140 million idiots can't be wrong. THAT is REAL democracy. Direct and total. Oh, and strictly transparent.
NO system is functional until the last and least citizen is allowed to vote and edit the laws they want, and count the votes themselves, and read the source that counts the votes.
Who doesn't want me to do things and is apparently, in your mind, justified of having the clout to jail me because... because what? WHat right does anyone have to interfere with my liberty while I'm solving a problem? Also : do you really trust people enough to give them two tons of speeding metal on the ground, all the while thinking it would be murderous to replace them each with fifty kilos of light material in the air?
"Patents" - stop right there. I'm absolutely entitled to put ANY idea to use as soon as physically possible. My neighbors will stop complaining when I sell them gas and electricity for one tenth of the official price, or all-you-can-consume for a flat access rate that covers maintenance and upgrade prices. You know, what they don't do in any actual energy company because it's either embezzled by govt officials or distributed as dividends to people who are way too rich already.
Lastly, screwing up fermented alcohol production? Even animals get it right. Humans have been making alcoholic beverages since forever. Distilled alcohol is hard to get right and dangerous when made wrong, but you just can't screw up beer.
Those conformists who are a danger to liberty? I didn't think they were all that dangerous until this discussion. You believe in those rules. You really believe in them. If you COULD think, I'd tell you to think about it next time you'll see your wife groped by TSA officials the day before pictures of her butt as seen through backscatter scanners appear on porn sites and your stolen electronics are on eBay.
The article (that I didn't read) exposes how it's just a group that works the exact same way as usual social dissidents. The authors don't realize that the idiots could very well be leaders in another action, and how stupidly fast and easy it is to become a leader. Anonymous is a brand name for dissidence, not an organized criminal network.
That's what it means, "we are legion". It means everyone can be replaced as long as anyone has the motivation to rally enough people to Get Shit Done.
"Depending on your hobby and your town, these activities can be officially encouraged, discouraged, unregulated, or illegal. For example, it's illegal to make biodiesel fuel at home in the city of Phoenix... but not regulated in the bordering towns of Scottsdale, Chandler, or Tempe."
Yeah, so let's just ignore those retarded regulations and do what we can with what we have physically.
Foridden to make $THING unless you pony up the barrier-to-entry? Fuck that in the face forever.
Comfort whores to have safe, sane and consensual sex with would inarguably be a better thing than having antisocial brutes injects each others' asses with HIV.
So you have made a painting? Great! I'll give you $2,000 for it. And when I resell it, I keep all the money. Want more money? Go paint some more.
So you have written a book? Great! I'll buy the manuscript for $20,000.
So you have composed an opera? Great! I'll buy the songs for $10,000. Oh, you have made costumes too? More $.
Fuck royalties, yeah. Of course artists will be compensated.
Let's put it this way. You buy land and have a house built. Then you have to pay the architect continuously as long as you live in it; and if you sell it, he gets to keep a part of that money.
That only reinforces my point. No artist should get paid for every time their song gets played. No inventor should get money for every copy of their design.
Make thing, sell thing. Once. That's the basis of all economy. Everything else is racketeering.
>Word/Word interop Non-issue. OOo can't read/write Word docs and render them right, even when trivial.
>manual webcoding BWAHAHAHAHA. Coding a Real-World website by hand... Have you ever written ANYTHING in Java that was supposed to run seamlessly on three platforms? Same thing, but with seven browsers, of a zillion versions, on screens that go from 200x200 to 2048x1152, and on CPUs that can go from "I can't believe it's not Z80" ARMs to thirty-threaded destops.
>Audacity Like using a stone-age meat cleaver as only tool to go and try to cook fine gastronomy, while blindfolded and on fire.
Same advancement tree for everyone... content-free books... no non-combat skills... made for raiding... no risk to die, at all, ever... healing surges are like a zillion reserve HP... second wind, half-health? poof! full health!... every class plays the same way... no longer D&D... playing a bard makes you crazy... so much less versatility...
You obviously know NOTHING what you're talking about.
Telenet is a small, private ISP. They lease lines from Belgacom, the previously-state-run company that ACTUALLY owns the cables.
Know what? If 27TB is one-third of the total traffic that can go through the cable in a month, then what they sell is actually a ( (30Mbits/s / 8) MBytes * 3600 * 24 * 30 )/1024 = 9,26971435546875 TBytes / month.
Yeah. Thus the plan is for 9TB. Acceptable download cap? 10TB. Else, your so-called "company" deserves to get fuckin' burned to the ground by angry pitchfork-wielding mobs. Since it's all a money-printing license that only works because of market segmentations and astronomical barriers to entry (those being : 1.sex up the right person and 2.find a billion Euro for leasing lines and buying ads. And a couple underpaid McJobbers, in case you're doing it wrong and actually interact with real-world customers instead of just parasiting like leasing a line and selling... traffic. To small-time ISPs. *evil laugh*)
Traffic doesn't cost anything. Cables, infrastructure, maintenance, upgrade - those cost money. Constantly. It's a constant stream of money, going away from the company. Luckily for them, their clients pay every month. That's a constant stream of money coming in. But then they oversell their bandwidth, because they don't upgrade as fast as they sell. Then they put download caps, because "it's profiteering when you use all the bits your 30Mb/s can carry, all the time". Then they SELL traffic packs at one euro per gigabyte. They made zillions of euros with that "traffic costs us" scam already.
Belgium is a fucked-up banana republic like that...
What meme? I observed some things and came to that conclusion myself.
The actual impact of religion is irrelevant to the "religion is a disease" idea. Or not more than the impact on the Black Plagues. Yes, it influenced history, of course - so did the plague. Religion is a chronic disease, though.
And yes, it's a mental illness. It's, at its core, the delusion of the existence of all-powerful imaginary friend(s). It makes infected people have something in their view of reality that is WRONG. Their mental model of the universe contains false information.
You know about Deep Space and Deep Time? How can you say that it is remotely sane to think that human-like figure(s) caused the Universe to be as it is?
As for reinforcing personal beliefs, nothing reinforces Atheism more than talking to schizophrenics, because every religious revelation experienced by so-called mystics is painfully obviously a schizophrenia-induced hallucination.
Schizos in crisis tend to cause fear, too. So when people did not understand the crazy prophet rolling in shit and shouting after God, well, some were weak enough to believe them. Any mystic who had any storytelling/writing skills - in the ten thousand years since we invented writing there were bound to be some - and successfully spread their trip reports added to the body of myth.
If you read anything written by schizos in crisis, then open up, say, the Quran, or the Bible at Revelation, you'll find the exact same patterns.
So, yes, religious people are delusional in their belief in their imaginary friend(s), and the people who wrote the books in the first place would now end up in chemical straitjackets.
Yeah, yeah, my irrational belief, nay, my DELUSION, that Reality Exists and is consistent and can be measured and there are patterns that our primate brains can process and that everything can fit in them.
Compared to the irrational belief that schizophrenics have a better understanding of the sky fairies who created the world and everything...
Why devastation ships? There is a literally infinite number of planets, why devastate the ones that already contain life, it's easier to find an other.
Erm, isn't it obvious that the illness we prudely call "religion" - the idea that an all-powerful imaginary friend really exists and affects your life - will have been cured long before we have interstellar travel?
- the actual start menu not being hidden away under “Programs>”.
If you want a list of programs to pick from, install Windows 98, or make a shortcut (har har) to your programs folder.
If you want a hierarchical menu that you can dive through to get to nearly any corner of the operating system's configuration, common functions, or most frequently used programs, click the Windows orb (yes, yes, that's what it's called now, and nobody knows what the hell the "windows orb" is).
... what?
Nearly any corner of conf. Yeah, after the twelve clicks to get to the ANCIENT dialog box, the one where I can actually change settings, IF they haven't broken it apart in several other boxes where I can't set what I need.
Most frequently used programs, yeah, the ones you need at setup will remain visible there for long, eating up the space you'd like to have for the ones you use daily.
Common functions? Which?
Then the list of programs... yeah... sorted by vendor... unmanageable heap of crap folders... "Games/Startup/Work/Tools/Net/Media", that's where I want my programs.
I gave up on Windows long ago. Now I just keep one Windows VM per app I need.
Why aren't all the above posters using VMs for the windows boxen in their industrial settings? No, really. With daily backups, if it gets borked, you can reinstall it in seconds.
Wah wah wah. Of course no one pays attention. I remember many driver install instructions that specifically said "NOTICE. IGNORE UNSIGNED DRIVER WARNING." They've been TRAINED not to notice it. Clicking "install anyway" is part of the process now.
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Exactly.
140 million idiots can't be wrong. THAT is REAL democracy. Direct and total. Oh, and strictly transparent.
NO system is functional until the last and least citizen is allowed to vote and edit the laws they want, and count the votes themselves, and read the source that counts the votes.
And the Internet is goig to ignore every law that forbid it to do anything it simply can. And route around the enforcements.
There are no laws on the Internet. If there were, it would not be the Internet any longer.
Who doesn't want me to do things and is apparently, in your mind, justified of having the clout to jail me because ... because what? WHat right does anyone have to interfere with my liberty while I'm solving a problem?
Also : do you really trust people enough to give them two tons of speeding metal on the ground, all the while thinking it would be murderous to replace them each with fifty kilos of light material in the air?
"Patents" - stop right there. I'm absolutely entitled to put ANY idea to use as soon as physically possible. My neighbors will stop complaining when I sell them gas and electricity for one tenth of the official price, or all-you-can-consume for a flat access rate that covers maintenance and upgrade prices. You know, what they don't do in any actual energy company because it's either embezzled by govt officials or distributed as dividends to people who are way too rich already.
Lastly, screwing up fermented alcohol production? Even animals get it right. Humans have been making alcoholic beverages since forever. Distilled alcohol is hard to get right and dangerous when made wrong, but you just can't screw up beer.
Those conformists who are a danger to liberty? I didn't think they were all that dangerous until this discussion. You believe in those rules. You really believe in them. If you COULD think, I'd tell you to think about it next time you'll see your wife groped by TSA officials the day before pictures of her butt as seen through backscatter scanners appear on porn sites and your stolen electronics are on eBay.
This, exactly this.
The article (that I didn't read) exposes how it's just a group that works the exact same way as usual social dissidents. The authors don't realize that the idiots could very well be leaders in another action, and how stupidly fast and easy it is to become a leader. Anonymous is a brand name for dissidence, not an organized criminal network.
That's what it means, "we are legion". It means everyone can be replaced as long as anyone has the motivation to rally enough people to Get Shit Done.
You're part of the problem. Who does NOT want to build a flying car in their garage? Or an energy source? Or beer?
"Depending on your hobby and your town, these activities can be officially encouraged, discouraged, unregulated, or illegal. For example, it's illegal to make biodiesel fuel at home in the city of Phoenix ... but not regulated in the bordering towns of Scottsdale, Chandler, or Tempe."
Yeah, so let's just ignore those retarded regulations and do what we can with what we have physically.
Foridden to make $THING unless you pony up the barrier-to-entry? Fuck that in the face forever.
Living conditions will NEVER improve as long as they have enough starving people who'll gladly go work as slaves.
Comfort whores to have safe, sane and consensual sex with would inarguably be a better thing than having antisocial brutes injects each others' asses with HIV.
Just my opinion.
Liberation from believing in Allah Claus, yeah, not going to happen any time soon.
When humanity finally gets around to curing those retarded delusions, then maybe we'll have more freedom...
*look at China* ... or maybe not.
First Sale doctrine.
So you have made a painting? Great! I'll give you $2,000 for it.
And when I resell it, I keep all the money.
Want more money? Go paint some more.
So you have written a book? Great! I'll buy the manuscript for $20,000.
So you have composed an opera? Great! I'll buy the songs for $10,000. Oh, you have made costumes too? More $.
Fuck royalties, yeah. Of course artists will be compensated.
Let's put it this way. You buy land and have a house built. Then you have to pay the architect continuously as long as you live in it; and if you sell it, he gets to keep a part of that money.
THAT is current copyright.
And that's wrong.
n/t
still host their sites in the US of A? They deserve to be taken down. Did they never hear of that little private torrent tracker from Sweden?
That only reinforces my point. No artist should get paid for every time their song gets played. No inventor should get money for every copy of their design.
Make thing, sell thing. Once. That's the basis of all economy. Everything else is racketeering.
So you're an artist? Here's how to get money.
You're a performer? Go play live.
You're a composer? Sell your writings, up-front, then go compose some more.
Problem solved.
>Resume in Word
Every job site in the world.
>Word/Word interop
Non-issue. OOo can't read/write Word docs and render them right, even when trivial.
>manual webcoding ... Have you ever written ANYTHING in Java that was supposed to run seamlessly on three platforms? Same thing, but with seven browsers, of a zillion versions, on screens that go from 200x200 to 2048x1152, and on CPUs that can go from "I can't believe it's not Z80" ARMs to thirty-threaded destops.
BWAHAHAHAHA. Coding a Real-World website by hand
>Audacity
Like using a stone-age meat cleaver as only tool to go and try to cook fine gastronomy, while blindfolded and on fire.
WAAAHAHAAA!
SSDs huh? WHEN I CAN AFFORD ONE.
FUCK THEM IN THE FACE WITH NERVE-RACKING MONOCABLES.
HATE HATE HATE HATE
SSDs COST NOTHING WHATSFUCKINGEVER TO PRODUCE COMPARED TO HDDs
WHY DO THEY COST A KIDNEY PER TERABYTE???
4th Ed... Oh please no. Just no.
Same advancement tree for everyone ... content-free books ... no non-combat skills ... made for raiding ... no risk to die, at all, ever ... healing surges are like a zillion reserve HP ... second wind, half-health? poof! full health! ... every class plays the same way ... no longer D&D ... playing a bard makes you crazy ... so much less versatility ...
You obviously know NOTHING what you're talking about.
Telenet is a small, private ISP. They lease lines from Belgacom, the previously-state-run company that ACTUALLY owns the cables.
Know what? If 27TB is one-third of the total traffic that can go through the cable in a month, then what they sell is actually a ( (30Mbits/s / 8) MBytes * 3600 * 24 * 30 ) /1024 = 9,26971435546875 TBytes / month.
Yeah. Thus the plan is for 9TB. Acceptable download cap? 10TB. Else, your so-called "company" deserves to get fuckin' burned to the ground by angry pitchfork-wielding mobs. Since it's all a money-printing license that only works because of market segmentations and astronomical barriers to entry (those being : 1.sex up the right person and 2.find a billion Euro for leasing lines and buying ads. And a couple underpaid McJobbers, in case you're doing it wrong and actually interact with real-world customers instead of just parasiting like leasing a line and selling... traffic. To small-time ISPs. *evil laugh*)
Traffic doesn't cost anything. Cables, infrastructure, maintenance, upgrade - those cost money. Constantly. It's a constant stream of money, going away from the company. Luckily for them, their clients pay every month. That's a constant stream of money coming in. But then they oversell their bandwidth, because they don't upgrade as fast as they sell. Then they put download caps, because "it's profiteering when you use all the bits your 30Mb/s can carry, all the time". Then they SELL traffic packs at one euro per gigabyte. They made zillions of euros with that "traffic costs us" scam already.
Belgium is a fucked-up banana republic like that...
What meme? I observed some things and came to that conclusion myself.
The actual impact of religion is irrelevant to the "religion is a disease" idea. Or not more than the impact on the Black Plagues. Yes, it influenced history, of course - so did the plague. Religion is a chronic disease, though.
And yes, it's a mental illness. It's, at its core, the delusion of the existence of all-powerful imaginary friend(s). It makes infected people have something in their view of reality that is WRONG. Their mental model of the universe contains false information.
You know about Deep Space and Deep Time? How can you say that it is remotely sane to think that human-like figure(s) caused the Universe to be as it is?
As for reinforcing personal beliefs, nothing reinforces Atheism more than talking to schizophrenics, because every religious revelation experienced by so-called mystics is painfully obviously a schizophrenia-induced hallucination.
Schizos in crisis tend to cause fear, too. So when people did not understand the crazy prophet rolling in shit and shouting after God, well, some were weak enough to believe them. Any mystic who had any storytelling/writing skills - in the ten thousand years since we invented writing there were bound to be some - and successfully spread their trip reports added to the body of myth.
If you read anything written by schizos in crisis, then open up, say, the Quran, or the Bible at Revelation, you'll find the exact same patterns.
So, yes, religious people are delusional in their belief in their imaginary friend(s), and the people who wrote the books in the first place would now end up in chemical straitjackets.
Yeah, yeah, my irrational belief, nay, my DELUSION, that Reality Exists and is consistent and can be measured and there are patterns that our primate brains can process and that everything can fit in them.
Compared to the irrational belief that schizophrenics have a better understanding of the sky fairies who created the world and everything...
Yeah...
Why devastation ships? There is a literally infinite number of planets, why devastate the ones that already contain life, it's easier to find an other.
Erm, isn't it obvious that the illness we prudely call "religion" - the idea that an all-powerful imaginary friend really exists and affects your life - will have been cured long before we have interstellar travel?
- the actual start menu not being hidden away under “Programs>”.
If you want a list of programs to pick from, install Windows 98, or make a shortcut (har har) to your programs folder.
If you want a hierarchical menu that you can dive through to get to nearly any corner of the operating system's configuration, common functions, or most frequently used programs, click the Windows orb (yes, yes, that's what it's called now, and nobody knows what the hell the "windows orb" is).
... what?
Nearly any corner of conf. Yeah, after the twelve clicks to get to the ANCIENT dialog box, the one where I can actually change settings, IF they haven't broken it apart in several other boxes where I can't set what I need.
Most frequently used programs, yeah, the ones you need at setup will remain visible there for long, eating up the space you'd like to have for the ones you use daily.
Common functions? Which?
Then the list of programs... yeah... sorted by vendor... unmanageable heap of crap folders... "Games/Startup/Work/Tools/Net/Media", that's where I want my programs.
I gave up on Windows long ago. Now I just keep one Windows VM per app I need.
Why aren't all the above posters using VMs for the windows boxen in their industrial settings? No, really. With daily backups, if it gets borked, you can reinstall it in seconds.
Wah wah wah. Of course no one pays attention. I remember many driver install instructions that specifically said "NOTICE. IGNORE UNSIGNED DRIVER WARNING." They've been TRAINED not to notice it. Clicking "install anyway" is part of the process now.
Blergh. Yeah, right. I remember the 8139 in my Win98 box actually needed a 8029 besides, so I could get the driver.