I never understood the argument that capitalism would lead to anything like democracy.
The reason you can't understand that argument is that it's complete BS.
Indeed. Democracy is a form of voting, representation, social organization of people, citizens, governments. Capitalism, as well as socialism, are mostly organizing methods for distributing money, finances, and perhaps labor and goods. No actual relation to government organization. Of course money and politics are related, but I think they are still separate segments and entities. Government and finance are inter-related to health care, education, media, technology and a bunch of things too, but not inseparably. Then again, every powerful entity tries to confuse things to its benefit. Every war is for freedom, peace, happiness, prosperity, etc, on the "us" side, and the opposite, plus some evil, on the "them" side. Then everyone can kill each other with a clean conscience, rationalizing it with 'Killing them now is clearly the right thing to do'. "US good, THEM bad!". Great political message, gets lots of votes and followers, from people with violence in them, which is most people.
Let's map the financial "dark matter". It's not hard at all, as it all goes through banks. Except, of course, it would show a lot of things nobody wants seen, such as all the elegant addresses of the dirty business money.
There is more to driving mass adoption, social behavior, and technology. Law, for example. Tax laws have encouraged US adoption of massive trucks as cars. Change the laws, and everyone changes their behavior.
I've always wanted to stop calling it a "sport". It's called a "car geek competition" now. -- I wonder how long will actual cars still be involved, and not just some 3D displays and simulations, due to danger, insurance or some other costs or whatever.
if a lot of people where to post censored chinese materials on every ip address and domain name, would they censor those entire domains and ip's?
you can read about china's official news replies searching for xinhua news, i think that's their official-state-news dept.
Google leaving China does do something for Chinese citizens -- it makes them wonder why Google pulled out.
China is good at manipulation. They have published stories of their own named Google is not god.
The The Chinese govt. will have a difficult time offering a convincing explanation that isn't embarrassing. More convincing explanations will be found elsewhere on the internet, leading more people to distrust the Chinese government and start getting their news elsewhere.
There is no elsewhere for news for the 99% who are afraid or unable to bypass the restrictions. Governments can and do that, in any country.
So a URL isn't filtered. What happens then? Windows gets reinstalled. Not automatically, of course. Perhaps techies get another job. Or someone's pc gets a job, for some botnet. Makes internet life eventful, I guess.
Tell both Viacom and Google they have to supply equipment and training for the production of 500 original videos per day, to be copyrighted by the authors themselves exclusively. Modify copyright law so that most things produced become property of the people who actually work on it, not of the company who hired them, and in the future companies become forced to negotiate terms with actors, directors, and writers, constantly renegotiating terms of use with them and producing new things, rather than already owning all the content merely by virtue of having financed the work and written the contracts and imposed terms to their advantage.
Now they want to kill spam and viruses. Sheesh. I thought they were all about generating jobs, not killing them. If they keep killing botnets and viruses and stop creating widely-deployed web browsers and operating systems with no reliability and security, who's going to keep paying us to keep fixing these things all the time? Tell them to bring back win98 and the com2: irq conflicted dial-up modems. That was great, generated tech calls all day long. At least we have usb, fast-mutating, and browser-installed viruses now.
I just realized this thing is never going to work. They are going to start cutting off some people, then more, and soon realize they will be cutting off tons of people, and stop. They'll just go fight it in the courts, but will stop cutting everyone off. No country has done it. At most it will scare a bunch of people giving more fear of using anything at all on the net other than facebook and commercial products.
What do you want, pity? Pirates and drm wars come with your territory. Suck it up. There's open source, there's freeware, shareware, and for-pay-with-money. Yes, capitalism and the protect-your-own-interests, competition-of-all-against-all way of life sucks. You decided to play capitalist by joining a company and products to sell and make money. The pirates protect their interests too. Happy with your salary and job and all that? Ubisoft, and you, wanted territory and property under your rule and name and control, well now shut up and defend it, or forget the full-capitalist route and open source it or freeware it and find other income sources.
In practice, most citizens, with a right to privacy most of the time, don't have it. Most government, and some corporate employees, who should be accountable to many people and don't always have as many rights to privacy, can afford to get it somehow. Most of us simply can't afford the costs of real privacy - having a staff to do non-tracked purchases, watch your house or company, fully secure your cell, gps, blackberry, web and desktop uses, encrypt your every transmission, get anonymous connections, etc, etc. So the end result is, actual privacy is now for corporations and government who can afford it. The rest have the phone, web actions, face images, etc tracked somewhere. It's complex -- who and where actually does a right to privacy actually exist, and not? And who gets to exercise them, rightly, and wrongly?
Maybe we'll see a return to lots of small company ISP's, which will start to become the place where the censored gather and organize their net connection and other things..
I think it's just inevitable. The Net is going to get more regulation. It only wouldn't if somehow the cables themselves became peer-to-peer, with everyone's computer running self-routing mesh networking code and having cables and or optical or radio connections to all the neighbors.
Actually, most of the time the best tool for the job is open-source. They care about price, you know.
Open source is cheaper than copying the cd and the serial of the software people already know how to use? Yes it's illegal. It's also the most common practice.
Take a look at the statistics for death causes for people under 60, and you will find almost everyone who doesn't die old dies in a car. Study why cities are large but there's lots of empty space with no people, and what causes urban sprawl, and you will find roads and parking lots fill all the space. Look at what wasted labor there is in society, and you will find that producing and maintaining one high-price high-waste transportation system per citizen is quite a bit of work when horses managed do to better than that quite some time ago, not to mention electricity and electric computer system transport. And PRT more recently. Then read about pollution, and oil wars. Then get back in your car anyway, without even writing a letter to someone.
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I never understood the argument that capitalism would lead to anything like democracy.
The reason you can't understand that argument is that it's complete BS.
Indeed. Democracy is a form of voting, representation, social organization of people, citizens, governments. Capitalism, as well as socialism, are mostly organizing methods for distributing money, finances, and perhaps labor and goods. No actual relation to government organization. Of course money and politics are related, but I think they are still separate segments and entities. Government and finance are inter-related to health care, education, media, technology and a bunch of things too, but not inseparably. Then again, every powerful entity tries to confuse things to its benefit. Every war is for freedom, peace, happiness, prosperity, etc, on the "us" side, and the opposite, plus some evil, on the "them" side. Then everyone can kill each other with a clean conscience, rationalizing it with 'Killing them now is clearly the right thing to do'. "US good, THEM bad!". Great political message, gets lots of votes and followers, from people with violence in them, which is most people.
Is sex still profitable on the net? How did these guys manage to mess up? It doesn't seem to take a genius to sell sex online.
Let's map the financial "dark matter". It's not hard at all, as it all goes through banks. Except, of course, it would show a lot of things nobody wants seen, such as all the elegant addresses of the dirty business money.
There is more to driving mass adoption, social behavior, and technology. Law, for example. Tax laws have encouraged US adoption of massive trucks as cars. Change the laws, and everyone changes their behavior.
that's exactly the behavior that could be exploited for a dos attack I think. post censored stuff everywhere, and let them block the whole internet.
I've always wanted to stop calling it a "sport". It's called a "car geek competition" now. -- I wonder how long will actual cars still be involved, and not just some 3D displays and simulations, due to danger, insurance or some other costs or whatever.
if a lot of people where to post censored chinese materials on every ip address and domain name, would they censor those entire domains and ip's? you can read about china's official news replies searching for xinhua news, i think that's their official-state-news dept.
Google leaving China does do something for Chinese citizens -- it makes them wonder why Google pulled out.
China is good at manipulation. They have published stories of their own named Google is not god.
The The Chinese govt. will have a difficult time offering a convincing explanation that isn't embarrassing. More convincing explanations will be found elsewhere on the internet, leading more people to distrust the Chinese government and start getting their news elsewhere.
There is no elsewhere for news for the 99% who are afraid or unable to bypass the restrictions. Governments can and do that, in any country.
There is always something that can be done. Doesn't mean it's easy.
So a URL isn't filtered. What happens then? Windows gets reinstalled. Not automatically, of course. Perhaps techies get another job. Or someone's pc gets a job, for some botnet. Makes internet life eventful, I guess.
Tell both Viacom and Google they have to supply equipment and training for the production of 500 original videos per day, to be copyrighted by the authors themselves exclusively. Modify copyright law so that most things produced become property of the people who actually work on it, not of the company who hired them, and in the future companies become forced to negotiate terms with actors, directors, and writers, constantly renegotiating terms of use with them and producing new things, rather than already owning all the content merely by virtue of having financed the work and written the contracts and imposed terms to their advantage.
i'd like to know just how old are some things people in washington have in their heads
They could spread the "windows" virus and take over all computers in the world and make them reboot all the time! oh they already did that.
Now they want to kill spam and viruses. Sheesh. I thought they were all about generating jobs, not killing them. If they keep killing botnets and viruses and stop creating widely-deployed web browsers and operating systems with no reliability and security, who's going to keep paying us to keep fixing these things all the time? Tell them to bring back win98 and the com2: irq conflicted dial-up modems. That was great, generated tech calls all day long. At least we have usb, fast-mutating, and browser-installed viruses now.
I just realized this thing is never going to work. They are going to start cutting off some people, then more, and soon realize they will be cutting off tons of people, and stop. They'll just go fight it in the courts, but will stop cutting everyone off. No country has done it. At most it will scare a bunch of people giving more fear of using anything at all on the net other than facebook and commercial products.
What do you want, pity? Pirates and drm wars come with your territory. Suck it up. There's open source, there's freeware, shareware, and for-pay-with-money. Yes, capitalism and the protect-your-own-interests, competition-of-all-against-all way of life sucks. You decided to play capitalist by joining a company and products to sell and make money. The pirates protect their interests too. Happy with your salary and job and all that? Ubisoft, and you, wanted territory and property under your rule and name and control, well now shut up and defend it, or forget the full-capitalist route and open source it or freeware it and find other income sources.
The game is going to be extremely boring compared to the drm war games raging on the net.
In practice, most citizens, with a right to privacy most of the time, don't have it. Most government, and some corporate employees, who should be accountable to many people and don't always have as many rights to privacy, can afford to get it somehow. Most of us simply can't afford the costs of real privacy - having a staff to do non-tracked purchases, watch your house or company, fully secure your cell, gps, blackberry, web and desktop uses, encrypt your every transmission, get anonymous connections, etc, etc. So the end result is, actual privacy is now for corporations and government who can afford it. The rest have the phone, web actions, face images, etc tracked somewhere. It's complex -- who and where actually does a right to privacy actually exist, and not? And who gets to exercise them, rightly, and wrongly?
Mwahahhaha I will hide lonts of stuff.
Depends on how the courts work there at any given time.
Maybe we'll see a return to lots of small company ISP's, which will start to become the place where the censored gather and organize their net connection and other things..
I think it's just inevitable. The Net is going to get more regulation. It only wouldn't if somehow the cables themselves became peer-to-peer, with everyone's computer running self-routing mesh networking code and having cables and or optical or radio connections to all the neighbors.
Where would a good cool place be to hold a programming lan party?
Actually, most of the time the best tool for the job is open-source. They care about price, you know.
Open source is cheaper than copying the cd and the serial of the software people already know how to use? Yes it's illegal. It's also the most common practice.
Take a look at the statistics for death causes for people under 60, and you will find almost everyone who doesn't die old dies in a car. Study why cities are large but there's lots of empty space with no people, and what causes urban sprawl, and you will find roads and parking lots fill all the space. Look at what wasted labor there is in society, and you will find that producing and maintaining one high-price high-waste transportation system per citizen is quite a bit of work when horses managed do to better than that quite some time ago, not to mention electricity and electric computer system transport. And PRT more recently. Then read about pollution, and oil wars. Then get back in your car anyway, without even writing a letter to someone.