US political parties in no way represent the people, they represent what elected them, corporate money. The US is a fascist state controlled by corporate money.
In what way is the US a democracy? Or even a republic?
I use it as a remote for my media station, and for a roving doc. Kitchen, workshop. Also to watch news/vids in the kitchen. The kitchen tends to be a lot cleaner with some mobile entertainment.
Or we could just arrest everyone on a rotating basis, assume that they are guilty and give them the option of paying a fine or serving jail time on a chain gang.
I don't think the powers that be count incarcerated people among the unemployed either. This is a twofer for the government!
Sweet, and they wouldn't even be unemployed, they'd be forced to work for prison camp slave wages. That'll teach 'em to not pay the fine.
Note that the US, who in principle did not sign the Kyoto protocol, actually reduced emissions significantly (not just reduction in growth, but actual reduction) since 2007 due to the economic recession.
So, we don't want to reduce carbon emissions because it will hurt our economy - but hurt the economy and emissions automatically reduce. Sounds like a vicious cycle that needs a technological exit strategy to me.
But that reduction you have there is production somewhere where there are no emission controls. And likely, no economy either.
A future in which zero-cost redistribution is widespread and undetectable. That doesn't mean we should give up the idea of creating a government incentive for authorship, but it does mean that we probably have to give up trying to prohibit the thing we can't effectively prohibit.
Or we could just arrest everyone on a rotating basis, assume that they are guilty and give them the option of paying a fine or serving jail time on a chain gang.
You might argue that innocent people will be arrested, but I think there would be relatively few. On a percentage basis, probably below the percentage of innocent people executed in Texas.
A few million in lobbying money thrown around over the years has bought a LOT of US government enforcement of their copyrights for them.
They would like to continue this trend, as recently they've found out they don't like the expense and public backlash of enforcing themselves.
I would imagine that senators, congressmen, judges, and the like are getting expensive with the legalization of bribery. It could very well come to pass that the MAFIAA can no longer afford the payola.
Maybe if there was a more united singular message, I'd get it...but from what I'm seeing on TV and reading...
If you're watching/reading mainstream big media news then you're soaking up corporate propaganda. Try branching out a bit.
In a nutshell the protest is about the incredible inequality that has risen out of corporate power. i.e. The banks committed a shitload of fraud that caused the mortgage crisis, the public took it up the ass bailing them out, and no one is being held accountable, how that for starters? Do you understand what happened? If not, why not? The information is out there. That's just the beginning of the horrible things that happen because of corporate power. Or maybe you don't care, some people do.
... I think we've all figured out by now that companies, themselves, lack the ability to feel sympathy or regret....
That's right, they have the morals of a psychotic, i.e. none.
And you have given them personhood, and now they (the psychotics) own your country. They have given themselves all the rights and have taken/are taking, yours away. What do you expect when you hand over the helm to a bunch of psychos? (Oh yeah, trickle down economics, sure, that works.)
I think it means you lack the flexibility to interpret language in practice.
What, are you a computer? Deal with it, it wasn't hard to understand the intended meaning from context.
No it isn't hard. It is annoying to have to do a double take when the meaning is obfuscated by illiteracy.
The easiest thing to do is to just skip it, and move on to something written in English. The hard thing to do is to let people know that their literacy has been found wanting, because they probably don't care.
Probably. This is how oppression works. Not just simply by forcing people to do things--too labor intensive--but by stacking the deck against them so they feel they have no choice but to participate in the BS because they have to put food on the table. BS is institutionalized.
Well said.
If people had less difficulty making sure their kids were fed, there would be a lot more people at OWS. Of course if people had less difficulty making sure their kids were fed, there would be no OWS.
... when someone sells to the side that the US govt doesn't like or couldn't sell to, there is much screaming about "international protocol" (ie. the list drawn up by the US and its rapidly dwindling allies).
Just because the US makes a list doesn't mean it's true or anyone else accepts it...
Outside of the US, most people dismiss pretty much anything the American administration says. It's no secret that US national morality and corporate profit fit together like a hand and a glove.
Corporations own the US government outright, even Americans know that.
I can't wait for Fox News to bash the sun as a net-carbon-emitter.
The first thing I thought of was that the Right Wing media is going to come up with some preposterous explanation that blames some fundamentally obvious exploit on the Sun.
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No, they are elected by the people. That the people are bought by the corporate money is beside the point.
Actually the point is that the people are sheep. The reason that the people are sheep is that the corporate owned "free press" are the shepherds.
The proof of this is that you can't do anything with nothing.
Lousy proof, You will have Schrodinger's cat rolling over in his box. You can create a universe out of nothing.
The proof of this is that you can't do anything with nothing.
Lousy proof. You can create a universe out of nothing, but I suspect some education will be required.
Quantum physics does not like your nothings.
Squirt all over me.
Or, if you get any of the residue inside you, "squirt all out of me."
The USA is both a republic and a democracy..
Wrong.
US political parties in no way represent the people, they represent what elected them, corporate money. The US is a fascist state controlled by corporate money.
In what way is the US a democracy? Or even a republic?
I have the first one as well. I like it.
I use it as a remote for my media station, and for a roving doc. Kitchen, workshop. Also to watch news/vids in the kitchen. The kitchen tends to be a lot cleaner with some mobile entertainment.
I'm getting my monies worth.
Or we could just arrest everyone on a rotating basis, assume that they are guilty and give them the option of paying a fine or serving jail time on a chain gang.
I don't think the powers that be count incarcerated people among the unemployed either. This is a twofer for the government!
Sweet, and they wouldn't even be unemployed, they'd be forced to work for prison camp slave wages. That'll teach 'em to not pay the fine.
Note that the US, who in principle did not sign the Kyoto protocol, actually reduced emissions significantly (not just reduction in growth, but actual reduction) since 2007 due to the economic recession.
So, we don't want to reduce carbon emissions because it will hurt our economy - but hurt the economy and emissions automatically reduce. Sounds like a vicious cycle that needs a technological exit strategy to me.
But that reduction you have there is production somewhere where there are no emission controls. And likely, no economy either.
Before banks?
Before governments?
Before corporations?
That would be sweet.
Bittersweet is the term you're looking for, I think.
I considered that, but it didn't ring sarcastic.
A future in which zero-cost redistribution is widespread and undetectable. That doesn't mean we should give up the idea of creating a government incentive for authorship, but it does mean that we probably have to give up trying to prohibit the thing we can't effectively prohibit.
Or we could just arrest everyone on a rotating basis, assume that they are guilty and give them the option of paying a fine or serving jail time on a chain gang.
You might argue that innocent people will be arrested, but I think there would be relatively few. On a percentage basis, probably below the percentage of innocent people executed in Texas.
A few million in lobbying money thrown around over the years has bought a LOT of US government enforcement of their copyrights for them.
They would like to continue this trend, as recently they've found out they don't like the expense and public backlash of enforcing themselves.
I would imagine that senators, congressmen, judges, and the like are getting expensive with the legalization of bribery. It could very well come to pass that the MAFIAA can no longer afford the payola.
That would be sweet.
If you can telnet to a mail server and tell it that a particular message has bounced, which I assume you can do.
It should be a trivial thing to write a python script to do it for you.
Maybe if there was a more united singular message, I'd get it...but from what I'm seeing on TV and reading...
If you're watching/reading mainstream big media news then you're soaking up corporate propaganda. Try branching out a bit.
In a nutshell the protest is about the incredible inequality that has risen out of corporate power. i.e. The banks committed a shitload of fraud that caused the mortgage crisis, the public took it up the ass bailing them out, and no one is being held accountable, how that for starters? Do you understand what happened? If not, why not? The information is out there. That's just the beginning of the horrible things that happen because of corporate power. Or maybe you don't care, some people do.
That's right, they have the morals of a psychotic, i.e. none.
And you have given them personhood, and now they (the psychotics) own your country. They have given themselves all the rights and have taken/are taking, yours away. What do you expect when you hand over the helm to a bunch of psychos? (Oh yeah, trickle down economics, sure, that works.)
I think it means you lack the flexibility to interpret language in practice.
What, are you a computer? Deal with it, it wasn't hard to understand the intended meaning from context.
No it isn't hard. It is annoying to have to do a double take when the meaning is obfuscated by illiteracy.
The easiest thing to do is to just skip it, and move on to something written in English. The hard thing to do is to let people know that their literacy has been found wanting, because they probably don't care.
Probably. This is how oppression works. Not just simply by forcing people to do things--too labor intensive--but by stacking the deck against them so they feel they have no choice but to participate in the BS because they have to put food on the table. BS is institutionalized.
Well said.
If people had less difficulty making sure their kids were fed, there would be a lot more people at OWS. Of course if people had less difficulty making sure their kids were fed, there would be no OWS.
A Catch-22 if ever I saw one.
I had a trying marriage, does that count?
The fault there could have been the lack of my trying though. It was all very confusing.
Just because the US makes a list doesn't mean it's true or anyone else accepts it ...
Outside of the US, most people dismiss pretty much anything the American administration says. It's no secret that US national morality and corporate profit fit together like a hand and a glove.
Corporations own the US government outright, even Americans know that.
FYI the comments below are 100% lame ass jokes. No one says anything remotely intelligent, don't waste your time.
Oh my god, someone might be ahead of Apple, DEFEND DEFEND!!
Yup, that's what 90% of the comments on this page are about (for/against)
rtfa the whole article was specifically about smart phones. Jobs must be rolling in his grave right now.
The man knows when to throw in the towel.
Maybe but the cost of the trip to buy that 5$ phone would increase the TCO quite a bit.
Not if you bought two.
Is 64-bit really needed in mobile devices? It increases the number of wires and data transfer, which means less power efficiency.
Hey no one will ever need more than 2^64 bytes of RAM!!!
I can't wait for Fox News to bash the sun as a net-carbon-emitter.
The first thing I thought of was that the Right Wing media is going to come up with some preposterous explanation that blames some fundamentally obvious exploit on the Sun.
Death by Doofus!