Hi @localpageuk -- your profile looks very much like corporate advertising, which we don't allow, but it's different enough from what we usually get that I thought I should follow up a bit to be sure before taking action.
Some questions:
Thanks. :tootcat:
@Azuaron Wait, wait, I said that wrong. It's crypt-owe currency. I borrowed it from a very nice necro-guardian demon who said all I had to do was submit to a quick magic spell, and I could pay it back whenever I wanted. It's totally cool!
@futurebird "No no -- it's crypt-o currency, money I found in a crypt. It's been thoroughly de-cursed, though, I promise!"
@lindes Note the key word "less" -- yes, it does leave some hierarchy in place.
It seems to me, however, that the scope and boundaries of a sysop's duties are much more cleanly definable than that of someone whose job involves organizing people and content.
People who are good at organizing people are kind of notorious, statistically, for having a tendency to seek power. Sysops, on the other hand, are more likely to be the sort of people who just want stuff to work properly for everyone.
...but yes, there will still be authority-issues to consider.
I could address these points... but it kind of feels like you mainly want to establish the idea that "this is a really bad idea", which I agree is true right now and for the reasonably foreseeable future.
What's the point of patriotism?
Why say "my country first"?
Why celebrate being divided up
like spoils, owned by the worst?
I've been to England several times
It seems a nice place to be.
I'm no better than English people,
and they're no better than me.
What's the point of patriotism?
Why say your country is best?
Can't people just live without being bombed?
I'd first see that addressed.
I spent a month in Mexico
It seems a nice place to be.
I'm no better than Mexicans,
and they're no better than me.
What's the point of patriotism?
Why say your country's best?
Why draw a line and say "past there is bad"?
I can't say I'm impressed.
I've read a lot about China
It seems a nice place to be.
I'm no better than Chinese folks
and they're no better than me.
(Their leaders aren't great on human rights --
but then, neither are we.)
Some friends are moving to Ecuador --
It seems a good place to be.
They don't feel safe now where I live;
they're right, from what I see.
I've heard much of the Netherlands
it seems a nice place to be.
They have amazing bike paths and commuter trains
and the healthcare there is free.
(We can't have healthcare where I live --
insurance industry.)
Why is patriotism good?
Who or what is being praised?
Some people say "my country's best!"
while their neighbors are being tased.
They'll call them "gang lords", "terrorists", and "scum"
on orders from above
Maybe "best" just doesn't have
a lot to do with love.
Short answer: there are also some major advantages, which right now are very much outweighed by the disadvantages.
It all depends on the pricing of space access, and whether it gets cheap enough fast enough to make this idea pay off.
@jb Yep, Manley discusses that issue -- specifically mentioning the visible degradation of external cameras on the ISS as an example.
whiteness conferred privilege conditionally. Participation in coercion was one condition.
@lindes The main obstacle I see is that we either need (a) more people to manage group operations, and/or (b) software that automates much of the work. Since the second option requires less hierarchy (and is more up my alley), that's what I've been focusing on.
@georgetakei Is anyone allowed in there who isn't a sycophant, though? I thought he banned everyone else.
@rnd Yeah, I had noticed the fickleness. What I'm mainly wondering is why my own peers apparently won't talk to each other.
@petergleick I can only think this means they agree with the underlying white supremacy project.
Maybe we should put some resources into pointing this out?
I don't understand enough about torrents (yet) to know if it makes sense that I could have two different machines trying to access the same torrent and yet only one of them is having any success -- and, most notably, the other one isn't even copying over the content that the first one has managed to snag.
Is that just a thing that happens, when you're running Tribler behind a NAT wall? Or do I maybe have something configured wrong?
