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Judecat:
This has nothing to really do with this discussion, except greed is not limited to the poor. And it is really pissing me off.
There are several people who have gathered in online community's to make what are called siggie tags -- like the one in my icon next to the post. And a brand new version of one the most popular graphics programs used to make the things was just released. Retail price for the upgrade $59 dollars. Now remember the program hasn't even been released in Europe yet it's so new.
So last night a link sweeps through the siggie tag world -- Corell is offering a FREE full download of PSP X. Thousands of housewives, and others who do siggie tags as a hobbie downloaded this free download. And then when it was pointed out that someone had bought a copy and passed around that link, that Corel would not give away a brand new version and that they all left their finger prints in the cookie jar -- they are all now crying that it's not fair -- they can't afford the update.
Now obviously 99 percent of these people are not living in poverty. They all have computers, they all have the previous version of the program, many of them are paying for licences for the right to use copyright art for their siggie tags, and they are crying cos they didn't get a free program to make pretty pictures. Crying because "everybody" has cracked programs so why can't they.
These are not children. And the program will do nothing to feed and clothe there family, it's a hobby thing.
That's a picture of greed.
kim:
Quote from: Duck-y-Speak on 2005 September 12, 02:58:28
Welfare is a gimped idea in that some people work out of nothing to build fortunes while others continue their repulsive journey down poverty. The full solution involves heavy mental tampering to blast into the heads of the people recieving welfare as well as their children that they MUST live a life of significance and conscience!
i could quote the whole thing but that's a lotta space, eh? nice post.
simshost said something a few days ago about the flawed software in human brains. we do need to debug the software, and a good beginning would be refining the definitions.
work is not an ethic, work is a basic human need. everybody works, but some people work at draining the system, instead of building it. not all the drainers are on the bottom. i'd try to flesh that out better but i have to get rested now so i can rise early and go fight my personal, indirect, battle against some of the drainers.
oh, and work is supposed to be fun. it's a perception thing.
and what judecat just said.
DuckSpeak:
Human software used to be ok, that is until they used boolprop. Or was that woolprop, or poolbrop?
Sometimes, with my totally sadistic, deranged mind I want to see some of the caning that is done in Singapore to those who dare question the righteousness of the central government. (Well, in those quite obviously areas only, we don't want a dictatorship obviously. ;)) Caning as in literally beating with a cane. When I see a beautiful park utterly massacred with litter, my blood boils. >:(
Judecat:
I think you are right hon -- The human race got woolpropped.
(Hon is a non gender specific friendly address from middle aged Baltimore to everyone younger than senior citizen -- no insult or disrespect intended. I got flamed for calling someone Hon this afternoon.)
witch:
Quote from: Duck-y-Speak on 2005 September 12, 02:58:28
(Since you can only have one child, there's more sexism in baby gender preferance. Idiots, now China has TONS of bachelors. ::))
Oddly enough, I've been thinking this about India as well, especially since pre-birth ultrasound - many female babies have been aborted in India. What happens next generation? So many males, so few females. Hopefully that would give females more power, though I read science fiction story which proposed the opposite - that women were guarded, precious and traded as a marketable commodity instead. Oh well, no change there then.
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