... they won't face punishment for something they couldn't have possibly predicted...
- what you are saying is there is no such thing as common sense in US. I guess that is so because common sense has been invented by commies? When I was young and living in a (real) communist state I was amazed about freedom, human rights etc loving US Americans. I looked at their great military achievements (combating forces of evil in first and second great one) as well as scientific ones. I wanted to go to US when I grow up and live the american dream (as I imagined it to be). Things changed a little since then. I still do not fall for silly propaganda in which all what comes from US is evil but luck of common sense in such basic thing is indeed fascinating - it looks exactly like the sort of thing that broke the neck of communism back in last century only then the silliness combined with dogma were domain of state. In US citizens seem to be pressing hard to get into the situation they fear the most: inefficient, dogmatic and repressing state (starting with war on drugs and ending ???) and all this in the name of freedom. I guess that was all inevitable???
so till now that is common sense - people get incentive so they do desired thing and the rest is market behaviour. The interesting question would be: does this have any merit when one calculates all benefits and costs - are more students finishing university?
as processes that we cause have such latency it is easy to cause for us irreversible changes that will make our life impossible or not likable yet thanx to majority of us who do not even comprehend an idea of a process that is so slow and so irreversible, we cannot even properly discuss the science of these changes and ways to prevent or prepare for the change to come. All this is impossible because of sizable minority or troglodytes who are usually obsessed with some funny ideas about how t hey are better than everybody else because their god is better than the one of others (has bigger penis and bigger car obviously).
Two things, There is not one system called capitalism. In fact you can argue that majority if not all 'socialists' systems were not as much different from 'capitalistic' ones when it comes to results measured for simplicity by wealth of a nation (not a few 'chosen' indihviduals at the top) and amount of violence present in the system.
The size of the gov depends on many factors - see works of Mr Adam Smith for instance for advice on that. The fact is here that if you obstruct work of your gov on all levels on principle then what happens is that services perceived as needed (no discussion possible as proposals to do anything were rejected on principle because of oath etc not because of reason used for cost/benefit analysis therefore no way to know if they are really needed or affordable) are provided in some areas introduced on local level which in some cases is good but generally it creates chaotic regulation much more complex that it needs be and prevents any chance of having economies of scale etc. I was always wondering why US Americans hate government so much as to stop being rational and pragmatic and become just a small extremists without real sense of life. Government is as evil as we allow it to be. It is just another aspect of living in a society. YOu either have authoritarian one or evenif you do not have official, widely recognized one you end up being owned by some chieftain or otherwise people in Somalia would be quite happy without.
To me it seems that the whole discussion cannot be brought to any reasonable conclusion because of the 'Tyrant" that "will pervert the Plain Meaning of Words" is everywhere not necessarily only in positions of power (or otherwise US Americans would not have current evil incarnation of Tea Party).
mandatory car analogy: if you let the car driving along without touching steering wheel you will notice that it goes relatively well that way. Until tat is when it crashes on an obstacle like a lamp, house etc.
You can also consult M. Twain on Mississippi river extending/shortening itself over time and possible results if you extrapolate this process in a senseless way.
The answer to this question is already given many times: we go for yeast in the jar way in the hope that somebody will find a way to fix a problem at hand.
As with many other singularities our societies faced we overcome next few I suppose. That last few times when given societies collapsed because of number of issues they suddenly had a problem with exceeded their capacity to overcome at the time these issues came to plague them. We move on, left desert behind us and continued elsewhere. This does not work in overcrowded world where there is no no man's land no more so we increased stakes for humanity. The result is that now we all are affected if things go boom. One may of course say - ok so we will travel less and possibly eat less then, but things never go that peaceful way - civil strife and wars are usually results of such unbalances till society enters new equilibrium where resources roughly match the needs. There were societies that did not come out on the others side and this is one of possible outcomes. Of course we can find solutions for most of the problems. The tragedy is that troglodytes that are sizable minorities almost anywhere in the world will prevent us doing anything against the main problems when it could be less painful - so we go full speed ahead and deal with losses as they come. I guess nobody with any life experience should be surprised I mean after all even if direct consequences are visible but beyond this year results theywill be happily ignored in most organisations why would a grandiose task of coordination on global scale be possible then?
This of course works in majority of organisations or? I mean in no shop I have been an employee is listen to unless there is a good reason. At some point it becomes annoying to have right over your boss even if he is kind enuff to admit you were right again - I mean what is the point if he knew you could have been right, decided otherwise, let all of us suffer and came out on the other side to say: 'you were right!' - that is just pissing me off now. I clearly recall last time they actually listened at least once in a while: when I was external consultant. As soon as I swapped towards slavery of a monthly wage they did not even bothered to to cater for my work place: suddenly I had no work place for 6 or 8 weeks when the only thing that changed was my employment status. Funny that or?
Well the issue is made a bit more complex by the fact that these reach actors are not the only one living off of royalties on cultural goods they produce. I am ready to pay and in fact most if not all of my music and movies I Have on disks is bought not pirated away. From buying 10CDs a month 15ya I moved into not bouying anything at all because:
not much new to see/hear that is wroth my hard earned money
too expensive and too restrictive distribution models - if I can only use one single copy that I purchased and have to buy another one in different format only to play it elsewhere then I say not for that price - lower the price if product that you sell is not a CD anymore but a right to play stuff once one device
I am being milked anyway by state organisation that has the right to know all my personal details as soon as I buy a tv set - so I use free service to watch and listen which is not perfect (choice and convenience) but it works and does not cost me much. this combined with restrictions elsewhere means that I just do not purchase (almost) anything else
There are some other aspects of currently used IP laws that need to be changed otherwise my respect for these laws will go to null:
mass litigation artists - somebody has to stop these assholes from producing millions of letters to mostly innocent people for whom it is less expensive and risky to pay 1000E fine than to fight their good case in court. The only law abusers here are the lawyers
works of which legal right owner cannot be determined can just decay and cannot be sold/given to the public - why?
why is art protected for 75years? I understand people live very long these days but that surely looks like exaggeration or?
in countries like Germany where GEMA takes your money w/o your consent really but where music can still be heard on internet for 'free' youtube blocks content because GEMA failed to mark some works as legal/available even if they are freely available elsewhere
There are many reasons why current system is fucked. There are parasites waiting for you anywhere and the only way to fight them off is to show strength. It seems that content owners got scared by successes of Pirate party in Germany and they lead a campaign in media currently. Scared is good - I am not overly optimistic but at least in Europe we may be getting some addons to existing laws that may help people like me use content without fear of prosecution by parasites.
I suppose you were typing it at home and your wife looked over your shoulder now she will be charged with domestic violence or if she is really smart you will be charged with it as soon as you live hospital...
Is there anything wroth recording on the tv these days? I mean this law suit is pointless because of this exactly. The law suit is pointless and should be dismissed also because of other argument: the most worthwhile part of the stream of garbage are commercials. Not all of them of course but it seems to me that balance of power has tilted towards commercial producers and because they have now more money they suck up most of talented people the remaining produce even more appalling garbage than before. Why watch and because of your wife and kids you cannot avoid why record stuff and waste even more time? For me they can spend even more money on lawsuits if they want. I do not give a flying f.k if they do.
I do not think there is an easy solution even if I am for legalisation. The way Dutch were was OK - they were relaxed about the drugs themselves there were even police officers in discos testing for purity so that suckers that consumed party pills did not end up as a said cost center. This all accompanied by education based on information and not scaremongering - kids are not stupid so if you tell them they are gonna die after one joint (silly lie) and get addicted after one meeting with meth or coke (true) they will see first to be a lie it is and assume second is too - possibly endangering themselves by basing their information on lies and misinformation. The decriminalization must also deal with the sick that are created by use of drugs if need be also with force.
The decriminalization of drugs is not a silver bullet and anyway lots of work is needed on all levels - it does not help to have drugs decriminalized in one part of the country - the drug tourists are a problem not only because they are criminals around drug legalized oasis and thus are an issue with neighbouring jurisdiction but also because in large concentrations they are a nuisance for locals - that is why the Dutch are so pissed off that they allow selling of drugs only to residents now.
In general I do not believe DEA can be dissolved. There is too much business there, too much power. The result is that the cost can only be removed when the state is strapped of the cash enuff to scrap DEA too. The bad thing about this scenario of scrapping the shitty agency is that there will be no money to deal with long term effects of DEA abuse as well as with 'normal' problems other substances (alco) also cause. So no silver bullet and uphill battle against demons from DEA. Good luck fighting that and 'tough on crime' hysteria as well as others. You need a shake up and that is unlikely. Bend and spread...
Well of course the bad laws are proliferating because the lawyers on all sides love them. We see it with IP laws. I think the privacy issues as well as IP ones seem to boil these days. Successes of Pirate party in Germany is a good sign - it caused rage by some IP rights critics and that is good. Maybe there is way to find out how to apply modern technology in useful but not citizen intimidating way?
There is no slippery slope fallacy - compare prison populations in US and other developed countries or take China or Cuba if you like and think about the result. If you have law makers and authorities that are so proactive in increasing prison populations and supporting prison industry then it is is indeed worrying if the authorities start having means of controlling everybody everywhere at anytime. There must be limits to that which at the same time allow catching criminals after all they use modern technology too. It must be guaranteed that authorities (or evil FB like companies) cannot abuse the data. So rules must be introduced (OMG communist!!!!) that prevent that. There are indeed cases where police can use help of such data: I think two years ago in Germany there was a guy that (for fun!!!) threw a big piece of wood from the highway bridge killing a woman sitting in a driving car aside of her husband and in front of her kid. They found the guy by looking at positioning data from telecom companies. That was a good use. The bad use must be limited - I suppose limiting use and allowing it only in certain cases is the way to go. I guess authorities will cease majority of senseless actions if they notice they just does not bring anything. Still I guess US is not a country where such development should go about with ease. You are on a slippery slope or maybe you are already far enough. That is not to say that you are on a level of NK but it must worry you if a landlord can be expropriated because his tenant had a joint in his apartment.
In Germany this already works - we have plate scanners to get fees for highway use. There is only very little law that prevents secret police (the one that is infiltrated by tea party like nazis it seems) from using this data and it seems that in factr they use it anyway. Drug laws in usofa are of course a good way to control population. it is funny that in a country of the free there is biggest prison population in the developed world. Are you really that free?
Most people??? You mean realy most people??? It is like this billion accounts is really billion people? You really believe that?
It is interesting however - an uniform system of messaging primitive as it is make still more sense to me (but the price) - it is still being replaced by FB and other systems which has an effect that I need to install few other clients on my phone and use it together with SMS. I guess that is what this funny service from Apple is doing right? I suppose Apple patented it so here we go we need to reveal all to FB, pay Apple only because SMS is to expensive and people are too silly and lazy. It is fun to observe the serfdoms being built and maintained....
informed opinion based on commercials? You must have been brainwashed. I admit that watching commercials is more entertaining that the crap the dish serves you anyway so turning them off is not really helpful. Then again I hardly watch TV because it pisses me off when my wife jumps to another channel during commercial break. When she is not there and I am bored with the crap being served n-th time during a show I wanted to see I turn on my sport watch and do interval training. You sweat a bit and you did something for yourself. You can of course go for a beer but if you do that every break you cannot drive next day....
Modern lifts change speed in a smooth way to (among other benefits) avoid feeling of discomfort by passengers. It would surprise me if these parameters were centrally controlled but then maybe not. The fact remains however that modern lifts do have more than one fixed speed.
well I can agree with all the arguments about this guy having right to teach people whatever fight techniques he and they chose but stating that vulnerable people in less safe areas that are rushing in is a bit of a joke - there are possibly some exceptions but majority of the vulnerable cannot afford the course anyway.
in some cases when change in quantity turns into change in quality of the situation some more robust action may be needed. In other words it is no point of fixing the small whole in the wall if the whole construction is about to fall on you.
well there is not one socialism at least there is no agreement on what it could be, hence statements like 'all socialism fails' are bound to be wrong one way or another. As for failing - compare child mortality rates indifferent countries you will see that Cuba is not an utter failure there at least if you compare it with its northern neighbour....
That is a bit of exaggeration - managers are just skimmers as say poker players are. This is only possible if there is enough of people to be managed or pealed off of their money. I suppose that is not a problem as long as the asshole in a suite does not get 50times what I get as a guy whose work finances the asshole. This said - a man in his 40ties is difficult to employ anyway - it does not really matter whether you dig code or kick people out of their jobs - the fact is that majority of us when we reach 40yoa become unemployable - managers or engineers alike. Being a manager means however that you are easier to employ - that was once I think modern 'agile' times mean that middle management finds its life style a bit more difficult to support these days too. So at the end one should ask the following question: if only managers are employed after they reach say 45 what do the other guys and this ought to be majority be doing then - all unemployed or maybe big chunk self employed or doing something different? I think the article is interesting but not giving any answers - it is good to ask yourself a question - why should you shove shit for an asshole in the suite that earns more than you and has no clue not only in technology but also in management?
the amount of energy consumed is dependent on many factors of which main two are nominal power consumption and time in which it happens. The power consumption of a light bulb is linear for all purposes relevant for its user. This may be different for appliances like dishwasher where indeed power consumption for standard usage (particular program, amount of dirt and fat it has to remove per load, detergents used etc).can be given and in fact is at least in Europe if you go to a shop that information is available. It may be not reliable and it certainly differs from what I and you would actually experience but that is good enough for comparisons.
SO no scientifically oriented is good and I am with you on that one (at least as long as science is not fetishised) but light bulbs are marked in watts for a good reason.
not entirely true - characters are black so more characters means less white space on your display and this is less energy dissipated trough your laptop int environment.
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... they won't face punishment for something they couldn't have possibly predicted ...
- what you are saying is there is no such thing as common sense in US. I guess that is so because common sense has been invented by commies? When I was young and living in a (real) communist state I was amazed about freedom, human rights etc loving US Americans. I looked at their great military achievements (combating forces of evil in first and second great one) as well as scientific ones. I wanted to go to US when I grow up and live the american dream (as I imagined it to be). Things changed a little since then. I still do not fall for silly propaganda in which all what comes from US is evil but luck of common sense in such basic thing is indeed fascinating - it looks exactly like the sort of thing that broke the neck of communism back in last century only then the silliness combined with dogma were domain of state. In US citizens seem to be pressing hard to get into the situation they fear the most: inefficient, dogmatic and repressing state (starting with war on drugs and ending ???) and all this in the name of freedom. I guess that was all inevitable???
so till now that is common sense - people get incentive so they do desired thing and the rest is market behaviour. The interesting question would be: does this have any merit when one calculates all benefits and costs - are more students finishing university?
as processes that we cause have such latency it is easy to cause for us irreversible changes that will make our life impossible or not likable yet thanx to majority of us who do not even comprehend an idea of a process that is so slow and so irreversible, we cannot even properly discuss the science of these changes and ways to prevent or prepare for the change to come. All this is impossible because of sizable minority or troglodytes who are usually obsessed with some funny ideas about how t hey are better than everybody else because their god is better than the one of others (has bigger penis and bigger car obviously).
The size of the gov depends on many factors - see works of Mr Adam Smith for instance for advice on that. The fact is here that if you obstruct work of your gov on all levels on principle then what happens is that services perceived as needed (no discussion possible as proposals to do anything were rejected on principle because of oath etc not because of reason used for cost/benefit analysis therefore no way to know if they are really needed or affordable) are provided in some areas introduced on local level which in some cases is good but generally it creates chaotic regulation much more complex that it needs be and prevents any chance of having economies of scale etc. I was always wondering why US Americans hate government so much as to stop being rational and pragmatic and become just a small extremists without real sense of life. Government is as evil as we allow it to be. It is just another aspect of living in a society. YOu either have authoritarian one or evenif you do not have official, widely recognized one you end up being owned by some chieftain or otherwise people in Somalia would be quite happy without.
To me it seems that the whole discussion cannot be brought to any reasonable conclusion because of the 'Tyrant" that "will pervert the Plain Meaning of Words" is everywhere not necessarily only in positions of power (or otherwise US Americans would not have current evil incarnation of Tea Party).
You can also consult M. Twain on Mississippi river extending/shortening itself over time and possible results if you extrapolate this process in a senseless way.
As with many other singularities our societies faced we overcome next few I suppose. That last few times when given societies collapsed because of number of issues they suddenly had a problem with exceeded their capacity to overcome at the time these issues came to plague them. We move on, left desert behind us and continued elsewhere. This does not work in overcrowded world where there is no no man's land no more so we increased stakes for humanity. The result is that now we all are affected if things go boom. One may of course say - ok so we will travel less and possibly eat less then, but things never go that peaceful way - civil strife and wars are usually results of such unbalances till society enters new equilibrium where resources roughly match the needs. There were societies that did not come out on the others side and this is one of possible outcomes. Of course we can find solutions for most of the problems. The tragedy is that troglodytes that are sizable minorities almost anywhere in the world will prevent us doing anything against the main problems when it could be less painful - so we go full speed ahead and deal with losses as they come. I guess nobody with any life experience should be surprised I mean after all even if direct consequences are visible but beyond this year results theywill be happily ignored in most organisations why would a grandiose task of coordination on global scale be possible then?
This of course works in majority of organisations or? I mean in no shop I have been an employee is listen to unless there is a good reason. At some point it becomes annoying to have right over your boss even if he is kind enuff to admit you were right again - I mean what is the point if he knew you could have been right, decided otherwise, let all of us suffer and came out on the other side to say: 'you were right!' - that is just pissing me off now. I clearly recall last time they actually listened at least once in a while: when I was external consultant. As soon as I swapped towards slavery of a monthly wage they did not even bothered to to cater for my work place: suddenly I had no work place for 6 or 8 weeks when the only thing that changed was my employment status. Funny that or?
There are some other aspects of currently used IP laws that need to be changed otherwise my respect for these laws will go to null:
There are many reasons why current system is fucked. There are parasites waiting for you anywhere and the only way to fight them off is to show strength. It seems that content owners got scared by successes of Pirate party in Germany and they lead a campaign in media currently. Scared is good - I am not overly optimistic but at least in Europe we may be getting some addons to existing laws that may help people like me use content without fear of prosecution by parasites.
I suppose you were typing it at home and your wife looked over your shoulder now she will be charged with domestic violence or if she is really smart you will be charged with it as soon as you live hospital...
Is there anything wroth recording on the tv these days? I mean this law suit is pointless because of this exactly. The law suit is pointless and should be dismissed also because of other argument: the most worthwhile part of the stream of garbage are commercials. Not all of them of course but it seems to me that balance of power has tilted towards commercial producers and because they have now more money they suck up most of talented people the remaining produce even more appalling garbage than before. Why watch and because of your wife and kids you cannot avoid why record stuff and waste even more time? For me they can spend even more money on lawsuits if they want. I do not give a flying f.k if they do.
The decriminalization of drugs is not a silver bullet and anyway lots of work is needed on all levels - it does not help to have drugs decriminalized in one part of the country - the drug tourists are a problem not only because they are criminals around drug legalized oasis and thus are an issue with neighbouring jurisdiction but also because in large concentrations they are a nuisance for locals - that is why the Dutch are so pissed off that they allow selling of drugs only to residents now.
In general I do not believe DEA can be dissolved. There is too much business there, too much power. The result is that the cost can only be removed when the state is strapped of the cash enuff to scrap DEA too. The bad thing about this scenario of scrapping the shitty agency is that there will be no money to deal with long term effects of DEA abuse as well as with 'normal' problems other substances (alco) also cause. So no silver bullet and uphill battle against demons from DEA. Good luck fighting that and 'tough on crime' hysteria as well as others. You need a shake up and that is unlikely. Bend and spread...
they do not have to use any special weaponry - it is enough they assume you violated some holy laws like IP or drug laws etc.
Well of course the bad laws are proliferating because the lawyers on all sides love them. We see it with IP laws. I think the privacy issues as well as IP ones seem to boil these days. Successes of Pirate party in Germany is a good sign - it caused rage by some IP rights critics and that is good. Maybe there is way to find out how to apply modern technology in useful but not citizen intimidating way?
There is no slippery slope fallacy - compare prison populations in US and other developed countries or take China or Cuba if you like and think about the result. If you have law makers and authorities that are so proactive in increasing prison populations and supporting prison industry then it is is indeed worrying if the authorities start having means of controlling everybody everywhere at anytime. There must be limits to that which at the same time allow catching criminals after all they use modern technology too. It must be guaranteed that authorities (or evil FB like companies) cannot abuse the data. So rules must be introduced (OMG communist!!!!) that prevent that. There are indeed cases where police can use help of such data: I think two years ago in Germany there was a guy that (for fun!!!) threw a big piece of wood from the highway bridge killing a woman sitting in a driving car aside of her husband and in front of her kid. They found the guy by looking at positioning data from telecom companies. That was a good use. The bad use must be limited - I suppose limiting use and allowing it only in certain cases is the way to go. I guess authorities will cease majority of senseless actions if they notice they just does not bring anything. Still I guess US is not a country where such development should go about with ease. You are on a slippery slope or maybe you are already far enough. That is not to say that you are on a level of NK but it must worry you if a landlord can be expropriated because his tenant had a joint in his apartment.
In Germany this already works - we have plate scanners to get fees for highway use. There is only very little law that prevents secret police (the one that is infiltrated by tea party like nazis it seems) from using this data and it seems that in factr they use it anyway. Drug laws in usofa are of course a good way to control population. it is funny that in a country of the free there is biggest prison population in the developed world. Are you really that free?
Most people??? You mean realy most people??? It is like this billion accounts is really billion people? You really believe that? It is interesting however - an uniform system of messaging primitive as it is make still more sense to me (but the price) - it is still being replaced by FB and other systems which has an effect that I need to install few other clients on my phone and use it together with SMS. I guess that is what this funny service from Apple is doing right? I suppose Apple patented it so here we go we need to reveal all to FB, pay Apple only because SMS is to expensive and people are too silly and lazy. It is fun to observe the serfdoms being built and maintained....
informed opinion based on commercials? You must have been brainwashed. I admit that watching commercials is more entertaining that the crap the dish serves you anyway so turning them off is not really helpful. Then again I hardly watch TV because it pisses me off when my wife jumps to another channel during commercial break. When she is not there and I am bored with the crap being served n-th time during a show I wanted to see I turn on my sport watch and do interval training. You sweat a bit and you did something for yourself. You can of course go for a beer but if you do that every break you cannot drive next day....
Modern lifts change speed in a smooth way to (among other benefits) avoid feeling of discomfort by passengers. It would surprise me if these parameters were centrally controlled but then maybe not. The fact remains however that modern lifts do have more than one fixed speed.
well I can agree with all the arguments about this guy having right to teach people whatever fight techniques he and they chose but stating that vulnerable people in less safe areas that are rushing in is a bit of a joke - there are possibly some exceptions but majority of the vulnerable cannot afford the course anyway.
in some cases when change in quantity turns into change in quality of the situation some more robust action may be needed. In other words it is no point of fixing the small whole in the wall if the whole construction is about to fall on you.
so SMS works as was stated before - what do I need the iDingy for then?
well there is not one socialism at least there is no agreement on what it could be, hence statements like 'all socialism fails' are bound to be wrong one way or another. As for failing - compare child mortality rates indifferent countries you will see that Cuba is not an utter failure there at least if you compare it with its northern neighbour....
That is a bit of exaggeration - managers are just skimmers as say poker players are. This is only possible if there is enough of people to be managed or pealed off of their money. I suppose that is not a problem as long as the asshole in a suite does not get 50times what I get as a guy whose work finances the asshole. This said - a man in his 40ties is difficult to employ anyway - it does not really matter whether you dig code or kick people out of their jobs - the fact is that majority of us when we reach 40yoa become unemployable - managers or engineers alike. Being a manager means however that you are easier to employ - that was once I think modern 'agile' times mean that middle management finds its life style a bit more difficult to support these days too. So at the end one should ask the following question: if only managers are employed after they reach say 45 what do the other guys and this ought to be majority be doing then - all unemployed or maybe big chunk self employed or doing something different? I think the article is interesting but not giving any answers - it is good to ask yourself a question - why should you shove shit for an asshole in the suite that earns more than you and has no clue not only in technology but also in management?
the amount of energy consumed is dependent on many factors of which main two are nominal power consumption and time in which it happens. The power consumption of a light bulb is linear for all purposes relevant for its user. This may be different for appliances like dishwasher where indeed power consumption for standard usage (particular program, amount of dirt and fat it has to remove per load, detergents used etc).can be given and in fact is at least in Europe if you go to a shop that information is available. It may be not reliable and it certainly differs from what I and you would actually experience but that is good enough for comparisons. SO no scientifically oriented is good and I am with you on that one (at least as long as science is not fetishised) but light bulbs are marked in watts for a good reason.
not entirely true - characters are black so more characters means less white space on your display and this is less energy dissipated trough your laptop int environment.