging competition, etc. You honestly think that corporations the size of say GE exist merely because people willingly buy whatever they are selling? Most of what they sell is paid for by government taxes and people pay those because they're not too keen on the consequences of doing otherwise. The irony is that we handed the government power to do such things in the hopes that it would protect us from abusive corporations. Give politicians more power, see them sell it to the highest bidder, it's really that simple.
At this point, we've given them power to give themselves more power and we wonder why it keeps getting worse. They can't even go broke, they issue their own currency (issue treasury bonds, have the central bank buy 'em). And in the case of the US, they can bomb the shit out of (or simply intimidate) anyone who refuses to take that money at face value.
Unless they have very large tomatoes, there's nothing mega about this! To me, a mini-mega would just be a burger where you skip the fifth layer of beef and maybe one of the transitory slices of bread.
Every video of him I've seen make me think that he is a heavy user of cocaine. If so, he might be a nice guy when not on cocaine.
I may be naive, but I think adapting the workflow to the interface is backward. The interface is there to allow you to work, it should adapt itself to *your* workflow. With Gnome 2, if you wanted a pannel on the right side of the screen, you put a pannel on the right side of the screen. If you wanted a taskbar on the left side, you put a taskbar on the left. If you wanted the notification area in a specific corner, you put it there.
People cling to Gnome 2 because it at least granted them the freedom to adjust the interface to their workflow and the ability to do so was built into the interface. You had various components and while the default layout was alright, it was only that, a default layout, you could lay them out however you pleased. Now it's all integrated for the sake of integration with no real benefit except perhaps if your workflow happened to meet the dev's vision.