Yep, the Howard regime did a lot of damage to Australia and Australians.
However, its not a good time to be seen to be attacking Julia Gillard given all the personal attacks she has recieved. I would expect it to do more harm than good.
Some drop by up to 43% in the first year. This trend is a byproduct of the unhealthy competitive landscape in the desktop CPU arena, and it's been great for Intel's gross margin. Unfortunately, it's not so good for consumers.
When prices drop its bad for consumers and the industry is unhealth ?
Dude has it backwards, needs to find a 10 year old to teach him economics.
Basically, its good when people can afford ot buy stuff they need. Compeition helps to make stuff cheap.
You can never reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
I think you give up to easily.
All humans reason, even "crazy" people. The difference is that some people have previously received bad input, so they give bad output. The only possible way to correct that is by giving them good input.
we can laugh at them and mock them to prevent their contagion from spreading to third parties
I dont believe this approach works, they will just see you as you see them, you both see each other as crazy and therefore prevent yourselves from learning from each others mistakes.
Prior art: Yahoo lets you create a separate identity and avatar for commenting on news stories. This identity is separate from my real identity which is reserved for sending emails.
Which their deep packet inspection is perfectly capable of monitoring.
Its difficult to be anonymous to the the government, much harder to be anonymous to the corporation.
But given those limits, the corporations could allow us to be anonymous to each other, but whats the point, its corporations and government that have all the power in society.
Nicola Roxon seems to be a genuinely caring person, she has won international recognition for her campaigned against cigaret companies, she isnt one of these power seeking politicians looking for kickbacks or to earn favors from the intelligence community.
She seems to genuinely believe this is need to protect society, and doesn't seem to expect this information to abused.
I cant think of anyone more fitting for the "Nanny" tag from the nanny state.
They propose creative common make it more difficult to license their work non-commercial or no derivitives, how does that help artists create free culture ?
Empowering people to make their own decisions about their work rather than manipulating them into one of two pre-approved types of people (commercial or libre) might actually encourage them to release more.
Mitt Romney's campaign has contracted consumer-analytics firm Buxton Co. to drill deep into consumer data, with the aim of digging up 'wealthy and previously untapped' donors.
Mis-read it as "wealth of previously untapped policies", im obviously not cynical enough.
GNOME create a free software desktop, users dont like, GNOME claims its the users that are the problem. Distributions create forks of GNOME to give users what they want, GNOME claims distributions are the problem.
The problem is the disconnect, the failure to consider other peoples views, and the single mindedness and self belief that they are right.
I dont think there is no solution to this problem, because to write free software in this capitalistic world you have to have that almost delusion self belief and single mindedness.
The only thing "outsiders" can do is tell GNOME developers that the work they selflessly donate to the cause is bad, which is not going ot motivate them to work better or harder.
Companies set a suggested retail price in each market to maximize profit.
Yea, usually its not the companies fault that capitalism has failed to create a competitive marketplace, well unless they have taken steps to manipulate the market to reduce competition, like region coding, price fixing, cartels, mergers and buyout etc.
Its probably the governments fault for not regulating the market and making corporations understand they trade at the pleasure of countries in which they operate, they cant do whatever they like.
Well, unless the government doesnt even have any control over what buisness can and cant do in the country they are supposed to be governing, because of WTO rules, free trade agreements, international cartels etc.
threat (noun): a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course
Its not a threat acording to the legal system if the stated action is legal. I was trying to explain things from a human rather than legal perception, obviously i failed.
Well done for holding him to account, but the point i was trying to make about rights was that police do have the legal right to threaten people upto a certain point, in your case he crossed the line and paid for it.
The original post claimed we dont have freedom of speech because its not legal to threaten people. But if someone (eg a policman) has a legal right to make a threat, it is still a threat, so that persons freedom of speech still holds.
Actually you can threaten people, threats are a daily occurrence in most societies, police do it all the time, they have the authority to do it. You can even threaten to do something illegal (not having the authority), their might be legal consequences from saying it, but that doesnt stop you from saying it.
In this case, the person doesnt seem to be "of sound mind", and people in such circumstances really shouldn't be entitled to the same rights others have.
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Its a term they made up especially for Assange.
(not that they are out to get him or anything)
Yep, the Howard regime did a lot of damage to Australia and Australians.
However, its not a good time to be seen to be attacking Julia Gillard given all the personal attacks she has recieved. I would expect it to do more harm than good.
Some drop by up to 43% in the first year. This trend is a byproduct of the unhealthy competitive landscape in the desktop CPU arena, and it's been great for Intel's gross margin. Unfortunately, it's not so good for consumers.
When prices drop its bad for consumers and the industry is unhealth ?
Dude has it backwards, needs to find a 10 year old to teach him economics.
Basically, its good when people can afford ot buy stuff they need. Compeition helps to make stuff cheap.
Yea thats true, providing good input wont definetly fix broken internal processes, but its the only thing that possibly can.
Telling them they are dumb is just as much a waste of time.
You can never reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
I think you give up to easily.
All humans reason, even "crazy" people. The difference is that some people have previously received bad input, so they give bad output. The only possible way to correct that is by giving them good input.
we can laugh at them and mock them to prevent their contagion from spreading to third parties
I dont believe this approach works, they will just see you as you see them, you both see each other as crazy and therefore prevent yourselves from learning from each others mistakes.
Typical ignorant blathering from the BitCoin crowd
Typical ignorant blathering from the antiBitCoin crowd...
Pro-tip for life, instead of just saying someone is wrong, tell them why you think they are wrong, and maybe even how you think they can fix it.
We arent dumb bosses, no need for the retard talk.
Oh, and its obviously not much of a solution or this wouldnt be a story.
Prior art: Yahoo lets you create a separate identity and avatar for commenting on news stories. This identity is separate from my real identity which is reserved for sending emails.
Which their deep packet inspection is perfectly capable of monitoring.
Its difficult to be anonymous to the the government, much harder to be anonymous to the corporation.
But given those limits, the corporations could allow us to be anonymous to each other, but whats the point, its corporations and government that have all the power in society.
But if the servers are in a different country...
Nicola Roxon seems to be a genuinely caring person, she has won international recognition for her campaigned against cigaret companies, she isnt one of these power seeking politicians looking for kickbacks or to earn favors from the intelligence community.
She seems to genuinely believe this is need to protect society, and doesn't seem to expect this information to abused.
I cant think of anyone more fitting for the "Nanny" tag from the nanny state.
I thought the quote in the summary "we broke people's code" gave that away.
If he had said "we broke lazy developers code" or "we broke ugly code that people have to be paid to work on" then i would have understood.
I still dont see the issue for open source, its mostly maintained by people who *like* programming.
Iran is not run by the taliban. They have their own issues, but they are not the worst of the worst.
World has been safe since "the worst of the worst" are locked up in guantanamo, thankyou GWB.
(sarcasm)
Im sure binary only entities care about backwards compatibility of API's, but its not a big issue if you have the source code and its maintained.
I think he is implying the Linux community needs commercial desktop applications to be a success.
They propose creative common make it more difficult to license their work non-commercial or no derivitives, how does that help artists create free culture ?
Empowering people to make their own decisions about their work rather than manipulating them into one of two pre-approved types of people (commercial or libre) might actually encourage them to release more.
Mitt Romney's campaign has contracted consumer-analytics firm Buxton Co. to drill deep into consumer data, with the aim of digging up 'wealthy and previously untapped' donors.
Mis-read it as "wealth of previously untapped policies", im obviously not cynical enough.
Sometimes its easier to do something yourself than ask others to participate. CO2 is one of those issues. Europe should just take control and do it.
I agree, its much easier when someone else just does things for me instead of them wasting all their time trying to get me to contribute to society.
There is no reason Europe couldn't just do this themselves. I don't see why the US or China need to be involved at all.
You suggest the EU should try and solve a global problem by themselves, rather than the global comunity solving a global problem.
You seriously cant see the issue with that, or are you fail troll ?
GNOME create a free software desktop, users dont like, GNOME claims its the users that are the problem.
Distributions create forks of GNOME to give users what they want, GNOME claims distributions are the problem.
The problem is the disconnect, the failure to consider other peoples views, and the single mindedness and self belief that they are right.
I dont think there is no solution to this problem, because to write free software in this capitalistic world you have to have that almost delusion self belief and single mindedness.
The only thing "outsiders" can do is tell GNOME developers that the work they selflessly donate to the cause is bad, which is not going ot motivate them to work better or harder.
Fork is the only way.
Companies set a suggested retail price in each market to maximize profit.
Yea, usually its not the companies fault that capitalism has failed to create a competitive marketplace, well unless they have taken steps to manipulate the market to reduce competition, like region coding, price fixing, cartels, mergers and buyout etc.
Its probably the governments fault for not regulating the market and making corporations understand they trade at the pleasure of countries in which they operate, they cant do whatever they like.
Well, unless the government doesnt even have any control over what buisness can and cant do in the country they are supposed to be governing, because of WTO rules, free trade agreements, international cartels etc.
So yea, dont blame the corporations.
It's not a threat if the stated action is legal
threat (noun): a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course
Its not a threat acording to the legal system if the stated action is legal. I was trying to explain things from a human rather than legal perception, obviously i failed.
Well done for holding him to account, but the point i was trying to make about rights was that police do have the legal right to threaten people upto a certain point, in your case he crossed the line and paid for it.
The original post claimed we dont have freedom of speech because its not legal to threaten people. But if someone (eg a policman) has a legal right to make a threat, it is still a threat, so that persons freedom of speech still holds.
So if a policman says, drop the weapon or i will shoot you dead, the policeman can be charged for threatening to shoot the suspect ?
Actually you can threaten people, threats are a daily occurrence in most societies, police do it all the time, they have the authority to do it.
You can even threaten to do something illegal (not having the authority), their might be legal consequences from saying it, but that doesnt stop you from saying it.
In this case, the person doesnt seem to be "of sound mind", and people in such circumstances really shouldn't be entitled to the same rights others have.
Apparently the story from the Guardian is false.
https://rt.com/news/assange-granted-asylum-ecuador-298/
NEO: I thought it wasn't real.
NEO: If you are killed in the Matrix you die here?
MORPHEUS: The body cannot live without the mind.
So, DONT tell the patient that side effects include death, OK.