A constitutional, capitalist federal republic. The word "capitalist" is really redundant in that formulation.
So you couldn't have a constitutional, communist federal republic?
Capitalism does not mean freedom and neither does republic. And the constitution has very limitted power today to protect the state when our government can debate whether the first amendment is really necessary on CNN and no matter what the outcome the public will agree on it.
I do not think a democracy is the right choice, but I think it is clear that we lie to people when we tell them that a republic is in any way like a democracy or that freedom has anything to do with capitalism. Its like saying that the USSR was free or not-free because they were communist.
Given the recent PATRIOT type of legislation in the USA I don't see how it can be related to freedom today. I think of it more like a capitalist federal republic instead of the freedom loving democracy I learned about in elementary school.
Ah, yes, so we recognize that it is communism vs. capitalism afterall. Or this time, its more like fair and open capitalism (free market) vs. the game of Monopoly(tm). It all means the same thing to me. Taking money out of Microsoft's pockets. Out of IBM's pockets, too, and the government's, and anyone who likes to collect and store large sums of money for fun. Allowing that cash to flow (trickle down, if you like capitalism) into the hands of the employees. Either that or we all go broke, realize that laws don't really protect us, and find ourselves in a world of terror.
Thus the logical conclusion is everything should be free.
Thank you, thank you, no tha.. no that's not necessary, I already got my copy. Thank you and have a nice day.
Seriously, would it upset an artist to be given all the books and musical intruments they ever dreamed of having and the free time to explore them? Or do you think they'd rather have all those road trips and play the same songs over and over again to make money? I dunno, I just like music, when I can afford it. Which is probably why I don't like country music.
Though the built-in calculator with openzaurus is kinda slow and sucky.:P Need a good scientific rpn calc. But let's see the HP connect to your 802.11g net, sync itself and download your email.
Yeah, and then they turn around and tell us the product is so good because they decided to step in and help. Sometimes I wonder if this is really a good thing. Specially after how SCO and Sun acted like children. How respectful are these corporations? Or are they just after the money?
At least we got enough choice we no longer have to put up with the corps that act like little brats.
Studying mechanical physics, or the differences between position, velocity and acceleration while I was studying calculus helped me grasp the main concepts behind it, rates of change.
Once you get that you can apply it to so many things in real life, even though you may never need to use those calculus formulas. Driving a car, for example, is an excellent way to apply calculus in real-time. We do it all the time without even thinking about it.:)
My opinion is that statements are valued based on the perceived level of experience of the speaker.
I agree with you. But my opinion is that I also base the value of their statements on their level of education. An that does not mean the degree they won from a college. My grandparents are wonderful people but they know nothing about technology.
As for speaking on behalf of a group, that doesn't say a lot. Bush speaks on behalf of the American people, but he doesn't represent our collective beliefs very well. The group he represents doesn't add any value to his words.
Aside from that I disagree with the use of an organized group as a political tool in any fassion. How do you think we got into this mess to begin with?
Let's assume hypothetically that we find ourselves in material plenty, a state where we have more resources, products and energy than we know what to do with. Do you think our current political system would ever allow those resources to trickle down to the masses? I don't. Corporations have a vested interest in their continued existence whether it helps the public or not. And the management running those companies realize that if/when we do reach material plent they will lose their position of status and authority. Thus I think we will never reach material plenty, even if technology will allow it.
Would kinda suck losing your computer & music collection and end up in some special "school" for underappreciated, misunderstood youths when you decide to rebel..
Perhaps. Would kinda suck to have your kids hate you for the rest of your life, too, I suppose. But that's life, I guess.
Nope, its a problem within our society. We don't trust anyone unless they got that piece of paper saying they're professional. Many people quoting here are professionals, but there's also the chance that its a kid. When I don't get, personally, is why we won't look at our children's opinions as if they could be authoritative over a certain subject and why we look at adult opinions like they are authoritative, Bush for example, when their arguements fall short of logic and reason.
I think the only way to solve this problem is for kids to rebel, like never before. "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me." comes to mind.
I've supported tens of thousands of users. Its quite easy to support them when they're using *nix. Their OSs of choice were Irix, AIX, OSF, OSX, HPUX, Solaris, Linux and BSD. Supporting them was no problem.
Reconfiguring the entire network was also no problem for a single competent systems administrator and their trusty Perl script.
Uniformity is for closed minded people who don't know Perl.
Actually any unauthorized box, reguardless of OS, is potentially a security threat. The only way you know about these potential security threats is by having an active map of all the systems on your network all the time. You must know every MAC address that connects to your network and which system it belongs to, which users and groups, and who is attempting to authenticate from said box.
Then and only then might you be able to understand how much of a potential security threat a rogue box could be.
A corporate environment requires stringent management, or it spirals into a huge, black, money sucking pit.
Get out those whips, boys, we got us some radical slaves to beat back in line.
People work harder when they are either happy, or under the threat of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, y'know, all those things those old timers wrote about on that hemp constitution back in the day. I wonder what they were trying to say. Hrmmm.
You can't pay me enough to put up with that type of bs. I quit!
If the IT department decide to be real hard-asses about it and reimage me, I'll understand.
I wouldn't understand, and I'd kick that bitchy little sysadmin's ass!
Just try to reimage one of my systems, see what you git!
(I'm a sysadmin, btw, but I think all users are administrators of their own systems. Its my job to make sure they can do their job, whatever that may be. Its not up to me to choose what software they are allowed to use.)
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Now can you explain that to me, in detail? I still don't understand.
Maybe I just don't get it..
Now can you explain that to me, in detail? I still don't understand.
A constitutional, capitalist federal republic. The word "capitalist" is really redundant in that formulation.
So you couldn't have a constitutional, communist federal republic?
Capitalism does not mean freedom and neither does republic. And the constitution has very limitted power today to protect the state when our government can debate whether the first amendment is really necessary on CNN and no matter what the outcome the public will agree on it.
I do not think a democracy is the right choice, but I think it is clear that we lie to people when we tell them that a republic is in any way like a democracy or that freedom has anything to do with capitalism. Its like saying that the USSR was free or not-free because they were communist.
or SMTP Mail Transport Protocol in the GNU tradition..
My next couch should be a Cray..
Given the recent PATRIOT type of legislation in the USA I don't see how it can be related to freedom today. I think of it more like a capitalist federal republic instead of the freedom loving democracy I learned about in elementary school.
Ah, yes, so we recognize that it is communism vs. capitalism afterall. Or this time, its more like fair and open capitalism (free market) vs. the game of Monopoly(tm). It all means the same thing to me. Taking money out of Microsoft's pockets. Out of IBM's pockets, too, and the government's, and anyone who likes to collect and store large sums of money for fun. Allowing that cash to flow (trickle down, if you like capitalism) into the hands of the employees. Either that or we all go broke, realize that laws don't really protect us, and find ourselves in a world of terror.
But who cares, its only life.
Thus the logical conclusion is everything should be free.
Thank you, thank you, no tha.. no that's not necessary, I already got my copy. Thank you and have a nice day.
Seriously, would it upset an artist to be given all the books and musical intruments they ever dreamed of having and the free time to explore them? Or do you think they'd rather have all those road trips and play the same songs over and over again to make money? I dunno, I just like music, when I can afford it. Which is probably why I don't like country music.
Maybe if they bought more expensive artists they'd get more creative songs.
Yeah, HP 49G/GX or Sharp Zaurus?
:P Need a good scientific rpn calc. But let's see the HP connect to your 802.11g net, sync itself and download your email.
Though the built-in calculator with openzaurus is kinda slow and sucky.
It amazes me how every time a HTPC is mentioned, it always lacks compenent video output.
Now would be a good time to thank the MPAA and RIAA for all they have done for us.
Yeah, and then they turn around and tell us the product is so good because they decided to step in and help. Sometimes I wonder if this is really a good thing. Specially after how SCO and Sun acted like children. How respectful are these corporations? Or are they just after the money?
At least we got enough choice we no longer have to put up with the corps that act like little brats.
Could store lots and lots of small ogg files in my PDA, when these things cost reasonable prices. They'll probably have 16+ GB cards by then.
There is that instant when the change in time approaches zero..
That's close enough for some people. Course it sucks to be dividing by zero all the time.
Studying mechanical physics, or the differences between position, velocity and acceleration while I was studying calculus helped me grasp the main concepts behind it, rates of change.
:)
Once you get that you can apply it to so many things in real life, even though you may never need to use those calculus formulas. Driving a car, for example, is an excellent way to apply calculus in real-time. We do it all the time without even thinking about it.
My opinion is that statements are valued based on the perceived level of experience of the speaker.
I agree with you. But my opinion is that I also base the value of their statements on their level of education. An that does not mean the degree they won from a college. My grandparents are wonderful people but they know nothing about technology.
As for speaking on behalf of a group, that doesn't say a lot. Bush speaks on behalf of the American people, but he doesn't represent our collective beliefs very well. The group he represents doesn't add any value to his words.
Aside from that I disagree with the use of an organized group as a political tool in any fassion. How do you think we got into this mess to begin with?
Let's assume hypothetically that we find ourselves in material plenty, a state where we have more resources, products and energy than we know what to do with. Do you think our current political system would ever allow those resources to trickle down to the masses? I don't. Corporations have a vested interest in their continued existence whether it helps the public or not. And the management running those companies realize that if/when we do reach material plent they will lose their position of status and authority. Thus I think we will never reach material plenty, even if technology will allow it.
Would kinda suck losing your computer & music collection and end up in some special "school" for underappreciated, misunderstood youths when you decide to rebel..
Perhaps. Would kinda suck to have your kids hate you for the rest of your life, too, I suppose. But that's life, I guess.
I think the record companies are hesitant to compete with Apple's $1 per song rates. They want to make bank, whatever the market will bear.
Nope, its a problem within our society. We don't trust anyone unless they got that piece of paper saying they're professional. Many people quoting here are professionals, but there's also the chance that its a kid. When I don't get, personally, is why we won't look at our children's opinions as if they could be authoritative over a certain subject and why we look at adult opinions like they are authoritative, Bush for example, when their arguements fall short of logic and reason.
I think the only way to solve this problem is for kids to rebel, like never before. "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me." comes to mind.
I think real artists do because the have to.
I also think art is creating something new, something of you, something that might provoke thought and/or emotion.
I don't understand why schools don't just find people jobs and hand them their degrees, for a small fee. We could call it a finder's fee. :)
I've supported tens of thousands of users. Its quite easy to support them when they're using *nix. Their OSs of choice were Irix, AIX, OSF, OSX, HPUX, Solaris, Linux and BSD. Supporting them was no problem.
Reconfiguring the entire network was also no problem for a single competent systems administrator and their trusty Perl script.
Uniformity is for closed minded people who don't know Perl.
Actually any unauthorized box, reguardless of OS, is potentially a security threat. The only way you know about these potential security threats is by having an active map of all the systems on your network all the time. You must know every MAC address that connects to your network and which system it belongs to, which users and groups, and who is attempting to authenticate from said box.
Then and only then might you be able to understand how much of a potential security threat a rogue box could be.
A corporate environment requires stringent management, or it spirals into a huge, black, money sucking pit.
Get out those whips, boys, we got us some radical slaves to beat back in line.
People work harder when they are either happy, or under the threat of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, y'know, all those things those old timers wrote about on that hemp constitution back in the day. I wonder what they were trying to say. Hrmmm.
You can't pay me enough to put up with that type of bs. I quit!
If the IT department decide to be real hard-asses about it and reimage me, I'll understand.
I wouldn't understand, and I'd kick that bitchy little sysadmin's ass!
Just try to reimage one of my systems, see what you git!
(I'm a sysadmin, btw, but I think all users are administrators of their own systems. Its my job to make sure they can do their job, whatever that may be. Its not up to me to choose what software they are allowed to use.)