FriendlyHacker

I'm a Genius, are you a Genius too? I've acquired my super powers by sniffing too much glue as a kid.

I'm one of the people who actually develop this technology, and that is the main difference between TZM and TVP. TZM is about pointing out the shortcomings of society, TVP is about coming up with solutions. I'm not in any way affiliated to TZM. If you are going to ask about technology development, make sure you ask the right people. The status: We are building the base API and coming up with ways to automatically feed the software with freely available data.

What I actually said and I quote "took note every point you mentioned, and tried to explain it in other posts". But do as you wish, I'm not here to convince you of anything and if you are not interested, not sure why we are having this conversation.

"I do not think any company wants to make anyone feel miserable. If the sight of a company's ad made me feel miserable, then no one would buy from them and they wouldn't be in business." That is not how marketing works, the way it works is having an unreachable "model" of what beauty is, and use your knowledge about the human need to feel accepted to sell shit nobody really needs. First you have to crush someone's self-esteem, first you have to crush someone's sense of social acceptance, and then you will be able to sell a product that will increase the person's social acceptance. I say it's an unreachable model of beauty, because it can only be reached by using makeup, plastic surgery and Photoshop (beauty magazines). When the girl sees the anorexic photoshopped model being praised, because she is holding fashionable bags. wearing high reels and using heavy makeup, she wants to become that person, then she turns the page and sees a McDonald's ad, and realizes that she will never be beautiful. Such a thing is highly profitable, it's called the fashion industry.

"They are some of the many advantages that money brings over resource-based systems." I've failed to see the advantages. "So buy from the company that gives you a warranty, or has high longevity reputation, or stood the test in a consumer report for "longest lasting ___"." If it's not in the financial interest to provide such things, they can use aggressive pricing/marking to drive out the competition from business. Which has effectively happened when we talk about phones. Refer back to my previous post if you want to see how a phone designed to last looks like. "So support companies that use open source and universal cabling." See above reply. "If you get rid of IP, people could easily re-engineer most things and this would be nowhere near the problem it is currently with patent trolling." I don't understand how that follows from what I wrote. "This is more of an issue with parenting/psychology which we attempt to improve. However, in the surface level if someone becomes happy having 50 shoes, then why would that matter? It was her decision to watch the ads and her decision to buy the shoes, and her decision to have friends/ family around that encouraged large shoe consumption." Is it also her decision to suffer from bulimia and become suicidal as result of aggressive marketing? If it's profitable to make people feel miserable, isn't there something fundamentally wrong with the concept of profit? The thing that makes war profitable is the state, namely that you can have private profits and socialized costs (through taxation, inflation and debt). This could still be achieved in a resource based economy by taking a small number of resources from all people, and then giving the resources to a few people/ blowing them up. This is a state problem, not a money system problem. It does not makes sense to blow up resources, when your whole economy is based on the principle of saving resources.

I have taken into consideration every point you mentioned, and tried to explain it in other posts, if I don't manage to respond, it's because this is a huge subject and I would have a hard time to do it in a few paragraphs over a message board.But if you want to know how a cellphone would look like in a resource based economy, I think that this is a good example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c

By saying that I don't understand what slavery is, even though it still happens in third world countries. As far as I know, it still happens in a lot of places, but as someone who lives in a "third world country", I should be able to know. I didn't want to reply again because, as I said, this is not part of the conversation. So I will refrain from posting about it.

You've committed many ad-hominems, I can go back to the first sentence you've replied, and you can try figuring out the rest: "No offense but I find your definition of slavery incredibly insulting to an actual definition of slavery which is still to some degree occurring right now in Third World countries." First you said "no offense" then you proceed to cause offense. Then you say that the definition of a word is insulting to a word, I was not aware that words could be insulted. Then you proceed to make your actual accusation, by saying I have character flaw that makes me unable to see suffering in others. Are you are a regular Freedomain Radio Listener? Because Stefan does a pretty good job on educating people about ad-hominem.

What I tried to say, is that I could not understand the refutations. Sorry about that.

I really don't understand where you are coming from, so is hard to reply to it. Number 3 It's really hard having a conversation with you, sorry but I'd rather not reply to you anymore. You keep making assumptions and accusing me of things, I see that as ad hominem and unrelated to the conversation.

How does mentioning the word "worker" makes any difference? I could have said "assembly line coconut tree", slavery is an action, the words used to express it are not nearly as important as if we agree upon the actions, and that is what I've asked, are those actions not slavery?

I don't understand, why are you mentioning the use money along with fungibility, durability, divisibility? I hoped that my examples would show that the monetary system is purposefully wasteful. By making something that will break, you can earn money by selling costumer support or even selling a new version of the product. If you make your product incompatible with everything else, you make money by selling your exclusive cables and software. If you are hiding technology advancements from competing business, you have trashed the greatest thing about science: cooperation. If you can convince a woman that she will only be happy by having 50 shoes, you can create a whole industry based on making people feel insecure about appearances, and then advertise your product as the solution. If you can make money by selling weapons, the War becomes a lucrative business. Where on a Resource Based Economy that is viewed as the biggest waste of resources imaginable. The time spent talking about donations on his videos, or to build a whole business structure behind donations, is time that would be better spent writing or with his family.

Would you define the example of the Assembly line worker along those lines?Remember that the definition I used was: "You either work or die."

Do you need money in order to fill up your car with gas? Or you only need the resource (gasoline)? If the cost is accounted by the resource being used, why involve money in it? We can deal with the cost in resources without making fake paper. That's why it's called a Resource Based Economy.

Saying you need to pay for things that were around before the invention of money, does not make much sense to me. If money is necessary for survival, how come we are the only animals who use it? The question is not if we have the money to house and feed everyone, the question is: Do we have the resources? And if we do have the resources, is there any reason for people to starve? Why people would rather let food rot than give it someone who needs it? Things only have a monetary value when they are scarce, so it makes sense to let food Rot, you can't make money by being a good Samaritan.

9 - Point is, and this happens quite often, that a child physically attacks the teacher or initiates aggression in any way, and then an angry parent comes around with another round of emotional abuse, blaming the teacher for what happened. If a teacher has to use self-defense, she will be fired and humiliated by her boss. Schools have became a dumping ground for children, parents have little time to teach them about empathy and to value the feelings of others, so they expect the school teachers to take over.

Both. There's no such thing such as free lunch: How much did you pay for the Universe? Do you pay to Tesla for using electricity? How much you pay Einstein for being able to use your computer? Have you ever received any kind of heritage from a family member? Isn't the place you live in an heritage by itself? How much you pay to be born? How much you pay the Sun for it to shine? Can you pay to be loved and respected, or is that something you earn based on virtuous actions?

If your anonymity is a life and death issue, don't trust anyone, companies can be bought by surveillance agencies, in fact, that happens quite often, and when a company can't be bought, it still can be hacked into and monitored, or forced to comply. If you don't want the Zombies to get to you, try not doing anything illegal, and try to not be noticed, some people have an ego so big, that they always end up receiving unwanted attention. There's a site with tutorials on every aspect of online privacy, but could not find it, I can get back to you with a link though.

What happens if you run: sudo apt-get install -f If you have a different version of a library than you need, you could try downloading the .deb file, and do this to force the install of non permitted older version: sudo dpkg -i --force-all package.deb OR sudo dpkg -i --force-depends package.deb I'm not familiar with this specific software, but if there is a file missing, you could simply create it: nano linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_conntrack.h CTRL + O ENTER CTRL + X You might need to CHMOD the file for executing permissions: CHMOD +x linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_conntrack.h Another alternative is downloading the missing file and copying to the right location.

12 - Teach them about not using violence as means of controlling behavior, by spanking them if they get into a fight.11 - Show the value of respect and dignity; make sure to threat and humiliate them till they get it right.10 - Smoking and drinking is strictly forbidden, but your small child can take a sip off your beer and a hit off your cigarette, that's funny as hell!9 - If the kid misbehaves in school, make a big deal of the teacher's incompetence in educating your children.8 - Honesty must be enforced, if you find out that your child has stolen a pen, beat her up! It's stupid to steal a pen when she could have taken any one of those you've grabbed from office.7 - Abuse your position of financial and physical advantage, children must have no say in things and have no need to understand your orders, they are there to do as they are told. As an extra measure, make sure to break their spirit by making them feel helpless, therefore becoming too scared to leave.6 - Make constant reminders of who pays the bills, you don't have a love and respect relationship to them, what you have is a financial agreement.5 - Do not educate yourself about how to raise children, being completely responsible for the life of a helpless human is simple, study time is reserved for the hard things in life, such as bagging groceries.4 - Never spank an old lady, that's completely immoral even if she repeatedly fails to understand you. Small children, on the other hand, are like animals waiting to be tamed, so I guess that's ok.3 - Make sure your child can only become friends with children of the same religion, social status and skin color you have.2 - Circumcision is a wonderful thing, it will prevent evil spirits from getting into your child. Remember to call it a circumcision though, because calling it genital mutilation is not socially acceptable.1 - People don't need a reason to have kids, you can have as many you want! There are 7 billion people in the world, with over 1 billion living in poverty, but your kids will be ok, right? I guess I posted this to the wrong board, but you are free to delete it if I should not be making repeated posts. Have many other writings like this, will share them in time, if people here show interest in them.

But why trying to kill the bread with fire would make it tastier? Hmmm, maybe Satan invented the grilled cheese sandwich....

One thing I would like to point out: it's counter productive to attack someone's point of view, simply because you don't agree with it, in that sense people act like they are competing to see who "wins" the argument. I have no such notion of winning and won't become upset or attack anyone with a different point of view, because I see we are here to help each other and not to compete.

If my definition of slavery is insulting to the actual definition of it, then what is the actual definition?

I'm not saying I'm in favor of any kind of use of force, I just stated my concern with people having children without considering if they are capable of feeding them, or even considering if they have a reason for having children. Surely you would need a very good reason in order to make the most important decision in your life?

arcturus, why would you feel motivated to contribute in a creative way, if you are working in order to avoid death? You either work or die, isn't that the definition of slavery? How much more motivated and creative you would be, if you were actually doing it in order to help others without asking for anything in return? Isn't that the definition of generosity? You could ask Stefan, if he is doing this show for the money, or because he wants to make a positive difference in our lives? And might find out that the most creative people only manage to be creative because they do something they love, while helping others. How much more creative would Stefan be, if he didn't have to worry so much about money?