Same here. I have been looking to get out of my contract and flash my Droid 1 over to a pre-pay service. Hopefully these changes will allow us to do that.
Right, because all the private security companies that currently exist today build their business on anally raping people. And the only thing that prevents people from getting anally raped today is the existence of a relatively small number of expensive donut munchers in blue costume. Lol.
Having some components of capitalism is very different from actually having capitalism. Microsoft is a direct result of not having capitalism when it comes to so-called intellectual property. To help see why it is fundamentally incompatible, read this.
You are very wrong. Microsoft's advantage is built entirely on intellectual property protection. Without it, people would be able to sell used copies of windows and they wouldn't have made even close to the same amount of money. The only reason they were able to force OEMs to pay royalties is because of the government's intellectual property laws.
I find it extremely hard to believe that Microsoft would exist anywhere near its current dominant position if we actually did have capitalism. Instead, we have government protection of intellectual property, which is essentially the foundation of Microsoft's entire business model. Government force is not capitalism.
you're getting ahead of yourself. qik should do nicely for now. I have it on my phone, and if I ever see cops shooting someone, you better believe I will fire it up and stream everything online. they can smash my phone all they want, won't do them a damn bit of good.
Nowhere in the articles did it say anything about a stolen computer or girl being raped. In your pathetic attempt to defend the cops, you are just making shit up.
You don't need to go to college and pay tens of thousands of dollars to get advice from experts in the field. Most professors probably aren't even experts in their field. At best they once were in the field. At worst, they have been out of the field for years and their knowledge is out of date or no longer relevant to best practices.
If we're talking about liberal arts degrees, which is what the GP was advocating, well those are especially worthless. If you are really studying a liberal arts subject, you would read up on different interpretations and viewpoints so you can be sure you aren't only getting one side of the story.
Why should someone get a degree in a foreign language when you can learn one for MUCH cheaper on your own or by taking independent private language courses? Or, if you want to learn history, read some history books. There are plenty of good ones out there that don't require you to take expensive college credits as you read them.
It doesn't make financial sense to pay $50,000 or more for a BS piece of paper saying you graduated when you can learn stuff more efficiently in other ways.
Hmm, now it sounds like it wouldn't be as much of a bother as I first thought. I haven't checked to see whether my router model or ISP supports it. Now I might be curious enough to find out. I only have one linux server and one domain, with no real traffic, but I am lazy, hehe.
It sounds like more trouble than it's worth at this point. I would be happy to have unique ip addresses so I no longer had to port forward to my apache and openssh server. But things are working fine at this point, so I'm not sure why I should put any more effort to reconfigure everything.
Or do our libertarian-capitalist feelings outweigh our anti-Microsoft ones on slashdot now?
I'm not sure I see much libertarianism in Microsoft. Or capitalism for that matter. Microsoft wouldn't exist as it is without government enforced intellectual property, which is inherently un-libertarian.
Have you read the Federalist papers? The whole reason Hamilton advocated the Constitution is because he wanted a strong federal government. The document was not meant to limit federal power. It was a great expansion of power, clearly granting them the authority to tax income, control the issue of money, and regulate commerce.
Personally, I wish the anti-federalists had prevailed and the whole thing was scuttled.
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." -- Jefferson
The Constitution actually empowered government to do all these things, rather than chain it down. So what's plan B? When can we admit that the Constitution failed? Can we go back to something a little more decentralized, like the Articles of Confederation perhaps?
I use it on my 8 year old Asus laptop, which was fairly high end for the time. Looks and feels fine on my 1080p monitor. Wife uses it via netbook remix on her eee PC as well.
Why is it the purpose of government to provide health care? If voluntary human action could provide most of those other things, surely it could provide health care as well.
So were the rights of the poor western Pennsylvania farmers being protected when Hamilton enacted his excise tax on whiskey in 1791? Or how about those wonderful Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798? Seems to me like the Constitution never really did what was expected of it...
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Same here. I have been looking to get out of my contract and flash my Droid 1 over to a pre-pay service. Hopefully these changes will allow us to do that.
Right, because all the private security companies that currently exist today build their business on anally raping people. And the only thing that prevents people from getting anally raped today is the existence of a relatively small number of expensive donut munchers in blue costume. Lol.
I don't see why private security companies or voluntary collectives couldn't do the job. David Friedman explained it pretty well.
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/Machinery_of_Freedom/MofF_Chapter_29.html
This might help explain it better than I could. People don't just stop coming up with ideas. The first mover is a real advantage.
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.htm
Having some components of capitalism is very different from actually having capitalism. Microsoft is a direct result of not having capitalism when it comes to so-called intellectual property. To help see why it is fundamentally incompatible, read this.
http://mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf
Private property rights, yes. Intellectual property, no.
Contracts could be enforced on a voluntary basis.
You are very wrong. Microsoft's advantage is built entirely on intellectual property protection. Without it, people would be able to sell used copies of windows and they wouldn't have made even close to the same amount of money. The only reason they were able to force OEMs to pay royalties is because of the government's intellectual property laws.
I find it extremely hard to believe that Microsoft would exist anywhere near its current dominant position if we actually did have capitalism. Instead, we have government protection of intellectual property, which is essentially the foundation of Microsoft's entire business model. Government force is not capitalism.
http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2011/06/looking-for-honest-man-palinrevere-flap.html
you're getting ahead of yourself. qik should do nicely for now. I have it on my phone, and if I ever see cops shooting someone, you better believe I will fire it up and stream everything online. they can smash my phone all they want, won't do them a damn bit of good.
Nowhere in the articles did it say anything about a stolen computer or girl being raped. In your pathetic attempt to defend the cops, you are just making shit up.
The supposedly good people are constantly covering up and defending those few bad ones. It really gives them all a bad name.
You don't need to go to college and pay tens of thousands of dollars to get advice from experts in the field. Most professors probably aren't even experts in their field. At best they once were in the field. At worst, they have been out of the field for years and their knowledge is out of date or no longer relevant to best practices.
If we're talking about liberal arts degrees, which is what the GP was advocating, well those are especially worthless. If you are really studying a liberal arts subject, you would read up on different interpretations and viewpoints so you can be sure you aren't only getting one side of the story.
Why should someone get a degree in a foreign language when you can learn one for MUCH cheaper on your own or by taking independent private language courses? Or, if you want to learn history, read some history books. There are plenty of good ones out there that don't require you to take expensive college credits as you read them.
It doesn't make financial sense to pay $50,000 or more for a BS piece of paper saying you graduated when you can learn stuff more efficiently in other ways.
Hmm, now it sounds like it wouldn't be as much of a bother as I first thought. I haven't checked to see whether my router model or ISP supports it. Now I might be curious enough to find out. I only have one linux server and one domain, with no real traffic, but I am lazy, hehe.
It sounds like more trouble than it's worth at this point. I would be happy to have unique ip addresses so I no longer had to port forward to my apache and openssh server. But things are working fine at this point, so I'm not sure why I should put any more effort to reconfigure everything.
yep, same here. love my NC + CM7. best cheap tablet you can by.
Have you read the Federalist papers? The whole reason Hamilton advocated the Constitution is because he wanted a strong federal government. The document was not meant to limit federal power. It was a great expansion of power, clearly granting them the authority to tax income, control the issue of money, and regulate commerce.
Personally, I wish the anti-federalists had prevailed and the whole thing was scuttled.
The Constitution actually empowered government to do all these things, rather than chain it down. So what's plan B? When can we admit that the Constitution failed? Can we go back to something a little more decentralized, like the Articles of Confederation perhaps?
I use it on my 8 year old Asus laptop, which was fairly high end for the time. Looks and feels fine on my 1080p monitor. Wife uses it via netbook remix on her eee PC as well.
I'm sure I am in the minority here, but I don't mind unity all that much. It even works well with my magic trackpad.
Why is it the purpose of government to provide health care? If voluntary human action could provide most of those other things, surely it could provide health care as well.
So were the rights of the poor western Pennsylvania farmers being protected when Hamilton enacted his excise tax on whiskey in 1791? Or how about those wonderful Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798? Seems to me like the Constitution never really did what was expected of it...