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Sure it has multiboot support, after it overwrites your boot record without prompting for or offerring an option to boot into any alternative OSs you may have installed. I wouldn't be preaching if I didn't just read some moron say that RedHat is great except it doesn't have mp3 or NTFS support and then proceed to compare it to some Microsoft OS.
Or what if the Matris merely parallels capitalist society. I found it ironic that the society in the Matrix was exactly like "real life" America. I think this has deeper meaning. The matrix is in fact not a single machine or AI with a mind of its own, but a collective organization of governments, corporations, politics, media, etc. It enslaves us, controlling what we think and feel and how we live out their lives. We grow up, go to school, become an adult, party and drink and finish up college, work out our lives and die a slow death on drugs that ease our pain. We have the option to see France or Disney World or visit various parts of the world in our livetime if we save up enough money or are one of the fortunate ones. Most will just live a boring tedious life, mostly spent watching TV, enslaved, but completely ignorant and satisfied with reality as they know it. The solution? Um, gotta wait for the sequels I guess.. IMHO: Technology and the abolition of money.
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What about multi-boot support? No Microsoft OS has ever supported booting into Solaris X86, BeOS, Linux, BSD, etc. What do you expect a home user to do when they install XP next to their Linux installation and can't figure out how to boot back into Linux? Microsoft is a hostile proprietary software developer, not exactly the best choice for the average consumers, completely ignoring the fact that they are a monopoly. Mac OSX is probably the easiest to use since all home users would never have to worry about drivers or hardware compatibility. But to say Windows is even close to perfect is a flat out lie. A lot of the compatibility problems surrounding PCs today were caused by Microsoft and their anticompetitive nature. I mean how can you expect ANY OS to support NTFS when its still an undocumented proprietary format? You probably expect open source developers to sign Microsoft NDAs or something similar to give you the compatibility you want, and you still expect it to be free. You ask for too much.
I like things as they are now. I rip my DVDs to a central file server and stream them to any room in the house or any P2P on the net. Then all my friends can watch or copy them whenever they like and fair use prevails. Oh, I'm sorry, was I not supposed to do that?;)
That's awesome! I'm paranoid too, but that's because if I was running this country I'd know everything every one of you ever sent across any of my networks. I'd put this technology to use so I had complete access to each and every static node on the net and accurate info about all the dynamic hosts, brought to me real-time. I'd also take all your money away, but that's not really related to this discussion.:)
If they're using their innocent women and children as human shields maybe they're trying to protect something more important than whatever you're trying to blow up. Stop to think for a moment before shooting yet another innocent civilian. The palestinians are the only "terrorists" I've heard of that use their civilians as shields. But what else have they got to lose? Israel is stealing their land and punishing them for an retaliation, and us Americans are funding the whole thing. They certainly don't have the most powerful country in the world backing them up. No, they have a hopeless cause which might prove better to end the miserable lives of their family than force them to put up with another moment in the world you are help creating. You like the thought of innocent civilians being killed by our military, so long as its in the name of Freedom and Defense, don't you? This whole thing makes me sick. You all make me sick. The world makes me sick. And if I didn't think I could make a difference I'd kill myself rather than live with people like you.
Well then, the answer is obvious. Get rid of all the violent games and no one will ever kill eachother again. Hell we won't even need police because all the violence in this world comes directly from volent video games. You sir are a genius. Why didn't you say this after Columbine? Think of all the lives you could have saved.
But is that grounds for termination and legal action? How would you feel if you were in his shoes? Most of us are asked to sign NDAs just to go to work with these large corps. Then when he leaks a few details about what capabilities their new products might have (harmless in my opinion) they make an example out of him. I'm sure I wouldn't want to work for Apple, or any company that cares more about money than the products they produce, really.
We should just assume you're guilty until proven innocent. That way we don't have to spend all this money on image filtering software OR put up with criminals constantly professing their innocense. God Bless America!
Is slashdot really a community? We can't even agree if the RIAA/MPAA is a bad organization or not. A lot of/. readers even think its a good thing to have the music and movie industry the way it is. They are probably the same people that go watch Star Wars X on openning night, or watch their favorite TV shows every night, etc. I don't even watch TV anymore. I P2P all the shows I want to see and purchase/rent the movies I'm interested in watching. Because of the difference between people like me and the rest of the voters,/. posters, etc, I don't think a boycott would ever work.
I have been following everything these organizations have been doing in the last 3 years. I know we should have been boycotting them all this time. But I don't care. Its like Microsoft. You call it a Monopoly yet you still use and recommend their products. What's the point in trying to convince you monopolies are bad. You should have been taught that in economics class, but somehow it didn't quite register. Personally I think people enjoy working long hours to buy poor quality products and entertainment. They like being treated like some worthless ignorant consumer. I'm just sorry I have to put up with all of it.
Maybe one day if slashdot is a community they'll decide to start their own country and do things the right way the first time, automate everything, KISS, etc, etc, etc. Until then, until we start acting like a community, we're nothing but a bunch of hypocrites, just like everyone else.
Sorry, its just that I'm passionately hostile about this subject.
So, to start off I think we need a public national database / web interface. If we could get everyone to connect to that page and tell us what they need, want, use, buy, etc. Then we can take all those different types of products and figure out what can be automated and what is going to require manual human labor. We would need contributors for all the jobs requiring human labor, until such a time that they can be automated. And those should be the first jobs on the list to be automated since nobody wants to do them. Then elsewhere in the database we can create the list of all the jobs people want to do for a living. There are many people who like the jobs they do today. These jobs won't need to be automated. So once we have this data we can begin work on the media system to promote education and the jobs people want to do. Create the proper environment to promote education and productive output. I see no reason why our universities could not be corporations. The problems we face right now is simply because we care about money. Leaving it aside for the moment you can see how similar a university and a corporation is. We can learn on the job as well as study all the theoretical info at the same time in the same place, more or less. This is a generalization, but I think you begin to get the idea.
This system could be implemented on top of the current system, but only after everyone has had a chance to think about the concepts involved. Right now it would be immediately discreditted since almost nobody believes a society can exist without money.
I never fully understood the bias against binary drivers until I read this article, if its the same one I read earlier. In it they mentioned that binary kernel modules have access to override system calls as well as make use of GPL system calls, etc. The recent changes will prevent this from happening in the future by limitting the access non-GPL drivers have, limitting which system calls they care override, etc. Security, especially against close-source commercial software that may not have my best interests at heart, makes me happy. I love linux.:)
Captilism works because it is the only economic system that suceeds at creating and sustaining wealth.
True, but define wealth. For me wealth is the quality of life, which has very little to do with money, but a whole lot to do with the quality of our products, school system, and society in general, etc.
Whoa, you think business are accountable to its consumers? Howso?
I think the system runs on the work we do, not the money we exchange. Because of that I believe it would be far more efficient without the overhead of managing money, and the boost in quality we would get if we didn't have to worry about paying bills while we're working.
Think of it this way. Every American eats food, we know this because they aren't starving in the streets. They must be doing something valuable enough for them to earn the food they eat. Couldn't we simple redirect the flow of that money instead of into consumer hands to buy food, directly into the hands of the farmers who grow it so they can continue to grow it and pay their bills, while we make it all free in the grocery store. Remember we're going to eat one way or another, but if we don't have to manage money when we go buy our food it save us a little time. Add up all the time it would save you and your friends and family and all the people you know and you begin to see how much time we waste managing money.
Now let's assume we all have a limitted amount of time, let's assume that life doesn't last more than 100 years. Do you honestly want to spend a large portion of your time alive counting out coins and dollar bills because you think it makes you more wealthy?
Alternatively I think your plan would work as well. If we did away with all socialism and made everyone work for everything we'd either be rich or really busy. But what happens when jobs become automated? What happens when the corporation doesn't need 80,000 people? When they can use 1000 people and some machines to do the same job and cut costs do you think they're going to hesitate to lay you off?
I'm deeply frustrated with our current system. I don't know how to make it perfect, but I think if we honestly stood back and took a look at our lives that we all could come up with some interesting ideas. And discussing these ideas is what is important, even if we never implement them. It gives me hope at least.:)
I would be very interested to see a link to these solutions.
Are you a politician? Such a plan would require mountains of paperwork to satisfy your intellectual curiosity Since you are smart enough that you can verify if such a plan would be capable of working then why don't you sit down and hash it out for us? What I am saying is the technology is here to hash out such a plan IF we have our brightest discuss it in an open forum where everyone can comment equally, unlike current political debate on CNN or Fox or your favorite news channel. I'm certainly not smart enough to write a simple plan to revolutionize the economy. But I know where I'd start.
So WTF? You think our current economic model manages our resources efficiently, wisely and fairly? Or you just like to discourage others from exploring the possibilities?
I'd rather hear a counter arguement about how it is impossible to create such a system using current technology than simply discrediting my opinions because I haven't written up a website with enough words to prove it to you.
Prove to me that all would not be well with the people in charge. Show me an example of how people have tried to implement such a society with current technology. I doubt there ever has been such an experiment. They certainly didn't have current technology 100 years ago.
There they go again, damn commies trying to take away our jobs.. (people shouldn't have to work... technology can help make that a reality)
If we got rid of tests and grades and attempted to show our kids that learning is fun through example.. But instead of even trying you'd rather laugh at me and joke around like its not even possible. Gee, thanks. Got any better ideas?
I'm a utopian... Anyway, there are solutions to solve all our problems. Most of them developed over the last 5 years.
Pointing out the problems so loudly that you can no longer deny them is the first step in building a discussion, which is necessary in finding the proper solution. Without discussion, which our current political system discourages, we end up debating the same issues for decades and get nowhere. Why wasn't our school system a hot issue for debate at the last election? Because we're too concerned with money. And I believe if you look at all these problems people keep pointing out you will find that all of them are related by 1 thing, money. People sell out and take the get-rich-quick scheme because that is the goal of American life. If we weren't persuaded by money, if we didn't cater to money or care about money we wouldn't be posting on this article and our school system would be designed properly for our kids. Unfortunately I think the only way to get our minds off of money is to do away with it completely and instead use computers, databases and networks to manage our resources efficiently.
Why mix socialism and capitalism? Why not just do away with capitalism? Let's face it, the system doesn't work, and it doesn't work because of capitalism and greed. Replace it with a system that does work. Replace advertisements with information about science and technology presented in a fun and entertaining way. Make me want to learn physics and latin and how to program. And offer me a proper environment to learn and work. I wouldn't mind going to school for 10-14 hours a day if I had comfortable chairs to sit in, computers connected to networks filled with all the info I'd ever need, and my purpose for being there was to learn instead of pass tests or get a grade.
Life could be so much simpler without the overhead of managing money.
But what happens to a capitalist society when you have free energy? We were talking about a hypothetical situation in which cold fusion were possible. All other forms of energy have severe costs and/or environmental impacts, all of which aid capitalist nations. Free energy, on the other hand, would take a lot of money out of the governments' pockets. How would it pay for roads? New taxes, which are not easy to pass. Any government would be stupid not to research free energy because the first one to discover a clean free energy source has a significant advantage over the rest, especially if it knows what to do with it. And if your government wasn't researching free energy you might think something was wrong. Anyway, what I was saying is that free energy is not in the best interests of capitalist governments. The status quo is.
The quantum hall effect is pretty cool. Its possible to get a fraction of the electrical charge of an electron when using superconductors and powerful magnetic fields. When an electric current is applied to sheet metal with an interacting magnetic field it creates this quantum hall of electrons that flow at a perpendicular angle to both the magnetic field and the electric current in the sheet metal. And when it is cooled I guess the quantum hall begins to have these steps in voltage resulting in fractional electron charges.
I probably can't explain it very well, but there's more info here: http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1998/october/ 13/2.ht ml
Wish I had the time to study physics. Physics is fun!
Off topic, but... I feel like the US has the technology and resources to make a major difference in this world. We could improve the quality of life for EVERYONE and do it within our lifetimes. We would simply have to shift our focus, collectively, from money to making this more efficient and thinking creatively about how to spread the resources and educate the population to use all this technology to produce for eachother.
What would happen if we got rid of the patent system and let all these tech companies build products using all available technology? What would happen if we realized that our tech companies are more valuable to us when they produce stuff than when they lay off their employees and close their doors? Or if we shifted our media system to promote education and science and technology and creativity and togetherness. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, we'd all go broke and starve cuz we couldn't afford to eat at Taco Bell anymore.
Or Exxon would pay the scientist to keep quiet. Something like cold fusion would be reason enough for sovereign countries to steal the technology and implement their own power sources. Exxon and all oil companies and all capitalist nations would lose control. That's a very very very bad thing in the eyes of any exec in any oil corp as well as the current US administration. Its not like the US is all about freedom and the well-being of mankind. Its only about money. A very close-minded perspective form my point of view.
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Sure it has multiboot support, after it overwrites your boot record without prompting for or offerring an option to boot into any alternative OSs you may have installed.
I wouldn't be preaching if I didn't just read some moron say that RedHat is great except it doesn't have mp3 or NTFS support and then proceed to compare it to some Microsoft OS.
Or what if the Matris merely parallels capitalist society. I found it ironic that the society in the Matrix was exactly like "real life" America. I think this has deeper meaning. The matrix is in fact not a single machine or AI with a mind of its own, but a collective organization of governments, corporations, politics, media, etc. It enslaves us, controlling what we think and feel and how we live out their lives.
We grow up, go to school, become an adult, party and drink and finish up college, work out our lives and die a slow death on drugs that ease our pain. We have the option to see France or Disney World or visit various parts of the world in our livetime if we save up enough money or are one of the fortunate ones. Most will just live a boring tedious life, mostly spent watching TV, enslaved, but completely ignorant and satisfied with reality as they know it.
The solution? Um, gotta wait for the sequels I guess.. IMHO: Technology and the abolition of money.
What about multi-boot support? No Microsoft OS has ever supported booting into Solaris X86, BeOS, Linux, BSD, etc. What do you expect a home user to do when they install XP next to their Linux installation and can't figure out how to boot back into Linux? Microsoft is a hostile proprietary software developer, not exactly the best choice for the average consumers, completely ignoring the fact that they are a monopoly. Mac OSX is probably the easiest to use since all home users would never have to worry about drivers or hardware compatibility. But to say Windows is even close to perfect is a flat out lie. A lot of the compatibility problems surrounding PCs today were caused by Microsoft and their anticompetitive nature. I mean how can you expect ANY OS to support NTFS when its still an undocumented proprietary format? You probably expect open source developers to sign Microsoft NDAs or something similar to give you the compatibility you want, and you still expect it to be free. You ask for too much.
I like things as they are now. I rip my DVDs to a central file server and stream them to any room in the house or any P2P on the net. Then all my friends can watch or copy them whenever they like and fair use prevails. Oh, I'm sorry, was I not supposed to do that? ;)
When hostage takers take hostages do we kill the hostages to get to the criminals? Then why do we bomb them? Give me a good reason for the killing.
I think it solves nothing and is simply revenge for America's bruised ego. I feel ashamed.
That's awesome! I'm paranoid too, but that's because if I was running this country I'd know everything every one of you ever sent across any of my networks. I'd put this technology to use so I had complete access to each and every static node on the net and accurate info about all the dynamic hosts, brought to me real-time. I'd also take all your money away, but that's not really related to this discussion. :)
If they're using their innocent women and children as human shields maybe they're trying to protect something more important than whatever you're trying to blow up. Stop to think for a moment before shooting yet another innocent civilian. The palestinians are the only "terrorists" I've heard of that use their civilians as shields. But what else have they got to lose? Israel is stealing their land and punishing them for an retaliation, and us Americans are funding the whole thing. They certainly don't have the most powerful country in the world backing them up. No, they have a hopeless cause which might prove better to end the miserable lives of their family than force them to put up with another moment in the world you are help creating. You like the thought of innocent civilians being killed by our military, so long as its in the name of Freedom and Defense, don't you? This whole thing makes me sick. You all make me sick. The world makes me sick. And if I didn't think I could make a difference I'd kill myself rather than live with people like you.
Well then, the answer is obvious. Get rid of all the violent games and no one will ever kill eachother again. Hell we won't even need police because all the violence in this world comes directly from volent video games. You sir are a genius. Why didn't you say this after Columbine? Think of all the lives you could have saved.
Excellent idea. How do we donate?
But is that grounds for termination and legal action? How would you feel if you were in his shoes? Most of us are asked to sign NDAs just to go to work with these large corps. Then when he leaks a few details about what capabilities their new products might have (harmless in my opinion) they make an example out of him. I'm sure I wouldn't want to work for Apple, or any company that cares more about money than the products they produce, really.
We should just assume you're guilty until proven innocent. That way we don't have to spend all this money on image filtering software OR put up with criminals constantly professing their innocense. God Bless America!
Is slashdot really a community? We can't even agree if the RIAA/MPAA is a bad organization or not. A lot of /. readers even think its a good thing to have the music and movie industry the way it is. They are probably the same people that go watch Star Wars X on openning night, or watch their favorite TV shows every night, etc. I don't even watch TV anymore. I P2P all the shows I want to see and purchase/rent the movies I'm interested in watching. Because of the difference between people like me and the rest of the voters, /. posters, etc, I don't think a boycott would ever work.
I have been following everything these organizations have been doing in the last 3 years. I know we should have been boycotting them all this time. But I don't care. Its like Microsoft. You call it a Monopoly yet you still use and recommend their products. What's the point in trying to convince you monopolies are bad. You should have been taught that in economics class, but somehow it didn't quite register. Personally I think people enjoy working long hours to buy poor quality products and entertainment. They like being treated like some worthless ignorant consumer. I'm just sorry I have to put up with all of it.
Maybe one day if slashdot is a community they'll decide to start their own country and do things the right way the first time, automate everything, KISS, etc, etc, etc. Until then, until we start acting like a community, we're nothing but a bunch of hypocrites, just like everyone else.
Sorry, its just that I'm passionately hostile about this subject.
So, to start off I think we need a public national database / web interface. If we could get everyone to connect to that page and tell us what they need, want, use, buy, etc. Then we can take all those different types of products and figure out what can be automated and what is going to require manual human labor. We would need contributors for all the jobs requiring human labor, until such a time that they can be automated. And those should be the first jobs on the list to be automated since nobody wants to do them. Then elsewhere in the database we can create the list of all the jobs people want to do for a living. There are many people who like the jobs they do today. These jobs won't need to be automated. So once we have this data we can begin work on the media system to promote education and the jobs people want to do. Create the proper environment to promote education and productive output. I see no reason why our universities could not be corporations. The problems we face right now is simply because we care about money. Leaving it aside for the moment you can see how similar a university and a corporation is. We can learn on the job as well as study all the theoretical info at the same time in the same place, more or less. This is a generalization, but I think you begin to get the idea.
This system could be implemented on top of the current system, but only after everyone has had a chance to think about the concepts involved. Right now it would be immediately discreditted since almost nobody believes a society can exist without money.
I never fully understood the bias against binary drivers until I read this article, if its the same one I read earlier. In it they mentioned that binary kernel modules have access to override system calls as well as make use of GPL system calls, etc. The recent changes will prevent this from happening in the future by limitting the access non-GPL drivers have, limitting which system calls they care override, etc. Security, especially against close-source commercial software that may not have my best interests at heart, makes me happy. I love linux. :)
Captilism works because it is the only economic system that suceeds at creating and sustaining wealth.
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True, but define wealth. For me wealth is the quality of life, which has very little to do with money, but a whole lot to do with the quality of our products, school system, and society in general, etc.
Whoa, you think business are accountable to its consumers? Howso?
I think the system runs on the work we do, not the money we exchange. Because of that I believe it would be far more efficient without the overhead of managing money, and the boost in quality we would get if we didn't have to worry about paying bills while we're working.
Think of it this way. Every American eats food, we know this because they aren't starving in the streets. They must be doing something valuable enough for them to earn the food they eat. Couldn't we simple redirect the flow of that money instead of into consumer hands to buy food, directly into the hands of the farmers who grow it so they can continue to grow it and pay their bills, while we make it all free in the grocery store. Remember we're going to eat one way or another, but if we don't have to manage money when we go buy our food it save us a little time. Add up all the time it would save you and your friends and family and all the people you know and you begin to see how much time we waste managing money.
Now let's assume we all have a limitted amount of time, let's assume that life doesn't last more than 100 years. Do you honestly want to spend a large portion of your time alive counting out coins and dollar bills because you think it makes you more wealthy?
Alternatively I think your plan would work as well. If we did away with all socialism and made everyone work for everything we'd either be rich or really busy. But what happens when jobs become automated? What happens when the corporation doesn't need 80,000 people? When they can use 1000 people and some machines to do the same job and cut costs do you think they're going to hesitate to lay you off?
I'm deeply frustrated with our current system. I don't know how to make it perfect, but I think if we honestly stood back and took a look at our lives that we all could come up with some interesting ideas. And discussing these ideas is what is important, even if we never implement them. It gives me hope at least.
I would be very interested to see a link to these solutions.
Are you a politician? Such a plan would require mountains of paperwork to satisfy your intellectual curiosity Since you are smart enough that you can verify if such a plan would be capable of working then why don't you sit down and hash it out for us? What I am saying is the technology is here to hash out such a plan IF we have our brightest discuss it in an open forum where everyone can comment equally, unlike current political debate on CNN or Fox or your favorite news channel. I'm certainly not smart enough to write a simple plan to revolutionize the economy. But I know where I'd start.
So WTF? You think our current economic model manages our resources efficiently, wisely and fairly? Or you just like to discourage others from exploring the possibilities?
I'd rather hear a counter arguement about how it is impossible to create such a system using current technology than simply discrediting my opinions because I haven't written up a website with enough words to prove it to you.
Prove to me that all would not be well with the people in charge. Show me an example of how people have tried to implement such a society with current technology. I doubt there ever has been such an experiment. They certainly didn't have current technology 100 years ago.
There they go again, damn commies trying to take away our jobs.. (people shouldn't have to work... technology can help make that a reality)
If we got rid of tests and grades and attempted to show our kids that learning is fun through example.. But instead of even trying you'd rather laugh at me and joke around like its not even possible. Gee, thanks. Got any better ideas?
I'm a utopian... Anyway, there are solutions to solve all our problems. Most of them developed over the last 5 years.
Pointing out the problems so loudly that you can no longer deny them is the first step in building a discussion, which is necessary in finding the proper solution. Without discussion, which our current political system discourages, we end up debating the same issues for decades and get nowhere. Why wasn't our school system a hot issue for debate at the last election? Because we're too concerned with money. And I believe if you look at all these problems people keep pointing out you will find that all of them are related by 1 thing, money. People sell out and take the get-rich-quick scheme because that is the goal of American life. If we weren't persuaded by money, if we didn't cater to money or care about money we wouldn't be posting on this article and our school system would be designed properly for our kids. Unfortunately I think the only way to get our minds off of money is to do away with it completely and instead use computers, databases and networks to manage our resources efficiently.
Education is not profitable.
Why mix socialism and capitalism? Why not just do away with capitalism? Let's face it, the system doesn't work, and it doesn't work because of capitalism and greed. Replace it with a system that does work. Replace advertisements with information about science and technology presented in a fun and entertaining way. Make me want to learn physics and latin and how to program. And offer me a proper environment to learn and work. I wouldn't mind going to school for 10-14 hours a day if I had comfortable chairs to sit in, computers connected to networks filled with all the info I'd ever need, and my purpose for being there was to learn instead of pass tests or get a grade.
Life could be so much simpler without the overhead of managing money.
But what happens to a capitalist society when you have free energy? We were talking about a hypothetical situation in which cold fusion were possible. All other forms of energy have severe costs and/or environmental impacts, all of which aid capitalist nations. Free energy, on the other hand, would take a lot of money out of the governments' pockets. How would it pay for roads? New taxes, which are not easy to pass. Any government would be stupid not to research free energy because the first one to discover a clean free energy source has a significant advantage over the rest, especially if it knows what to do with it. And if your government wasn't researching free energy you might think something was wrong. Anyway, what I was saying is that free energy is not in the best interests of capitalist governments. The status quo is.
The quantum hall effect is pretty cool. Its possible to get a fraction of the electrical charge of an electron when using superconductors and powerful magnetic fields. When an electric current is applied to sheet metal with an interacting magnetic field it creates this quantum hall of electrons that flow at a perpendicular angle to both the magnetic field and the electric current in the sheet metal. And when it is cooled I guess the quantum hall begins to have these steps in voltage resulting in fractional electron charges.
/ 13/2.ht ml
I probably can't explain it very well, but there's more info here:
http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1998/october
Wish I had the time to study physics. Physics is fun!
Off topic, but... I feel like the US has the technology and resources to make a major difference in this world. We could improve the quality of life for EVERYONE and do it within our lifetimes. We would simply have to shift our focus, collectively, from money to making this more efficient and thinking creatively about how to spread the resources and educate the population to use all this technology to produce for eachother.
What would happen if we got rid of the patent system and let all these tech companies build products using all available technology? What would happen if we realized that our tech companies are more valuable to us when they produce stuff than when they lay off their employees and close their doors? Or if we shifted our media system to promote education and science and technology and creativity and togetherness. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, we'd all go broke and starve cuz we couldn't afford to eat at Taco Bell anymore.
Or Exxon would pay the scientist to keep quiet. Something like cold fusion would be reason enough for sovereign countries to steal the technology and implement their own power sources. Exxon and all oil companies and all capitalist nations would lose control. That's a very very very bad thing in the eyes of any exec in any oil corp as well as the current US administration. Its not like the US is all about freedom and the well-being of mankind. Its only about money. A very close-minded perspective form my point of view.
Nah, you just need that titanium case to protect your weblog when they cut you down.
And those who might be part of that 10% are under constant pressure to conform.