Umn55

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by Umn55 11y ago
"I find it shocking the lack of public reaction to the behaviour of various world governments" Human reasoning doesn't work on logic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ So you shouldn't, the vas
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by Umn55 11y ago
How would you do different?
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by Umn55 11y ago
"Media organizations have several proven strategies to push our buttons: voyeurism, outrage, greed, fear, prurience and envious aspiration are at the top." Goes way beyond that... First, our brains are much worse at reality and th
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by Umn55 11y ago
Perhaps you should look at the data... Correct. US distribution of wealth https://imgur.com/a/FShfb http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
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by Umn55 11y ago
Except its much worse... it has always been so, you're just becoming aware of it. You really need to bone up on your history... http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-people... "I helped m
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by Umn55 11y ago
Today, in a world of both unheard-of wealth and abject poverty, where the richest 85 people have more wealth than the poorest 3 billion. http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/bp-working-fo...
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by Umn55 11y ago
I did give his name, its Zbigniew Brzezinski
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by Umn55 11y ago
"The basic idea of how we do democracy is more-or-less sound." Sorry to tell you but... human beings are bad at reasoning: Science on reasoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ On democracy http:&#x2F
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by Umn55 11y ago
>but I do think we have a problem with capital accumulation by the very wealthy. Correct. US distribution of wealth https://imgur.com/a/FShfb http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/weal
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by Umn55 11y ago
"Anyway, his theory on capital accumulation is based on a completely flawed framework, and completely useless for understand what's happening today." Sorry but you've never read marx if you're saying that. Also che
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by Umn55 11y ago
>I have maintained for a long time that our society should focus on apprenticeships - not education Problem is corporations don't want that. The corporate attack on education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbMP-cy1
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by Umn55 11y ago
The problem you're not seeing is that no law will ever be passed that goes against it because the rich people that have been ruling you for the past 200+ years don't want it. You don't seem to be historically literate at all.
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by Umn55 11y ago
It seems insane to me that we could allow private corporations to buy and sell data that our government would require a warrant or court order to obtain. You're not seeing what is going on behind the scenes... they are all in cahoots t
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by Umn55 11y ago
"Enormous multi-national corporations should not function as an extension of our Government" You've demonstrated you're completely historically illiterate. It has always been thus, you're just becoming aware of it.
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by Umn55 11y ago
Goes way beyond that... On the NSA/spying... The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more p
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by Umn55 11y ago
>I don't know what dedicated servers has to do with it? First see the science, I can tell you the facts and figures and you won't reason to the conclusion correctly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
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by Umn55 11y ago
" It's really hard to test for all that traffic in advance" There's this thing, they're called dedicated servers. The reality is that game companies CEO's/execs don't want to pay for quality when the
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by Umn55 11y ago
Pfft... it's all just bullshit, pressure to release games too early from managers and hit quarterly profit targets. That and the obsessive desire for control of everything.
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by Umn55 11y ago
FYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be
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by Umn55 11y ago
His own words: https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/
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by Umn55 11y ago
What do you think copyright, IP and patent law is? AKA you have the money to change the rules of the game.
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by Umn55 11y ago
"Planned and managed economies don't generate enough production to even feed and supply their existing populations well." Sorry to tell you but capitalist society as it exists is planned and managed economy. Large corporatio
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by Umn55 12y ago
"By contrast, warez present essentially zero hassle nowadays." It was always easy, it has only recently become harder as online only and F2P has come online. Diablo 3 is a case in point.
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by Umn55 12y ago
"How can we be better than we are now?" By getting informed on what is REALLY happening, i.e. if you are participating in electoral democracy, you're part of the misinformed set. Reasoning and the human brain doesn't wo
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by Umn55 12y ago
> Are people so memoryless? It strikes me that at a minimum, history, experience, and culture would all influence behavior and aren't so neatly stateful. Problem is all of this can be reduced to a single dimension - health and energ
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by Umn55 12y ago
"The concern is, on the whole, those receiving & relying on a basic income find a right to the fruits of the labors of others, without any incentive toward their own productivity." Capitalist states were founded by theft and b
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by Umn55 12y ago
"It is the Marxists that want you to believe the psychopath claim, in their desire to stereotype capitalism as blind greed." Oh but they have more then abundant evidence that capitalism was brought into being by war an conquest, n
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by Umn55 12y ago
It's all about limits, as systems grow in size and complexity and do more computational work you can build more massive systems. But at the same time the programming/maintenance work requires grows. So you either need 1) a smarte
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by Umn55 12y ago
The reality is women won't marry low status men and men don't really want the burden of having to support a wife and child without any income. It's really about money/status, in a status obsessed society.
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by Umn55 12y ago
>We've built systems that are very fast, but almost no one knows why they are fast It's pretty simple, all code can be modelled as a fluid flowing through a landscape. i.e. imagine a river (which represents code), it courses o

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