Those are all excellent excuses, but didn't the artist create the songs? There would be no CDs to sell without them. Anyone could write some cgi script on their linux box and sell their music. Not anyone can make good music.
make it two lines stacked horizontally together.. something like this: patriot == terrorist
If you expand upon that you will see that a patriot is one who love their nation. A nationalist. A member of a group they believe in, much like a religious fundamentalist or Raiders fan. There's a very thin line indeed.
I think what is more important about this is the very concept that a government must maintain confidencial information. I see no reason why they can't disclose anything about their business processes in the form of source code.
Why would they want to keep confidential information? What do they have to hide? Are they conspiring with terrorists?
See where I'm going with this? How much do you trust your own government? They get to make some very important decisions within the next few years that reshape reality for us in very significant ways. Let's hope they are making those decisions for our benefit and not their own.
Human nature and that group mentality makes me think of rats on a sinking ship and how intelligently predictable their actions are.
I have been kinda frustrated with google since they blew away their competition a couple years back. I feel like their search quality has dropped significantly, and more competition is a good thing, IMO. Even if its from Microsoft.
I find the general tone of MSNBC very interesting when compared with Fox and CNN, for example. But I still get most of my news from various indi websites.
It might be progress if we didn't expect those people to continue working to survive when we replaced their jobs with machines. We should expect them to perhaps contribute and help take care of the machines, but they still need to eat, etc.
What happens when there's no reason to hire people?
I want to write software to make everyone's job obsolete. But I'll only do that if I don't have to work to survive. Or else it would be a paradoxical insanity.
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That's why I don't buy many books anymore. I can get most of the relevant information for any current topic/projects from the internet. I think the most innovative thing created in the last few years was tabbed browsing, I love Galeon.
Most development houses are pushed these days by publishers to get games out in peak selling periods...
That's what we live for. Those peak selling periods. Sell, sell, sell. Everything must go now.
I think this is yet another symptom of our system of monetary exchange where we value the money more than the process of exchanging. What is important in life is to exchange those goods, but we lose sight of that and go for the money every chance we get, sometimes forgetting about the goods we're exchanging in the process. It happens with everything, car, electronics, software, books, media, everything. And nobody questions why we do it.
The definition of normal is based on society. If society is fucked up it is very possible that 90% of our children have some sort of mental disorder.
What makes me so sad is nobody looks at the root cause of our problems. Nobody can look at it and face the facts that it is money and its applications in our daily life that make us all go insane. We're using psychelogical operations both corporate and political to brainwash our citizens. This is well understood, tolerated and is completely accepted as the norm. And we wonder why the norm is fucked up?
AhHa! The patent system was sane at one time. 1 year sounds reasonable. So WTF happened? Why do we become so stupid after eons of evolution? Is this how we are evolving?
Slashdot has successfully proven that Roswell was not a cover-up. Now can they do the same for 9/11?
Prove to me that the Bush administration had nothing to do with it.
Prove to me that the US government had nothing to do with it. I'm talking about number 3. I've already looked up the documents in question and they were signed by Jeb Bush on Sep. 7. So...
call me a conspiracy nut, if you can.
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even a few min can cost ungodly amounts of money
I hate it when people say stuff like that. It makes me think of all the money the RIAA lost last year due to piracy. I think we'd all be better off not knowing how a 48x CDRW or a 400 Mhz processor can cost us ten times the profits.
We need like what 20% of the population to work with modern technology. As technology progresses we will need less people to work because the computers, software and automation will get to a point where it can do most of the jobs we need a human to do today.
So I am saying that people need to:
1. Define the products and services EVERYONE wants and needs. This means you need to ask EVERYONE what they want and need. Duh.
2. Allocate resources to the organizations of humans that WANT to do the work, to carry out the plan to build the automation to provide the products and services EVERYONE wants and needs.
3. The human soul is our consciousness, our ability to create. Creativity is art. We should encourage art and education in all forms as a replacement for advertisements and commercialism and ask the population politely to contribute where they can in the form of going to school and creating whatever the fuck they want. What's the difference between the software a child would write and an AOL employee? Nothing.
We need to work together, not enslave more people. Why is this concept so difficult for capitalists to understand? You mean to tell me if you had all the time in the world you would never ever want to work or create anything? How pathetic.
The lack of love and the progress of technology will drive us to a point where we'd rather let you starve in the streets than give you a job. You just wouldn't be worth it when I can buy a faster cheaper robot. What I recommend is an alternative.
Machines can't do everything today. But they can do more today than they could do when I was a kid. It doesn't take a genius to recognise the pattern here.
The irony is money has never been important. Who pays for who.. The facts are it takes a few humans and some machinery to build the road. It used to take many many more humans than it does today because our machinery keeps improving and taking away our jobs. But the only thing most readers seem to "get" is that they need more jobs. They can't see past the wall of the box that is slowly closing in on them. The rest of us are standing on the other side wondering why these idiots don't just step out of the box and think for themselves. If computers and machinery can do MOST of the work then there's no real reason to tax everybody or have money at all. We just need to convince those humans to do the work we need them to do.
I suggest we convince them by giving them everything they want for free.
But I KNOW most of you will not listen to me and go on talking to that inside wall of your box, watching it slowly close in on you. Until its too late?
It doesn't matter as long as I got mine, eh?
I am also a believer in survival of the fittest, either system works for me.:)
Utopia is too hard for us to think about so we're going to just give up now instead. Have a good life.
Heh, at least some of us haven't given up the fight. As for the rest of you, well, hopefully you're right. Hopefully we never have free wireless mesh networks and free software. Because when that time comes you'll be out of a job. Sorry. Have a good life.
The real answer is it is illogical to give away the internet for free as long as we maintain a capitalist society. Have a good life.
Some people need to get over that Redhat is a _business, they have share holders to please_. Yes, they are a linux distribution but they are out to make money and nothing else.
Exactly. I'm having the same problem and I understand this stuff thoroughly.:P
I'm sure the GNU/GPL side of the equation will cleans itself of any patent/copyright tainted code, but how can the commercial side of Linux survive when its using the same tactics as SCO and Microsoft? What's the advantage to using Linux again?
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Exactly, its a gift. When I finally get off my lazy ass and put up a website and give all my sourcecode and ideas away it will be because I enjoy it.
Besides, if you never contribute to GPL software no problem. Good money to ya.
Those are all excellent excuses, but didn't the artist create the songs? There would be no CDs to sell without them. Anyone could write some cgi script on their linux box and sell their music. Not anyone can make good music.
I've long heald the belief that all forms of work could be made into play. Having fun should be part of the job, IMO.
make it two lines stacked horizontally together.. something like this: patriot == terrorist
If you expand upon that you will see that a patriot is one who love their nation. A nationalist. A member of a group they believe in, much like a religious fundamentalist or Raiders fan. There's a very thin line indeed.
wonder if she's related to Sunny Bono..
for Microsoft customers.. :)
I think what is more important about this is the very concept that a government must maintain confidencial information. I see no reason why they can't disclose anything about their business processes in the form of source code.
Why would they want to keep confidential information? What do they have to hide? Are they conspiring with terrorists?
See where I'm going with this? How much do you trust your own government? They get to make some very important decisions within the next few years that reshape reality for us in very significant ways. Let's hope they are making those decisions for our benefit and not their own.
Human nature and that group mentality makes me think of rats on a sinking ship and how intelligently predictable their actions are.
I have been kinda frustrated with google since they blew away their competition a couple years back. I feel like their search quality has dropped significantly, and more competition is a good thing, IMO. Even if its from Microsoft.
I find the general tone of MSNBC very interesting when compared with Fox and CNN, for example. But I still get most of my news from various indi websites.
Progress, sure, but for whom?
It might be progress if we didn't expect those people to continue working to survive when we replaced their jobs with machines. We should expect them to perhaps contribute and help take care of the machines, but they still need to eat, etc.
What happens when there's no reason to hire people?
I want to write software to make everyone's job obsolete. But I'll only do that if I don't have to work to survive. Or else it would be a paradoxical insanity.
That's why I don't buy many books anymore. I can get most of the relevant information for any current topic/projects from the internet. I think the most innovative thing created in the last few years was tabbed browsing, I love Galeon.
Most development houses are pushed these days by publishers to get games out in peak selling periods...
That's what we live for. Those peak selling periods. Sell, sell, sell. Everything must go now.
I think this is yet another symptom of our system of monetary exchange where we value the money more than the process of exchanging. What is important in life is to exchange those goods, but we lose sight of that and go for the money every chance we get, sometimes forgetting about the goods we're exchanging in the process. It happens with everything, car, electronics, software, books, media, everything. And nobody questions why we do it.
That's the last time I ever use another USB devi
The definition of normal is based on society. If society is fucked up it is very possible that 90% of our children have some sort of mental disorder.
What makes me so sad is nobody looks at the root cause of our problems. Nobody can look at it and face the facts that it is money and its applications in our daily life that make us all go insane. We're using psychelogical operations both corporate and political to brainwash our citizens. This is well understood, tolerated and is completely accepted as the norm. And we wonder why the norm is fucked up?
AhHa! The patent system was sane at one time. 1 year sounds reasonable. So WTF happened? Why do we become so stupid after eons of evolution? Is this how we are evolving?
Hey, if the government can use it why can't we?
Everyone is insane, here in America. See, for us, this sort of thing is normal.
Slashdot has successfully proven that Roswell was not a cover-up. Now can they do the same for 9/11?
Prove to me that the Bush administration had nothing to do with it.
Prove to me that the US government had nothing to do with it. I'm talking about number 3. I've already looked up the documents in question and they were signed by Jeb Bush on Sep. 7. So...
call me a conspiracy nut, if you can.
even a few min can cost ungodly amounts of money
I hate it when people say stuff like that. It makes me think of all the money the RIAA lost last year due to piracy. I think we'd all be better off not knowing how a 48x CDRW or a 400 Mhz processor can cost us ten times the profits.
Sun has one thing going for them, reputation.
No!
*sigh*
We need like what 20% of the population to work with modern technology. As technology progresses we will need less people to work because the computers, software and automation will get to a point where it can do most of the jobs we need a human to do today.
So I am saying that people need to:
1. Define the products and services EVERYONE wants and needs. This means you need to ask EVERYONE what they want and need. Duh.
2. Allocate resources to the organizations of humans that WANT to do the work, to carry out the plan to build the automation to provide the products and services EVERYONE wants and needs.
3. The human soul is our consciousness, our ability to create. Creativity is art. We should encourage art and education in all forms as a replacement for advertisements and commercialism and ask the population politely to contribute where they can in the form of going to school and creating whatever the fuck they want. What's the difference between the software a child would write and an AOL employee? Nothing.
We need to work together, not enslave more people. Why is this concept so difficult for capitalists to understand? You mean to tell me if you had all the time in the world you would never ever want to work or create anything? How pathetic.
The lack of love and the progress of technology will drive us to a point where we'd rather let you starve in the streets than give you a job. You just wouldn't be worth it when I can buy a faster cheaper robot. What I recommend is an alternative.
Machines can't do everything today. But they can do more today than they could do when I was a kid. It doesn't take a genius to recognise the pattern here.
It could be that way again if we just got rid of money. ;)
I think we should cut NASA's budget to punish them for the previous accidents and demand more from them in the future.
Money!
Hahaha.
What could we do without it?
Nothing! Hahahahaha!
We're so stupid.
That's why they have really smart people working on it.
I don't understand why reading posts like yours frustrate me so much. I gotta work on that.
The irony is money has never been important. Who pays for who.. The facts are it takes a few humans and some machinery to build the road. It used to take many many more humans than it does today because our machinery keeps improving and taking away our jobs. But the only thing most readers seem to "get" is that they need more jobs. They can't see past the wall of the box that is slowly closing in on them. The rest of us are standing on the other side wondering why these idiots don't just step out of the box and think for themselves. If computers and machinery can do MOST of the work then there's no real reason to tax everybody or have money at all. We just need to convince those humans to do the work we need them to do.
:)
I suggest we convince them by giving them everything they want for free.
But I KNOW most of you will not listen to me and go on talking to that inside wall of your box, watching it slowly close in on you. Until its too late?
It doesn't matter as long as I got mine, eh?
I am also a believer in survival of the fittest, either system works for me.
The short answer. .!.. Have a good life.
Utopia is too hard for us to think about so we're going to just give up now instead. Have a good life.
Heh, at least some of us haven't given up the fight. As for the rest of you, well, hopefully you're right. Hopefully we never have free wireless mesh networks and free software. Because when that time comes you'll be out of a job. Sorry. Have a good life.
The real answer is it is illogical to give away the internet for free as long as we maintain a capitalist society. Have a good life.
Some people need to get over that Redhat is a _business, they have share holders to please_. Yes, they are a linux distribution but they are out to make money and nothing else.
What's wrong with you?
Exactly. I'm having the same problem and I understand this stuff thoroughly. :P
I'm sure the GNU/GPL side of the equation will cleans itself of any patent/copyright tainted code, but how can the commercial side of Linux survive when its using the same tactics as SCO and Microsoft? What's the advantage to using Linux again?