"they're fully rational and immune to patriotic emotional dulce et decorum est bullshit."
You give people great intellectual credit in one breath and then decrease their worth vis a vis your bottom line the next. Which is it? Are they smart enough to look through BS or are they cattle for you to replace with a small shell script?
Remember, people voted for Bush for the same reasons you feel they are above: They believed he was a good Christian man that they could share a beer with. His put-upon Southern accent (I mean, really, what born-and-raised New Englander you know has a drawl? Honestly?) won "hearts and minds"
"The world isn't some retarded star wars black and white fantasy, it's black and black pretending to be white"
Yes, and I guess those billions given to the Red Cross were rounding errors on some software somewhere and only robots volunteer at homeless shelters and everyone walks past rape victims on their way to Cabaret. We get it, you're hardcore and you see the world as a gigantic Somalia with money as the single, thin veneer of civilization keeping us from eating each other.
I suppose Lloyd Blankfein is the philosopher-king of this post-apocalyptic wasteland of "black on black" you describe, sitting forlornly on his throne of skulls. I'd laugh if you weren't so goddamn serious about it.
"Google didn't succeed because open source is some miracle of business"
And, yet, Red Hat made $1 Billion last year, gives every stick of code away. So does Wordpress, and Sourcefire. And, before being acquired, so did Xensource and MySQL. Github makes millions from the Git open source SCM.
You give people great intellectual credit in one breath and then decrease their worth vis a vis your bottom line the next. Which is it? Are they smart enough to look through BS or are they cattle for you to replace with a small shell script?
Remember, people voted for Bush for the same reasons you feel they are above: They believed he was a good Christian man that they could share a beer with. His put-upon Southern accent (I mean, really, what born-and-raised New Englander you know has a drawl? Honestly?) won "hearts and minds"
"The world isn't some retarded star wars black and white fantasy, it's black and black pretending to be white"
Yes, and I guess those billions given to the Red Cross were rounding errors on some software somewhere and only robots volunteer at homeless shelters and everyone walks past rape victims on their way to Cabaret. We get it, you're hardcore and you see the world as a gigantic Somalia with money as the single, thin veneer of civilization keeping us from eating each other.
I suppose Lloyd Blankfein is the philosopher-king of this post-apocalyptic wasteland of "black on black" you describe, sitting forlornly on his throne of skulls. I'd laugh if you weren't so goddamn serious about it.
"Google didn't succeed because open source is some miracle of business"
And, yet, Red Hat made $1 Billion last year, gives every stick of code away. So does Wordpress, and Sourcefire. And, before being acquired, so did Xensource and MySQL. Github makes millions from the Git open source SCM.