Re: What, exactly, is Apple's iPod business model?

On Sep 4, 2:19 am, Jeffrey Goldberg <nob...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 9/3/07 11:21 AM, Tim Streater wrote:

[...] all
"self-appointed representatives of the common man", such as yourself,
are fascists. Do try and keep up.

I think you've hit the nail squarely on the head there. There is an
intense "control freakery" among certain sorts of Leftist's that can be
really frightening at times.

So you prefer being controlled by bills in the mail and real estate
assessors? How's that working out for you and your family?

What I'm trying to figure out is how much of Edward's philosophy is
motivated by his desire to get a government stipend for programming
without a boss telling him what to do. Or whether that is a fortuitous
consequence of already deeply held beliefs.

I'd rather get a "government stipend" for teaching in Africa or New
Orleans. But these are the type of "government stipends" that
disappear.


I find it remarkable that after pointing out all of the problems that
capitalist bosses and markets impose on programmers that he could
actually imagine that putting politicians in charge would make matters
better. Surely those same problems would remain and be exacerbated
making which types of people get paid to code a political decision.

Politicians were put in charge of Britain's health in 1949: c goddamn
f David Kynaston, Austerity Britain, Bloomsbury 2007. As it happens,
Clement Attlee and Aneurin Bevan instituted a system which is still
going strong, which prevented Britain's housing collapse from causing
a depression in 1990 and which Britons can use to plan somewhat less
than anarchic and reactive lives.

It of course depends on what sort of "politicians" you are talking
about. And, I'd say that to the extent that rich people are allowed to
buy into politics, the more the politicians become the corrupt
representatives of those rich.


Any work on BSD based OSes would clearly have to be banned, since BSDers
openly worship the devil.

Theocracy and religious fear is just a way in which the rich
manipulate the lower middle class. As it happens, when the influence
of the wealthy is eliminated as in Cuba, or in Britain after WWII, one
never sees moral panics such as you hyposthesise, where the cute l'il
devil in sneakers that has long represented BSD might be interpreted
as satanic code.


-j


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