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Haven't you figured it out? Giving money away doesn't solve anything. Asking the zottarich to redeem themselves by giving money away acknowledges that they deserve it all, should be in charge of deciding where it goes. It's pretending that you can get rich without being a bandit. Letting them decide what gets funded declares the planet to be a giant corporation that the major shareholders get to direct. It says that government is just middl..
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That's why you never hear politicians talking about 'citizens,' it's all 'taxpayers,' as though the salient fact of your relationship to the state is how much you pay. Like the state was a business and citizenship was a loyalty program that rewarded you for your custom with roads and health care.
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you want to be in charge of your machines, you have to learn to write code.
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Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again.
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destiny
homecomings
journeys
soulmates
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Botnets are supremely powerful, since they can comprise thousands, even hundreds of thousands of computers, scattered all over the Internet, connected to juicy high-speed connections and running on fast home PCs. Those PCs normally function on behalf of their owners, but when the botmaster calls them, they rise like zombies to do his bidding.
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The US traded its manufacturing sector's health for its entertainment industry, hoping that Police Academy sequels could take the place of the rustbelt. The US bet wrong. But like a losing gambler who keeps on doubling down, the US doesn't know when to quit. It keeps meeting with its entertainment giants, asking how US foreign and domestic policy can preserve its business-model. Criminalize 70 million American file-sharers? Check. Turn the..
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information-economy
jobs
manufacturing
entertainment
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I think you have to be a mathematician to appreciate how full of shit economists are, how astrological their equations are.
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There was a time when my favorite thing in the world was putting on a cape and hanging out in hotels, pretending to be an invisible vampire whom everyone stared at.
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YA doesn't get librarians fired!
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book-selling
book-writing
verbal-exchange
writing-advice
librarians
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the most expensive champagne in the world is cheap when compared with inkjet ink, which costs all of a penny a gallon to make wholesale.
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The proprietary advantage once enjoyed by companies who assembled teams under their own roofs and used them only on their own products has been surrendered in the rush to attain some semblance of "lean, efficient" flexibility."
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These guys are the world's biggest welfare queens, after all--suck up government money in military contracts, use it to issue bonds, get the government to pass laws that make your bonds into safer bets, then go after even bigger and better laws. I'm guessing they never spend a penny if they can get Uncle Sucker to foot the bill.
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Marcus is a great example of that way of thinking. He's always looking for ways a security system fails.
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It's as if the railroad were looming on the horizon, and the most visionary thing the futurists of the day can think of to say about it is that these iron horses will have a disastrous effect on the hardworking manufacturers of oat-bags for horses.
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scifi
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Unistio sam mu to uvjerenje. Bilo je lazno, naravno, ali odrzavalo ga je na zivotu. Vidjevsi ga onako jadnog i slomljenog, zapitao sam se je li bolje biti svjestan i ocajan ili zivjeti u raju za budale.
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Content," huh? Ha! Where's the container?"
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Digital locks are roach motels: copyrighted works check in, but they don't check out. Creators and investors lose control of their business--they become commodity suppliers for a distribution channel that calls all the shots. Anti-circumvention isn't copyright protection: it's middleman protection.
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So far, I've managed to spend more time free than behind bars. Paranoia is my friend.
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Everyone failed to live up to their own ideals. She wanted to fall short of the best ideals.
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I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate.
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trolling
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The Nazi cipher was called Enigma, and they used a little mechanical computer called an Enigma Machine to scramble and unscramble the messages they got.
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In those hours where he'd planned for the [possible future] demise of his family's fortune, he'd settled quickly on the easiest job he could step into: Mechanical Turk. The Turks were an army of workers in gamespace. All you had to do was prove that you were a decent player - the game had the stats to know it - and sign up, and then log in whenever you wanted a shift. The game would ping you any time a player did something the game didn't k..
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Beneath the red crosses was another insignia: CHP. California Highway Patrol. They were State Troopers.
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On the one hand, information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.
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So it fell to Lil to make sure that there were no bugs in the meager attractions of Liberty Square: the Hall of the Presidents, the Liberty Belle riverboat, and the glorious Haunted Mansion, arguably the coolest attraction to come from the fevered minds of the old-time Disney Imagineers.
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From there, it was time for dinner: roaring fires, meat popping on spits, tofu sizzling on skillets ((it's northern California, a vegetarian option is not optional), and a style of eating and drinking that can only be described as quaffing.
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We're not making a world without greed, Jacob. We're making a world where greed is a perversion. Where grabbing everything for yourself instead of sharing is like smearing yourself with shit: gross. Wrong. Our winning doesn't mean you don't get to be greedy. It means people will be ashamed for you, will pity you and want to distance themselves from you. You can be as greedy as you want, but no one will admire you for it.
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She was forty-five minutes late to work that day, but she had toast for breakfast. Goddamnit.
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We left default because I wanted to be part of something where I was more than an inconvenient surplus labor unit. I know I can work here and there's plenty to do, but it feels contrived. The other day, I totally fucked up some linen processing, ruined thirty sheets. The system just assigned someone else to make new ones and push the blown-out ones through the feedstock processor. The whole thing fails so safe that it doesn't really matter ..
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He'd heard of it. It gave you ironic distance--a very now kind of high. Conspiracy people thought it was too zeitgeisty to be a coincidence, claimed it was spread to soften the population for its miserable lot. In his day--eight years before--the scourge had been called "Now," something they gave to source-code auditors and drone pilots to give them robotic focus. He'd eaten a shit-ton of it while working on zepps. It made him feel like a h..
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It was considered insanely hard to poison a computer's BIOS remotely, but if I was going to rebuild a computer that had been fatally pwned, ignoring the BIOS would be like changing all your house locks after losing your keys but leaving all the windows unlocked.
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I waited outside her door while she went into her room and moved around. She opened her door, holding her laptop in one hand and its battery in the other.
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He ended up in this place because these supposed pals of his had screwed up. He knew that he was going to end up making up with them, going to end up getting deeper into this. He knew that this was how good people did shitty things: one tiny rotten compromise at a time. Well, he wasn't going to go there.
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I'd rather be a criminal underground than a secret police.
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It's the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out.
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This stuff only works in practice. In theory, it's a mess.
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after Anonymous brought in its Real Name Policy. They
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They'd only been here for a couple of years, only employed twenty people all told, their two-year tax holiday was ending. Place
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It's the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out." She"
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Communism is an interesting thing to do, nothing I ever want to be.
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I'm suspicious of any plan to fix unfairness that starts with 'step one, dismantle the entire system and replace it with a better one,' especially if you can't do anything else until step one is done. Of all the ways that people kid themselves into doing nothing, that one is the most self-serving.
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It gave you ironic distance--a very now kind of high. Conspiracy
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End of the day, anything that made you discount objective reality and assign a premium to some kind of internal mental state was going to be both pro-survival and pro-status-quo.
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Makes me want to tweak reality's gamma slider.
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