There is a cluster of 7 year old siblings and cousins in my family, both boys and girls. I'd love to start a subtopic here on Christmas geek gifts available for this age group. One example: my son is asking for a Rock Polisher.
In 5 to 10 years, people will sneer at Oracle the way we all like to sneer at Cobol today. Sure, there will be a lot of Oracle jobs out there but the cool hombres won't touch it.
In the world as you are defining it, the following scenario is fine with you.
A starving first time author writes a book. It begins to gain some success. Some big powerful corporation decides to publish and profit from a lexicon of that book without any licensing agreement from the author. The starving author gets nothing and the powerful corporation gets a tidy income from that author's original idea.
Your arguments all rest on the fact that Harry Potter is wildly successful. You say 'enough to go around' and 'a popular work'. That's basis for you to deny Rowling equal protection under the law.
Shall I assume, then, that a starving first time author does have the protection of the law to prevent a clearly derivative 'lexicon' of their work?
So you are in favor of investing in both conservation and non-fossil power? Me too. How about nuclear? Are you willing to invest in that as a non-fossil source?
Using conservation to reduce carbon emissions assumes a carbon based power source. Why not take all the brain power you are going to throw at conservation and throw it into developing wind, solar, and nuclear as power sources?
I think we should open the borders to anyone who is not provably a criminal. Where you are born is happenstance and therefore affords no privilege. You have no more right to a job in the USA than someone born outside the USA.
It looks to me like the attitude within Google is that internal engineering resources are infinite and therefore they should work on their own version of anything they think they can improve.
What comes next from a world like that? I predict that they'll announce a project to release Google's own general purpose programming language. I've seen it before. Objective-C anyone? C#? Eiffel?
Same here, except for me I was in college 20 years ago. They told me that there were a lot more jobs available if I took the COBOL classes. I willfully decided to deny myself that 'opportunity'. All jobs are not the same. I have to love a job to take it and I don't love COBOL jobs.
Every time there is a discussion about the Gates foundation, someone will predictably stand up and say that Gates is not a philanthropist because his actions as Microsoft CEO were not consistently philanthropic.
I don't look to commercial corporations to be philanthropists. A commercial corporation is a voluntary collective of investors who want to maximize their financial investment. That's OK with me. If that investment is maximized then some of the individual investors will see a personal calling to use that money for philanthropy. This is what you see happening to Gates today. That is genuine and real. Corporate philanthropy, on the other hand, is most often a flim flam exercise in repairing ill will so the corporation will restore its ability to generate lots of revenue.
So, give Gates a break. He's hugely rich. Now he's getting older and perhaps he has become more reflective about making a difference in the lives of people less fortunate than him. I'm not going to bust his balls for that.
I hope this works. Today, high degrees of energy consumption are limited to the rich. We must enable the degree of energy consumption for the poor majority of the world's population that is experienced today only in rich western countries. Think of what that would make possible. I'm more excited about that than I am about coercive energy conservation policies.
Let's say you did have the power of compulsory acquisition. Describe that power and how you would use it. Describe your tooth pulling that will lead to greater good.
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There is a cluster of 7 year old siblings and cousins in my family, both boys and girls. I'd love to start a subtopic here on Christmas geek gifts available for this age group. One example: my son is asking for a Rock Polisher.
What would be the penalty for someone saying they'd like my vote for president if they said it outside the window when you want them to say it?
I'm sorry. That's totally wrong.
I want to tell someone I'm running for President and that I'd like their vote. In your world, I couldn't do that.
Sounds like a violation to me.
You want to ban campaigning? How would you do that in a way that does not violate the 1st amendment?
If you've got nothing to hide then this is not a problem!
(Flame suit ready, even though my tongue is boring a hole in my cheek.)
Because it is everywhere, including 100% of the browsers everyone already has installed.
In 5 to 10 years, people will sneer at Oracle the way we all like to sneer at Cobol today. Sure, there will be a lot of Oracle jobs out there but the cool hombres won't touch it.
If I am an ecommerce website, am I now expected to encrypt all http traffic destined for customers I know to be in Nevada?
Doesn't Activision have the right to recover their development costs and profit from the risk they took to produce the game?
In the world as you are defining it, the following scenario is fine with you.
A starving first time author writes a book. It begins to gain some success. Some big powerful corporation decides to publish and profit from a lexicon of that book without any licensing agreement from the author. The starving author gets nothing and the powerful corporation gets a tidy income from that author's original idea.
Your arguments all rest on the fact that Harry Potter is wildly successful. You say 'enough to go around' and 'a popular work'. That's basis for you to deny Rowling equal protection under the law.
Shall I assume, then, that a starving first time author does have the protection of the law to prevent a clearly derivative 'lexicon' of their work?
So you are in favor of investing in both conservation and non-fossil power? Me too. How about nuclear? Are you willing to invest in that as a non-fossil source?
Using conservation to reduce carbon emissions assumes a carbon based power source. Why not take all the brain power you are going to throw at conservation and throw it into developing wind, solar, and nuclear as power sources?
I surveyed the OS/2 user community. 95% of them drive vintage Ford Pintos. The other 5% still drive their Mom's station wagon.
I think we should open the borders to anyone who is not provably a criminal. Where you are born is happenstance and therefore affords no privilege. You have no more right to a job in the USA than someone born outside the USA.
I don't believe you when you say that only people with degrees are getting hired. That's not the case in the SF Bay Area. Where do you live?
It looks to me like the attitude within Google is that internal engineering resources are infinite and therefore they should work on their own version of anything they think they can improve.
What comes next from a world like that? I predict that they'll announce a project to release Google's own general purpose programming language. I've seen it before. Objective-C anyone? C#? Eiffel?
Same here, except for me I was in college 20 years ago. They told me that there were a lot more jobs available if I took the COBOL classes. I willfully decided to deny myself that 'opportunity'. All jobs are not the same. I have to love a job to take it and I don't love COBOL jobs.
Can we use this puppy on earth to generate electricity in a cost efficient way?
Every time there is a discussion about the Gates foundation, someone will predictably stand up and say that Gates is not a philanthropist because his actions as Microsoft CEO were not consistently philanthropic.
I don't look to commercial corporations to be philanthropists. A commercial corporation is a voluntary collective of investors who want to maximize their financial investment. That's OK with me. If that investment is maximized then some of the individual investors will see a personal calling to use that money for philanthropy. This is what you see happening to Gates today. That is genuine and real. Corporate philanthropy, on the other hand, is most often a flim flam exercise in repairing ill will so the corporation will restore its ability to generate lots of revenue.
So, give Gates a break. He's hugely rich. Now he's getting older and perhaps he has become more reflective about making a difference in the lives of people less fortunate than him. I'm not going to bust his balls for that.
I hope this works. Today, high degrees of energy consumption are limited to the rich. We must enable the degree of energy consumption for the poor majority of the world's population that is experienced today only in rich western countries. Think of what that would make possible. I'm more excited about that than I am about coercive energy conservation policies.
OK. My only request is that the specifics are all based on voluntary compliance. Does that work for you?
Let's say you did have the power of compulsory acquisition. Describe that power and how you would use it. Describe your tooth pulling that will lead to greater good.
What about those people who want to live in single story houses in the inner suburbs? What happens to them?
How is Gates sociopathic?