I think the desktop-thing is overestimated. There is nobody who really needs more than a well configured fvwm -- well, you have to do the configuration first. But from my experience it's better to get rid of the bloat for the price to have to configure once according to needs, and leave it alone for the time remaining till the hardware dies. And: configuring the thing is a job for me;-) -- i love NetBSD!
Ok, needs change, but modern desktop ways to handle this (provide it all) lead to clutter, not to a stable and fast system -- better pay me than install kde (gnome is really better in that respect).
If u're used to it, a xterm is better than every menu one can think of, it's just a matter of teaching -- another job for me! And i agree with the statement that it is a big plus for NetBSD to get going with the acpi-wireness, brave coders, thank you!
Stefan
It's a failure to think the key behind exploiting the masses, governing them into wars as needed for the might to exploit them, forcing them to live for the money and starve if the money can't use them to grow, making them beg for labour by all means and costs, although nobody needs labour, but the things it produces, while all labour is only producing property of those who "give labour" and take money for those things the labour produces, let them rot rather than giving them starving humans, don't even let the labour produce them, if there is no chance to earn money -- it's a failure to believe the key behind all this was mis- or disinformation about the crude practices, that go with such a normality, or about the moral integrity of the leaders of this damaging world.
Everybody knows what's going on. There is no secret about it. The point is: take this as information about the cause and it's consequences and stop thinking it was something like abuse or misuse of an originally nice order. Stop thinking that the "real" purpose of mankind was to be noble and the reason for failure was uncovered, bad behavior. The purpose is making money, the damage is a consequence of this -- it's about to change this purpose, not about to spot traitors on an imagined good purpose. And this to be changed purpose does not come from lies or human nature, it is dictated by force, by the force the governments command.
... and that's why Internet will die first. Electricity for running a Computer will be the point, a fall back to writing in stones is more likely for the masses than doing electric communication. The little minority of those who can afford will keep reading and writing here and there, they will only avoid the stones -- accept for their police-forces, who will read every stone to control the legality of thoughts.
Or something like that.
"do you believe that intellectual property is a valid construct equivalent to physical property, or do you think it's illusory? If not, why?"
What does "valid construct" mean? If you mean if it's enforced by law the answer is yes, but doesn't depend on what we think. If you mean if I like it, the answer is no - I'll tell you why:
Intellectual things, in contrast to physical things, can be given away without being lost for the one who gave them away. One can simply explain it to someone else and afterwards both can use the knowledge - nobody looses anything. But in this world it is not that simple, it's not about using knowledge to get a better live, it's about using knowledge to earn money. (You should know that, as "anarcho-capitalist", and you should know the difference.) That's the reason for intellectual property, and you met some antagonism in it, as you think about the "problem of protecting intellectual property while at the same time maintaining the rights of consumers and protecting individuals from absurd litigation". Intellectual things oppose to being private property by their very own nature. They live in the medium of language - the most non-private thing one can think of - and are universal by themselves. In contrast to that physical things don't oppose to being private property, that doesn't mean that they are private property by themselves, but they don't oppose to being made to it by humans. Therefor every enforcement of intellectual property is an absurd act, in other words: "absurd litigation", you won't get your problem solved, you simply can't have both.
Using QEMU is a solution, I use a Qemu-OpenBSD to log into my kerberos realm from public terminals running windows. Normally you can't boot a live-cd, but you can run qemu from an usb stick. I saw some terminals that don't allow you to run the starting-script, but you can use the binary from the commandline with arguments. If you need X and don't want to type your passwords I suggest to use damn small linux instead of OpenBSD - the X is much faster, and use thunderbird password saving. Without X and in OpenBSD you can script mail, or pine (if you need imap) to not to type the passwords. To exchange files with the host (for printing e.g.) you should configure your system in Qemu to run an ftpd - in user-mode networking (the qemu-default, doesn't need any privileges on the host-machine) this will cause a warning and blocking by the hosts firewall at startup, but you don't care about that, simply type ftp localhost in the windows command-line and you will see your served files.
Money is not a physical thing, it's a political, or a social thing. And that's why physical thoughts on growth don't help with your question. Second: money was not "invented", and it doesn't serve the humans. How comes the money when it was not invented? I try a very short explanation: Money is the inevitable result of a special social relation, the private property. How that comes to be the basis of every social relation, the dominant thing in what humans have to do with each other, is a question far beyond the scope of an internet-forum, it's the whole history. But the important thing to understand is that private property is not the thing that you own, but the relation to others enclosed in that you own the thing: the thing is exclusively under your command, what you want rules the thing, and that you own it excludes everybody else from using it without your accordance. Where everything is the property of someone, the individuals walk around and behave like their volitions living in the things, it's their relation to exclude each other that appears to be the things attribute to be the property of someone else. But that's not the end of the story, because humans need to exchange things, they are not stand-alone systems. And it's not at the beginning of the history, that they begin to compare different amounts of different things under one aspect: what is their value? In other words: what, of the same, are these different things? or: how much property of mine is the same as how much property of yours? Value is the extent of property, regardless of what one ones: shoes, computers, tables, etc. And these things are really the same only in one respect, and that respect becomes effective behind the consciousness of the humans: they are an amount of averaged social, abstract work (or do you say labor? - I'm not native English-speaking). This extend emerges as a result of competition, everything gets compared to everything, always interested to give as few as possible and get as much as possible. But nobody can see any amount of averaged social, abstract work, it's a social amplitude, not a physical thing. Nobody is conscious of that amplitude but everybody is interested in things owned by someone else and has only the means of what he owns himself to get these things. Everybody is interested in setting some things he owns the same as some things someone else owns. So they compare it to a third thing: weed for example. Mine is 2 weed, yours is 4 weed, I give mine for half of yours. That's the beginning of money, in very short terms.
And money doesn't serve the humans, most humans know it the other way round: as prices they can't pay
I agree with the first, that it's simply not the job of the army to prevent combat. But if "military strength, like economic clout, is an asset on the scorecard of diplomatic maneuver" maybe it's got something to do with what diplomacy is about? I mean the world is not "Bismarkian" by itself and it simply can't be true that every state is just concerned that people are listening to him. They have their causes for war and they are always prepared, because it's the same causes they have in peace, the only difference is the means. And these causes are: controlling the homeland, be the exclusive force there to use the people by law - force them to produce money. And: controlling other powers, force them to be useful for the very own money-production. It is that simple, and everybody knows about it: the main concern in every nation is "the growth" - how good does the nation produce more money with the money it has. The truth, of course, is that not the money produces the money, they just account their success by comparing money-sums. You need work under the command of capital to do growth, an that antagonism is the reason why an exclusive force is needed in the homeland... And it gets very complicated until some diplomats are walking around on coktailpartys and testing the mood. So although the cause is very simple, it gets a complicated thing there someone might look at and just be not able to see what it is all about - like Go, very simple rules, but if you look at a game of masters in Go, it's a big riddle.
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I think the desktop-thing is overestimated. There is nobody who really needs more than a well configured fvwm -- well, you have to do the configuration first. But from my experience it's better to get rid of the bloat for the price to have to configure once according to needs, and leave it alone for the time remaining till the hardware dies. And: configuring the thing is a job for me ;-) -- i love NetBSD!
Ok, needs change, but modern desktop ways to handle this (provide it all) lead to clutter, not to a stable and fast system -- better pay me than install kde (gnome is really better in that respect).
If u're used to it, a xterm is better than every menu one can think of, it's just a matter of teaching -- another job for me! And i agree with the statement that it is a big plus for NetBSD to get going with the acpi-wireness, brave coders, thank you!
Stefan
It's a failure to think the key behind exploiting the masses, governing them into wars as needed for the might to exploit them, forcing them to live for the money and starve if the money can't use them to grow, making them beg for labour by all means and costs, although nobody needs labour, but the things it produces, while all labour is only producing property of those who "give labour" and take money for those things the labour produces, let them rot rather than giving them starving humans, don't even let the labour produce them, if there is no chance to earn money -- it's a failure to believe the key behind all this was mis- or disinformation about the crude practices, that go with such a normality, or about the moral integrity of the leaders of this damaging world. Everybody knows what's going on. There is no secret about it. The point is: take this as information about the cause and it's consequences and stop thinking it was something like abuse or misuse of an originally nice order. Stop thinking that the "real" purpose of mankind was to be noble and the reason for failure was uncovered, bad behavior. The purpose is making money, the damage is a consequence of this -- it's about to change this purpose, not about to spot traitors on an imagined good purpose. And this to be changed purpose does not come from lies or human nature, it is dictated by force, by the force the governments command.
... and that's why Internet will die first. Electricity for running a Computer will be the point, a fall back to writing in stones is more likely for the masses than doing electric communication. The little minority of those who can afford will keep reading and writing here and there, they will only avoid the stones -- accept for their police-forces, who will read every stone to control the legality of thoughts. Or something like that.
"do you believe that intellectual property is a valid construct equivalent to physical property, or do you think it's illusory? If not, why?" What does "valid construct" mean? If you mean if it's enforced by law the answer is yes, but doesn't depend on what we think. If you mean if I like it, the answer is no - I'll tell you why: Intellectual things, in contrast to physical things, can be given away without being lost for the one who gave them away. One can simply explain it to someone else and afterwards both can use the knowledge - nobody looses anything. But in this world it is not that simple, it's not about using knowledge to get a better live, it's about using knowledge to earn money. (You should know that, as "anarcho-capitalist", and you should know the difference.) That's the reason for intellectual property, and you met some antagonism in it, as you think about the "problem of protecting intellectual property while at the same time maintaining the rights of consumers and protecting individuals from absurd litigation". Intellectual things oppose to being private property by their very own nature. They live in the medium of language - the most non-private thing one can think of - and are universal by themselves. In contrast to that physical things don't oppose to being private property, that doesn't mean that they are private property by themselves, but they don't oppose to being made to it by humans. Therefor every enforcement of intellectual property is an absurd act, in other words: "absurd litigation", you won't get your problem solved, you simply can't have both.
Using QEMU is a solution, I use a Qemu-OpenBSD to log into my kerberos realm from public terminals running windows. Normally you can't boot a live-cd, but you can run qemu from an usb stick. I saw some terminals that don't allow you to run the starting-script, but you can use the binary from the commandline with arguments. If you need X and don't want to type your passwords I suggest to use damn small linux instead of OpenBSD - the X is much faster, and use thunderbird password saving. Without X and in OpenBSD you can script mail, or pine (if you need imap) to not to type the passwords. To exchange files with the host (for printing e.g.) you should configure your system in Qemu to run an ftpd - in user-mode networking (the qemu-default, doesn't need any privileges on the host-machine) this will cause a warning and blocking by the hosts firewall at startup, but you don't care about that, simply type ftp localhost in the windows command-line and you will see your served files.
Maybe http://www.lulu.com/ is a sufficient way to publish.
Money is not a physical thing, it's a political, or a social thing. And that's why physical thoughts on growth don't help with your question. Second: money was not "invented", and it doesn't serve the humans. How comes the money when it was not invented? I try a very short explanation: Money is the inevitable result of a special social relation, the private property. How that comes to be the basis of every social relation, the dominant thing in what humans have to do with each other, is a question far beyond the scope of an internet-forum, it's the whole history. But the important thing to understand is that private property is not the thing that you own, but the relation to others enclosed in that you own the thing: the thing is exclusively under your command, what you want rules the thing, and that you own it excludes everybody else from using it without your accordance. Where everything is the property of someone, the individuals walk around and behave like their volitions living in the things, it's their relation to exclude each other that appears to be the things attribute to be the property of someone else. But that's not the end of the story, because humans need to exchange things, they are not stand-alone systems. And it's not at the beginning of the history, that they begin to compare different amounts of different things under one aspect: what is their value? In other words: what, of the same, are these different things? or: how much property of mine is the same as how much property of yours? Value is the extent of property, regardless of what one ones: shoes, computers, tables, etc. And these things are really the same only in one respect, and that respect becomes effective behind the consciousness of the humans: they are an amount of averaged social, abstract work (or do you say labor? - I'm not native English-speaking). This extend emerges as a result of competition, everything gets compared to everything, always interested to give as few as possible and get as much as possible. But nobody can see any amount of averaged social, abstract work, it's a social amplitude, not a physical thing. Nobody is conscious of that amplitude but everybody is interested in things owned by someone else and has only the means of what he owns himself to get these things. Everybody is interested in setting some things he owns the same as some things someone else owns. So they compare it to a third thing: weed for example. Mine is 2 weed, yours is 4 weed, I give mine for half of yours. That's the beginning of money, in very short terms. And money doesn't serve the humans, most humans know it the other way round: as prices they can't pay
I agree with the first, that it's simply not the job of the army to prevent combat. But if "military strength, like economic clout, is an asset on the scorecard of diplomatic maneuver" maybe it's got something to do with what diplomacy is about? I mean the world is not "Bismarkian" by itself and it simply can't be true that every state is just concerned that people are listening to him. They have their causes for war and they are always prepared, because it's the same causes they have in peace, the only difference is the means. And these causes are: controlling the homeland, be the exclusive force there to use the people by law - force them to produce money. And: controlling other powers, force them to be useful for the very own money-production. It is that simple, and everybody knows about it: the main concern in every nation is "the growth" - how good does the nation produce more money with the money it has. The truth, of course, is that not the money produces the money, they just account their success by comparing money-sums. You need work under the command of capital to do growth, an that antagonism is the reason why an exclusive force is needed in the homeland ... And it gets very complicated until some diplomats are walking around on coktailpartys and testing the mood. So although the cause is very simple, it gets a complicated thing there someone might look at and just be not able to see what it is all about - like Go, very simple rules, but if you look at a game of masters in Go, it's a big riddle.