to play and put every 2-3 hours of your daily life into a game to increasingly progress and then get jumped on by a random group of 2-3 somewhere and all your progress stolen.
it only works when you are a teenager and you have unlimited time in your hands, so you can stomach the loss. but doesnt work for people with little time.
back then in uo days we had that kind of time, and we were stupid enough to stomach that kind of gameplay. but, curiously, i see that contrary to what we did back then, kids of today's generation do not waste their time in that fashion. they just go play proper mmos.
that kind of gameplay only can work in a setting in which you are not required to put inane amounts of time to make progress. if you could make up for the stolen items/whatever in a single session (2-3 hours) that would maybe work. but, else, cant.
2 - make sure you get exactly what you asked for. (lamp etc).
3 - stay away from 1&1
4 - read reviews for hosting companies by doing searches in community review sites like webhostingtalk.com (its the biggest). chances are that if the company you are checking out is shitty, they would have screwed over more than 1 person who was angry enough to come and post there.
- you let individuals or groups to amass unlimited wealth
- eventually some reach the wealth level with which they can influence democratic processes or representatives
- the first individuals or groups to reach the above level start protecting their interests in lieu of everyone else
- laws do not work against this, because if you can influence democracy and its representatives, you can MAKE laws, as in the current example we are discussing (contract law)
idiots at nintendo. dont forget that your gaming industry depends on the gaming community. which is, us, the people.
it would be advisable not to go around being a fascist about your products, lest you may end up having your products shoved up your ass by the very people you want to sell them to.
do you think what will happen if this 'right to use' bullshit takes hold ? what if all service and goods providers take up on it and you end up buying your car as 'right to use' only ?
there is NOTHING preventing any business from selling their products and services with these type of contracts that will make you only 'own the right to use'. (whatever the fuck that is, since it can be so easily redefined by the provider)
you need to stop buying into this exploitative crap. if you buy a copy of a piece of software, you OWN THAT COPY and you can resell THAT COPY. thats why the term is 'copyright'. it means you can own a book, and give out or resell a book, but you can not COPY it and reproduce it. that was how the term copyright was created and used since last 300 or so years.
no half assed digital company has the right to 'redefine' terms to the detriment of people.
isnt this a fact ? it is evident that she uses their products, not because they sponsored her, but their products are good. it is a FACT. you cant copyright facts.
most people fold. and most people HAVE to fold because they cant risk relying on streisand effect, their or his/her jurisdiction, chances and so on. these are risks too high for individuals to take. however they are minor risks for big companies. once an individual takes the risk and loses, leave aside his/her life, but also his/her children's, dependants' lives will be over due to paranormal amounts of 'damages' s/he will have to pay.
NOONE can take that risk.
thats why the system is broken, and always works in favor of big companies, and the concepts of copyright and intellectual property need to be whacked down.
back 1.5 years ago i made a comment saying if things went at that rate (then and now), in 10 years' time we wouldnt be able to even use common daily words among ourselves because some bastard would own their copyright. you people went out to make a running gag on me, claiming intellectual property on stuff in my post.
however check it out. just this week, a bastard (or a number of bastards) were able to go as far to claim someone's name as intellectual property. from there to here, since then until now. it wont even take 10 years it seems.
my point is that, if you allow some mechanism that can be abused, exploited, it WILL be abused, exploited. tangible assets as property is one thing, but once you allow 'owning' intellectual thoughts, concepts, that ends up in hampering mankind's progress because it will eventually prevent free exchange, use and progress of ideas, even very concept of 'thought' itself.
i mean, its stupefying. there is no other, elaborate, politically correct approach to what they are doing. its pure morondom. its like saying 'hey, we are going to sell you a product, but it may or it may not work, because we want it to be that way. because, see, there are pirates.'
have a price tag with it. in this case, price is freedom.
apple users should face the distasteful truth. the company which is providing them 'stylish' and 'hip' products that 'just work', is just wanting to keep them as cash cows without any consumer choice.
No, his problem is MS. It's just that people who need medication think they are entitled to it, and its a pretty reasonable to thing to just give it to them when it is cheap, but, now, that is expensive, that question needs to be reasked.
people who need medication, are entitled to it, in goddamn 21st century.
this is 21st century. not 10.000 BC. if we are at the edge of becoming spacefaring, but still cant feed and cure our population, then it means there is something grandly wrong with the system on this planet.
no surprise though. a system in which 15% of the population gets 80% of wealth and income could only be able to produce this.
recent years have made working freely by contracting much more easier and feasible. in addition the respect for that kind of contracting and telecommuting increased as well. bright and capable people are now more and more working freely in contract fashion rather than being tied to some company by a salary. this can only increase.
if you are ready to pass some lengthy excerpt providing what may be an important piece of information and perspective just because someone lacks a 'shift key', then you really dont fucking need to read them at all. they wouldnt do you any good. i will leave you to your shift keys and capitalizations.
they all should get tangled with washington i mean. the reason we have been thrown at us so much shit trying to damage and subdue internet in the past few years was that the tech crowd didnt do any lobbying or care for it at all. in the end we had the anti net neutrality attack, then came acta. we still havent thwarted acta.
had they got smart and entered washington before the net neutrality attack, we probably would have proper laws by now, or, at least we wouldnt be on the defense against megacorporations and cartels of the established order in the war for the internet.
this is what happens when you let a handful of individuals own huge economic resources. they become like feudal lords, asserting their own will to majority of the people. here, behold, technology has improved, there is a possibility of cheaper goods being available to public. but, the feudal corporate structure doesnt want to let it happen. so much for 'free market', so much for 'invisible hand'. this is just in line with another observation i posted in a similar thread before :
there is not much to these ideas actually, they are simply based on history and a few basic social mechanics. researching and reflecting on the fall of the roman empire and rise of feudalism, one can make numerous observations on how the nature of society unfolds in an uncontrolled, rather 'free for all' environment. this has many parallels you can draw with a totally laissez faire liberal economy and free market. in the end it turns out that free markets, choice and laissez faire only exist until the hierarchy gets established. after that point it turns into a replica of a feudal system.
chaos cant exist in society. societal dynamics eventually tend to gravitate towards some kind of order, nomatter what that order is. if, groups or individuals are allowed to amass power and pass them to their offspring or chosen heirs or affiliates, then eventually concentrations of power arise here and there. these powers vie for dominance, and eventually a power hierarchy forms, solidifying the distribution of power and creating an order in the society. any kind of power hierarchy that resides in the hands of a minority is in lieu of democracy and pluralism, and therefore freedoms.
we can take development of feudalism and then compare it to a capitalist system without limits, and see the parallels:
the fall of roman empire brought a chaos, in which the newly settled (some for a few hundred years, but not romanized) migrating tribes and local roman aristocrats owning huge latifundias (mega farms with lots of slave labor) have become able to exert their own influence in their own areas. they had to defend themselves, and therefore were keeping local militia power, becoming rather independent places of government in the wake of crumbling roman legal power.
germanic tribes invading and settling had common ownership concept. everything belonged to everyone, ie the clan or the tribe, and there was no hereditary passing of items except a few personal carryables. franks for example. but, due to influence from lingering roman laws and influence of local roman population, and various other needs, first, the right to circle and claim a patch of land during a harvest season was granted to clans, then to individuals. coupled with the ex-roman legal influence, individual ownership has begun.
since land was the basis of economy in the post roman era (due to declining commerce), the amount of land you had (and its fertility etc) has become a measure of power. you could keep militia, you could barter for stuff and so on. the decline in road network, dangers and invasions meant that local powers would have to take on responsibilities of everyday government. it was a truly local government era per se.
naturally power struggles came into being. aka 'competition'. those with more power subdued others, either eliminating or making them underlings. during early middle ages franks also started to rely on mounted armored cavalry in an increasing fashion, an expensive ordeal, and resorted to granting them lands to support them, making them responsible with reaping the harvest and maintaining their own horses and armor. first, these lands were granted only for a period. then it became for life. then they became hereditary. the bigger lords could subinterfeudate, ie granting lands to people by making them vassals. so if you were a duke ( a title developed from those appointed to commanding king's army, ie marshals), you would grant land to people under you, vassalizing them, and them to their vassals, therefore creating a hierarchy while maintaining the army. since there were a lot of invasions during the early middle ages, and the royal army couldnt intervene in all invasions, keeping order became local lords' duty. and thus the feudal system was established in the form we know. in the process some earlier roman latifundia owners became such nobles, and nobles were created out of early clansmen and elite of the invading germanic tribes.
the focus is that, land was the basis of economy in that period, therefore power
you can insert most of the functions you speak of through plugins. thats the good part. you can put in what you need, and not what someone packaged. prevents bloating.
were they getting depressed because of surfing, or were they escaping to surfing because of depression.
i, for one, know from myself that, at points in my life in which i was severely stressed, depressed or in a waiting period for some event (military service etc), was using computer games heavily as an escape and sedative. that way i was able to relieve some of the stress or depression i had. if you are busy with something, you dont get focused on your depression that much.
i dont think surfing is much different. if those people werent doing that heavy internet usage, they would probably be starting using mild drugs. internet is much better.
for this has nothing to do with government, or bureaucracy. they both are empty machinery that works according to the wishes of the people manning them and how the gears set up.
and in america, those who set up its gears and man its operators are corporations. they buy the laws they need with the monetary power they have, and the thing just runs according to that.
the tag should have been corporatism, instead of idiocracy. for, it is corporatism that allows minority to trample majority's rights in our age's democracies.
pooran".... there. ancient anglosaxon. says "Sun's brightness is common to rich and poor".
languages are living things, by their definition. they evolve. and evolution comes from people. in some time, 'cuz' is going to be accepted as another form of because. just like how sun took place of sunnan. that is the way of things. and no amount of elitism or grammar nazism or jacobinism is going to change it. for, how the language evolves is decided by the people en masse. few things are less democratic. had you been speaking with the 'proper' english you have now back in 1750, you would be despised and ridiculed as some commoner speaking a lowly common accent. however those days' common lowly english is today's formal english. because languages evolve.
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to play and put every 2-3 hours of your daily life into a game to increasingly progress and then get jumped on by a random group of 2-3 somewhere and all your progress stolen.
it only works when you are a teenager and you have unlimited time in your hands, so you can stomach the loss. but doesnt work for people with little time.
back then in uo days we had that kind of time, and we were stupid enough to stomach that kind of gameplay. but, curiously, i see that contrary to what we did back then, kids of today's generation do not waste their time in that fashion. they just go play proper mmos.
that kind of gameplay only can work in a setting in which you are not required to put inane amounts of time to make progress. if you could make up for the stolen items/whatever in a single session (2-3 hours) that would maybe work. but, else, cant.
1 - make sure they have daily backups.
2 - make sure you get exactly what you asked for. (lamp etc).
3 - stay away from 1&1
4 - read reviews for hosting companies by doing searches in community review sites like webhostingtalk.com (its the biggest). chances are that if the company you are checking out is shitty, they would have screwed over more than 1 person who was angry enough to come and post there.
5 - stay away from 1&1
this is how it happens :
- you let individuals or groups to amass unlimited wealth
- eventually some reach the wealth level with which they can influence democratic processes or representatives
- the first individuals or groups to reach the above level start protecting their interests in lieu of everyone else
- laws do not work against this, because if you can influence democracy and its representatives, you can MAKE laws, as in the current example we are discussing (contract law)
- 'the people' get the shaft
idiots at nintendo. dont forget that your gaming industry depends on the gaming community. which is, us, the people.
it would be advisable not to go around being a fascist about your products, lest you may end up having your products shoved up your ass by the very people you want to sell them to.
do you think what will happen if this 'right to use' bullshit takes hold ? what if all service and goods providers take up on it and you end up buying your car as 'right to use' only ?
there is NOTHING preventing any business from selling their products and services with these type of contracts that will make you only 'own the right to use'. (whatever the fuck that is, since it can be so easily redefined by the provider)
you need to stop buying into this exploitative crap. if you buy a copy of a piece of software, you OWN THAT COPY and you can resell THAT COPY. thats why the term is 'copyright'. it means you can own a book, and give out or resell a book, but you can not COPY it and reproduce it. that was how the term copyright was created and used since last 300 or so years.
no half assed digital company has the right to 'redefine' terms to the detriment of people.
basically this is what they are saying you.
does she, or does she not use their products ?
isnt this a fact ? it is evident that she uses their products, not because they sponsored her, but their products are good. it is a FACT. you cant copyright facts.
Most people fold.
most people fold. and most people HAVE to fold because they cant risk relying on streisand effect, their or his/her jurisdiction, chances and so on. these are risks too high for individuals to take. however they are minor risks for big companies. once an individual takes the risk and loses, leave aside his/her life, but also his/her children's, dependants' lives will be over due to paranormal amounts of 'damages' s/he will have to pay.
NOONE can take that risk.
thats why the system is broken, and always works in favor of big companies, and the concepts of copyright and intellectual property need to be whacked down.
back 1.5 years ago i made a comment saying if things went at that rate (then and now), in 10 years' time we wouldnt be able to even use common daily words among ourselves because some bastard would own their copyright. you people went out to make a running gag on me, claiming intellectual property on stuff in my post.
however check it out. just this week, a bastard (or a number of bastards) were able to go as far to claim someone's name as intellectual property. from there to here, since then until now. it wont even take 10 years it seems.
my point is that, if you allow some mechanism that can be abused, exploited, it WILL be abused, exploited. tangible assets as property is one thing, but once you allow 'owning' intellectual thoughts, concepts, that ends up in hampering mankind's progress because it will eventually prevent free exchange, use and progress of ideas, even very concept of 'thought' itself.
i mean, its stupefying. there is no other, elaborate, politically correct approach to what they are doing. its pure morondom. its like saying 'hey, we are going to sell you a product, but it may or it may not work, because we want it to be that way. because, see, there are pirates.'
have a price tag with it. in this case, price is freedom.
apple users should face the distasteful truth. the company which is providing them 'stylish' and 'hip' products that 'just work', is just wanting to keep them as cash cows without any consumer choice.
No, his problem is MS. It's just that people who need medication think they are entitled to it, and its a pretty reasonable to thing to just give it to them when it is cheap, but, now, that is expensive, that question needs to be reasked.
people who need medication, are entitled to it, in goddamn 21st century.
this is 21st century. not 10.000 BC. if we are at the edge of becoming spacefaring, but still cant feed and cure our population, then it means there is something grandly wrong with the system on this planet.
no surprise though. a system in which 15% of the population gets 80% of wealth and income could only be able to produce this.
then your problem is the draconian, almost near feudal insurance system in usa.
recent years have made working freely by contracting much more easier and feasible. in addition the respect for that kind of contracting and telecommuting increased as well. bright and capable people are now more and more working freely in contract fashion rather than being tied to some company by a salary. this can only increase.
on behalf of "us" on the internet, which constitutes all the "people" in "we, the people", "we" accept.
it was long overdue anyway.
if you are ready to pass some lengthy excerpt providing what may be an important piece of information and perspective just because someone lacks a 'shift key', then you really dont fucking need to read them at all. they wouldnt do you any good. i will leave you to your shift keys and capitalizations.
they all should get tangled with washington i mean. the reason we have been thrown at us so much shit trying to damage and subdue internet in the past few years was that the tech crowd didnt do any lobbying or care for it at all. in the end we had the anti net neutrality attack, then came acta. we still havent thwarted acta.
had they got smart and entered washington before the net neutrality attack, we probably would have proper laws by now, or, at least we wouldnt be on the defense against megacorporations and cartels of the established order in the war for the internet.
this is what happens when you let a handful of individuals own huge economic resources. they become like feudal lords, asserting their own will to majority of the people. here, behold, technology has improved, there is a possibility of cheaper goods being available to public. but, the feudal corporate structure doesnt want to let it happen. so much for 'free market', so much for 'invisible hand'. this is just in line with another observation i posted in a similar thread before :
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1530508&cid=31026562
there is not much to these ideas actually, they are simply based on history and a few basic social mechanics. researching and reflecting on the fall of the roman empire and rise of feudalism, one can make numerous observations on how the nature of society unfolds in an uncontrolled, rather 'free for all' environment. this has many parallels you can draw with a totally laissez faire liberal economy and free market. in the end it turns out that free markets, choice and laissez faire only exist until the hierarchy gets established. after that point it turns into a replica of a feudal system.
chaos cant exist in society. societal dynamics eventually tend to gravitate towards some kind of order, nomatter what that order is. if, groups or individuals are allowed to amass power and pass them to their offspring or chosen heirs or affiliates, then eventually concentrations of power arise here and there. these powers vie for dominance, and eventually a power hierarchy forms, solidifying the distribution of power and creating an order in the society. any kind of power hierarchy that resides in the hands of a minority is in lieu of democracy and pluralism, and therefore freedoms.
we can take development of feudalism and then compare it to a capitalist system without limits, and see the parallels :
the fall of roman empire brought a chaos, in which the newly settled (some for a few hundred years, but not romanized) migrating tribes and local roman aristocrats owning huge latifundias (mega farms with lots of slave labor) have become able to exert their own influence in their own areas. they had to defend themselves, and therefore were keeping local militia power, becoming rather independent places of government in the wake of crumbling roman legal power.
germanic tribes invading and settling had common ownership concept. everything belonged to everyone, ie the clan or the tribe, and there was no hereditary passing of items except a few personal carryables. franks for example. but, due to influence from lingering roman laws and influence of local roman population, and various other needs, first, the right to circle and claim a patch of land during a harvest season was granted to clans, then to individuals. coupled with the ex-roman legal influence, individual ownership has begun.
since land was the basis of economy in the post roman era (due to declining commerce), the amount of land you had (and its fertility etc) has become a measure of power. you could keep militia, you could barter for stuff and so on. the decline in road network, dangers and invasions meant that local powers would have to take on responsibilities of everyday government. it was a truly local government era per se.
naturally power struggles came into being. aka 'competition'. those with more power subdued others, either eliminating or making them underlings. during early middle ages franks also started to rely on mounted armored cavalry in an increasing fashion, an expensive ordeal, and resorted to granting them lands to support them, making them responsible with reaping the harvest and maintaining their own horses and armor. first, these lands were granted only for a period. then it became for life. then they became hereditary. the bigger lords could subinterfeudate, ie granting lands to people by making them vassals. so if you were a duke ( a title developed from those appointed to commanding king's army, ie marshals), you would grant land to people under you, vassalizing them, and them to their vassals, therefore creating a hierarchy while maintaining the army. since there were a lot of invasions during the early middle ages, and the royal army couldnt intervene in all invasions, keeping order became local lords' duty. and thus the feudal system was established in the form we know. in the process some earlier roman latifundia owners became such nobles, and nobles were created out of early clansmen and elite of the invading germanic tribes.
the focus is that, land was the basis of economy in that period, therefore power
you can insert most of the functions you speak of through plugins. thats the good part. you can put in what you need, and not what someone packaged. prevents bloating.
were they getting depressed because of surfing, or were they escaping to surfing because of depression.
i, for one, know from myself that, at points in my life in which i was severely stressed, depressed or in a waiting period for some event (military service etc), was using computer games heavily as an escape and sedative. that way i was able to relieve some of the stress or depression i had. if you are busy with something, you dont get focused on your depression that much.
i dont think surfing is much different. if those people werent doing that heavy internet usage, they would probably be starting using mild drugs. internet is much better.
as if php is not something worth developing on or those who develop on it cannot be called real developers.
i am working in the industry since 2003 as a php developer and i use notepad++. it works very well too.
if i didnt like brits, i would just outright say it here out loud. i dont have any hesitations. if you noticed, im not posting anonymous either.
for this has nothing to do with government, or bureaucracy. they both are empty machinery that works according to the wishes of the people manning them and how the gears set up.
and in america, those who set up its gears and man its operators are corporations. they buy the laws they need with the monetary power they have, and the thing just runs according to that.
the tag should have been corporatism, instead of idiocracy. for, it is corporatism that allows minority to trample majority's rights in our age's democracies.
pooran" ....
there. ancient anglosaxon. says "Sun's brightness is common to rich and poor".
languages are living things, by their definition. they evolve. and evolution comes from people. in some time, 'cuz' is going to be accepted as another form of because. just like how sun took place of sunnan. that is the way of things. and no amount of elitism or grammar nazism or jacobinism is going to change it. for, how the language evolves is decided by the people en masse. few things are less democratic. had you been speaking with the 'proper' english you have now back in 1750, you would be despised and ridiculed as some commoner speaking a lowly common accent. however those days' common lowly english is today's formal english. because languages evolve.
people should get used up to this fact.