Its a common perception that Robin Hood stole from the rich to give to the poor. But that's a poor summary of the story. In the story, Robin Hood "steals" from the Sheriff and his noble friends, who made vast fortunes through high taxation, while the king was out on a crusade.
Anyway, your analysis is spot on. I wish we had more people smart and brave like yourself in my country, unafraid of telling how it is, even though democratic-socialism demagoguery may sound more compassionate.
Its absurd to say that some media corp doesn't know how copyright works. Obviously, the guy did that driver as a hobby, and as he started to see there was interest in it, he now wants to make a small biz out of it.
What's an "anti-intellectual zeitgeist"? Wikipedia says "zeitgeist" is German for "the spirit of the age"... Do you mean that people worry too much about spiritual BS (like the stupid Secret book) instead of applying rational thought?
Yeah, a non-elected body will do much better.:P What you need is maybe some combo of transparent central bank and educated voters, stricter monetary policy like representative currencies, central banks formed of multiple states. Dunno. I can't really complain much of the EU monetary policies. My country's government is reporting inflation at 3%. However, I'm afraid it will get worse next year as the USA is exporting inflation to get out of the debt because their stupid wars. My country is having a hard time paying for retirements and social services (income taxes goes from half a cut, sales taxes at 21%, and I know land tax have been increasing quite a bit -- I live in a small flat so I don't know much about those), so I think the politicians will try to get some temporary advantage of the strong Euro (relatively to the crappy dollar) through inflation. Its stupid because we could very well replace the USA as the world's reserve, but I bet they won't resist. Maybe Swiss will become the next world's banker... Or China, for how frighting that thought is...:/
What you say is not true at all. I don't know about income taxes, but I know a lot of countries have very high tariffs (I have read in some countries its so bad as to be almost 50% of the price of the good -- contrast that to the less than 5% for 1st world countries). They also pay stuff through inflation, so thats just a game of mirrors -- in Mexico, its so bad, there is a movement to push for a silver standard.
They also have little regard for law enforcement (forget contracts, much less private property). There's also corrupted politiceans that will only pass buisness licenses to their friends -- a lot of times foreigns that pay them very well for natural resources or cheap labor. And those that are not corrupt, tend to have socialists views (see India and China a couple of decades ago).
My objection was mainly with parent's assertion that Americans were driving the world's economy because of their consumption. This is a common economic fallacy -- and even if it was true, as I pointed out, we could have our own governments replace you by inflating the currency and then bury the goods we produce.:P What drives the economy is consumption *backed* by production.
Anyway, I don't think an American recession will have that much of an impact on us Europeans. We are adjusting our trading away of the US -- the USD is weak in the global market because we are buying very little from you. The only reason why USD is still worth something is because you force oil producers to trade in dollars. I actually think an American recession will be good for the rest of the world -- you guys would stop being leaches, and, as labor gets more expensive in Asia, we really need a country to produce cheap toys for our kids. You guys also have smart scientists and innovators that we'd be glad to welcome.
China does NOT continue having 10% growth rates in manufacturing cheap plastic-and-lead crap for Chinese citizens that don't have the money to buy it with
Why do they need the US though? If the US is paying them with borrowed and inflated money, why doesn't the Chinese government play that role? Can't they inflate the supply of money themselves, and then bury the good somewhere, or send them to space?
Why would other countries get hurt? US dollars are worthless as it is, and we buy everything from China anyway. As you stated, the US has a huge trade deficit, so our work is basically being wasted, the USA is exporting very few in return. When the USA goes down the well, it will mean cheaper oil, as producers start selling it in trustful currencies. The export focus will be in Asian countries, which have cheap labor, so we'll be able to expand our services sector even further.
Really, even if your insane economic model was true, and USA consumers were doing us a favor, buying our goods and services, we can replace you by having our governments borrowing and inflating directly? Why do we need you to do that? We could even make up our own European USD currency for the purpose, and then bury, or send to Africa, all the TV sets and whatever goods the US buys from us.
It's still a mystery to me how Mozilla pays its core programmers, other than by getting huge kick-backs from Google et al.
I think you have answered to your own question.;) When you use the default Google, Amazon, etc search entry, it will append some info on the URL to indicate its from Firefox, and they get paid some small amount. Besides, I don't think they have that many paid developers; they have discontinued most of the Netscape/Mozilla suit, they just do some coding on browser component. And I know that companies like Novell (and I think Red Hat) have developers working on it, and there is also a few volunteers too. In fact, their financial numbers were posted awhile ago that showed they were using little of the revenues, it was all being turned as profits.
sourceforge.net shows how many people donated to developer enrolled in the donations service. Search for some popular project, go to the Developers page from details, and check the donations from those developers with the '$' sign.
It doesn't show how much they have made, just how many donations they got, and when they started accepting donations.
A lot of projects that accept donations, list the donations, some (like SDL) even publish the project's budget.
So, there are ways you can evaluate how much successful "those paypal links are".
Exactly. I find it laughable those people that think politicians are selfless and are working on our best interest. In my country (Portugal), I knew a bunch of physicians that were working for this guy that was an architect because the government officials of that town only emitted one clinic license to this guy (being friends with the right ppl is the most valuable thing you can have in this country). The elderly people get lousy, expensive treatment; the staff is paid like crap, and has no benefits; while the boss makes a real fortune there.
This happens all over the health sector. In the IT, the nice politicians have instituted licenses for computers (that is, stores need to "license" every computer they have in their inventory; e.g. they need to register that computer A has cpu X from Intel, 256 Mb of memory, etc), so this has called a bunch of small IT shops, since they no longer have the edge of providing customized computers, as well as white brands. (HP and other vendors, as well as big commercial centers have, of course, having huge profits, together with the politicians I'm sure).
If I can't convince people here that what we need is less government, de-regulate the commerce, then you are not going to be able to do it in America, where you have things a lot better. People will just argue that its just the system thats wrong, that we can improve it, that we need to put more money there, and other silliness. I guess they are too naive with regard to human nature, and ignorant with regard to economics (most ppl here are completely ignorant to how parties appoint politicians and how the republic works in general, much less other social aspects like economics). Left Bloc and other communist parties have been gaining ground from the democratic-socialist ones, so its only going to get worse and worse.
I'm not an American, so I am not sure I know what you are talking about. But with regard to commodity-backed money, it shouldn't matter the absolute amount of commodity you have to back it -- if you have more gold, you could assign 1 dollar to 1 gram of gold; if you have less, then assign 1 dollar to 1 milligram of gold. I don't know why you say it can't be sustained -- fixed exchange rates and other monetary policies have generally been abandoned because politicians prefer a loose monetary policy to avoid taxing people (inflation is actually worse when uncontrolled like that, but it gets them re-elected) -- I think every nation has resorted to credit money in times of war (in the old ages, one of the priorities was to capture the enemy's gold storages in order to finance the war).
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A dating service arranged a meeting at a café in St. Petersburg, but Reiser didn't fall for his date -- he liked the woman who came along to translate.
I don't get it. She has a medical degree and works as a translator for a dating service?? Are there so many medics in Russia and so few people that speak English that it actually pays better to work as a translator?? The all story smells fishy...
The only way to satisfy this is to have a bunch of API hooks that run when you move files around, which is truly ugly.
I believe operating systems are already doing this today for the "desktop search" engines. I don't see such a daemon to be that ugly, but then I don't know how these things are layered on Linux.
With regard to centralization, you're right, I was just thinking about the desktop. Anyway, I do think Linux approach with repositories can work well. Music repositories work very well, so it can also work for applications. I think however that distros package managers are very rough for the casual user -- descriptions are not very good, the interface is intimidating, it doesn't only list the graphical application but also libraries, and so on and on. But I was told Ubuntu has some small installer's tool for the new user. (link)
Isn't Windows Registry like Gnome's GConf? Isn't that just a data-base for applications settings?
Anyway, in Linux, the mime-types base is a filesystem storage edited by the applications at install (/usr/share/mime). In my system, they would even have less control over it. They'd just tell the system what mime-types they support, and it will be up to the system to handle the information -- it could even ask the user before mapping them, since its done at run-time.
You are not thinking outside the box. When you run one of these self-contained applications, it could register itself, so the system can e.g. add a mime-type handle entry for it. It will then unregister and its stuff clean up on removal. The same system could work for some centralized patching system.
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Its a common perception that Robin Hood stole from the rich to give to the poor. But that's a poor summary of the story. In the story, Robin Hood "steals" from the Sheriff and his noble friends, who made vast fortunes through high taxation, while the king was out on a crusade.
Anyway, your analysis is spot on. I wish we had more people smart and brave like yourself in my country, unafraid of telling how it is, even though democratic-socialism demagoguery may sound more compassionate.
Its absurd to say that some media corp doesn't know how copyright works. Obviously, the guy did that driver as a hobby, and as he started to see there was interest in it, he now wants to make a small biz out of it.
Or maybe we could render this anti-discriminatory useless by simply allowing for competition of pharmacies.
Offtopic, but didn't IBM said they'd put 35 programmers on OpenOffice.org. Did they change their mind?
What's an "anti-intellectual zeitgeist"? Wikipedia says "zeitgeist" is German for "the spirit of the age"... Do you mean that people worry too much about spiritual BS (like the stupid Secret book) instead of applying rational thought?
Yeah, a non-elected body will do much better. :P What you need is maybe some combo of transparent central bank and educated voters, stricter monetary policy like representative currencies, central banks formed of multiple states. Dunno. I can't really complain much of the EU monetary policies. My country's government is reporting inflation at 3%. However, I'm afraid it will get worse next year as the USA is exporting inflation to get out of the debt because their stupid wars. My country is having a hard time paying for retirements and social services (income taxes goes from half a cut, sales taxes at 21%, and I know land tax have been increasing quite a bit -- I live in a small flat so I don't know much about those), so I think the politicians will try to get some temporary advantage of the strong Euro (relatively to the crappy dollar) through inflation. Its stupid because we could very well replace the USA as the world's reserve, but I bet they won't resist. Maybe Swiss will become the next world's banker... Or China, for how frighting that thought is... :/
Yep. In Mexico there is a movement for a silver standard to put a stop on inflation.
Commodity-backed currencies don't work solely because politicians want to spend more than what they have. ;)
What you say is not true at all. I don't know about income taxes, but I know a lot of countries have very high tariffs (I have read in some countries its so bad as to be almost 50% of the price of the good -- contrast that to the less than 5% for 1st world countries). They also pay stuff through inflation, so thats just a game of mirrors -- in Mexico, its so bad, there is a movement to push for a silver standard.
They also have little regard for law enforcement (forget contracts, much less private property). There's also corrupted politiceans that will only pass buisness licenses to their friends -- a lot of times foreigns that pay them very well for natural resources or cheap labor. And those that are not corrupt, tend to have socialists views (see India and China a couple of decades ago).
My objection was mainly with parent's assertion that Americans were driving the world's economy because of their consumption. This is a common economic fallacy -- and even if it was true, as I pointed out, we could have our own governments replace you by inflating the currency and then bury the goods we produce. :P What drives the economy is consumption *backed* by production.
Anyway, I don't think an American recession will have that much of an impact on us Europeans. We are adjusting our trading away of the US -- the USD is weak in the global market because we are buying very little from you. The only reason why USD is still worth something is because you force oil producers to trade in dollars. I actually think an American recession will be good for the rest of the world -- you guys would stop being leaches, and, as labor gets more expensive in Asia, we really need a country to produce cheap toys for our kids. You guys also have smart scientists and innovators that we'd be glad to welcome.
China does NOT continue having 10% growth rates in manufacturing cheap plastic-and-lead crap for Chinese citizens that don't have the money to buy it with
Why do they need the US though? If the US is paying them with borrowed and inflated money, why doesn't the Chinese government play that role? Can't they inflate the supply of money themselves, and then bury the good somewhere, or send them to space?
Why would other countries get hurt? US dollars are worthless as it is, and we buy everything from China anyway. As you stated, the US has a huge trade deficit, so our work is basically being wasted, the USA is exporting very few in return. When the USA goes down the well, it will mean cheaper oil, as producers start selling it in trustful currencies. The export focus will be in Asian countries, which have cheap labor, so we'll be able to expand our services sector even further.
Really, even if your insane economic model was true, and USA consumers were doing us a favor, buying our goods and services, we can replace you by having our governments borrowing and inflating directly? Why do we need you to do that? We could even make up our own European USD currency for the purpose, and then bury, or send to Africa, all the TV sets and whatever goods the US buys from us.
It's still a mystery to me how Mozilla pays its core programmers, other than by getting huge kick-backs from Google et al.
;) When you use the default Google, Amazon, etc search entry, it will append some info on the URL to indicate its from Firefox, and they get paid some small amount. Besides, I don't think they have that many paid developers; they have discontinued most of the Netscape/Mozilla suit, they just do some coding on browser component. And I know that companies like Novell (and I think Red Hat) have developers working on it, and there is also a few volunteers too. In fact, their financial numbers were posted awhile ago that showed they were using little of the revenues, it was all being turned as profits.
I think you have answered to your own question.
sourceforge.net shows how many people donated to developer enrolled in the donations service. Search for some popular project, go to the Developers page from details, and check the donations from those developers with the '$' sign.
It doesn't show how much they have made, just how many donations they got, and when they started accepting donations.
A lot of projects that accept donations, list the donations, some (like SDL) even publish the project's budget.
So, there are ways you can evaluate how much successful "those paypal links are".
A good case study could be to check some international education index and compare it to the funding model. Have fun!
Wow, kudos, so many letters and you managed to say nothing substantial.
Exactly. I find it laughable those people that think politicians are selfless and are working on our best interest. In my country (Portugal), I knew a bunch of physicians that were working for this guy that was an architect because the government officials of that town only emitted one clinic license to this guy (being friends with the right ppl is the most valuable thing you can have in this country). The elderly people get lousy, expensive treatment; the staff is paid like crap, and has no benefits; while the boss makes a real fortune there.
This happens all over the health sector. In the IT, the nice politicians have instituted licenses for computers (that is, stores need to "license" every computer they have in their inventory; e.g. they need to register that computer A has cpu X from Intel, 256 Mb of memory, etc), so this has called a bunch of small IT shops, since they no longer have the edge of providing customized computers, as well as white brands. (HP and other vendors, as well as big commercial centers have, of course, having huge profits, together with the politicians I'm sure).
If I can't convince people here that what we need is less government, de-regulate the commerce, then you are not going to be able to do it in America, where you have things a lot better. People will just argue that its just the system thats wrong, that we can improve it, that we need to put more money there, and other silliness. I guess they are too naive with regard to human nature, and ignorant with regard to economics (most ppl here are completely ignorant to how parties appoint politicians and how the republic works in general, much less other social aspects like economics). Left Bloc and other communist parties have been gaining ground from the democratic-socialist ones, so its only going to get worse and worse.
I'm not an American, so I am not sure I know what you are talking about. But with regard to commodity-backed money, it shouldn't matter the absolute amount of commodity you have to back it -- if you have more gold, you could assign 1 dollar to 1 gram of gold; if you have less, then assign 1 dollar to 1 milligram of gold. I don't know why you say it can't be sustained -- fixed exchange rates and other monetary policies have generally been abandoned because politicians prefer a loose monetary policy to avoid taxing people (inflation is actually worse when uncontrolled like that, but it gets them re-elected) -- I think every nation has resorted to credit money in times of war (in the old ages, one of the priorities was to capture the enemy's gold storages in order to finance the war).
I suspect that Ron Paul is among that group of absolute historical fools who actually believes the Civil War was about slavery.
You might have fun watching this interview.
I guess... English is not my native language...
A dating service arranged a meeting at a café in St. Petersburg, but Reiser didn't fall for his date -- he liked the woman who came along to translate.
I don't get it. She has a medical degree and works as a translator for a dating service?? Are there so many medics in Russia and so few people that speak English that it actually pays better to work as a translator?? The all story smells fishy...
The only way to satisfy this is to have a bunch of API hooks that run when you move files around, which is truly ugly.
I believe operating systems are already doing this today for the "desktop search" engines. I don't see such a daemon to be that ugly, but then I don't know how these things are layered on Linux.
With regard to centralization, you're right, I was just thinking about the desktop. Anyway, I do think Linux approach with repositories can work well. Music repositories work very well, so it can also work for applications. I think however that distros package managers are very rough for the casual user -- descriptions are not very good, the interface is intimidating, it doesn't only list the graphical application but also libraries, and so on and on. But I was told Ubuntu has some small installer's tool for the new user. (link)
Isn't Windows Registry like Gnome's GConf? Isn't that just a data-base for applications settings?
Anyway, in Linux, the mime-types base is a filesystem storage edited by the applications at install (/usr/share/mime). In my system, they would even have less control over it. They'd just tell the system what mime-types they support, and it will be up to the system to handle the information -- it could even ask the user before mapping them, since its done at run-time.
You are not thinking outside the box. When you run one of these self-contained applications, it could register itself, so the system can e.g. add a mime-type handle entry for it. It will then unregister and its stuff clean up on removal. The same system could work for some centralized patching system.