You can build a processor by yourself? You can take sand from a beach and rocks from the mountains, turn them into silicon and copper, and wire your own P4? You have a photolithogram capable of putting millions of transistors into a square centimeter?
You don't? Well then, you can't *make* a CPU yourself, can you?
The only thing that makes rocks into metal is labor. The only thing that makes sand into a chip is labor. The only thing that gives open-source software any value is the fact that someone is willing to pay me to use it to help them. A mountain is just a mountain without labor. With labor it can become any number of things.
IP is strange in that it is the only resource created by labor. But, just like any other resource, it doesn't become anything until you put labor into it. Your design for a new computer is all well and good, but without labor, it will never see the light of day.
As for your new printer technology, congratulations, your labor produced something useful. Unfortunately, the moment you release the code into the world, it can be copied.
Remember this: The inventor of the Remington Repeating system died penniless trying to sue people for patent violations. He would have been better off allowing the copies and making his rifles better than the imitators.
1) You pay for a computer because it can't be copied readily. If (when?) you can download the new Intel processor or iPod from the internet, hardware will be open sourced.
2) Intellectual property that doesn't correlate to a tangible asset should be free since it requires labor to create value. For example, your account number is information that shouldn't be free, because it correlates to real assets. But the banking software that your bank uses to manage said assets, which requires labor to set up and use, should be freely available.
3) If you can patent human genes then every time one of my cells makes a copy or I have a child, I'm voilating their IP.
So, yes, some things should be free. But other things, labor and resources, should not.
The mass of the moon, the mass of the Earth, and cosmic numbers in general are so huge that anything we do is very small by comparison. The mass of the moon is 7.36 × 10^22 kilograms. Even if we added a million kilogram moon base, we'd only be increasing the mass of the moon by 1.35869565 × 10^-15 percent.
That would be like adding 1.53 picograms (1.53 8 10^-15 kg)to my mass. That's about 70,000,000,000 carbon atoms.
On the contrary, a lot of people think the US will suffer because they won't be in the newly formed 'carbon market.'
And, besides, this will force European nations to develop methods and technologies that produce clean power and/or use less fossil fuels. Then, when the oil really starts to run dry they'll have the upper hand, and China, India, and the US will be buying technology from them.
It's already happening in the emerging wind generation technology, where Denmark is the leader.
Think of it this way: Imagine all the coffee in the world was going to run out eventually, maybe soon. Wouldn't you be better off inventing a better way to make tea instead of a better way to make coffee?
Unfortunately, I heard that Sirius will probably be getting commercials soon. The new head of Sirius was the head of Viacom, who is critical of any non-advertising-based revenue model.
The only other alternative is to stop immigrating people faster than we can expand the infrastructure they use.
You know, natives also have babies. Not everything is an immigration problem. Population growth = immigration + births - deaths. Should we sterilize every third person?
And we've had self-driving cars for hundreds of years. They're called trains.
I wonder how my neighbors will feel when they find out nuclear waste from TMI (which I see on my way to and from work every day) will be stored nearby!
Some more hints:
1) Find a local farmer's market for your produce or cheese. It's a lot cheaper and has much fresher produce. Example: Onions? $0.49/pound compared to $1/pound
2) Find a good butcher and fishmonger. Again, fresher, cheaper, with a more knowledgable staff who will do things for you like grind up a cut of meat.
3) Grow an herb garden and learn to clean with things you can buy in bulk. Fresh herbs taste better and take very little effort to grow; just some sunshine and water. And you get as much as you want for free! I'm not sure about cleaning floors or other rooms, but for the bathroom and kitchen I use vinegar, bleach, and ammonia that I buy in big jugs and mix with water, using my own spray bottles.
First, thanks for putting your life on the line for this country. It's a noble effort, and I admire that.
Second, your parent was over-the-top when they said it was "stealing." It's not stealing. But it is securing access to resources, at least in small part. And it's not the 'war on terror,' Rove, Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld had plans to invade Iraq well before 9/11, and even before the 2000 election. Google for "New American Century," if they haven't removed the documents already.
Finally, I admire what you are doing. It's hard work and, for the most part, you and your fellow soldiers do a very hard job very well. However, I do not think you can spread democracy with the barrel of a gun; you can't enforce freedom. And violence certainly isn't the answer for places like Afghanistan, Syria, Iran and North Korea. Violence just makes Americans the bad guys, even if it's not warranted.
Osama bin Laden isn't a political leader; he isn't some James Bond supervillain. He's a petty thug. We don't send Marines to hunt drug lords, we send cops to bring them to justice. We don't give them the chance that their religion is right and they do get those virgins.
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You don't? Well then, you can't *make* a CPU yourself, can you?
The only thing that makes rocks into metal is labor. The only thing that makes sand into a chip is labor. The only thing that gives open-source software any value is the fact that someone is willing to pay me to use it to help them. A mountain is just a mountain without labor. With labor it can become any number of things.
IP is strange in that it is the only resource created by labor. But, just like any other resource, it doesn't become anything until you put labor into it. Your design for a new computer is all well and good, but without labor, it will never see the light of day.
As for your new printer technology, congratulations, your labor produced something useful. Unfortunately, the moment you release the code into the world, it can be copied.
Remember this: The inventor of the Remington Repeating system died penniless trying to sue people for patent violations. He would have been better off allowing the copies and making his rifles better than the imitators.
2) Intellectual property that doesn't correlate to a tangible asset should be free since it requires labor to create value. For example, your account number is information that shouldn't be free, because it correlates to real assets. But the banking software that your bank uses to manage said assets, which requires labor to set up and use, should be freely available.
3) If you can patent human genes then every time one of my cells makes a copy or I have a child, I'm voilating their IP.
So, yes, some things should be free. But other things, labor and resources, should not.
And Perl is a camel designed by this guy.
That would be like adding 1.53 picograms (1.53 8 10^-15 kg)to my mass. That's about 70,000,000,000 carbon atoms.
Why couldn't they have their goddamn Rapture before the election then? Why the hell did they have to screw it up for the rest of us?
And, besides, this will force European nations to develop methods and technologies that produce clean power and/or use less fossil fuels. Then, when the oil really starts to run dry they'll have the upper hand, and China, India, and the US will be buying technology from them.
It's already happening in the emerging wind generation technology, where Denmark is the leader.
Think of it this way: Imagine all the coffee in the world was going to run out eventually, maybe soon. Wouldn't you be better off inventing a better way to make tea instead of a better way to make coffee?
A corporation limit the amount of money it can take in? I wouldn't count on it...
Yes. Now let me go dance the Charleston, have sex with my young apprentice, and then post to Usenet about it.
Unfortunately, I heard that Sirius will probably be getting commercials soon. The new head of Sirius was the head of Viacom, who is critical of any non-advertising-based revenue model.
These freakin' liberals, man. No freakin' priorities.
/sarcasm
So you're guy who released this horror into the world!
Okay... *You* try getting sex from college girls if you're not a frat boy or a football player.
If I were a Canadian I'd be pissed off that Americans are using my tax dollars so they don't have to pay so much for medication.
Yes, but if the only job you can find that pays you enough is an hour away, you don't really care how far you have to drive.
Think globally, get any job you can so your ass doesn't starve to death.
You know, natives also have babies. Not everything is an immigration problem. Population growth = immigration + births - deaths. Should we sterilize every third person?
And we've had self-driving cars for hundreds of years. They're called trains.
Seems easy enough...
I wonder how my neighbors will feel when they find out nuclear waste from TMI (which I see on my way to and from work every day) will be stored nearby!
Besides, you should be happy. I'm *never* moving to California!
"What makes a man turn neutral?"
Hydrogen isn't there yet, but biodiesel and veggie are. And it's closed carbon cycle.
If they're so bad, why were they permanently made our most favored trading partner while I'm still not allowed to buy Cuban cigars?
1) Find a local farmer's market for your produce or cheese. It's a lot cheaper and has much fresher produce. Example: Onions? $0.49/pound compared to $1/pound
2) Find a good butcher and fishmonger. Again, fresher, cheaper, with a more knowledgable staff who will do things for you like grind up a cut of meat.
3) Grow an herb garden and learn to clean with things you can buy in bulk. Fresh herbs taste better and take very little effort to grow; just some sunshine and water. And you get as much as you want for free! I'm not sure about cleaning floors or other rooms, but for the bathroom and kitchen I use vinegar, bleach, and ammonia that I buy in big jugs and mix with water, using my own spray bottles.
Well, they *think* they're dying for their country, and that's admirable.
Second, your parent was over-the-top when they said it was "stealing." It's not stealing. But it is securing access to resources, at least in small part. And it's not the 'war on terror,' Rove, Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld had plans to invade Iraq well before 9/11, and even before the 2000 election. Google for "New American Century," if they haven't removed the documents already.
Finally, I admire what you are doing. It's hard work and, for the most part, you and your fellow soldiers do a very hard job very well. However, I do not think you can spread democracy with the barrel of a gun; you can't enforce freedom. And violence certainly isn't the answer for places like Afghanistan, Syria, Iran and North Korea. Violence just makes Americans the bad guys, even if it's not warranted.
Osama bin Laden isn't a political leader; he isn't some James Bond supervillain. He's a petty thug. We don't send Marines to hunt drug lords, we send cops to bring them to justice. We don't give them the chance that their religion is right and they do get those virgins.