Imagine trying to explain to someone from the 18th century that we have a bodyless Intelligence lurking in the cloud, they would think we where talking about God.
There is a clear conflict of interest in a government requiring it give permission for people to express dissent.
If the government has the ability to control what is said about it, then bad governments will never be seen as bad, and good governments will sometimes be seen as bad, its a race to the bottom.
This attack was expected, Australian Intelligence organizations had warned him that there would typically be a smear campaign against him for a situation like this.
If he takes a "leave of absence" then the world may as well just declare the US government has outlawed the concept of freedom of information.
(which is what it would probably do if you supplied it with the more than 4500 watts of electricity it would need to power the 4500 watts of "sound" it makes).
That's fine and dandy. I agree to pay for roads and cops. I don't agree to pay your medical bills.
So if the government tells you how to to spend your money, THEY are being tyrannical, can should be able to see that YOU are being tyrannical if you demand they dont spend their money on health and other services you dont approve of.
Your arguments are running pretty thin here... maybe it's hard to defend collectivized government once it is put in terms of tyranny and slavery. Don't you have to stop reading again or something before your head asplodes?
Its ok, im a socialist, i try and help people less fortunate than myself...
But im not arguing for forced socialism, im arguing for the status quo (a balance between capitalsim and socialism), you seem to want to live in some right wing extremist world where nobody gives a crap about each other.
Perhaps you might be doing yourself a favor to go on a holiday for a few weeks to a country that does have the social values you admire (no public health care etc), if you like it you could stay longer, saving your self the stress of unknowingly helping people every now and then.
"Socialism, by its very design, requires servitude on the part of the individual and cannot control greed. It requires servitude because it puts all control into the power of the government and has no controls built into it to control greed, ambition, and corruption by politicians."
Im not sure its servitude if one chooses to use their individualism to empower society rather than just using it for personal benefit.
The best system, capitalism or socialism is one that fairly reflects the values of the society it covers, a group oriented society should lean towards socialism, an individualist society should lean towards capitalism.
As any society is comprised of both types of people, the best system is one that encourages each group, while protecting it from exploitation by the other.
If you think people are fundamentally bad than capitalism is for you, if you dream of something better than try and be a socialist.
Bittorrent works fine for this, people seed what they think is good and dont see the crap. It effectively forgets the bad stuff.
On the human side, i used to wonder why the ancient greek philosophers where so great. But if you boil it down, its knowledge from about 500 BC to 500 AD that has been selectively filtered by humans since then, the good stuff gets remembered and eventually written down, the bad stuff doesnt.
Forgetting the crap is just as important as remembering the good stuff.
Is it also true that only 0.3% of VHS tapes contain legal content when it was at its peak ?
And i heard a lot of those old audio tapes(cassete recorders) had content that was just copied from other tapes (tape-to-tape they called it), people used to take them to concerts and release "bootleg" recordings.
How the industry has continued to survive with such blazen disrespect for the laws surrounding th music(ians) they love is beyond me.
Perhaps it would appropriate to start an appeal so we can all donate money to these needy organisations (RIAA/MPAA) that look after the interests of musicians.
Ever hear of the expression, "cant see the wood for the trees" ?
Something like 98% of scientists agree the climate change is real, there are three or four (so im told now) what you would call "sloppy and stupid natured" mistakes in detailing the consequences of climate change, and you think the whole report is a fraud...
Where is the hard evidence supporting the theory that the climate isnt changing ?
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Imagine trying to explain to someone from the 18th century that we have a bodyless Intelligence lurking in the cloud, they would think we where talking about God.
Are you saying being compensated for you efforts is more important than helping 1 billion people ?
Just remember these small apps that developers want to be paid for sit on top of tens of millions of lines of libre code.
How about donating some money to a Free software project instead of paying the commercial developers ?
I should have just provided a quote Heraclitus, he contradicted himself all the time (in logic), to say things without bias.
"Just as the river where I step is not the same, and is, so I am as I am not." - Heraclitus
An extremist is just someone with an opposite opinion.
The only way to avoid being an extremist is to be a hypocrite.
Yes, its a war, but if you have to suspend or weaken democracy to fight it they you have already lost.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
The predetermined mindset required is that of "Free thinker", rather than a propaganda victim.
Maybe in a few years (if you try hard) you might be ready to comprehend some fundamental concepts of politics.
Also, do you like getting the last word in ?
Sorry, but i dont think your capable of understanding it.
There is a clear conflict of interest in a government requiring it give permission for people to express dissent.
If the government has the ability to control what is said about it, then bad governments will never be seen as bad, and good governments will sometimes be seen as bad, its a race to the bottom.
This attack was expected, Australian Intelligence organizations had warned him that there would typically be a smear campaign against him for a situation like this.
If he takes a "leave of absence" then the world may as well just declare the US government has outlawed the concept of freedom of information.
You included three of your opinions and a link to someone elses opinion.
Evidence (what you required from the other dude) can be independently verified as fact.
"I'd love to hear your evidence of this, because as far as I can tell, there are a lot of benefits of copyright and patents."
You require evidence for dissenting opinions, and offer no evidence for the opinions you mention.
Try being impartial
Can you name some examples of those "many" libertarians who promote not having ANY taxes and regulation?
Sure, this guy equates taxes to a kind of slavery http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1738364&cid=33099320
He mentions he has spoken a teabager conferences.
I assume [g]parted could automatically migrate a primary partition to an extend one in a safe and easy manner, haven't tried it though
"It would, if you could actually get more than four partitions on a hard drive with the 90+% of BIOSes which can't boot properly from a GPT drive."
You might be interested to hear of a new feature people are calling "Extended Partitions".
(which is what it would probably do if you supplied it with the more than 4500 watts of electricity it would need to power the 4500 watts of "sound" it makes).
Maybe 4500 watts is the level of noise it makes when it explodes ?
Im sure you meant to say "We are one of the few nations still with troops on the gound fighting alongside the US."
I think people are mis-reading their demand, what i think happened is that the pentagon lost their copy and they want someone to send them the backup.
"Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it" - Linus Torvalds
That's fine and dandy. I agree to pay for roads and cops. I don't agree to pay your medical bills.
So if the government tells you how to to spend your money, THEY are being tyrannical, can should be able to see that YOU are being tyrannical if you demand they dont spend their money on health and other services you dont approve of.
Your arguments are running pretty thin here... maybe it's hard to defend collectivized government once it is put in terms of tyranny and slavery. Don't you have to stop reading again or something before your head asplodes?
Its ok, im a socialist, i try and help people less fortunate than myself...
But im not arguing for forced socialism, im arguing for the status quo (a balance between capitalsim and socialism), you seem to want to live in some right wing extremist world where nobody gives a crap about each other.
Perhaps you might be doing yourself a favor to go on a holiday for a few weeks to a country that does have the social values you admire (no public health care etc), if you like it you could stay longer, saving your self the stress of unknowingly helping people every now and then.
The way you opt out of paying into Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is by not earning money in the country.
Paying tax doesnt make you a slave, its an obligation in return for the government providing other service.
Part of being human is our desire to form social ties, if you cant accept that, might i refer you to the subject of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism
Socialism requires people to contribute by force
Sorry, cant read much past that
You are talking a branch of socialism called communism.
Servitude doesnt represent the core values of socialism, just as racism doesnt represent the core values of capitalism.
"Socialism, by its very design, requires servitude on the part of the individual and cannot control greed. It requires servitude because it puts all control into the power of the government and has no controls built into it to control greed, ambition, and corruption by politicians."
Im not sure its servitude if one chooses to use their individualism to empower society rather than just using it for personal benefit.
The best system, capitalism or socialism is one that fairly reflects the values of the society it covers, a group oriented society should lean towards socialism, an individualist society should lean towards capitalism.
As any society is comprised of both types of people, the best system is one that encourages each group, while protecting it from exploitation by the other.
If you think people are fundamentally bad than capitalism is for you, if you dream of something better than try and be a socialist.
we ought to build forgetting into the Internet
Bittorrent works fine for this, people seed what they think is good and dont see the crap. It effectively forgets the bad stuff.
On the human side, i used to wonder why the ancient greek philosophers where so great. But if you boil it down, its knowledge from about 500 BC to 500 AD that has been selectively filtered by humans since then, the good stuff gets remembered and eventually written down, the bad stuff doesnt.
Forgetting the crap is just as important as remembering the good stuff.
Is it also true that only 0.3% of VHS tapes contain legal content when it was at its peak ?
And i heard a lot of those old audio tapes(cassete recorders) had content that was just copied from other tapes (tape-to-tape they called it), people used to take them to concerts and release "bootleg" recordings.
How the industry has continued to survive with such blazen disrespect for the laws surrounding th music(ians) they love is beyond me.
Perhaps it would appropriate to start an appeal so we can all donate money to these needy organisations (RIAA/MPAA) that look after the interests of musicians.
Oh yea, im being sarcastic
Ever hear of the expression, "cant see the wood for the trees" ?
Something like 98% of scientists agree the climate change is real, there are three or four (so im told now) what you would call "sloppy and stupid natured" mistakes in detailing the consequences of climate change, and you think the whole report is a fraud...
Where is the hard evidence supporting the theory that the climate isnt changing ?
Start relying on thinking.