WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IN MEANING BETWEEN “PROSECUTION” AND “INQUISITION”?
I know we need a new civic ‘religion’, and I know it contains, love, truth, prosperity, commons, and beauty. But what is the model of organization? Judge, Sheriff, Prosecutor, Inquisitor? Or is it all of the above? Each more proactive than the last.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-30 06:28:00 UTC
INQUISITION?
(serious question)
If we created a new inquisition to prosecute the great lies – a purification of the informational commons – then what religions, ideas, political systems would survive, and what would be purged?
How long would it take us to restore truth telling: Aristocracy?
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-30 06:22:00 UTC
COOPERATION AND PARASITISM ARE LOGICALLY CONTRADICTORY
Agreeing not to prey upon you is different from subsidising you. To cooperate requires I do not prey upon you. Using the State for purposes of transferring from me against my will to you is just predation. So if you will use the state for predation upon my family then in turn I am free to prey upon you and yours. So the only choice to preserve cooperation is to preserve mutual non-predation.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-30 05:31:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2015-07-30 04:07:00 UTC
WITH STEVEB GONE I HAVE MORE FAITH IN MSFT. BUT….(?)
Sure they’re just following Apple, but their hardware will always be cheaper, so over time it’s harder to justify the apple ‘cool’ premium if there is decreasing difference.
Microsoft has the game, technology and business market, and apple has the creative and status market. Microsoft’s market is larger, and always will be larger. And at some point it gets hard to pay a large premium for apple desktop style.
Microsoft owns the application space, and it’s very hard to see that advantage going away now. Apple would have to enter the app space to compete with Microsoft if the profitability of its phones slips.
Apple makes its money off it’s iphone (70% of profits), not its laptops and controls 20% of the smartphone market. Samsung competes in the phone space because it’s products are cheaper. Microsoft owns the business space because it’s products are cheaper. Apple’s record profits are not created by market share but because of the higher price it commands.
For the past few years I have been predicting that if the iPhone stops profitability that the only solution for apple is to directly attack Microsoft’s laptop and desktop base in the workforce.
This is fairly easily done, first by acquisition and in-window hosting of Microsoft apps, and secondly by developing its own cloud solution and own apps.
Now one might argue that the network effect is challenging, but I don’t really see Microsoft in an advantageous position. Drastically improving the document (Word) and spreadsheet (Excel) experience is something I know how to do, so someone else might need to also.
By leapfrogging Microsoft and casting them as the legacy brand it would be possible to undermine Microsoft’s revenue stream, eliminate their price negotiating with the licences that generate most of their revenue, and provide a long term sustained attack on the every aspect of their unnecessarily diverse and complex product line.
I assume that if I know how to do this someone else does. The problem for apple (or google) is not so much doing such a thing, but it’s having the incentive – which google’s ad revenue, and apple’s hardware revenue don’t yet provide.
Right now it’s a problem of INCENTIVES, not a problem of ABILITY to compete.
Now some people might realize that Oversing is a warning shot in this direction. But the fewer that recognize it, the longer I have to make it inevitable.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-30 04:01:00 UTC
The voluntary organization of production, distribution, and trade, that results in networks of sustainable specialization in production distribution and trade.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-29 13:30:00 UTC
individual fashion, tribal monuments
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-29 09:48:00 UTC
ART
Contemporary art is fashion not monument. It is high(short) time preference. A proletarian art. Not an aristocratic one.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-29 04:15:00 UTC
MAKING COMPETITION MORAL?
It was very hard to convince people that competition was not immoral. Lending was not immoral. And trading was not immoral.
That’s because it often wasn’t.
Competition functions only when credit is relatively equal to access. Lending only when not hazard-producing or predatory. And trading when not a contrived artificial scarcity.
Hence why morality (rational cooperation) requires PRODUCTIVE fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of externality of the same criteria.
And why BLACKMAIL is immoral, and why the NAP/IVP is immoral.
IF IT ISN”T PRODUCTIVE IT’S PARASITIC.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-29 02:37:00 UTC
EMPATHY WITH MALE LEADS
(from elsewhere)
Most of the money-making male leads do ‘play themselves’. Because audiences want to live through THEM in the circumstance of the character, not the character himself. Although it’s rather obvious it is lost on most. The best way to improve as an actor is to increase your skill at displaying emotional range. But the audience likes YOU as a person, displaying a range, in the character’s circumstances.
Hence why most great male leads are conservative: so are most men.
It’s also why most dramas place middle-class people in extraordinary roles.
Our middle class is our most heroic.
The Hero’s Journey.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-29 02:28:00 UTC