Nicely: "Can i record this lecture with my mp3-player so i can participate better, and ask occasional questions without having to scribble?"
Very few that doesn't accept it..just ask respectfully.
But thats sweden on the other hand.
Behind bsd firewall / nat
All machines behind it are either linux (tightened up, no ports open)
or a flavour of bsd (Openbsd).
Did forget to mention that i monitor firewall traffic regularly, and run Cron-apt to get security updates?
Come at me holmes!
3. Post conversion, he nails a piece of paper to a castle-church door listing 99 problems he has with the establisment.
Wouldn't posting em on bugzilla be more 2006?
Well, first of all, take my post with an ample amount of salt, since i am not a native english speaker, so what i have to say might not hold true for your language and your cultural context.
But there are several factors that create these behaviours and tendancies:
first of all its a sign of the contemporary times, we barely have time to compose short messages, communications are very quick (i realize its a gross generalization but nontheless)
The medium has an effect on the message, many IM-clients as well as sms impose a limit on characters, use these ways of communication enough and you will see it affect your language.
Class, now i realize mentioning class on a primarily american board might seem trollish, but still, it's a fact that here (dunno about the US), it would seem schools in primarily working class areas are inadequatly funded, lacking discipline and they dont have the resources to see to that everyone can take part in literature in a meaningful manner, i would imagine that public schools in poor american areas has the same syndrome. And here the upper middle class clearly fosters their kids to study and take time to talk to them, whereas the working class just dont have the time.
Immigration, here the short and sloppy language is mixed up with foreign slang, and i imagine you experience the same, perhaps in hispanic areas?
Thats some of it, very generalized but still, hope my broken english didn't come off too bad, alas i am working class, although a reading and thinking drone.
As much democratic faults china has and as much censorship they apply, they still not by a long shot as hypocritical as we are.
Let me remind you about the fact that 8 hours a day (or approx that), you dont have ANY freedom of speech, or any influence over your situation. Anything you say or do can render you unemployed, halt your career or in some countries it can get ya blacklisted.
Try having a serious discussion regarding socialism or unions at the company of your choice [random letter]-mart, one time might pass, try doing it as a regular thing during breaks, see how long you last?
Why dont you mention to your whitecollar friends at work that "Hey i'm a card carrying member of IWW, wanna join up, fight for our rights?" see how taht works out in a regular corp enviroment.
You cant talk about what you want, even if it's not "business secrets" or "valuable information", you cant talk about your rights as a employee, or how you want them extended, you cannot discuss wanting an element of labour influence over production.
Now, i guess some of you might go "omg a pinko commie", and you'd be 150% right, i am, but that doesn't change the fact that freedom of speech and democracy 2/3 of your day (of which you sleep 1/3) isn't enough
Now, you might think that "industrial production" in the western world is a thing of the past, but the thing is that as we produce more technology and workers get more educated, the very definition of workers and proletariat has changed.
Soon it will be office workers that work minimum wage, and if you worked at a call centre, you have already seen taylorism in the modern office enviroment. Taylorism hasn't gone out of style, it just has suited up.
It's a regular email attachment virus, nothing wormy about that.
"The main difference between a computer virus and a worm is that a virus can not propagate by itself whereas worms can"
This requires Stupid user interaction, without it it wont spread and do it's shitznitz.
Anyhow, i would say that anyone still running windows, clicking attachments left and right, should in all honesty not be on a account with system rw privs.
Hell, i regard linux as somewhat secure and I still dont run as root or superuser lest i'm trying to upgrade stuff or change the system.
Because we need the bricks for our own?
Papieren bitte, genosse!
your govt are shafting you big time, from here it looks like the democratic peoples republic of America.
Might it have been the long and ardent struggle against warsaw pact style communism that did this?
As in:
"He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the abyss the abyss gazes long into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Good work lads, you cornered every little piece of progressive socialist initiative in the world, rather having them bunch up with soviets, that eventually croaked and laying waste to a big part of the world economy, then you BECOME soviet union.
Trollish, and a bit tongue in cheek, but still, it holds a bit o' truth?
"but the villification must not stop at him. It must continue all the way back to Marx: as the idea itself is poison disguised as a cure."
Thats a quite strange way of reasoning, you cannot hold a person responsible for ideas built on ideas built on ideas that you once put together.
Try applying that sort of reasoning on anything else, and it will seem totalitarian, and with the risk of letting this thread go sideways, thats like saying. Because the stern gang of israel or haganah B did evil stuff, in the name of sionism, we must root out jewishness? moses was a dolt! Not a good way to think.
We should consider the history of ideas, but not make people guilty retroactively of what they would not have supported or participated in. I doubt marx would have approved of pol pots kampuchea, east germany or any other seriously screwed up variant. Look at history, context and productive power, and you can clearly see what sort of state one is to get (no matter what you call it)....A brutal semi-feudal state will be a brutal semi-feudal state no matter how much you call it communist.
Just as a country with freedom, equality and a good civil democratic community wouldn't become fascist because someone calls it just that.
You say capitalism is normally ok, but currently corrupted. I say that As long as you compete with any methods instead of cooperating, you will waste resources and claim lives. it's built to be corrupted, it's as vulnerable as your notion of communism. When profit margins gets more narrow, competition is between a few, the knives comes out.
I think what ruins nations and people is centralization, which is why i want a as flat and decentralized hierarchy as possible, discourse ethics and local power.
But all this is very theoretical, the matter at hand was not if it was evil, upon which we will never agree, but rather, why the hell is the state involving itself in peoples reading habits?
Communism is your beloved individual wants, heightened to a group/structure level. People can be egoists all they want, with the difference of wanting the best for US rather than ME.
Besides, Capitalism strives towards monopoly, the competition rather than cooperation forces it's participants towards more underhanded and radical methods as time passes, in the end you'll have very few companies, with enough power to set aside any anti-monopoly/ or rule regarding fair competition. Youll have a few big trusts thats all, and where's your freedom of choice then?
I actually approve of/some/ of the classical jefferson thoughts.
I present some quote adequate quotes:
""I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." --Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1816. FE 10:69"
"The selfish spirit of commerce... knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain." --Thomas Jefferson to Larkin Smith, 1809. ME 12:272
Me being a socialist and all i've been keeping tabs on what fringe fringe leftists has been up to to some extent.
Several facts point towards maoism being intresting still:
1.The CPP (Communist party of peru, AKA Sendaro luminoso) is still active, waging a low profile war, and they are on the US terrorist org list. They are Maoists.
2.The nepalese maoists are still waging peoples war, they are also on the US terrorist org list.
3.You have domestic groups supporting BOTH these groups, namely the RIM (Revolutionary international movement), MIM (Maoist international movement), the RCP (Revolutinary Communist party, with chairman Avakian in exile) and their magazine Revolutionary Worker Online.
Now; I honestly dont know why the nepalese maoists are considered terrorists, as they have never laid hand on americans, and the repression they fight against is by far worse than most of the hoohah a maoist could do. Sendaro on the other hand is perty wacky in the head.
Thats why the feds are tracking those books, i aint saying its right, but that probably why.
What i find really intresting is that every now and then China is mentioned on./, often followed by a massive amount of "OMG they are suppressing freedom of speech and silencing people", people are really bothered by Chinas oppressive behaviour, and quite frankly for a good reason.
But compare it to the our workplaces, i mean, many workplaces has a communication policy, and in many cases it's just as suppressive and undemocratic as Chinas behaviour with the exception that we dont get jailed.
Then there's this "if you dont like it, get a new job" thing, which is supposed to indicate freedom of choice, but if you've got kids and bills to pay, thats not a choice.
So many of us are effectivly only having at best 2/3 of a democratic and free day, the remaining 1/3 of the day (if not more, due to overtime), is spent in a corporate dictatorship.
Dont believe me? try questioning things at work, you'll soon see where the invisible glass walls are.
Whats even worse is that it's cutting into companies profits, how many times have YOU thought about a procedure, a routine or some way things work, and thought up a better way to do it, more efficient, and just kept that to yourself because you didn't wanna pee in a hornets nest?
Putting a name onto the procedure half the world has been using already...tsk
Besides, the problem isn't mostly not inefficiency in the programming, the problem is management that thinks they know how to code and are changing the recepie or demanding new "hot features" before having let the programmers ensure that the existing features work 100%
If janitors worked the way programming teams work, there would be a manager that turns up every 10 minutes asking if it's gonna work out, putting people up for overtime for no reason, pointless brainwashing company events, mandatory changes in the cleaning procedure every 2 weeks. very little quality cleaning would be get done, but in a hip and buzzwordy manner.
well to think of what has been suffocated by monopoly is saddening.
But some of it was due to crappy decisions from businessfolks too...i mean, commodore people was no saints...jesus christ did they fuck themselves over businesswise. many more like that..
beos steps towards "internet appliances" long before most people had cheap broadband at home.
Well, i sincerely hope microsoft dies, and like the totalitarian regimes of yesterday, i hope humanity will learn.
It's not the race for profits causing this (or the so called bible thumpers)
It's the race for short term profits, instant rewards.
Capitalism has a slight case of ADHD, and companies are no longer worth more than the margin of profit you can rake home in between buying it and selling it. Whatever they produce is irrelevant, as are their workers.
Thus, capitalism is killing itself, because it promotes short term goldfish-like behavior. Investors invest in a range of companies, out of which a certain % is doomed beforehand and the loss is regarded as natural.
What does this mean in the long term? well for one thing it stiffles innovation, no incitaments for long term research, those who holds the whip and wrings results out of the peons (scientists and engineers) becomes far more important. In the long term brands are also becoming irrelevant, as the market moves faster and faster and no-one has a personal vested intrest in them they just dont have continuity or stability. Here one day, gone the next.
And i'll continue using pop3 as my main access method.
Frankly i dont trust microsoft can do anything without smacking ads all over, making it cumbersome and slow, welding a sink to it and calling it MSMail Xp Pro edition with proprietary sink welded onto it.
I'm a hobby politician, i use it to keep in touch with people on a everyday basis. It's sorta "i throw an idea out on the blog, get feedback, adjust idea to be more in line with what people wants (within ideological constraints).
Not that i dont meet people everyday, i do, but it's an great way to round off a hard day of whatever with some reflections, to get some suggestions.
If it wasn't called blog, i'd prolly just call it a homepage and thats that.
1st week: Speedcam painted over with black spray paint.
2nd week:Cam away for cleaning/repairs
3rd week:Someone had punched the lens, possibly with a hammer...
4th week:Cam away for cleaning/repairs
5th week:Cam away for cleaning/repairs
6th week:Cam returns, after 2 days, it is found staring straight onto a barn....yes, someone had brought a really powerful vehicle, possibly a tractor or a truck, and bent the whole pole it was sitting on so it was watching a barn.
7th week: Repair.
8th week: Cam returns, but is found bowing in shame observing what could have been it's own feet if it had any feet, which a cam doesnt have.
9th week: The cam is hauled off, possibly to a less hostile location, if it had been a living creature i know it would have cried as it's torn from its only friend; The barn.
Sense moral:People may very well drive legal speed, but they dont wanna be watched doing it, just as they dont want to be watched going number 2 or polishing the gherkin.
A bit of direct action is all it takes to send a message!
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Nicely: "Can i record this lecture with my mp3-player so i can participate better, and ask occasional questions without having to scribble?" Very few that doesn't accept it..just ask respectfully. But thats sweden on the other hand.
Behind bsd firewall / nat All machines behind it are either linux (tightened up, no ports open) or a flavour of bsd (Openbsd). Did forget to mention that i monitor firewall traffic regularly, and run Cron-apt to get security updates? Come at me holmes!
3. Post conversion, he nails a piece of paper to a castle-church door listing 99 problems he has with the establisment. Wouldn't posting em on bugzilla be more 2006?
Well, first of all, take my post with an ample amount of salt, since i am not a native english speaker, so what i have to say might not hold true for your language and your cultural context. But there are several factors that create these behaviours and tendancies: first of all its a sign of the contemporary times, we barely have time to compose short messages, communications are very quick (i realize its a gross generalization but nontheless) The medium has an effect on the message, many IM-clients as well as sms impose a limit on characters, use these ways of communication enough and you will see it affect your language. Class, now i realize mentioning class on a primarily american board might seem trollish, but still, it's a fact that here (dunno about the US), it would seem schools in primarily working class areas are inadequatly funded, lacking discipline and they dont have the resources to see to that everyone can take part in literature in a meaningful manner, i would imagine that public schools in poor american areas has the same syndrome. And here the upper middle class clearly fosters their kids to study and take time to talk to them, whereas the working class just dont have the time. Immigration, here the short and sloppy language is mixed up with foreign slang, and i imagine you experience the same, perhaps in hispanic areas? Thats some of it, very generalized but still, hope my broken english didn't come off too bad, alas i am working class, although a reading and thinking drone.
As much democratic faults china has and as much censorship they apply, they still not by a long shot as hypocritical as we are. Let me remind you about the fact that 8 hours a day (or approx that), you dont have ANY freedom of speech, or any influence over your situation. Anything you say or do can render you unemployed, halt your career or in some countries it can get ya blacklisted. Try having a serious discussion regarding socialism or unions at the company of your choice [random letter]-mart, one time might pass, try doing it as a regular thing during breaks, see how long you last? Why dont you mention to your whitecollar friends at work that "Hey i'm a card carrying member of IWW, wanna join up, fight for our rights?" see how taht works out in a regular corp enviroment. You cant talk about what you want, even if it's not "business secrets" or "valuable information", you cant talk about your rights as a employee, or how you want them extended, you cannot discuss wanting an element of labour influence over production. Now, i guess some of you might go "omg a pinko commie", and you'd be 150% right, i am, but that doesn't change the fact that freedom of speech and democracy 2/3 of your day (of which you sleep 1/3) isn't enough Now, you might think that "industrial production" in the western world is a thing of the past, but the thing is that as we produce more technology and workers get more educated, the very definition of workers and proletariat has changed. Soon it will be office workers that work minimum wage, and if you worked at a call centre, you have already seen taylorism in the modern office enviroment. Taylorism hasn't gone out of style, it just has suited up.
It's a regular email attachment virus, nothing wormy about that. "The main difference between a computer virus and a worm is that a virus can not propagate by itself whereas worms can" This requires Stupid user interaction, without it it wont spread and do it's shitznitz. Anyhow, i would say that anyone still running windows, clicking attachments left and right, should in all honesty not be on a account with system rw privs. Hell, i regard linux as somewhat secure and I still dont run as root or superuser lest i'm trying to upgrade stuff or change the system.
for quite some time. But then again, i'm swedish. I use it mainly to debate and put forth my points on open source and labour law.
That would be really useful, it's sorta tedious.
Because we need the bricks for our own? Papieren bitte, genosse! your govt are shafting you big time, from here it looks like the democratic peoples republic of America. Might it have been the long and ardent struggle against warsaw pact style communism that did this? As in: "He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the abyss the abyss gazes long into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche Good work lads, you cornered every little piece of progressive socialist initiative in the world, rather having them bunch up with soviets, that eventually croaked and laying waste to a big part of the world economy, then you BECOME soviet union. Trollish, and a bit tongue in cheek, but still, it holds a bit o' truth?
"but the villification must not stop at him. It must continue all the way back to Marx: as the idea itself is poison disguised as a cure." Thats a quite strange way of reasoning, you cannot hold a person responsible for ideas built on ideas built on ideas that you once put together. Try applying that sort of reasoning on anything else, and it will seem totalitarian, and with the risk of letting this thread go sideways, thats like saying. Because the stern gang of israel or haganah B did evil stuff, in the name of sionism, we must root out jewishness? moses was a dolt! Not a good way to think. We should consider the history of ideas, but not make people guilty retroactively of what they would not have supported or participated in. I doubt marx would have approved of pol pots kampuchea, east germany or any other seriously screwed up variant. Look at history, context and productive power, and you can clearly see what sort of state one is to get (no matter what you call it)....A brutal semi-feudal state will be a brutal semi-feudal state no matter how much you call it communist. Just as a country with freedom, equality and a good civil democratic community wouldn't become fascist because someone calls it just that. You say capitalism is normally ok, but currently corrupted. I say that As long as you compete with any methods instead of cooperating, you will waste resources and claim lives. it's built to be corrupted, it's as vulnerable as your notion of communism. When profit margins gets more narrow, competition is between a few, the knives comes out. I think what ruins nations and people is centralization, which is why i want a as flat and decentralized hierarchy as possible, discourse ethics and local power. But all this is very theoretical, the matter at hand was not if it was evil, upon which we will never agree, but rather, why the hell is the state involving itself in peoples reading habits?
Communism is your beloved individual wants, heightened to a group/structure level. People can be egoists all they want, with the difference of wanting the best for US rather than ME. Besides, Capitalism strives towards monopoly, the competition rather than cooperation forces it's participants towards more underhanded and radical methods as time passes, in the end you'll have very few companies, with enough power to set aside any anti-monopoly/ or rule regarding fair competition. Youll have a few big trusts thats all, and where's your freedom of choice then? I actually approve of /some/ of the classical jefferson thoughts.
I present some quote adequate quotes:
""I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." --Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1816. FE 10:69"
"The selfish spirit of commerce... knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain." --Thomas Jefferson to Larkin Smith, 1809. ME 12:272
Me being a socialist and all i've been keeping tabs on what fringe fringe leftists has been up to to some extent. Several facts point towards maoism being intresting still: 1.The CPP (Communist party of peru, AKA Sendaro luminoso) is still active, waging a low profile war, and they are on the US terrorist org list. They are Maoists. 2.The nepalese maoists are still waging peoples war, they are also on the US terrorist org list. 3.You have domestic groups supporting BOTH these groups, namely the RIM (Revolutionary international movement), MIM (Maoist international movement), the RCP (Revolutinary Communist party, with chairman Avakian in exile) and their magazine Revolutionary Worker Online. Now; I honestly dont know why the nepalese maoists are considered terrorists, as they have never laid hand on americans, and the repression they fight against is by far worse than most of the hoohah a maoist could do. Sendaro on the other hand is perty wacky in the head. Thats why the feds are tracking those books, i aint saying its right, but that probably why.
What i find really intresting is that every now and then China is mentioned on ./, often followed by a massive amount of "OMG they are suppressing freedom of speech and silencing people", people are really bothered by Chinas oppressive behaviour, and quite frankly for a good reason.
But compare it to the our workplaces, i mean, many workplaces has a communication policy, and in many cases it's just as suppressive and undemocratic as Chinas behaviour with the exception that we dont get jailed.
Then there's this "if you dont like it, get a new job" thing, which is supposed to indicate freedom of choice, but if you've got kids and bills to pay, thats not a choice.
So many of us are effectivly only having at best 2/3 of a democratic and free day, the remaining 1/3 of the day (if not more, due to overtime), is spent in a corporate dictatorship.
Dont believe me? try questioning things at work, you'll soon see where the invisible glass walls are.
Whats even worse is that it's cutting into companies profits, how many times have YOU thought about a procedure, a routine or some way things work, and thought up a better way to do it, more efficient, and just kept that to yourself because you didn't wanna pee in a hornets nest?
Putting a name onto the procedure half the world has been using already...tsk Besides, the problem isn't mostly not inefficiency in the programming, the problem is management that thinks they know how to code and are changing the recepie or demanding new "hot features" before having let the programmers ensure that the existing features work 100% If janitors worked the way programming teams work, there would be a manager that turns up every 10 minutes asking if it's gonna work out, putting people up for overtime for no reason, pointless brainwashing company events, mandatory changes in the cleaning procedure every 2 weeks. very little quality cleaning would be get done, but in a hip and buzzwordy manner.
I'm here to kick ass and chew gum, and i'm all out of gum.
there are lots of strange city names http://www.floydpinkerton.net/fun/citynames.html wait til they name one Hornytown or Gaylordsville
well to think of what has been suffocated by monopoly is saddening. But some of it was due to crappy decisions from businessfolks too...i mean, commodore people was no saints...jesus christ did they fuck themselves over businesswise. many more like that.. beos steps towards "internet appliances" long before most people had cheap broadband at home. Well, i sincerely hope microsoft dies, and like the totalitarian regimes of yesterday, i hope humanity will learn.
Capitalism has a slight case of ADHD, and companies are no longer worth more than the margin of profit you can rake home in between buying it and selling it. Whatever they produce is irrelevant, as are their workers.
Thus, capitalism is killing itself, because it promotes short term goldfish-like behavior. Investors invest in a range of companies, out of which a certain % is doomed beforehand and the loss is regarded as natural.
What does this mean in the long term? well for one thing it stiffles innovation, no incitaments for long term research, those who holds the whip and wrings results out of the peons (scientists and engineers) becomes far more important. In the long term brands are also becoming irrelevant, as the market moves faster and faster and no-one has a personal vested intrest in them they just dont have continuity or stability. Here one day, gone the next.
And i'll continue using pop3 as my main access method. Frankly i dont trust microsoft can do anything without smacking ads all over, making it cumbersome and slow, welding a sink to it and calling it MSMail Xp Pro edition with proprietary sink welded onto it.
In soviet russia, vodka nurses CEO.
Developers developers developers developers! I got four words for ya!1
I'm a hobby politician, i use it to keep in touch with people on a everyday basis. It's sorta "i throw an idea out on the blog, get feedback, adjust idea to be more in line with what people wants (within ideological constraints). Not that i dont meet people everyday, i do, but it's an great way to round off a hard day of whatever with some reflections, to get some suggestions. If it wasn't called blog, i'd prolly just call it a homepage and thats that.
Because our computing experience cannot be complete unless we get to smell and taste goatse.cx
1st week: Speedcam painted over with black spray paint. 2nd week:Cam away for cleaning/repairs 3rd week:Someone had punched the lens, possibly with a hammer... 4th week:Cam away for cleaning/repairs 5th week:Cam away for cleaning/repairs 6th week:Cam returns, after 2 days, it is found staring straight onto a barn....yes, someone had brought a really powerful vehicle, possibly a tractor or a truck, and bent the whole pole it was sitting on so it was watching a barn. 7th week: Repair. 8th week: Cam returns, but is found bowing in shame observing what could have been it's own feet if it had any feet, which a cam doesnt have. 9th week: The cam is hauled off, possibly to a less hostile location, if it had been a living creature i know it would have cried as it's torn from its only friend; The barn. Sense moral:People may very well drive legal speed, but they dont wanna be watched doing it, just as they dont want to be watched going number 2 or polishing the gherkin. A bit of direct action is all it takes to send a message!