Your statement is true only to a point. Trade deficits don't tell anything like the whole story--there is such a thing as generating wealth, which the US is (still) very good at.
In other words, we buy stuff from India because we can afford it.
Most people don't give a damn about rooting their phone.
But, more importantly, over time this will work itself out as even the proles figure out that they want to truly own their phones.
We MUST own our phones, as they will be our personal connection with the rest of the "wired" world. Ordinary folks will come to understand this in time.
Hopefully not TOO much time. We should help them to understand all we can:-)
Having just spent a good chunk of change today to pay the title transfer tax on my new car, I want to say that it's tempting to fire all the bureaucrats and replace them with machines. The lady that took my money at the local courthouse tried so hard to make me go away and fill out the transfer form "without mistakes", which would necessitate me harassing the seller of my car (not a dealership, but an individual).
So human sadism made her fuck with me.
But also I was able to appear to her humanity with subtle language and facial gestures which motivated her to "see if she could work around it" and appeal to her boss and such.
So I'm not sure which is worse, humans or machines.
Want to invest in a startup video game company? I made the game in my sig solo, and I've managed many programming projects, and I have an unlimited supply of new game ideas and the ability to implement them.
I just need money to market the darn thing I've been working on the last four years:-) Not to mention a little help on the art and programming sides.
I think the more serious argument isn't that copyright is bad and therefore piracy is good, but that DRM is really bad, and isn't justified by the motive of protecting copyrights.
For example, there isn't too much DRM is GPL'd apps, is there?;-)
Or, if we had a reasonable, very very low tax rate, it would be fine.
Just sayin'. We don't need to fund a superpower, if we don't really want to. But that's the reason a flat tax falls so hard on the poor--to finance all the bullshit this country does with taxpayer money.
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Your statement is true only to a point. Trade deficits don't tell anything like the whole story--there is such a thing as generating wealth, which the US is (still) very good at.
In other words, we buy stuff from India because we can afford it.
You do realize that your sig says we need more Ron Paul, but you're advocating a rather significant intervention with the free market.
:-P
I happen to agree with both sentiments, but just thought I'd point that out
They do still have nuclear weapons.
I think they'll be fine.
It's proving to take a very long time to make the proles (and indeed even many geeks) that copying data is not actually *doing* something.
This will make a lot of people think, I think.
Well said.
Actually I have a high enough opinion of his judgment to now believe that Android is going to take over the world.
Honestly I daresay Android will become the legendary Linux Desktop, one day.
I think a lot of you guys are overreacting.
:-)
Most people don't give a damn about rooting their phone.
But, more importantly, over time this will work itself out as even the proles figure out that they want to truly own their phones.
We MUST own our phones, as they will be our personal connection with the rest of the "wired" world. Ordinary folks will come to understand this in time.
Hopefully not TOO much time. We should help them to understand all we can
Having just spent a good chunk of change today to pay the title transfer tax on my new car, I want to say that it's tempting to fire all the bureaucrats and replace them with machines. The lady that took my money at the local courthouse tried so hard to make me go away and fill out the transfer form "without mistakes", which would necessitate me harassing the seller of my car (not a dealership, but an individual).
So human sadism made her fuck with me.
But also I was able to appear to her humanity with subtle language and facial gestures which motivated her to "see if she could work around it" and appeal to her boss and such.
So I'm not sure which is worse, humans or machines.
So...if wikipedia says it it must be true?
You really think wikipedia is the authoritative source of interpretations of history?
mod parent up!
Slashdot.org knows who you are. Use TOR.
Just sayin' for your future reference.
I would beg you to remember that only the kernel is "Linux". So a custom kernel is hardly an orange.
;-)
And I'm not going to stop telling happy Android users that they are using Linux. And you shouldn't, either!
There was no incredible coincidence of timing with Reiser. He did not give the middle finger to the military industrial complex of the West.
Those guys are not Boy Scouts.
Want to invest in a startup video game company? I made the game in my sig solo, and I've managed many programming projects, and I have an unlimited supply of new game ideas and the ability to implement them.
:-) Not to mention a little help on the art and programming sides.
I just need money to market the darn thing I've been working on the last four years
You think they don't mine gmail? The ads aren't random, you know--*they're keyed to the contents of your email*.
Think buddy. You think they provide DNS servers altruistically, too?
I like Google...just sayin'...
Soo...you don't see anything wrong with this work process?
Except that this is the fallacy of endless extrapolation.
There is no way that working in a Chinese factory assembling the same monotonous parts all day is actually a job that is worth a damn.
I think the more serious argument isn't that copyright is bad and therefore piracy is good, but that DRM is really bad, and isn't justified by the motive of protecting copyrights.
;-)
For example, there isn't too much DRM is GPL'd apps, is there?
See: Intel Atom. Also all new generations of ARM chips.
You're right about all the js, though.
Or, if we had a reasonable, very very low tax rate, it would be fine.
Just sayin'. We don't need to fund a superpower, if we don't really want to. But that's the reason a flat tax falls so hard on the poor--to finance all the bullshit this country does with taxpayer money.
We already have.
We're just waiting for the people who used to irrationally deny that the world is warming to accept that we are the ones doing it.
See my sig. I just want to see my game played the way it was meant to be played--with people playing it!
You should check out the independent developers (indies). LOTS of crazy new stuff happening in that realm, and I believe it is the future.
For example, check out the game in my sig which I developed by myself using Torque.
I forget who it was who said that conscience is that voice in our head that wonders if anybody is watching.
Keep the faith--more openness is by far vastly the lesser evil, and this has been a long, long time coming. We need it.
I wouldn't be so sure.
:-(
Hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so.