While I see what you are saying, I believe it is dumb to remove the incentives of hard work, dilligence, and sacrifice.
Why should should my sister study 14 hours per day for 20 years, denying herself sleep, sex, and eyesight in the process if she will end up being no better off than a janitor, except that the janitor has been having the time of her life for the last 20 years, has a developed relationship with 7 kids (all on welfare), can sleep well at night in a house she had not earned, and does not need glasses to read the 'funnies'.
The 'free market' ended in 1930's for the same reason 'anarchy' ended in the stone age: a single strongman will fuck up the playing field for everybody by assimilating, subjugating, and repressing everyone else (while getting even stronger in the process). To take it to extreme, in a 'free market' there is nothing to stop some asshole buying a nuclear weapon, then collecting 'protection' money from you and me. There is nothing to stop GSK from patenting antibiotics as a concept, then charging $10,000,000 per pill. So what that 50% of children will not survive to adulthood (a la 19th century America), that's because they are too lazy to do anything else.
Yes, the free market is the best possible scenario, except that human nature being what it is, the market will quickly degrade into something horrible if completely uncontrolled.
I've got a better solution, which will also address the outsourcing issue: how about we raise the minimum wage in all countries outside America to $10,000,000,000/hour.
First of all, by Orwell's definition, the Brother has to control not only your present and future, but to also be able to change the past.
Q: When was the last time the Bush administration changed the past? A: Never, so whatever we have here, it is not yet 1984.
Second, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Unless you download pornography or plan arson, why should you object to being monitored on the internet or at your store?
Third, biological/organic material is ideally suited for preserving and transporting infectious agents. Peaches are perfect for storing bacteria due to the availability of sugar, moisture, and organic acids. If anything, eggs should also be added to the watch list as it is the only means for growing smallpox and influenza viruses available to the terrorists. In fact, eggs are currently used to manufacture vaccines against the said viruses.
Fourth, and I paraphrase the Administration spokesman here, I would rather the government collected my call records than my remains
Fifth, the Bluetooth and Wireless technology can be used to control remotely-piloted aereal drones used for terrorism, and must thus be treated as dual-use technology; all foreigners must be required to acquire a deemed exports license to own, operate, or examine the said technology. Manuals should be classified.
Sixth, none of you liberals objected when the Clintons were killing Foster, murdering teenagers with trains, flying in cocaine, and selling missile technology to China (which since then has implemented the sold Aegis, nuclear isotope, and manned-spaceflight technology).
And finally, why do you hate America so much!!!!!11
Uh, no. It's more like the Internet being a collection of tubes, and those tubes are filled with water. And when someone taps into your unsecured tube, you replace potable water inside with raw sewage.
The problem with young people today is they utterly lack imagination.
Having x11 support 2 mouse pointers at once, one per each hand, would seem such a basic thing. I like having multiple windows, multiple desktops, multiple tasks going on, why do I bloody have to click on one at a time. And how about adding tactile feedback to Finder? I want larger files to feel heavier, I want music files to feel sticky...
Or how about a multidimentional, 3-D or 4-D dock, with focus following your eye direction. After all, MacBooks do have builtin webcams, right? I want to look at the app icon on the dock, blink on it, and get it up!
And why are we locked into using letters to represent ideas, names, and concepts? Why does a picture file have to be named "blue-duck.jpg", I want to make a 3-D blue bird image to be it's 'name', not a string of ASCII crap. And why can't we search pictures and music files like we should be able to? 'Victoria, high quality, find all the music files with voice of Jerry Springer saying 'hello', find all the pictures containing a girl with red hair?' not so bloody hard now, is it?
As a great visionary once said, the Internet is not a truck, it's a collection of pipes. So darnit, for my surfing I want to see some pipes, how they connect, and where they lead to, and what they contain. I don't want to read about Lebanon, I want my Mac to be smart enough to convert text not even into a sound, but into a 3-D VR scene re-enactment of the news!
Why do windows have to look like flat pieces of paper? Why does your computer have to show documents like a typewriter? Why does a PowerPoint have to resemble decades-old slide projector presentations? Why not make it resemble a road, you walk along the road and look at the points along the way, you see what will come next (although less clear), you walk at your own pace, or fly up and see the entire thing? Why do I have to be blindfolded and shown one piece at a time, like dumb cattle lead to a slaughterhouse?
Why not store the session on a plugged-in iPod like Sun's thin clients used to be able to do 10 years ago? Unplug it, plug into another Mac 1,000 miles away at an airport, and keep same open apps and docs restored instantly? What, macs are too pussy to do that?
Sorry for the rant, I do not have many years left to my life, I would so much like to experience an OS I can enjoy!
China has been doubling their spending on pure (fundamental) science since 1996! Literally, they now spend x1000 more on science than they did 10 year ago!
I know several Nobel-class American scientists just from my University that packed up their labs and moved over to China (where they are offered no-strings-attached, unlimited funding, and all the postdocs they bother to grab), as opposed to getting their funding cut by incompetent neokooks in charge for the last five years.
The fact that half of prospective postdocs have been denied visas recently due to National Security concerns does not help either. I am sure our National Security benefits greatly when they go advance the Chinese or Canadian science instead!
The real question is, does one have to play the Freedom scenario, or can a hot coffee patch be applied to select the alternative:
start them off at a madrasa in Pakistan, [...] then guide then through planting IEDs in the Iraqi marketplace. And if he thinks they're up to it, he may even take them to see Allah in the midst of 72 vigins flying overhead?
Spend it on merry girls, hearty wittles, and fine wine.
Get rid of the savings account and do not invest: this way you can file 1040EZ instead of 1040 to the INS; as a college student this will save you money.
Start your own business and become a consultant. Claim beer etc. as a business expense.
Buy gold. That keeps going up, plus will keep its value when the Revolution comes.
Get a PhD in chemical engineering; you will be raking in 250k+/year if you are any good.
Become a Canadian citizen; with your IQ you will qualify for disability payments.
the majority of babies die before they learn to read:
each year, 24,000,000 illiterate (by definition) babies are born survive to 16: 22,000,000 learn to 'read and write': 40% of 21,000,000
65% of the newborns will die illiterate!
If you accept the 'fact'book's estimate of 59% adult literacy (which they take from the Indian govt estimate, which inflates those to encourage investment), you will get about 45% of children dying before ever learning how to read/write.
Can you see why the majority of babies die before they learn to read is correct?
The question is, could the money be better spend doing something else to improve the situation? Spending $100 per laptop per 400,000,000 children (in India alone!) every 4 years? Or spending same money for printing books, for example? Or setting up a library of educational videos in each village?
You are talking US$ 10,000,000,000 per year you are asking India to donate to the Chinese semiconductor manufacturers.
The link refers to people over 15 that can read a little.
This 'factbook' masks the real problem, which is that 30%+ of the population is under 15 (according to your very link), most of whom are illeterate (and die off before they ever learn).
You have no idea that an outsourced Indian 'Mike' you talk on the phone is from a royal caste, literally. Only the cream of the cream of the elite get to qualify for the outsourced jobs. There is no hope for the rest!
No laptops, no business. 60% of grownups in India cannot read
All these ADD, ADHD, inability to focus in kids stem directly from them spending hours in front of a TV.
How can children learn to pay attention to what's important with the constant barrage of shifting images and colors shouting at them from the n00b-tube?
Kids these days need some kind of a mandatory curricular training to teach them to concentrate. Perhaps a summer camp of sorts?
All of Darwin's source is 'open' in the sense that you are free to view, modify, and recompile it at will (unless you refuse to their fairly liberal license). All of it will work in OS X. With 10.3, you may rebuild Darwin from source, then 'drag&drop' the propriatory junk on top, and it will work! It is no longer possible to do that with 10.4_x86 since the TPM-related stuff is not released.
An example of open-source compatible OS would be OpenVMS in my mind, which is, of course, closed-source, but very programmer-friendly. Darwin is definitely more open than that.
Sure, there must be ulterior motives for the 'openness', but right now it's pretty convenient, and sure as hell beats programming for Windows. I mean, how much of Windows' kernel source would someone like me get to see without shelling out some serious cash?
Well, while the absolute majority of people have done nothing wrong, most do have 'something to hide'.
Would YOU like to have a video of your explosive diarrhea shown during Evening News, for example. Or applying sanitary pads? Or pictures of you scratching where it itches?
Or pictures of your kids sent to every pedo in the Land?
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While I see what you are saying, I believe it is dumb to remove the incentives of hard work, dilligence, and sacrifice.
Why should should my sister study 14 hours per day for 20 years, denying herself sleep, sex, and eyesight in the process if she will end up being no better off than a janitor, except that the janitor has been having the time of her life for the last 20 years, has a developed relationship with 7 kids (all on welfare), can sleep well at night in a house she had not earned, and does not need glasses to read the 'funnies'.
Let me play Devil's advocate here:
The 'free market' ended in 1930's for the same reason 'anarchy' ended in the stone age: a single strongman will fuck up the playing field for everybody by assimilating, subjugating, and repressing everyone else (while getting even stronger in the process). To take it to extreme, in a 'free market' there is nothing to stop some asshole buying a nuclear weapon, then collecting 'protection' money from you and me. There is nothing to stop GSK from patenting antibiotics as a concept, then charging $10,000,000 per pill. So what that 50% of children will not survive to adulthood (a la 19th century America), that's because they are too lazy to do anything else.
Yes, the free market is the best possible scenario, except that human nature being what it is, the market will quickly degrade into something horrible if completely uncontrolled.
I've got a better solution, which will also address the outsourcing issue: how about we raise the minimum wage in all countries outside America to $10,000,000,000/hour.
And if they refuse to comply, we nuke them!
There, solved it for you.
First of all, by Orwell's definition, the Brother has to control not only your present and future, but to also be able to change the past.
Q: When was the last time the Bush administration changed the past?
A: Never, so whatever we have here, it is not yet 1984.
Second, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Unless you download pornography or plan arson, why should you object to being monitored on the internet or at your store?
Third, biological/organic material is ideally suited for preserving and transporting infectious agents. Peaches are perfect for storing bacteria due to the availability of sugar, moisture, and organic acids.
If anything, eggs should also be added to the watch list as it is the only means for growing smallpox and influenza viruses available to the terrorists. In fact, eggs are currently used to manufacture vaccines against the said viruses.
Fourth, and I paraphrase the Administration spokesman here, I would rather the government collected my call records than my remains
Fifth, the Bluetooth and Wireless technology can be used to control remotely-piloted aereal drones used for terrorism, and must thus be treated as dual-use technology; all foreigners must be required to acquire a deemed exports license to own, operate, or examine the said technology. Manuals should be classified.
Sixth, none of you liberals objected when the Clintons were killing Foster, murdering teenagers with trains, flying in cocaine, and selling missile technology to China (which since then has implemented the sold Aegis, nuclear isotope, and manned-spaceflight technology).
And finally, why do you hate America so much!!!!!11
It is funny. The one thing normal newbies are good at is finding pirated movies, music, and viruses.
I rather enjoyed the lottery question though. Thinking of starting such 'send in $500 to claim your $283 prize' lottery business myself.
Doesn't work in Opera :-(
iexplore's BSOD large image hack does not work either
I guess FireFox is more MS-compatible
Uh, no. It's more like the Internet being a collection of tubes, and those tubes are filled with water. And when someone taps into your unsecured tube, you replace potable water inside with raw sewage.
The problem with young people today is they utterly lack imagination.
Having x11 support 2 mouse pointers at once, one per each hand, would seem such a basic thing. I like having multiple windows, multiple desktops, multiple tasks going on, why do I bloody have to click on one at a time. And how about adding tactile feedback to Finder? I want larger files to feel heavier, I want music files to feel sticky...
Or how about a multidimentional, 3-D or 4-D dock, with focus following your eye direction. After all, MacBooks do have builtin webcams, right? I want to look at the app icon on the dock, blink on it, and get it up!
And why are we locked into using letters to represent ideas, names, and concepts? Why does a picture file have to be named "blue-duck.jpg", I want to make a 3-D blue bird image to be it's 'name', not a string of ASCII crap. And why can't we search pictures and music files like we should be able to? 'Victoria, high quality, find all the music files with voice of Jerry Springer saying 'hello', find all the pictures containing a girl with red hair?' not so bloody hard now, is it?
As a great visionary once said, the Internet is not a truck, it's a collection of pipes. So darnit, for my surfing I want to see some pipes, how they connect, and where they lead to, and what they contain. I don't want to read about Lebanon, I want my Mac to be smart enough to convert text not even into a sound, but into a 3-D VR scene re-enactment of the news!
Why do windows have to look like flat pieces of paper? Why does your computer have to show documents like a typewriter? Why does a PowerPoint have to resemble decades-old slide projector presentations? Why not make it resemble a road, you walk along the road and look at the points along the way, you see what will come next (although less clear), you walk at your own pace, or fly up and see the entire thing? Why do I have to be blindfolded and shown one piece at a time, like dumb cattle lead to a slaughterhouse?
Why not store the session on a plugged-in iPod like Sun's thin clients used to be able to do 10 years ago? Unplug it, plug into another Mac 1,000 miles away at an airport, and keep same open apps and docs restored instantly? What, macs are too pussy to do that?
Sorry for the rant, I do not have many years left to my life, I would so much like to experience an OS I can enjoy!
China has been doubling their spending on pure (fundamental) science since 1996! Literally, they now spend x1000 more on science than they did 10 year ago!
I know several Nobel-class American scientists just from my University that packed up their labs and moved over to China (where they are offered no-strings-attached, unlimited funding, and all the postdocs they bother to grab), as opposed to getting their funding cut by incompetent neokooks in charge for the last five years.
The fact that half of prospective postdocs have been denied visas recently due to National Security concerns does not help either. I am sure our National Security benefits greatly when they go advance the Chinese or Canadian science instead!
thanks for the info
Spend it on merry girls, hearty wittles, and fine wine.
Get rid of the savings account and do not invest: this way you can file 1040EZ instead of 1040 to the INS; as a college student this will save you money.
Start your own business and become a consultant. Claim beer etc. as a business expense.
Buy gold. That keeps going up, plus will keep its value when the Revolution comes.
Get a PhD in chemical engineering; you will be raking in 250k+/year if you are any good.
Become a Canadian citizen; with your IQ you will qualify for disability payments.
the majority of babies die before they learn to read:
each year, 24,000,000 illiterate (by definition) babies are born
survive to 16: 22,000,000
learn to 'read and write': 40% of 21,000,000
65% of the newborns will die illiterate!
If you accept the 'fact'book's estimate of 59% adult literacy (which they take from the Indian govt estimate, which inflates those to encourage investment), you will get about 45% of children dying before ever learning how to read/write.
Can you see why the majority of babies die before they learn to read is correct?
The question is, could the money be better spend doing something else to improve the situation? Spending $100 per laptop per 400,000,000 children (in India alone!) every 4 years? Or spending same money for printing books, for example? Or setting up a library of educational videos in each village?
You are talking US$ 10,000,000,000 per year you are asking India to donate to the Chinese semiconductor manufacturers.
No contradiction:
The link refers to people over 15 that can read a little.
This 'factbook' masks the real problem, which is that 30%+ of the population is under 15 (according to your very link), most of whom are illeterate (and die off before they ever learn).
As cool as this sounds, this will never re-create the utter joy one feels after writing one's name in snow.
... a potential high-level worker pool.
r coursePPT/18011-19001/18811.ppt )
You have no idea that an outsourced Indian 'Mike' you talk on the phone is from a royal caste, literally. Only the cream of the cream of the elite get to qualify for the outsourced jobs. There is no hope for the rest!
No laptops, no business. 60% of grownups in India cannot read
In a country whose No. 1 public health goal is halfing public defecation by 2012 (a real problem since over 20% of the population are infected by hookworms: http://www.publichealth.pitt.edu/supercourse/Supe
No, giving them laptops is not the answer. Providing children with reading lessons, antibiotics, electricity, and lightbulbs is the first step.
All these ADD, ADHD, inability to focus in kids stem directly from them spending hours in front of a TV.
How can children learn to pay attention to what's important with the constant barrage of shifting images and colors shouting at them from the n00b-tube?
Kids these days need some kind of a mandatory curricular training to teach them to concentrate. Perhaps a summer camp of sorts?
All of Darwin's source is 'open' in the sense that you are free to view, modify, and recompile it at will (unless you refuse to their fairly liberal license). All of it will work in OS X. With 10.3, you may rebuild Darwin from source, then 'drag&drop' the propriatory junk on top, and it will work! It is no longer possible to do that with 10.4_x86 since the TPM-related stuff is not released.
An example of open-source compatible OS would be OpenVMS in my mind, which is, of course, closed-source, but very programmer-friendly. Darwin is definitely more open than that.
Sure, there must be ulterior motives for the 'openness', but right now it's pretty convenient, and sure as hell beats programming for Windows. I mean, how much of Windows' kernel source would someone like me get to see without shelling out some serious cash?
Why do you hate America so much?
Too bad their dreams did not work out, but frankly, they will not be missed.
Sure, they ported fink and some libs to Darwin, but that's pretty much it. ODP has been dorman for years, since 2002, pretty much.
Is Apple to blame for their luck of support? I do not think so; since they do have a neat thing going with http://developer.apple.com/opensource/
Do you mean Dr. Gatzke?
I do not think he was ever in jail.
Well, while the absolute majority of people have done nothing wrong, most do have 'something to hide'.
Would YOU like to have a video of your explosive diarrhea shown during Evening News, for example. Or applying sanitary pads? Or pictures of you scratching where it itches?
Or pictures of your kids sent to every pedo in the Land?
Or your SSN, credit cards, etc. posted online?
Wouldn't that make for some great AT&T slogans:
Help fight Crime: drop a Dime!
Let Us slip it IN, or the Terrorists win!
EFF you must fear, for Bin Laden is Near!
Liberal Croud leads to a Mushroom Cloud!