Some weeks ago I was reading Thoreau's "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" aloud at bed-time to my son, who of course does not understand it but appreciates the sound of the words all the same, when I discovered that its famous title was in fact not the original! The original title was significantly more radical: "Resistance to Civil Government."
It's quite short, and I would encourage everyone here to read (or re-read) it. It is still tremendously relevant. Re-reading it with the original (un-sanitized) title in mind, it lands even harder.
These days, Thoreau would probably get his door kicked in.
Here's a free link to the Project Gutenberg copy: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm
Share your favorite quotes, after reading.
Democracy truly is the superior way to render the Human responsible for the actions of governance and its own conditions...
Some weeks ago I was reading Thoreau's "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" aloud at bed-time to my son, who of course does not understand it but appreciates the sound of the words all the same, when I discovered that its famous title was in fact not the original! The original title was significantly more radical: "Resistance to Civil Government."
It's quite short, and I would encourage everyone here to read (or re-read) it. It is still tremendously relevant. Re-reading it with the original (un-sanitized) title in mind, it lands even harder.
These days, Thoreau would probably get his door kicked in.
Here's a free link to the Project Gutenberg copy: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm
Share your favorite quotes, after reading.
"The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. " Rather self contradictory document; Monarch is intended to protect the individual and provide a suitably liable party, as in suitably knowing and with enough *vomit* Gold that a penalty could actually be imposed upon them for not protecting the rights of the citizen.
Outsourcing the work and liability of governance to the public who cannot afford the cost of its own actions (vote) protected the British Crown from (and others) from the intended system of liability for the acts of citizens onto other citizens. Given the the US and Australia both started as prison colonies it is ironic to see a system of law developed by criminals for criminals enforced by criminals and resisted by those too dumb to opt out.
The US claims it is legally established as a vassal state of the Swiss republic; while the Swiss can likely afford the costs of their own actions and until recently seemed able to hold a vote / democracy there is no doubt that they cannot afford to pay for the illegal actions of either of our former employers.
It's not within the origin of intents that citizens have to revolt against the systems of governance to ovoid liability; yet it is the reality of the world as is if your not fighting against the crimes of such criminal governance than you are in fact the very implement that is expected to pay in forced labor. All of this sounded well and good to industrialists but in an age of modern automated manufacturing factories don't even turn the lights on; let alone employee human labor.
REST API's actual logic; and you can work so many different places on so many different projects. Touch that tainted corporate shit like JAVA and you'll never learn actual programming.
The entire point of corporations in making these non standard API's is to make Dev's that can't transition to different work. It's like Google making GO as in you want a raise!? GO look for another job! That's right, zero GO Job's, your not a programmer at all...
Henry Ford and Kellogg would be proud with such high level evil.
Environmental Crime of AMD based game consoles;
Rather than pay a small margin and use power efficient intel processors and graphics hardware consoles have been rushed to market on stolen intel designs spammed out by archaic lithography machines by AMD if environmental cost is accounted for it is actually a loss.
US anti trust laws keeps intel forced to provide AMD, and NVIDA with every invention they make just so they do not run get charged under anti trust laws as a monopoly.
Ultimately this generates e-waste the scale of this environmental crime has never before been witnessed.
The original X-box contains about $15 of aluminium this was claimed (knowingly falsely) to be enough to motivate the consumer to recycle it. In truth like every andriod phone purposely made out of extra toxic plastics it went into the landfill. All of this was a plot by "rich" Free Masons to posion the aquifers of America to then sell bottled water and ultimately they plan to leave the country a toxic waste land... while they themselves try to increase there riches via selling junk to the American Public.
Worst thing I've ever been forced to do is hand control of a company over to the public (share holders) Greedy lil anti environmentalists want a new phone every year; tech isn't a slow march into the landfills its leaps and bounds; gold versions...
Had Valve, intel, and others had their way (the way I agreed to) we would just be starting to see the serious Dev Equipment in the hands of Dev's. The available compute / render in the power envelope of a ultra-book computer is only a few years off from consumer availability. This gives the power really needed to run these things additionally the iPhone will finally be hitting its refresh rate targets for the original design so screens in the 240 hz range will be common; all of this is needed to make VR/AR an actually enjoyable experience.
The Embargo's didn't hold up much; the military simulators havn't started appearing at malls as part of a recruitment / way to assign a shooting skill score to potential drafties yet. so that part has still been kept of the prior agreements in relationship too. Unfortunetly can't keep the Zuck from leaching anything and everything he can; META trying to squat the VR space until it becomes main stream. The advancements comming down the pipeline for webVR / OpenGL / WebGL look set to crush the honestly worse then the stuff I tried in the 90's out of META...