Or just make free porn samples available. And just wait until someone joins to create a botnet to spam links to them.
This article, like most from the Atlantic, is not worth taking seriously, it has a decades long tradition of bad think pieces, which fail to both examine the history, or the structure, of the idea. Science Fiction has been over this ground before, and in greater detail. The history of sites like Wikipedia provides an example of the problems: while the edges react quickly, the whole structure spends a great deal of time on drama processing, and has been capsized in local areas that required lengthy appeals as well as IP bans and technical changes.
The first three attempts at American Democracy were not particularly stable: the colonial Democracies ran into inflation and conflict with England, several having minor armed conflicts, the Articles of Confederation collapsed, the Constitution of 1787 led directly to the Civil War. The post-Civil War order was not particularly democratic, small "d," disenfranchising the majority of the population.
The technology, economy, and social order, of the 19th century had the ability to produce the idea of a unified, universal democracy, but not the ability to actually implement it with any great regularity.
Exactly, crucial to agile is the concept that features are pushed to backlog if they can't be delivered, and that programming teams have the ability to negotiate over delivery. However, as with almost any system, give one side all of the power, and it fails to work.
Official positions mean little, passions run high in the wikipedia community, particularly when dealing with one of the many groups who are there to spread the revealed word of truth that just doesn't happen to be documented in the usual sources.
Because it doesn't belong to a publishing empire. Look at all the wasted space that could be filled with ads for adult diapers and instant weight loss elixirs.
The big difference between Facebook and Wikipedia, is that Facebook is filled with people trying to be nice to you to spread posts about nothing, and Wikipedia is filled with people trying to be nasty to you to write articles about everything.
Yes, the government of Afghanistan has a right to lock up and behead anyone defaming Allah, anywhere in the world. Where as marrying a 12 year old is perfectly legal in areas they control.
Darwinist blasphemers should know better than to besmirch the honor of the prophet, they would have to be fools to think that God's justice will not reach them, where ever they are.
It seems it isn't even the 19th century yet where you are.
Let me introduce you to a hot little concept from 1789:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
why facebook has become unhip. While I've got no sympathy whatever for this particular individual, the reality is that the filters are completely opaque, and copyvio, sedition, and heresy are all crimes in various jurisdictions that facebook does business. Thus, according to the precedents already in play, if a person in Germany says something that offends the pope, he can be arrested and extradicted. The list can be extended almost indefinitely.
Note to the troll mods, in economic theory, this is called dynamic inconsistency and future welfare discounting in intergenerational transfers.
And in the question of space exploration, the questions of how much we discount the welfare in the future, and what the curve of dynamic inconsistency looks like are essential in deciding at what point it is worth while to invest in an expensive project with very long term payoffs.
That seems to be a common delusion... At least MS shares it.
It is like the difference between a steam engine and a locomotive. One is just fine sitting in place doing the work of 100 men. The other gets you from place to place.
And yet, people didn't stop making machines that simply "stood there doing the work of 100 men" once they got machines that moved them from one place to another.
Factually questionable interpretation: once the WN Steam engine was assembled, there were few changes. The next stand in place engines were the electrical and internal combustion engines, neither of which were on the same principles as the external combustion steam engine. i.e. there will be desktops, but the next disruptive wave will be based on different principles, and probably won't be driven by windows compatibility.
Because corporations realize that it is more profitable to make pain pills for old people, and enforce IP on movies than explore new worlds.
A wise government opens the ways which private enterprise will follow, collecting taxes on the successful businesses to recapture the costs of exploration, education, and research.
However, as long as minting billionaires is our economic priority, neither government, nor private enterprise, will be interested in new worlds, since all the money is here on this old one.
with each discovery. Would that space exploration were the priority, we could have robots swarming the solar system, including permanent orbiters around the gas giants and landers on the ice worlds.
MS dominates the market for computing bricks. However, that era is ending now. People don't want to sit and interact with a screen, they want a device that extends their ability to deal with the world. It is like the difference between a steam engine and a locomotive. One is just fine sitting in place doing the work of 100 men. The other gets you from place to place.
I'm sure they are very good at innovating in their business, it is just that their business is turning office workers into drones. We already are all drones, there's no more expansion.
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This article, like most from the Atlantic, is not worth taking seriously, it has a decades long tradition of bad think pieces, which fail to both examine the history, or the structure, of the idea. Science Fiction has been over this ground before, and in greater detail. The history of sites like Wikipedia provides an example of the problems: while the edges react quickly, the whole structure spends a great deal of time on drama processing, and has been capsized in local areas that required lengthy appeals as well as IP bans and technical changes.
The technology, economy, and social order, of the 19th century had the ability to produce the idea of a unified, universal democracy, but not the ability to actually implement it with any great regularity.
Does anyone have a good current link?
Exactly, crucial to agile is the concept that features are pushed to backlog if they can't be delivered, and that programming teams have the ability to negotiate over delivery. However, as with almost any system, give one side all of the power, and it fails to work.
Is a way for managers to tell other managers that the features that no one really cares about will be delivered by a date that no one believes in.
Official positions mean little, passions run high in the wikipedia community, particularly when dealing with one of the many groups who are there to spread the revealed word of truth that just doesn't happen to be documented in the usual sources.
Because it doesn't belong to a publishing empire. Look at all the wasted space that could be filled with ads for adult diapers and instant weight loss elixirs.
I know, let's put mafia wars gadgets on the pages and hire the Myspace people for user customizations.
The big difference between Facebook and Wikipedia, is that Facebook is filled with people trying to be nice to you to spread posts about nothing, and Wikipedia is filled with people trying to be nasty to you to write articles about everything.
Then there is the unforgettable scare mongering of Jeffrey Goldberg and torture apologia from Christopher Hitchens.
Never trust a magazine named after where it gets dumped.
Darwinist blasphemers should know better than to besmirch the honor of the prophet, they would have to be fools to think that God's justice will not reach them, where ever they are.
Let me introduce you to a hot little concept from 1789:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Adultery is a crime. If you go to a bar, and try and pick up a woman who is not your wife, you should go to jail, and in Michigan, for life. Right?
why facebook has become unhip. While I've got no sympathy whatever for this particular individual, the reality is that the filters are completely opaque, and copyvio, sedition, and heresy are all crimes in various jurisdictions that facebook does business. Thus, according to the precedents already in play, if a person in Germany says something that offends the pope, he can be arrested and extradicted. The list can be extended almost indefinitely.
The video on the link of Saturn's aurora includes some lovely animation.
And in the question of space exploration, the questions of how much we discount the welfare in the future, and what the curve of dynamic inconsistency looks like are essential in deciding at what point it is worth while to invest in an expensive project with very long term payoffs.
That seems to be a common delusion... At least MS shares it.
And yet, people didn't stop making machines that simply "stood there doing the work of 100 men" once they got machines that moved them from one place to another.
Factually questionable interpretation: once the WN Steam engine was assembled, there were few changes. The next stand in place engines were the electrical and internal combustion engines, neither of which were on the same principles as the external combustion steam engine. i.e. there will be desktops, but the next disruptive wave will be based on different principles, and probably won't be driven by windows compatibility.
Sadly 2010 didn't arrive by 2010, though 1984 is half way here.
Because corporations realize that it is more profitable to make pain pills for old people, and enforce IP on movies than explore new worlds. A wise government opens the ways which private enterprise will follow, collecting taxes on the successful businesses to recapture the costs of exploration, education, and research. However, as long as minting billionaires is our economic priority, neither government, nor private enterprise, will be interested in new worlds, since all the money is here on this old one.
with each discovery. Would that space exploration were the priority, we could have robots swarming the solar system, including permanent orbiters around the gas giants and landers on the ice worlds.
You say dystopian fiction, they say operator's manual.
The only person who could ask this question would have to be one completely unfamiliar with Lamar Smith's record.
I'm sure they are very good at innovating in their business, it is just that their business is turning office workers into drones. We already are all drones, there's no more expansion.
IP is a euphemism for bit slavery.
Yes, my fingers typed hour when my brain meant day. My error.