HN user
"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 vast majority of the public is stupid, uneducated and illiterate.
Lastly capitalist societies are not set up to defend themselves vs the rich... see here, the spying is for dissidents not terrorists.
Important:
How would you do different?
"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 thinking than thought.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM https://vimeo.com/39566117
The corporate attack on education:
Perhaps you should look at the data...
Correct.
US distribution of wealth
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 make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23] "The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/...
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...
I did give his name, its Zbigniew Brzezinski
"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://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverte...
but I do think we have a problem with capital accumulation by the very wealthy.
Correct.
US distribution of wealth
"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 check what a former national security advisor has to say on the matter.
"capitalistic accumulation itself... constantly produces, and produces in the direct ratio of its own energy and extent, a relatively redundant population of workers"
On the spying...
The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others 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 people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY
Brezinski at a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g
Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.
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:
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. I suggest chomsky. And the book by the trilateral commission.
Book link:
http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf
Crisis of democracy - chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
Manufacturing consent:
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 the money is just a bonus.
You're not seeing what's going down behind the scenes - the spying is for us.
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 people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY
Brezinski at a press conference
"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.
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/...
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
The Centre for Investigative Journalism
Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.
https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-histor...
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 people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY
Brezinski at a press conference
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
If you wanted to avoid "back end problems" (aka problems with 'stressing servers' because of your desire for locked down games where the server code is never released to the public) then you should allow gamers to run their own servers using server software like what games did in the 90's - problem solved. The corporate world basically stole gamers ability to own and run servers and since most gamers are 100's of miles away from these game companies they get away with it.
The free market simply cannot work when buyer and seller are 100's of miles away from each other, the seller has a huge advantage, all the outraged customers can't patrol outside the company and give the people there an earful for being corrupt criminal bastards.
Free market is a fantasy held onto by people who don't know much about how the real world works and gullibly believe the false ideological propaganda in the universities.
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
Manufacturing consent:
" 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 they can push it out now get the money and patch later, aka. They put in the least effort. The whole thing is intentional at big companies, a combination of intentionality and incompetence at small ones.
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.
His own words:
What do you think copyright, IP and patent law is? AKA you have the money to change the rules of the game.
"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 corporations are command economies.
You should see what science has discovered about the brain:
"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.
"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 work the way we thought it did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Manufacturing consent
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econom...
Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening.
This (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 people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY
Brezinski at a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY
The real news:
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverte...
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Securit...
http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-G...
Look at the following graphs:
IMGUR link - http://imgur.com/a/FShfb
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
And then...
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnkNKipiiiM
Free markets?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Free trade?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju06F3Os64
http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spect...
"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.
In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."
Important history:
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 energy. No matter what information is going on in your head, your body requires energy to move and to think, thereby limiting the possible future states out of sheer necessity.
"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 bloodshed, as if this is an argument. It's all trying to make people conform to some ideology when the words "incentive" and "prodictivity" and "other peoples labor" have no real definition, it's just vague mumbo jumbo. If you really meant that then that would mean many historical injustices would have to be undone (aka the capitalist states theft of property from the natives).
Albert einstein:
"The conquering peoples established themselves, legally and economically, as the privileged class of the conquered country. They seized for themselves a monopoly of the land ownership and appointed a priesthood from among their own ranks. The priests, in control of education, made the class division of society into a permanent institution and created a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.
But historic tradition is, so to speak, of yesterday; nowhere have we really overcome what Thorstein Veblen called “the predatory phase” of human development. The observable economic facts belong to that phase and even such laws as we can derive from them are not applicable to other phases. Since the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development, economic science in its present state can throw little light on the socialist society of the future."
"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, not because it's some law of nature.
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/jferguson-1039684-c...
Albert einstein:
"The conquering peoples established themselves, legally and economically, as the privileged class of the conquered country. They seized for themselves a monopoly of the land ownership and appointed a priesthood from among their own ranks. The priests, in control of education, made the class division of society into a permanent institution and created a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.
But historic tradition is, so to speak, of yesterday; nowhere have we really overcome what Thorstein Veblen called “the predatory phase” of human development. The observable economic facts belong to that phase and even such laws as we can derive from them are not applicable to other phases. Since the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development, economic science in its present state can throw little light on the socialist society of the future."
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 smarter approach 2) focus on whether the problem is tractable or not 3) If you're going to be ambitious you're going to have to pay for it.
Human beings aren't really known for their wisdom however.
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.
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 over the land and there are "cliffs", rocks and hills (representing bottle necks/loads).
The reality is as bus's got wider and transistors were able to be packed closer, it just allow for more water to flow faster. There's no big conspiracy at all. Because software ultimately can be expressed as a circuit.