And in BOTH cases the end result is feudalism and classism, the only difference is the first branch hires a good squad and the second branch pays a goon squad through their taxes but no matter how you slice it they both end up with a handful living like Gods while the rest are no better off (and in many ways worse off) than the serfs of old.
The only one not being truthful is YOU. YOU have decided that software is worthless YOU have decided you will pay nothing for it so you expect ME to do the same and just hand you what I PAID FOR either in labor or capital, just because you have dreams of a communist utopia?
Please go DIAF we've had enough of that bullshit, Your "hero" is a fucking squatter (his own words BTW) and lives off the charity of those that actually work, and you want us to be like him? Fuck RMS and fuck you if you think being a fucking bum is a worthwhile way of life. go peddle crazy somewhere else, we ain't buying.
Bimbo Newton Crosby, this is even easier to crack than your average video game DRM and will be totally pwned 5 minutes after being put up as all it takes is one guy posting the key and then everybody has it for that app.
Of course this points to a deeper problem which is "Can you have F/OSS and get paid for your work if you are a programmer?" and I would argue that the answer to that is NO unless your skills fit into the "blessed three' which so far has been the ONLY reliable ways to make money while still being F/OSS. The blessed three are 1.- Selling service/support, 2.- selling hardware, and 3.- The tin cup. that's it, that's why despite all those triple A game engines that keep getting donated you'll never see a F/OSS game the quality of Bioshock, because games don't fall under the blessed three and therefor you won't be able to survive. This is why every F/OSS game either has graphics that could be done on an N64 with cycles left over or is yet another DM/CTF Q3 Arena ripoff, because those can be cranked out without nearly the amount of work as something triple A quality.
This is why i have argued that while F/OSS does have its place, the blessed three places to be exact, it is NOT suitable as a blanket "one size fits all" panacea, and things like games and desktop OSes just don't work with the blessed three so either you starve or you don't use a F/OSS license, simple as that. this thing is gonna be so pirated its not even funny and frankly I'll be amazed if someone hasn't posted ALL the keys into a big zip on TPB before the first month is out.
Its a shame, but this is why we can't have nice things, because without the DRM you are at the mercy of the douchebags and there are a LOT of douchebags on the net. Hell I wouldn't be surprised to see it become like a race, see who can have all the popular apps posted to TPB before anybody else.
We are talking $35 EACH TIME, and there is ZERO penalty for filing PLUS it costs YOU the time it takes to go in and fight it. We've seen this same bullshit with red light cameras that will often ding you for turning right on a red (perfectly legal) but it'll cost you MORE to fight it than it will to pay.
And since there is ZERO penalty and from what I've seen no real qualifier on what is an "IP Holder' how can you NOT see how this will be abused? Think about an activist, sounds like an easy way to get them STFU, just keep hitting them with infringement so they either spend all their time in arbitration or lose their net. After all it costs the one filing this NOTHING, zero penalty for filing fraudulent claims! hell even the shittiest backwater courts have fines for filing fraudulent claims, but this has NO PENALTY at all!
Beats the shit out of me Drinkypoo, you'd think that with over 20 years of exp they would at least understand I know WTF I was talking about, or why would they bring it to me in the first place?
To me the bitch was the limewire installer was exactly what I said it was yet he expected me to "magically" make the limewire network come back to life so he could use it....WTF? I've had idiots that would tell me to "just hack it" like I can magically reset passwords on servers halfway around the world (I always make the "hack the gibson" joke they never get) but at least once i explain a little about how what they see on the screen is NOT actually on their computer? they at least see I can't magically make it work. This bozo had decided that I could rebuild the limewire network AND magically turn a fake installer into a functional one and thought if he got in my face he could get me to do it.
But I spent 3 years playing behind chicken wire, had a gun put in my face by a mobster, so needless to say this fat fuck wasn't gonna intimidate me, I shoved his ass out the door and told him if he didn't leave I'd call the cops. But it amazes me sometimes how clueless a person can truly be, and not listening to me is expected but to not listen AND want me to do the work?
To me what proved the GOP is now the "rich old white people" party was how many cheered the idea of letting a 22 year old hurt in a car wreck die if he didn't have money to pay for his treatment. if that ain't a rich old white people sentiment I don't know WTF is, its about as far from any christian values as one could get yet it fits right into the greed of rich old white people. I should know as I've had to work for rich old white people and frankly I'd rather work for the pothead or the white trash than a ROWP because honestly they are just better human beings. I've had a ROWP threaten to raise my rent because I dared to charge her the standard rate for a repair job while the pothead brought me a pizza and smokes when I was feeling poorly, not because he owed me anything or wanted anything, just because "I heard you was feeling a little rough and figured this might make you feel a little better" which with the fattie he brought? Actually did make me feel better.
This is why I have pretty much given up on voting, we really only have one party left as the right ran out all the fiscal conservative and libertarians and pretty much anybody that wasn't a ROWP and now only gets any votes by race baiting and classism, which frankly is a shitty way to run a party but that is what you get when you have a party that would cheer a kid dying rather than part with their money.
Do I HONESTLY have to spell it out, the money (printed by the fed and backed by nothing but hot air) equal to 400%+ of our GDP is NOW in the market? Fuck I don't want to sit here and waste time explaining what I shouldn't have to spell out, watch watch this video and look at the graphs starting at around 3.30 and see for yourself. again while I'm not a libertarian (if anything I'm more a social democrat) its hard to refute his arguments that the current system is just unsustainable.
And that all happened before the de-regs allowed the few to own all the media corps. Now except for a few that cling to the old ways frankly its not needed, if i get the MSM to say "Is Beryllium Sphere a kiddie fiddler?" then you ARE a kiddie fiddler, no further proof needed. Look at how quickly focus was taken away from the dirt Wikileaks had and switched to whether Assange is a dick?
Orwell nailed this point well, if you control what a man sees and hears you can control what they think.
This is why I think the USA gov will end up either just bribing or nationalizing the ISPs and telling the media corps to STFU (maybe give them some tax as a bribe) and open the net to all, its a cheap "bread and circuses" that lets them monitor the populace, have LOTS of dirt on them (BTW did you know the leader of your movement is into shemales and goat porn?) while giving them endless entertainment to keep them occupied. There is a reason why bread and circuses as a concept has survived over 2000 years, its because IT WORKS. your populace will put up with a LOT of shit if they have food and entertainment, the net solves half that equation with little expense.
This is the classic "just move" argument which doesn't hold water, how is a poor person gonna abandon everything they have and move? why didn't the blacks just move out of the south during Jim Crow? Some did but most couldn't afford to so they said "yes massa" and STFU.
Frankly it doesn't take that much force to rule an area, I leave your neighbor swinging from a tree, rape his women, kill his children? You'll STFU and do what you were told in the hopes you won't end up in the tree beside him, its really simple and easy which is why so much of Africa is a hellhole,without a strong government that protects the individual it really doesn't take much to be king of an area. And Bill Gates may have power now but I honestly don't see him having the ability to leave Torvalds swinging from a tree, with no laws to stop him he could leave Torvalds in a tree and unless your goon squads were bigger than his you would STFU and do what you were told.
Then Jim says "Lets tell them dirty thieving niggers to stay the fuck out of our area or they swing!" and welcome to mob rule. Jim Crow didn't last for nearly a century without the mobs supporting it, this is the problem with mob rule. when my great grandfather came over every place had signs that said "No Chinks, No Micks, No Niggers" which is why so many Irish ended up in the hollows in places like AR, because frankly other than a few enclaves in places like Boston they really didn't have a choice.
The current system could always be improved but we have seen what the alternative is, which is great if you are the ones on top, sucks royally for everybody else. You can argue that blacks are disenfranchised or whatever but they ain't swinging from trees anymore, which is better than what we had before.
Bingo! We have a winnar! It is THAT that blows libertarians arguments all to shit, because they say they are for "removing the violence of the state" but when asked my simple question they respond by giving the violence to somebody else who might as well be the fricking state!
This is why all their arguments fall flat, because at its core libertarianism is a utopian fantasy, its like saying "If we all believe in Jesus we'll all be good and nice and everything will be perfect"...uhhh...not gonna happen, so why even speak of it? Think a pedo is gonna care whether or not there was a Jesus if he gets a shot at raping a 10 year old? think those that get off on causing pain and being truly vicious is gonna care?
Again look at your history, going all the way back to the first writings, my 3 steps which end up with you being King or Duke or Baron is ALWAYS the same, take money, hire goon squad, rule, its the same dance over and over AND OVER and libertarians simply have no answer for that that doesn't end up either right back where we started or in mob rule.
Oh and you want to shut down a libertarian one other thing which they LOVE to tout is "local control" its always "give rights back to the locals, get rid of the fed!" and to that there is one thing they can';t answer.....Jim Crow. If you got rid of the fed tomorrow, how long do you think it would be before areas of the south went back to Jim Crow? I'm a southerner and I can tell you the old hatred is still smoldering in a LOT of places, things like "white flight" aren't abstract concepts and segregation is just as real today, only its people voting with their wallets and refusing to live next to each other. I have seen Rand Paul actually argue that if a business wants to put "no blacks allowed' on its door that should be fine, the magical "free market" will correct this because he'll lose business....bullshit, would you lose business for not serving dogs at the table? Because THAT is how whites saw blacks under Jim Crow so instead of losing business he would GAIN business.
The whole thing is religious at its core, replace Jesus with free market and you have got libertarianism in a nutshell. Religion hasn't ended all our problems, the free market wouldn't be any better than what we have now and probably a LOT worse.
The problem with that is this: Besides what is frankly obvious like rape scenes in movies who in the hell is gonna know what might trigger PTSD? I had a friend that had PTSD from Nam, know what would cause him to have a full blown freak? No, not what you'd think like firecrackers or guns....rain. The sound of rain would cause him to have fllashbacks. I'm all for giving little NSFW heads up and all but this "rape trigger" bullshit is just that, no two people who have had a traumatic experience are gonna be the same and other than the most obvious you end up tapdancing in a damned minefield or making everything so bland that its shit.
Its like when that stink about no females in the new Aliens game was big and I pointed out that women as targets with today's hyper-realistic graphics is naturally a touchy subject and while I personally wouldn't have a problem with blowing away a female in a game (its a fricking avatar, not a person so who cares) that I could easily see why women aren't in the new shooters. For an example I gave "What if one of the "over the top" games like Bulletstorm, which gives you achievements for everything, including for shooting a guy in the balls (ball buster or sex change, something like that, can't remember) had an achievement called "instant flatty" for blowing a girl's boobs off? Would you be okay with that?" and you know what the consensus of the ultra left was? That you shouldn't get achievements for ANYTHING and that all shots should be equal damage, in other words we should go back to Doom where you can be killed by a toe shot.
But this is the problem in a nutshell, what somebody else considers a "rape trigger" or some other PC word that basically means verbotten somebody else might think is funny or nothing at all. Take the George Carlin "Anything can be funny" bit where he said rape shouldn't be off the table for comedy, "Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd, now THAT is funny" and I have to agree that image IS funny. I mean how in the fuck do you decide what IS and IS NOT a rape trigger? I once worked in a shop where the secretary had been raped in college, we ended up being friends and I learned not to have any petroleum products like vaseline or mineral oil out because the sight would cause her to freak...how in the fuck are you gonna predict, again other than the most obvious shit that frankly already gets a NSFW warning, what is and is not a trigger? The whole thing is just batshit and will lead to self censorship because everyone doesn't want to be a bastard and hurt a victim, so the whole idea is frankly nuts.
It was dropped upon them by a Werwulf squad which was made up of nothing BUT Nazi fanatics, which is why they kept fighting after everybody else gave up. There wasn't nearly as many fanatics as there was just soldiers but they DID exist and they DID kill and plant what we would now call IEDs, just not enough to do anything about the outcome of the war.
The thing that no libertarian has been able to answer for me convinced me it would be nothing but some sort of neo-feudalism which is thus: If I have money, and no law to stop me, WTF is gonna keep me from just hiring my own goon squad and helping myself to your land, your women, or any other damned thing I want?
This is why libertarians remind me of the religious, they believe that somehow "magic" for want of a better term would keep people from becoming total dickbags. I say just look at history, you have rich evil men hiring goon squads to take what they want all the way back to the first writings. Knights, Pinkertons, Blackwater, its all just variations on a theme, which is 1.- Gather money (gold, land, whatever), 2.- Hire goon squad, 3.- Take as much shit as you want and make everyone bow before you. this is where the kings of old came from, the barons, hell look at ANY of the old money, either side, and its ALL dirty backstabbing shit.
The problem with ANY pure "ism", be it socialism, communism, capitalism, libertarianism, is that no matter how they word it they simply have no answer for those that abuse their systems for gains, hence why the Soviet state had elites, capitalism unfettered had the robber barons, all libertarians would do is remove even the chance for legal penalty so that those with power could be as evil and sick as they wanted with zero risk....this is supposed to be BETTER than what we have now?
When XP was released the average PC was a single core 600MHz P3 with 128MB of RAM if you were lucky and a hard drive that was MAYBE 20GB, I saw plenty in the 5GB-10GB range back then. Frankly people can bitch about MSFT being douchebags or the current CEO is a retard (completely agree on the latter BTW) but the fact that they were able to get XP to run on modern hardware so much more advanced than what it was designed for is frankly a miracle.
But NO I would NOT like the code handed out when MSFT is done with it, see Android which is well on its way to a million infections. Windows 98 didn't totally drop off the radar until around 07, you can bet your last buck XP will still have virus worthy numbers in 2015, and handing out source to a target with a huge userbase is just asking for it. Android shows that having the source doesn't magically protect you, handing out the XP source would be suicidal...unless of course you want MSFT to pick up a ton of users for Win 8 as they run from the virus exploding XP.
Exactly, its like how a friend of mine was nearly fired because he wouldn't let a PHB have his "files" from his "friend" Melissa, yep the moron was threatening to fire him if he didn't let a worm loose on the network. Lucky for Glenn the guy above the PHB wasn't a retard and actually kept up on current events so he just said "Is he talking about the worm that's going around?" and then gave Glenn a free steak dinner while giving the PHB the riot act for trying to compromise security for an imaginary girl.
At the end of the day you just can't protect from a case of the stupids, you just can't. I was quite proud of having an unbroken record, nothing but happy customers and well running systems,until I finally had to throw a customer out of the shop and threaten to call the cops, why? because this was right after Limewire had been shut down, I told him flat footed "The courts shut Limewire down, it doesn't exist and anything that says its limewire is either worthless or a malware laden fake" so guess what he did? promptly went home, downloaded "the new limewire" and then demanded i fix the machine for free because...shock... it was nothing but a bunch of malware with the limewire logo. When i threw him out the shop he was saying "it says its limewire now you make it work!"
Sadly there is only so much you can do without turning the system into nothing but a locked down, corporate controlled thin client and as long as the user has the right to install you are at the whims of somebody who may be a moron. I learned you do the best you can but at the end of the day stupid is as stupid does.
Which is why they target these laws towards those that nobody will support, its the classic "first they came" play and it works damned near every time.
I would suggest everyone watch this video by a woman that is now on the watchlist. Yes folks that little white Jewish girl is now on the list and treated...well like an Arab whenever she tries to get on a plane, her crime? talking about what rights we have under the constitution. In this video she shows what she calls "the playbook" that every country that has turned into a dictatorship has used because as she points out Germany in the early 30s? A democracy. In fact most of the countries that ended up turning nasty were free countries to begin with, its the use of these plays that let those in power turn the country into a locked down state.
But this is what we've come to folks, where even talking about your rights can put you on a list. hell i wouldn't be surprised if my support for free speech and the ACLU has me on a list too, just one more good thing about not going near airplanes is I don't deal with the goon squads. Watch the video, she is VERY conservative about the signs but lays them all out, you'd be surprised how far down that road we have already traveled.
The funny part is one of the presidents that is looked upon as a "hero" is actually the one who destroyed the court. I am of course speaking of FDR and the "stitch in time that saved nine" because by holding a gun to their head to force the commerce clause (now so badly abused its a joke) into "fitting" a situation where a man grew feed on his own land for his own chickens he laid the groundwork for shredding the constitution and making a mockery of the amendments.
This is why to this day I think FDR should be held even lower than Nixon, Nixon at his worst didn't do as much to damage our country as FDR did.
So in other words its communism at the barrel of a gun, because YOU have decided that ALL should be free therefor ALL must comply. Be fucking honest why don't you, even RMS doesn't lay on the bullshit THAT thick.
Again if you don't like it unlike you nobody is trying to hold a gun to your head, you are free to make your product WITHOUT using other people's property. But just because YOU have drank the koolaid and think all software should be free (so do you think programmers should starve? or that the state should pick up the check?) does NOT give you the right to force others to comply. If you think RAND is too much? Do without.
Actually Wiki and Google were late jumpers to the bandwagon friend, I had a LOT of customers asking me about SOPA/PIPA and it was NOT because of those two but because all the sites they went to for reviews, everything from movies to books to games, had damned near every video start with a plea to fight SOPA/PIPA. It was THE LITTLE GUYS that started the ball gathering steam, the little guys that got the word splattered onto a billion FB pages and had twitter all lit up, and it is THEY whom we must convince to jump on board. If we do this then the big boys will hop on the wagon for the free PR, just as they did with SOPA/PIPA.
Oh Lord where to begin. First of all as long as Apple products are seen as "exclusive" (read expensive) then the Appleites won't care, in fact the ONLY time I saw Apple actually hurt was when they got burnt by Bumpgate. as long as their devices work? they aren't gonna worry about shit.
And what is wrong with MSFT goes a HELL of a lot deeper than the "LOL I Iz A Cellphone" UI of Win 8, they got rich off a BUBBLE and when that bubble has burst they expect things to go back to the bubble when that bubble was unnatural and won't be coming back.
What MSFT is too fucking dumb to see if that tablets and cellphones are having their OWN BUBBLE and just like the MHz war that bubble is gonna burst, but because Apple has made "thin and sleek" really the ONLY thing you can build the bubble is gonna burst even faster. MSFT is like the moron who is trying to get into flipping houses 6 months after the housing bubble popped thinking "it'll turn around" when it won't. Samsung is up to 6 cores, Nvidia 5 cores, just like Intel and AMD they've learned they can't crank the clocks without having battery life that is measured in minutes so they have no choice but to crank up the cores. i predict in less than 2 years ARM will be just like X86, with people only replacing units when they break.
But "shaming" these companies is gonna work about as well as shaming the company that makes your toaster, hell most folks don't even have a fucking clue WHAT OS is on their system, its an Apple or it Windows, that is it. They don't know shit about these companies, nor do they care. these companies would have to do something on the size of the BP oil spill for anybody to notice or give a shit and that just ain't gonna happen friend. Or have you forgotten how much dirt was brought out about MSFT during the anti-trust trial? yet they made MORE money afterward than they had ever made before? So how does that fit with your shaming idea?
Jack the price on the 20% and live like fat rats? Hell why do you think with millions in the USA not being served very few if any ISPs are laying lines? Because they can make more by gouging than adding customers. I should know because my mom was a block away from the cable when she built her house 30 years ago....know how far she is from it now? a block, even though there are nearly 50 homes on that 1 mile stretch the cableco won't run a single foot. In fact talking to a lineman he says he can't even remember the last time they had him lay any lines anywhere, even though this city is a third bigger than when he started, because they just jack the price and rake in the cash.
Bullshit and corporate lies. Ever seen how much a triple A game takes up? I bought Borderlands with all the DLC for $7 on the Steam Xmas sale, size? 37GB. In fact just my games from the Xmas sale clocked in at over 100GB and I would point out that many caps are being sized DOWN and not up, so its REALLY not hard to use more than the cap. How about Netflix? Ever see what an HD movie streamed takes up? YouTube? OnLive? All of these are LEGITIMATE services that have ZERO infringement yet will cause you to go through bandwidth like shit through a goose.
so don't give me that "Its only the pirates using bandwidth" bullshit because I know better, many legit services use plenty too, or have you forgotten the "push to the cloud" that all the software companies have been making? They can kiss that shit goodbye, most will end up having to buy discs rather than get a strike for using what they paid for.
Nice thought...except all I was doing was watching YouTube, and not even in HD. And remember I was paying nearly a c-note a month for my "supposed" 50Gb a month cap, yet I'm supposedly using so much bandwidth they have to give me shit...for watching videos in 240p?
Bullshit, the ISPs only want grandma checking her email but can't say "We only want old white people" so they have to come up with bullshit excuses to discriminate. You watch the first ones to get 6 strikes will NOT be the pirates, in fact most of the pirates i know are still watching DVD rips at less than 2GB per, nope it'll be those using netflix, buying games from Steam, using OnLive or any other LEGIT service that might actually allow them to use the net they paid for.
Now compare that to my cableco (I moved just to get away from the WISP, yes they sucked THAT hard) who when I used nearly double my usual bandwidth during the big Steam Xmas sale just said "Oh FYI we charged an extra $10 this month because you went waaaay over" and that was that. No bitching, no trying to shut me down, just an extra $10 and have a nice day. Now THAT is how it should be legally, not this horseshit that lets them cherry pick the customers.
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And in BOTH cases the end result is feudalism and classism, the only difference is the first branch hires a good squad and the second branch pays a goon squad through their taxes but no matter how you slice it they both end up with a handful living like Gods while the rest are no better off (and in many ways worse off) than the serfs of old.
The only one not being truthful is YOU. YOU have decided that software is worthless YOU have decided you will pay nothing for it so you expect ME to do the same and just hand you what I PAID FOR either in labor or capital, just because you have dreams of a communist utopia?
Please go DIAF we've had enough of that bullshit, Your "hero" is a fucking squatter (his own words BTW) and lives off the charity of those that actually work, and you want us to be like him? Fuck RMS and fuck you if you think being a fucking bum is a worthwhile way of life. go peddle crazy somewhere else, we ain't buying.
Bimbo Newton Crosby, this is even easier to crack than your average video game DRM and will be totally pwned 5 minutes after being put up as all it takes is one guy posting the key and then everybody has it for that app.
Of course this points to a deeper problem which is "Can you have F/OSS and get paid for your work if you are a programmer?" and I would argue that the answer to that is NO unless your skills fit into the "blessed three' which so far has been the ONLY reliable ways to make money while still being F/OSS. The blessed three are 1.- Selling service/support, 2.- selling hardware, and 3.- The tin cup. that's it, that's why despite all those triple A game engines that keep getting donated you'll never see a F/OSS game the quality of Bioshock, because games don't fall under the blessed three and therefor you won't be able to survive. This is why every F/OSS game either has graphics that could be done on an N64 with cycles left over or is yet another DM/CTF Q3 Arena ripoff, because those can be cranked out without nearly the amount of work as something triple A quality.
This is why i have argued that while F/OSS does have its place, the blessed three places to be exact, it is NOT suitable as a blanket "one size fits all" panacea, and things like games and desktop OSes just don't work with the blessed three so either you starve or you don't use a F/OSS license, simple as that. this thing is gonna be so pirated its not even funny and frankly I'll be amazed if someone hasn't posted ALL the keys into a big zip on TPB before the first month is out.
Its a shame, but this is why we can't have nice things, because without the DRM you are at the mercy of the douchebags and there are a LOT of douchebags on the net. Hell I wouldn't be surprised to see it become like a race, see who can have all the popular apps posted to TPB before anybody else.
We are talking $35 EACH TIME, and there is ZERO penalty for filing PLUS it costs YOU the time it takes to go in and fight it. We've seen this same bullshit with red light cameras that will often ding you for turning right on a red (perfectly legal) but it'll cost you MORE to fight it than it will to pay.
And since there is ZERO penalty and from what I've seen no real qualifier on what is an "IP Holder' how can you NOT see how this will be abused? Think about an activist, sounds like an easy way to get them STFU, just keep hitting them with infringement so they either spend all their time in arbitration or lose their net. After all it costs the one filing this NOTHING, zero penalty for filing fraudulent claims! hell even the shittiest backwater courts have fines for filing fraudulent claims, but this has NO PENALTY at all!
Beats the shit out of me Drinkypoo, you'd think that with over 20 years of exp they would at least understand I know WTF I was talking about, or why would they bring it to me in the first place?
To me the bitch was the limewire installer was exactly what I said it was yet he expected me to "magically" make the limewire network come back to life so he could use it....WTF? I've had idiots that would tell me to "just hack it" like I can magically reset passwords on servers halfway around the world (I always make the "hack the gibson" joke they never get) but at least once i explain a little about how what they see on the screen is NOT actually on their computer? they at least see I can't magically make it work. This bozo had decided that I could rebuild the limewire network AND magically turn a fake installer into a functional one and thought if he got in my face he could get me to do it.
But I spent 3 years playing behind chicken wire, had a gun put in my face by a mobster, so needless to say this fat fuck wasn't gonna intimidate me, I shoved his ass out the door and told him if he didn't leave I'd call the cops. But it amazes me sometimes how clueless a person can truly be, and not listening to me is expected but to not listen AND want me to do the work?
To me what proved the GOP is now the "rich old white people" party was how many cheered the idea of letting a 22 year old hurt in a car wreck die if he didn't have money to pay for his treatment. if that ain't a rich old white people sentiment I don't know WTF is, its about as far from any christian values as one could get yet it fits right into the greed of rich old white people. I should know as I've had to work for rich old white people and frankly I'd rather work for the pothead or the white trash than a ROWP because honestly they are just better human beings. I've had a ROWP threaten to raise my rent because I dared to charge her the standard rate for a repair job while the pothead brought me a pizza and smokes when I was feeling poorly, not because he owed me anything or wanted anything, just because "I heard you was feeling a little rough and figured this might make you feel a little better" which with the fattie he brought? Actually did make me feel better.
This is why I have pretty much given up on voting, we really only have one party left as the right ran out all the fiscal conservative and libertarians and pretty much anybody that wasn't a ROWP and now only gets any votes by race baiting and classism, which frankly is a shitty way to run a party but that is what you get when you have a party that would cheer a kid dying rather than part with their money.
Do I HONESTLY have to spell it out, the money (printed by the fed and backed by nothing but hot air) equal to 400%+ of our GDP is NOW in the market? Fuck I don't want to sit here and waste time explaining what I shouldn't have to spell out, watch watch this video and look at the graphs starting at around 3.30 and see for yourself. again while I'm not a libertarian (if anything I'm more a social democrat) its hard to refute his arguments that the current system is just unsustainable.
And that all happened before the de-regs allowed the few to own all the media corps. Now except for a few that cling to the old ways frankly its not needed, if i get the MSM to say "Is Beryllium Sphere a kiddie fiddler?" then you ARE a kiddie fiddler, no further proof needed. Look at how quickly focus was taken away from the dirt Wikileaks had and switched to whether Assange is a dick?
Orwell nailed this point well, if you control what a man sees and hears you can control what they think.
This is why I think the USA gov will end up either just bribing or nationalizing the ISPs and telling the media corps to STFU (maybe give them some tax as a bribe) and open the net to all, its a cheap "bread and circuses" that lets them monitor the populace, have LOTS of dirt on them (BTW did you know the leader of your movement is into shemales and goat porn?) while giving them endless entertainment to keep them occupied. There is a reason why bread and circuses as a concept has survived over 2000 years, its because IT WORKS. your populace will put up with a LOT of shit if they have food and entertainment, the net solves half that equation with little expense.
This is the classic "just move" argument which doesn't hold water, how is a poor person gonna abandon everything they have and move? why didn't the blacks just move out of the south during Jim Crow? Some did but most couldn't afford to so they said "yes massa" and STFU.
Frankly it doesn't take that much force to rule an area, I leave your neighbor swinging from a tree, rape his women, kill his children? You'll STFU and do what you were told in the hopes you won't end up in the tree beside him, its really simple and easy which is why so much of Africa is a hellhole,without a strong government that protects the individual it really doesn't take much to be king of an area. And Bill Gates may have power now but I honestly don't see him having the ability to leave Torvalds swinging from a tree, with no laws to stop him he could leave Torvalds in a tree and unless your goon squads were bigger than his you would STFU and do what you were told.
Then Jim says "Lets tell them dirty thieving niggers to stay the fuck out of our area or they swing!" and welcome to mob rule. Jim Crow didn't last for nearly a century without the mobs supporting it, this is the problem with mob rule. when my great grandfather came over every place had signs that said "No Chinks, No Micks, No Niggers" which is why so many Irish ended up in the hollows in places like AR, because frankly other than a few enclaves in places like Boston they really didn't have a choice.
The current system could always be improved but we have seen what the alternative is, which is great if you are the ones on top, sucks royally for everybody else. You can argue that blacks are disenfranchised or whatever but they ain't swinging from trees anymore, which is better than what we had before.
Bingo! We have a winnar! It is THAT that blows libertarians arguments all to shit, because they say they are for "removing the violence of the state" but when asked my simple question they respond by giving the violence to somebody else who might as well be the fricking state!
This is why all their arguments fall flat, because at its core libertarianism is a utopian fantasy, its like saying "If we all believe in Jesus we'll all be good and nice and everything will be perfect"...uhhh...not gonna happen, so why even speak of it? Think a pedo is gonna care whether or not there was a Jesus if he gets a shot at raping a 10 year old? think those that get off on causing pain and being truly vicious is gonna care?
Again look at your history, going all the way back to the first writings, my 3 steps which end up with you being King or Duke or Baron is ALWAYS the same, take money, hire goon squad, rule, its the same dance over and over AND OVER and libertarians simply have no answer for that that doesn't end up either right back where we started or in mob rule.
Oh and you want to shut down a libertarian one other thing which they LOVE to tout is "local control" its always "give rights back to the locals, get rid of the fed!" and to that there is one thing they can';t answer.....Jim Crow. If you got rid of the fed tomorrow, how long do you think it would be before areas of the south went back to Jim Crow? I'm a southerner and I can tell you the old hatred is still smoldering in a LOT of places, things like "white flight" aren't abstract concepts and segregation is just as real today, only its people voting with their wallets and refusing to live next to each other. I have seen Rand Paul actually argue that if a business wants to put "no blacks allowed' on its door that should be fine, the magical "free market" will correct this because he'll lose business....bullshit, would you lose business for not serving dogs at the table? Because THAT is how whites saw blacks under Jim Crow so instead of losing business he would GAIN business.
The whole thing is religious at its core, replace Jesus with free market and you have got libertarianism in a nutshell. Religion hasn't ended all our problems, the free market wouldn't be any better than what we have now and probably a LOT worse.
The problem with that is this: Besides what is frankly obvious like rape scenes in movies who in the hell is gonna know what might trigger PTSD? I had a friend that had PTSD from Nam, know what would cause him to have a full blown freak? No, not what you'd think like firecrackers or guns....rain. The sound of rain would cause him to have fllashbacks. I'm all for giving little NSFW heads up and all but this "rape trigger" bullshit is just that, no two people who have had a traumatic experience are gonna be the same and other than the most obvious you end up tapdancing in a damned minefield or making everything so bland that its shit.
Its like when that stink about no females in the new Aliens game was big and I pointed out that women as targets with today's hyper-realistic graphics is naturally a touchy subject and while I personally wouldn't have a problem with blowing away a female in a game (its a fricking avatar, not a person so who cares) that I could easily see why women aren't in the new shooters. For an example I gave "What if one of the "over the top" games like Bulletstorm, which gives you achievements for everything, including for shooting a guy in the balls (ball buster or sex change, something like that, can't remember) had an achievement called "instant flatty" for blowing a girl's boobs off? Would you be okay with that?" and you know what the consensus of the ultra left was? That you shouldn't get achievements for ANYTHING and that all shots should be equal damage, in other words we should go back to Doom where you can be killed by a toe shot.
But this is the problem in a nutshell, what somebody else considers a "rape trigger" or some other PC word that basically means verbotten somebody else might think is funny or nothing at all. Take the George Carlin "Anything can be funny" bit where he said rape shouldn't be off the table for comedy, "Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd, now THAT is funny" and I have to agree that image IS funny. I mean how in the fuck do you decide what IS and IS NOT a rape trigger? I once worked in a shop where the secretary had been raped in college, we ended up being friends and I learned not to have any petroleum products like vaseline or mineral oil out because the sight would cause her to freak...how in the fuck are you gonna predict, again other than the most obvious shit that frankly already gets a NSFW warning, what is and is not a trigger? The whole thing is just batshit and will lead to self censorship because everyone doesn't want to be a bastard and hurt a victim, so the whole idea is frankly nuts.
It was dropped upon them by a Werwulf squad which was made up of nothing BUT Nazi fanatics, which is why they kept fighting after everybody else gave up. There wasn't nearly as many fanatics as there was just soldiers but they DID exist and they DID kill and plant what we would now call IEDs, just not enough to do anything about the outcome of the war.
The thing that no libertarian has been able to answer for me convinced me it would be nothing but some sort of neo-feudalism which is thus: If I have money, and no law to stop me, WTF is gonna keep me from just hiring my own goon squad and helping myself to your land, your women, or any other damned thing I want?
This is why libertarians remind me of the religious, they believe that somehow "magic" for want of a better term would keep people from becoming total dickbags. I say just look at history, you have rich evil men hiring goon squads to take what they want all the way back to the first writings. Knights, Pinkertons, Blackwater, its all just variations on a theme, which is 1.- Gather money (gold, land, whatever), 2.- Hire goon squad, 3.- Take as much shit as you want and make everyone bow before you. this is where the kings of old came from, the barons, hell look at ANY of the old money, either side, and its ALL dirty backstabbing shit.
The problem with ANY pure "ism", be it socialism, communism, capitalism, libertarianism, is that no matter how they word it they simply have no answer for those that abuse their systems for gains, hence why the Soviet state had elites, capitalism unfettered had the robber barons, all libertarians would do is remove even the chance for legal penalty so that those with power could be as evil and sick as they wanted with zero risk....this is supposed to be BETTER than what we have now?
When XP was released the average PC was a single core 600MHz P3 with 128MB of RAM if you were lucky and a hard drive that was MAYBE 20GB, I saw plenty in the 5GB-10GB range back then. Frankly people can bitch about MSFT being douchebags or the current CEO is a retard (completely agree on the latter BTW) but the fact that they were able to get XP to run on modern hardware so much more advanced than what it was designed for is frankly a miracle.
But NO I would NOT like the code handed out when MSFT is done with it, see Android which is well on its way to a million infections. Windows 98 didn't totally drop off the radar until around 07, you can bet your last buck XP will still have virus worthy numbers in 2015, and handing out source to a target with a huge userbase is just asking for it. Android shows that having the source doesn't magically protect you, handing out the XP source would be suicidal...unless of course you want MSFT to pick up a ton of users for Win 8 as they run from the virus exploding XP.
Exactly, its like how a friend of mine was nearly fired because he wouldn't let a PHB have his "files" from his "friend" Melissa, yep the moron was threatening to fire him if he didn't let a worm loose on the network. Lucky for Glenn the guy above the PHB wasn't a retard and actually kept up on current events so he just said "Is he talking about the worm that's going around?" and then gave Glenn a free steak dinner while giving the PHB the riot act for trying to compromise security for an imaginary girl.
At the end of the day you just can't protect from a case of the stupids, you just can't. I was quite proud of having an unbroken record, nothing but happy customers and well running systems,until I finally had to throw a customer out of the shop and threaten to call the cops, why? because this was right after Limewire had been shut down, I told him flat footed "The courts shut Limewire down, it doesn't exist and anything that says its limewire is either worthless or a malware laden fake" so guess what he did? promptly went home, downloaded "the new limewire" and then demanded i fix the machine for free because...shock... it was nothing but a bunch of malware with the limewire logo. When i threw him out the shop he was saying "it says its limewire now you make it work!"
Sadly there is only so much you can do without turning the system into nothing but a locked down, corporate controlled thin client and as long as the user has the right to install you are at the whims of somebody who may be a moron. I learned you do the best you can but at the end of the day stupid is as stupid does.
Which is why they target these laws towards those that nobody will support, its the classic "first they came" play and it works damned near every time.
I would suggest everyone watch this video by a woman that is now on the watchlist. Yes folks that little white Jewish girl is now on the list and treated...well like an Arab whenever she tries to get on a plane, her crime? talking about what rights we have under the constitution. In this video she shows what she calls "the playbook" that every country that has turned into a dictatorship has used because as she points out Germany in the early 30s? A democracy. In fact most of the countries that ended up turning nasty were free countries to begin with, its the use of these plays that let those in power turn the country into a locked down state.
But this is what we've come to folks, where even talking about your rights can put you on a list. hell i wouldn't be surprised if my support for free speech and the ACLU has me on a list too, just one more good thing about not going near airplanes is I don't deal with the goon squads. Watch the video, she is VERY conservative about the signs but lays them all out, you'd be surprised how far down that road we have already traveled.
The funny part is one of the presidents that is looked upon as a "hero" is actually the one who destroyed the court. I am of course speaking of FDR and the "stitch in time that saved nine" because by holding a gun to their head to force the commerce clause (now so badly abused its a joke) into "fitting" a situation where a man grew feed on his own land for his own chickens he laid the groundwork for shredding the constitution and making a mockery of the amendments.
This is why to this day I think FDR should be held even lower than Nixon, Nixon at his worst didn't do as much to damage our country as FDR did.
So in other words its communism at the barrel of a gun, because YOU have decided that ALL should be free therefor ALL must comply. Be fucking honest why don't you, even RMS doesn't lay on the bullshit THAT thick.
Again if you don't like it unlike you nobody is trying to hold a gun to your head, you are free to make your product WITHOUT using other people's property. But just because YOU have drank the koolaid and think all software should be free (so do you think programmers should starve? or that the state should pick up the check?) does NOT give you the right to force others to comply. If you think RAND is too much? Do without.
Actually Wiki and Google were late jumpers to the bandwagon friend, I had a LOT of customers asking me about SOPA/PIPA and it was NOT because of those two but because all the sites they went to for reviews, everything from movies to books to games, had damned near every video start with a plea to fight SOPA/PIPA. It was THE LITTLE GUYS that started the ball gathering steam, the little guys that got the word splattered onto a billion FB pages and had twitter all lit up, and it is THEY whom we must convince to jump on board. If we do this then the big boys will hop on the wagon for the free PR, just as they did with SOPA/PIPA.
Oh Lord where to begin. First of all as long as Apple products are seen as "exclusive" (read expensive) then the Appleites won't care, in fact the ONLY time I saw Apple actually hurt was when they got burnt by Bumpgate. as long as their devices work? they aren't gonna worry about shit.
And what is wrong with MSFT goes a HELL of a lot deeper than the "LOL I Iz A Cellphone" UI of Win 8, they got rich off a BUBBLE and when that bubble has burst they expect things to go back to the bubble when that bubble was unnatural and won't be coming back.
What MSFT is too fucking dumb to see if that tablets and cellphones are having their OWN BUBBLE and just like the MHz war that bubble is gonna burst, but because Apple has made "thin and sleek" really the ONLY thing you can build the bubble is gonna burst even faster. MSFT is like the moron who is trying to get into flipping houses 6 months after the housing bubble popped thinking "it'll turn around" when it won't. Samsung is up to 6 cores, Nvidia 5 cores, just like Intel and AMD they've learned they can't crank the clocks without having battery life that is measured in minutes so they have no choice but to crank up the cores. i predict in less than 2 years ARM will be just like X86, with people only replacing units when they break.
But "shaming" these companies is gonna work about as well as shaming the company that makes your toaster, hell most folks don't even have a fucking clue WHAT OS is on their system, its an Apple or it Windows, that is it. They don't know shit about these companies, nor do they care. these companies would have to do something on the size of the BP oil spill for anybody to notice or give a shit and that just ain't gonna happen friend. Or have you forgotten how much dirt was brought out about MSFT during the anti-trust trial? yet they made MORE money afterward than they had ever made before? So how does that fit with your shaming idea?
Jack the price on the 20% and live like fat rats? Hell why do you think with millions in the USA not being served very few if any ISPs are laying lines? Because they can make more by gouging than adding customers. I should know because my mom was a block away from the cable when she built her house 30 years ago....know how far she is from it now? a block, even though there are nearly 50 homes on that 1 mile stretch the cableco won't run a single foot. In fact talking to a lineman he says he can't even remember the last time they had him lay any lines anywhere, even though this city is a third bigger than when he started, because they just jack the price and rake in the cash.
Bullshit and corporate lies. Ever seen how much a triple A game takes up? I bought Borderlands with all the DLC for $7 on the Steam Xmas sale, size? 37GB. In fact just my games from the Xmas sale clocked in at over 100GB and I would point out that many caps are being sized DOWN and not up, so its REALLY not hard to use more than the cap. How about Netflix? Ever see what an HD movie streamed takes up? YouTube? OnLive? All of these are LEGITIMATE services that have ZERO infringement yet will cause you to go through bandwidth like shit through a goose.
so don't give me that "Its only the pirates using bandwidth" bullshit because I know better, many legit services use plenty too, or have you forgotten the "push to the cloud" that all the software companies have been making? They can kiss that shit goodbye, most will end up having to buy discs rather than get a strike for using what they paid for.
Nice thought...except all I was doing was watching YouTube, and not even in HD. And remember I was paying nearly a c-note a month for my "supposed" 50Gb a month cap, yet I'm supposedly using so much bandwidth they have to give me shit...for watching videos in 240p?
Bullshit, the ISPs only want grandma checking her email but can't say "We only want old white people" so they have to come up with bullshit excuses to discriminate. You watch the first ones to get 6 strikes will NOT be the pirates, in fact most of the pirates i know are still watching DVD rips at less than 2GB per, nope it'll be those using netflix, buying games from Steam, using OnLive or any other LEGIT service that might actually allow them to use the net they paid for.
Now compare that to my cableco (I moved just to get away from the WISP, yes they sucked THAT hard) who when I used nearly double my usual bandwidth during the big Steam Xmas sale just said "Oh FYI we charged an extra $10 this month because you went waaaay over" and that was that. No bitching, no trying to shut me down, just an extra $10 and have a nice day. Now THAT is how it should be legally, not this horseshit that lets them cherry pick the customers.