'backing' is needed only if you're looking for a long-term value deposit. if you're looking for a currency useful for everyday trading, all that matters is that you can spend that currency on something you need. so if there's a few local stores that accept the currency, you're set. but of course, not just anyone can print the currency. it doesn't even actually have to be printed, in fact, but some places do.
assume everyone with an interest is lying, and everything is perhaps a lie, until you've investigated better. then, be prepared to find another kind of lies, the ones people actually believe in.
software and hardware for scanning books it a bit primitive still. especially hardware, though. even if OCR is faulty, accompanying the original scans isn't a big deal. but scanning an entire book without ripping out all the pages and without a page feeder is a problem. i wonder if there is something for fixing and normalizing photographs of books?
the thing I don't understand about money is, why don't more people make it? there's no law against creation of local currencies. some cities do have them. fortaleza, brazil, has a community with a currency called "palma", switzerland has the WIR bank, ithaca has the hour... it's problably the best way for a community to change, develop and become self-sustained. economically, ecologically, and in other ways. money is, in reality, just a contract, a document - shows that if you help someone, give something, someone else will help you, give to you. as long as the contract works... who cares who filled it out, printed the form, bill, wrote the software, or if it's electronic, paper, or just a paper ledger. the only hard part is creating a community that realizes it's in their best interest to run their own economic system. open-source software could perhaps benefit from adoping something similar for rewarding programmers more.
Is piracy good for microsoft, and bad for linux? If *indows wasn't "free", in practice, would linux have seen more adoption? Should Linux users then help Microsoft denounce piracy, go for the piracy snitch rewards?
Does it get more MPG than the Aptera? Can it run on wind power? Electric? Can it run macos? Can it reduce traffic? Pollution? Well, I guess combustion-engine-generated raw power is waaay obsolete. Perhaps for aircraft or boats. If it were a wige small craft it would be nice.
sneakernet worked great. in fact, the bandwidth was much greater and was never a problem. i encourage the kids to use sneakernet, in fact, due to increased bandwidth and privacy advantages over internet sharing. walk over to friend with 10 dvd's and trade for his 10 dvd's - done. 47GB shared, total privacy rights, no internet or p2p or copyright snoops involved, automatic backup to dvd included, real-time live 3d holographic-like human interaction, naked frolicking option possibilities if interested. well, at least that's what cassette music gifts for girls were for. but the recording and composition options on cd and dvd are much greater...
there is still privacy - if you can pay for it. a staff of security nuts, geeks, drivers, and bodyguards, will get you privacy. otherwise, a couple of detectives can break most people's security, no matter how careful they have been. yes, people break laws all the time, all over. what follows is, money and power get privacy. and secrecy, if so desired. how and where does the abuse of power take place? in secrecy, often disguised as privacy. in private firms, private meetings, private settings. so, does privacy/secrecy protect people? or protect power? what to do when claiming "right to privacy" means "power enabled by secrecy"? how do you know?
I had just average schools myself, never finished college, but when I look at my parents, and their piles of books, just about anyone would have to learn something living in that house. But that's just random, there are all kinds of parents, coming from all kinds of backgrounds.
Schools are, indeed, a mess largely because of those who don't want to study, and go to school every day anyway - but to chat, meet friends, pick fights, and party. While I see the benefits of forcing everyone to go to school, I could also see the benefits of a system where there are simply a bunch of tests people can take whenever they want to prove what they know or don't, and let everyone study any way they please, to stop the nonsense of everyone pretending to study, pretending to teach, and most importantly, pretending to be learned because they completed some period sitting in class.
speaking of which, I never found much in the way of non-copyrighted music downloads.. I expected to find much more by now. Found any good source for that?
http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/08/03/elmundo/i-01970785.htm -- "RaÃl Castro: 'No fui elegido para restaurar el capitalismo' " -- "Elegido", in Spanish, doesn't mean "elected". It means "selected", or "chosen". Any other question you would need to discuss today, besides difficulties in dealing with ignorance, arrogance, and poor manners? We do have quite a list already.
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Raul Castro told the truth when he said he wasn't elected to restore capitalism; he wasn't elected - period.
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Using copyleft or open source stuff promotes those concepts, models, _and_ boycotts copyrighted materials. It however has limitations, mainly that a whole new work has to be created, when it has already been done, however under a different contract. Pirating (or as some say, 'liberating') the copyrighted material doesn't boycott completely, indeed, as people are using controlled property. Pirating while acknowledging and communicating it, however, also erodes property owner's legal status. Piracy also does deny financial benefits to ownership. So I just say both strategies have their advantages - although they sort of contradict each other.
I wonder if we install this on all the computers here, will it play well on any pc, or just the newer ones..? and as for latency? "Cheap hardware" isn't exactly cheap for the whole world. I'm in South America, so 50ms is just not happening.
Thinking it over, it seems that given a long struggle against copyrights and patents, piracy will benefit that struggle, but only to the extent it is openly recognized, looked at, reviewed, accepted, and of course practiced. If for example many influential people would start preaching 'piracy is ok', 'piracy is good', establishing that as a moral guideline first, that becomes a building point for proposing and approving new laws. New economic and legal models will follow what is being practiced already. It's too bad that decompiling doesn't work. My own guide is a humanist phrase I heard "nobody has ever created anything without using thousands of free, unpaid, uncontrolled, non-patented and non-copyrighted benefits from human history and nature" - such as language, the written word, tools, transportation, food, oxygen, electricity, copper, wires, chairs, cement, medicines, the list is endless. How can they claim to have individually created, own, and control a concept, an idea, a non-existing object, an inspiration, which stands to benefit all future mankind. An individual human being, isolated, with no contact with human beings, with no benefits of accumulated history, would be a primitive man, completely ignorant, the same as a man before human history, with no ability to invent much of anything new. To make contributions to society and human history is nothing more than a human being's purpose for being in the world, our place in time, in society. And not to one's exclusive benefit, financial or otherwise.
I'm tired of choosing actions of life according to the paperwork of lawyers and accountants. I'm going to look for some way to do what's best for human beings, period.
I run a cybercafe. All the computers have Firefox and that Blue e on the desktop. Nobody uses Firefox. If there's no Blue E on the desktop, I sometimes get a question like "how do you open the internet here? ". Back comes a blue "e" icon. If you remove the "blue e", and call something else "internet", that sometimes does the trick. Then there's the problems of the microsoft-only websites. Several small details of sites only work properly under IE. More questions.
They shot it down, and the thing in is pieces on moon-land. India didn't secure the proper intergalactical alien green card space visitor visa passport stamps before their visit. They thought they could just show up and drive around the moon a bit.
As long as nobody listens, or nothing that matters is said. If something important is said, and people listen, suddenly there will be lots of opposition. To the speech, the speaker, the law, the speaker's physical safety, and whatever else allows the speech to continue.
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'backing' is needed only if you're looking for a long-term value deposit. if you're looking for a currency useful for everyday trading, all that matters is that you can spend that currency on something you need. so if there's a few local stores that accept the currency, you're set. but of course, not just anyone can print the currency. it doesn't even actually have to be printed, in fact, but some places do.
assume everyone with an interest is lying, and everything is perhaps a lie, until you've investigated better. then, be prepared to find another kind of lies, the ones people actually believe in.
software and hardware for scanning books it a bit primitive still. especially hardware, though. even if OCR is faulty, accompanying the original scans isn't a big deal. but scanning an entire book without ripping out all the pages and without a page feeder is a problem. i wonder if there is something for fixing and normalizing photographs of books?
he's their kinda guy.
the thing I don't understand about money is, why don't more people make it? there's no law against creation of local currencies. some cities do have them. fortaleza, brazil, has a community with a currency called "palma", switzerland has the WIR bank, ithaca has the hour... it's problably the best way for a community to change, develop and become self-sustained. economically, ecologically, and in other ways. money is, in reality, just a contract, a document - shows that if you help someone, give something, someone else will help you, give to you. as long as the contract works... who cares who filled it out, printed the form, bill, wrote the software, or if it's electronic, paper, or just a paper ledger. the only hard part is creating a community that realizes it's in their best interest to run their own economic system. open-source software could perhaps benefit from adoping something similar for rewarding programmers more.
Is piracy good for microsoft, and bad for linux? If *indows wasn't "free", in practice, would linux have seen more adoption? Should Linux users then help Microsoft denounce piracy, go for the piracy snitch rewards?
Does it get more MPG than the Aptera? Can it run on wind power? Electric? Can it run macos? Can it reduce traffic? Pollution? Well, I guess combustion-engine-generated raw power is waaay obsolete. Perhaps for aircraft or boats. If it were a wige small craft it would be nice.
sneakernet worked great. in fact, the bandwidth was much greater and was never a problem. i encourage the kids to use sneakernet, in fact, due to increased bandwidth and privacy advantages over internet sharing. walk over to friend with 10 dvd's and trade for his 10 dvd's - done. 47GB shared, total privacy rights, no internet or p2p or copyright snoops involved, automatic backup to dvd included, real-time live 3d holographic-like human interaction, naked frolicking option possibilities if interested. well, at least that's what cassette music gifts for girls were for. but the recording and composition options on cd and dvd are much greater...
and EVA! - will finally be possible
there is still privacy - if you can pay for it. a staff of security nuts, geeks, drivers, and bodyguards, will get you privacy. otherwise, a couple of detectives can break most people's security, no matter how careful they have been. yes, people break laws all the time, all over. what follows is, money and power get privacy. and secrecy, if so desired. how and where does the abuse of power take place? in secrecy, often disguised as privacy. in private firms, private meetings, private settings. so, does privacy/secrecy protect people? or protect power? what to do when claiming "right to privacy" means "power enabled by secrecy"? how do you know?
yawn. there's crime everywhere, why wouldn't there be any on the internet?
I had just average schools myself, never finished college, but when I look at my parents, and their piles of books, just about anyone would have to learn something living in that house. But that's just random, there are all kinds of parents, coming from all kinds of backgrounds.
If a law student never went to college, but passes the bar exam with flying colors, does he know law? Could he be a newbie lawyer?
Schools are, indeed, a mess largely because of those who don't want to study, and go to school every day anyway - but to chat, meet friends, pick fights, and party. While I see the benefits of forcing everyone to go to school, I could also see the benefits of a system where there are simply a bunch of tests people can take whenever they want to prove what they know or don't, and let everyone study any way they please, to stop the nonsense of everyone pretending to study, pretending to teach, and most importantly, pretending to be learned because they completed some period sitting in class.
speaking of which, I never found much in the way of non-copyrighted music downloads.. I expected to find much more by now. Found any good source for that?
http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/08/03/elmundo/i-01970785.htm -- "RaÃl Castro: 'No fui elegido para restaurar el capitalismo' " -- "Elegido", in Spanish, doesn't mean "elected". It means "selected", or "chosen". Any other question you would need to discuss today, besides difficulties in dealing with ignorance, arrogance, and poor manners? We do have quite a list already. ------- Raul Castro told the truth when he said he wasn't elected to restore capitalism; he wasn't elected - period. --
Using copyleft or open source stuff promotes those concepts, models, _and_ boycotts copyrighted materials. It however has limitations, mainly that a whole new work has to be created, when it has already been done, however under a different contract. Pirating (or as some say, 'liberating') the copyrighted material doesn't boycott completely, indeed, as people are using controlled property. Pirating while acknowledging and communicating it, however, also erodes property owner's legal status. Piracy also does deny financial benefits to ownership. So I just say both strategies have their advantages - although they sort of contradict each other.
I wonder if we install this on all the computers here, will it play well on any pc, or just the newer ones..? and as for latency? "Cheap hardware" isn't exactly cheap for the whole world. I'm in South America, so 50ms is just not happening.
Thinking it over, it seems that given a long struggle against copyrights and patents, piracy will benefit that struggle, but only to the extent it is openly recognized, looked at, reviewed, accepted, and of course practiced. If for example many influential people would start preaching 'piracy is ok', 'piracy is good', establishing that as a moral guideline first, that becomes a building point for proposing and approving new laws. New economic and legal models will follow what is being practiced already. It's too bad that decompiling doesn't work. My own guide is a humanist phrase I heard "nobody has ever created anything without using thousands of free, unpaid, uncontrolled, non-patented and non-copyrighted benefits from human history and nature" - such as language, the written word, tools, transportation, food, oxygen, electricity, copper, wires, chairs, cement, medicines, the list is endless. How can they claim to have individually created, own, and control a concept, an idea, a non-existing object, an inspiration, which stands to benefit all future mankind. An individual human being, isolated, with no contact with human beings, with no benefits of accumulated history, would be a primitive man, completely ignorant, the same as a man before human history, with no ability to invent much of anything new. To make contributions to society and human history is nothing more than a human being's purpose for being in the world, our place in time, in society. And not to one's exclusive benefit, financial or otherwise.
In fact certain versions do it automatically.
I'm tired of choosing actions of life according to the paperwork of lawyers and accountants. I'm going to look for some way to do what's best for human beings, period.
I run a cybercafe. All the computers have Firefox and that Blue e on the desktop. Nobody uses Firefox. If there's no Blue E on the desktop, I sometimes get a question like "how do you open the internet here? ". Back comes a blue "e" icon. If you remove the "blue e", and call something else "internet", that sometimes does the trick. Then there's the problems of the microsoft-only websites. Several small details of sites only work properly under IE. More questions.
Why did nobody patent breathing, drinking mechanisms, water filters, bottled water, and clothing, or sewing? How about the process of applying heat to food? Then they could sue any human being for being alive and not paying royalties. No matter. The race to patent human DNA is on, lawsuits over the right included.
They shot it down, and the thing in is pieces on moon-land. India didn't secure the proper intergalactical alien green card space visitor visa passport stamps before their visit. They thought they could just show up and drive around the moon a bit.
As long as nobody listens, or nothing that matters is said. If something important is said, and people listen, suddenly there will be lots of opposition. To the speech, the speaker, the law, the speaker's physical safety, and whatever else allows the speech to continue.