If America is such trash and the jobs are all going to China, how can we all move to China? What the hell are us programmers and engineers going to do for a living? Buy stock?
Votes don't get people elected, voting machines, hackers, money, and influence gets people elected. Look, do you think anyone actually voted for Saddam? Do you really think Saddam had the popular vote?
When you are under a one party system, voting no longer matters, the law can be changed to so that the current president is president forever once Mr. Roberts gets on the court.
Instead of just tapping our phones, why not just do house to house searches? Face it, we can't fight this, so I'm going to just welcome them in, offer them a beer, and let them do whatever the hell they want. It's their house now.
You see, our FBI and federal government has the right to tap all our phones, wiretap everything, spy on us, use satelites to watch our every move, and to control our thoughts and remove our freedom of speech. The FBI owns you, you do not own the FBI.
So just let them search your house and tap your phone, its not like you can stop them and its not like anyone cares about the constitution anymore or privacy. For all the talk I hear on slashdot, none of you actually care about privacy or the constitution. If you do, then prove it and defend the constitution.
See for yourself how you can defend the constitution if you actually care about it. Save the constitution
People have been trying to replace OPEC(Big Oil) and RIAA(Big record companies) for YEARS. They simply change the law to outlaw alternative energy and peer 2 peer technologies.
The only reason we still use oil and buy CDs from record companies is because they outlaw the competition.
Prepare to teach in a private school
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Being a teacher is actually a wise decision. I may end up teaching too if I fail at business. Just prepare to teach in private schools because federal funding for Public schools will decrease.
Microsoft is not a slave to its customers. Neither is the RIAA, or OPEC. The phone companies are not a slaver to their consumers either.
You see, most consumers are too stupid to know they are being bullied. Most consumers don't even know the basics on how economics work to control their lives and restrict their options in life. Until the average consumer figures out that monopoly = less options = lower quality of life, the consumer will be treated as property instead of the company being treated as property by customers. Smart consumers buy stock and shares in companies they frequently buy from. If you like Kellogs cereal, buy their stock. If you like Microsoft Windows, buy its stock. If you like Redhat Linux or Google, buy its stock. Buying products should also mean buying stocks.
I think its the opposite. High pay = house slave.
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You can be a field slave, work harder, and make lower pay while having more freedom and less responsibility. Or you can be a house slave with higher pay and more responsibity. Either way you'll have a boss unless you are the CEO in which case you are the slave master.
My point is, unless you own yourself you will be unhappy, so unless the economy is good, you are going to either be a rich banker, or working for walmart. The good jobs will be shipped overseas while all the crappy jobs that suck like service jobs, these will stay.
So what would you prefer? Rich and unhappy working for a corrupt boss? Poor and unhappy working for a corrupt boss? The only way out of being unhappy is to be your own boss.
Most people would just say get rich first and then focus on being happy. What good is being happy if you have a short lifespan? and what if you have kids? If you want your kids to have the chance to be happy then you have to make enough money to buy their education.
Lets face it, the most important thing in life is making money. God is money, its right on the dollar bill itself, and money is more important than life itself for the majority of Americans. If happiness were more important then we'd all be artists and musicians playing music for a living and drawing stuff. The fact that the majority of smart people are stock brokers and bankers should tell you that money is more important than being happy. The majority of people who have money are miserable, but they don't have to worry about retirement because they are rich.
If you are logical, then being happy is worthless. If you are emotional, then being rich is worthless.
People don't work to find happiness, people work to survive. Lets face it, America lives to make money. While some people here may actually care about quality of life, the majority don't. The majority here just want to compete to make the biggest paycheck. Why do you think profits exceed ethics? People arent focused on doing what is best for America, the world, the species, or even themselves. People are doing what is best for their pockets because the majority of Americans live to profit and compete for money. It's really that simple.
If you want to do something more than make money, you are in the wrong country. And the chance of you getting rich while also being happy is very slim, so unless you are an artist of some sort, you can forget about it because corruption pays and crime pays.
This dumbass CEO should take a paycutt, or better yet just release his artists to Apple. I'm sure the majority of his artists would prefer to make 50cent of that 99 cent than have to make what little petty amount they make now. And Consumers sure as hell wont pay over $1 a song. I know I wouldnt.
And you get Google's social networking, VOIP, WIFI, Dodgeball, GoogleTV, all into one. This means you'll be able to meet friends who search for the same stuff, watch the same shows, and who are in the same area, and talk to them over VOIP for free.
Google has the perfect businessplan, this will make them bigger than Microsoft if they pull it off. The question is simply a question of pulling it off.
It's simple, theres nothing you can do. 95% of the population could decide to be against the government and against the top 1% and it does not change the fact that the top 1% controls all factions of the government. Do you know what this means? This means they control the troops, the law enforcement, the judges, both political parties, the school system, and you are either with them or against them.
Do you want to be a terrorist? A peasant? or a boss? I don't think you want to be a terrorist because they'd have no problem putting anyone who they declare a terrorist into a camp and torturing them for years.
When you give up freedom you also give up power. You are giving power to the government to protect you from the power of the terrorists. This has nothing to do with safety, its a power transfer and it should be obvious to anyone with a brain or a college education.
If you give all your money to the neighborhood bully, or to the police officer, the result is the same. You are giving all of your money to somone else.
What people should be asking for is a tax cut. Tax cuts = more security. Tax cuts = financial liberty. Tax cuts will allow private citizens, corporations, and families to protect themselves. Tax cuts will allow you to hire your own politicians and to organize your own local governments to protect your local community from terrorism. It's impossible to use the government to protect yourself from terrorism.
Look, the mafia has existed for thousands of years in various forms. Many times people would think that if they just had more police officers they'd catch the mafia criminal, or the gang kingpin etc. You can only catch the stupid criminal with the police, because the really smart criminals will simply pay off the police officers, or worse become police officers themselves.
So this entire debate about freedom or security is really a debate about freedom from security. Do we want to make ourselves less free while also making ourselves less secure?
If you want to make yourself more secure, join the police force and use your badge as protection, otherwise you won't be more secure unless you have money to hire police officers.
The state government should control all the laws of the state and handle the response. Why would you expect or even want the feds to come in and declare martial law?
It's one thing to have police officers you know, from your community telling you to get out of your house, its another thing to have federal officers who who knows where and soldiers from Iraq telling you to go into a shelter or a dome somewhere.
It's not the governments job to protect your civil rights. It's your job to protect your civil rights. It always WAS your job to protect your civil rights. If your government does not respect your civil rights its because you do not respect your civil rights. You are your government, you bought and paid to put these people in office. It was your corporations who funded them, it was your businesses who decided they don't want to protect the rights of the middle class. If you don't like this, then start your own businesses, and compete in proper forum, because thats how changes are really made.
Voting is just a way to convince the middle class that they have the power. In reality, your boss controls who you vote for, your boss controls your salary, your boss controls if you have healthcare or not, your boss controls when you can retire, your boss controls your life until you decide to be your own boss its always going to be this way.
People want others to rule over them and tell them how to live their lives. If people did not want this then people would by the millions be starting their own businesses. If you dislike your boss, choose another or become one yourself. The government only serves the interest of greater society. The top 1% of society decides on the laws because the top 1% of society creates all the jobs. If you disagree with their laws in the least you'll lose your job or even put in jail on some trivial charges.
If you want to defend yourself, get rich while you still have time, otherwise enjoy being a peasant.
Unless you have the millions required to hire body guards to protect your freedoms, you arent free. Nothing stops the government from sending in the troops to take all your property and kicking you out of your home.
Now I admit, you can buy your freedom and money does buy freedom, but how many of us here at Slashdot are millionaires who can buy freedom? Are you?
Property rights are fine if you can actually afford the property and afford the manpower to protect that property using the private sector. You will not be able to rely on the public sector for anything. Every man/woman/child for his or herself, it's social darwinism, get used to it.
In the USA we are losing our constitution as well. The constitution is a piece of paper which has the value of toilet tissue. The real constitution is money.
Face it, the USA and the UK are a monarchy, or at least a monarchy of sorts. They always have been, voting never had anything to do with who wins or loses elections except perhaps on the local levels. He who controls the voting machine controls the elections, he who controls the money controls the voting machines, and the banks control the money.
If you want freedom, become a banker, become a stock broker, major in economics or business, get your MBA, and join the workforce. If you want to be a surf or a peasant, then keep losing your job and looking for new ones every few years.
Times are changing, and civil liberties are dead, accept it or move to another country.
Yes you should have financial liberty, but liberty comes at a price, and profit should be a privilege and not something people feel they are entitlted to by birth. Too many people have an sense of entitlement to profit.
I suppose the ability to profit, but I think we have to profit in ways which are sustainable. We should focus on corporate responsibility, fiscal responsibility in government, and financial responsibility for consumers. We all must be responsible as humans.
This means there needs to be some rules, and no I do not think we have to give up civil liberties. Most of the time people give up civil liberties to the nanny state along with their financial liberties because both are connected. If you lose freedom of speech in some cases you lose the freedom to profit off your speech. If you lose your civil rights then the result in the long term becomes a monarchy.
If this is going to be the case, get rich now while you still can and prepare for lords and surfs, because we are headed straight for the dark ages.
I mean seriously, unless you want them to leave the country (which I suspect most will), they will NEED communications. They need contact with the outside world. They need to be connected, posting blogs, etc.
I don't know how you can be crazy enough to figure that students or people who work don't want the ability to communicate.
As much as you tell people to go back to nature, it does not change the fact that we live in America. These people are homeless, what are we going to do? Not rebuild at all?
Ok, if we arent going to rebuild, lets give them free plane tickets leave this country so they can rebuild somewhere else. Otherwise we need communication. If you are afraid the government will control it, then use wifi. Pool your money and invent a solution.
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If America is such trash and the jobs are all going to China, how can we all move to China? What the hell are us programmers and engineers going to do for a living? Buy stock?
Votes don't get people elected, voting machines, hackers, money, and influence gets people elected. Look, do you think anyone actually voted for Saddam? Do you really think Saddam had the popular vote?
When you are under a one party system, voting no longer matters, the law can be changed to so that the current president is president forever once Mr. Roberts gets on the court.
And they will. Who do you think picks all the judges?
Instead of just tapping our phones, why not just do house to house searches? Face it, we can't fight this, so I'm going to just welcome them in, offer them a beer, and let them do whatever the hell they want. It's their house now.
You see, our FBI and federal government has the right to tap all our phones, wiretap everything, spy on us, use satelites to watch our every move, and to control our thoughts and remove our freedom of speech. The FBI owns you, you do not own the FBI.
So just let them search your house and tap your phone, its not like you can stop them and its not like anyone cares about the constitution anymore or privacy. For all the talk I hear on slashdot, none of you actually care about privacy or the constitution. If you do, then prove it and defend the constitution.
See for yourself how you can defend the constitution if you actually care about it. Save the constitution
Do you actually believe that?
People work because they have to. Maybe a few people enjoy working, but really I can think of a lot of things I enjoy more.
People have been trying to replace OPEC(Big Oil) and RIAA(Big record companies) for YEARS. They simply change the law to outlaw alternative energy and peer 2 peer technologies.
The only reason we still use oil and buy CDs from record companies is because they outlaw the competition.
Being a teacher is actually a wise decision. I may end up teaching too if I fail at business. Just prepare to teach in private schools because federal funding for Public schools will decrease.
Microsoft is not a slave to its customers. Neither is the RIAA, or OPEC. The phone companies are not a slaver to their consumers either.
You see, most consumers are too stupid to know they are being bullied. Most consumers don't even know the basics on how economics work to control their lives and restrict their options in life. Until the average consumer figures out that monopoly = less options = lower quality of life, the consumer will be treated as property instead of the company being treated as property by customers. Smart consumers buy stock and shares in companies they frequently buy from. If you like Kellogs cereal, buy their stock. If you like Microsoft Windows, buy its stock. If you like Redhat Linux or Google, buy its stock. Buying products should also mean buying stocks.
You can be a field slave, work harder, and make lower pay while having more freedom and less responsibility. Or you can be a house slave with higher pay and more responsibity. Either way you'll have a boss unless you are the CEO in which case you are the slave master.
My point is, unless you own yourself you will be unhappy, so unless the economy is good, you are going to either be a rich banker, or working for walmart. The good jobs will be shipped overseas while all the crappy jobs that suck like service jobs, these will stay.
So what would you prefer? Rich and unhappy working for a corrupt boss? Poor and unhappy working for a corrupt boss? The only way out of being unhappy is to be your own boss.
Be your own bully, or be bullied.
Most people would just say get rich first and then focus on being happy. What good is being happy if you have a short lifespan? and what if you have kids? If you want your kids to have the chance to be happy then you have to make enough money to buy their education.
Lets face it, the most important thing in life is making money. God is money, its right on the dollar bill itself, and money is more important than life itself for the majority of Americans. If happiness were more important then we'd all be artists and musicians playing music for a living and drawing stuff. The fact that the majority of smart people are stock brokers and bankers should tell you that money is more important than being happy. The majority of people who have money are miserable, but they don't have to worry about retirement because they are rich.
If you are logical, then being happy is worthless. If you are emotional, then being rich is worthless.
People don't work to find happiness, people work to survive. Lets face it, America lives to make money. While some people here may actually care about quality of life, the majority don't. The majority here just want to compete to make the biggest paycheck. Why do you think profits exceed ethics? People arent focused on doing what is best for America, the world, the species, or even themselves. People are doing what is best for their pockets because the majority of Americans live to profit and compete for money. It's really that simple.
If you want to do something more than make money, you are in the wrong country. And the chance of you getting rich while also being happy is very slim, so unless you are an artist of some sort, you can forget about it because corruption pays and crime pays.
This dumbass CEO should take a paycutt, or better yet just release his artists to Apple. I'm sure the majority of his artists would prefer to make 50cent of that 99 cent than have to make what little petty amount they make now. And Consumers sure as hell wont pay over $1 a song. I know I wouldnt.
And you get Google's social networking, VOIP, WIFI, Dodgeball, GoogleTV, all into one. This means you'll be able to meet friends who search for the same stuff, watch the same shows, and who are in the same area, and talk to them over VOIP for free.
Google has the perfect businessplan, this will make them bigger than Microsoft if they pull it off. The question is simply a question of pulling it off.
That is basically why a lot of companies go bankrupt, like Enron.
Of course winning is all about whoever hacks the vote. Of course winning is about cheating, voting has nothing to do with it.
Humans will be extinct in 100 years. How many of us think we can really last for 100 more years before we have another couple world wars?
If humans do exist in 100 years, I can guarentee that this economy wont.
It's simple, theres nothing you can do. 95% of the population could decide to be against the government and against the top 1% and it does not change the fact that the top 1% controls all factions of the government. Do you know what this means? This means they control the troops, the law enforcement, the judges, both political parties, the school system, and you are either with them or against them.
Do you want to be a terrorist? A peasant? or a boss? I don't think you want to be a terrorist because they'd have no problem putting anyone who they declare a terrorist into a camp and torturing them for years.
When you give up freedom you also give up power. You are giving power to the government to protect you from the power of the terrorists. This has nothing to do with safety, its a power transfer and it should be obvious to anyone with a brain or a college education.
If you give all your money to the neighborhood bully, or to the police officer, the result is the same. You are giving all of your money to somone else.
What people should be asking for is a tax cut. Tax cuts = more security. Tax cuts = financial liberty. Tax cuts will allow private citizens, corporations, and families to protect themselves. Tax cuts will allow you to hire your own politicians and to organize your own local governments to protect your local community from terrorism. It's impossible to use the government to protect yourself from terrorism.
Look, the mafia has existed for thousands of years in various forms. Many times people would think that if they just had more police officers they'd catch the mafia criminal, or the gang kingpin etc. You can only catch the stupid criminal with the police, because the really smart criminals will simply pay off the police officers, or worse become police officers themselves.
So this entire debate about freedom or security is really a debate about freedom from security. Do we want to make ourselves less free while also making ourselves less secure?
If you want to make yourself more secure, join the police force and use your badge as protection, otherwise you won't be more secure unless you have money to hire police officers.
The state government should control all the laws of the state and handle the response. Why would you expect or even want the feds to come in and declare martial law?
It's one thing to have police officers you know, from your community telling you to get out of your house, its another thing to have federal officers who who knows where and soldiers from Iraq telling you to go into a shelter or a dome somewhere.
It's not the governments job to protect your civil rights. It's your job to protect your civil rights. It always WAS your job to protect your civil rights. If your government does not respect your civil rights its because you do not respect your civil rights. You are your government, you bought and paid to put these people in office. It was your corporations who funded them, it was your businesses who decided they don't want to protect the rights of the middle class. If you don't like this, then start your own businesses, and compete in proper forum, because thats how changes are really made.
Voting is just a way to convince the middle class that they have the power. In reality, your boss controls who you vote for, your boss controls your salary, your boss controls if you have healthcare or not, your boss controls when you can retire, your boss controls your life until you decide to be your own boss its always going to be this way.
People want others to rule over them and tell them how to live their lives. If people did not want this then people would by the millions be starting their own businesses. If you dislike your boss, choose another or become one yourself. The government only serves the interest of greater society. The top 1% of society decides on the laws because the top 1% of society creates all the jobs. If you disagree with their laws in the least you'll lose your job or even put in jail on some trivial charges.
If you want to defend yourself, get rich while you still have time, otherwise enjoy being a peasant.
Unless you have the millions required to hire body guards to protect your freedoms, you arent free. Nothing stops the government from sending in the troops to take all your property and kicking you out of your home.
Now I admit, you can buy your freedom and money does buy freedom, but how many of us here at Slashdot are millionaires who can buy freedom? Are you?
Property rights are fine if you can actually afford the property and afford the manpower to protect that property using the private sector. You will not be able to rely on the public sector for anything. Every man/woman/child for his or herself, it's social darwinism, get used to it.
In the USA we are losing our constitution as well. The constitution is a piece of paper which has the value of toilet tissue. The real constitution is money.
A perfect example can be found here U.S. Can Confine Citizens Without Charges, Court Rules
Face it, the USA and the UK are a monarchy, or at least a monarchy of sorts. They always have been, voting never had anything to do with who wins or loses elections except perhaps on the local levels. He who controls the voting machine controls the elections, he who controls the money controls the voting machines, and the banks control the money.
If you want freedom, become a banker, become a stock broker, major in economics or business, get your MBA, and join the workforce. If you want to be a surf or a peasant, then keep losing your job and looking for new ones every few years.
Times are changing, and civil liberties are dead, accept it or move to another country.
Yes you should have financial liberty, but liberty comes at a price, and profit should be a privilege and not something people feel they are entitlted to by birth. Too many people have an sense of entitlement to profit.
I suppose the ability to profit, but I think we have to profit in ways which are sustainable. We should focus on corporate responsibility, fiscal responsibility in government, and financial responsibility for consumers. We all must be responsible as humans.
This means there needs to be some rules, and no I do not think we have to give up civil liberties. Most of the time people give up civil liberties to the nanny state along with their financial liberties because both are connected. If you lose freedom of speech in some cases you lose the freedom to profit off your speech. If you lose your civil rights then the result in the long term becomes a monarchy.
If this is going to be the case, get rich now while you still can and prepare for lords and surfs, because we are headed straight for the dark ages.
I mean seriously, unless you want them to leave the country (which I suspect most will), they will NEED communications. They need contact with the outside world. They need to be connected, posting blogs, etc.
I don't know how you can be crazy enough to figure that students or people who work don't want the ability to communicate.
As much as you tell people to go back to nature, it does not change the fact that we live in America. These people are homeless, what are we going to do? Not rebuild at all?
Ok, if we arent going to rebuild, lets give them free plane tickets leave this country so they can rebuild somewhere else. Otherwise we need communication. If you are afraid the government will control it, then use wifi. Pool your money and invent a solution.