it seems that only our instutions, or big chunks of the whole global trade system, want this war; but this this point, a lot of those systems are automated by rules and regulations and a overly complicated network that become inentelligible to the people 'running' it.
nobody that is alive and sentient (in the traditional sense) wants a war... and yet, we all see it looming.
that would be equivalent to shooting themselves in the ocean.
for now, they are still under the thumb of the american navy. how else would they ship out all the consumer goods? and to whom? USA is their biggest buyer.
I'm having a complicated thought... the same points he talks about information asymetry in relation to the preservation of value are at play in the political (i.e. public) games.
I didn't even know there were santa clara principles, in a rough sense, this is maintining some sort of value from the people who have read those to them who don't even know about such principles.
I seem to be thinking that information assymetry is statecraft, a "super-set" of the notion of abuse prevention (IA and security through obscurity) as trade craft (because the state contains the market/trade)
but that was the plan... part of the great shift from freedom in software, to open source code.
"is mozilla about open software? or was it about that old RMS (yuck) what was it? looked like a joke... gnu is not gnu?? wut"
/angry-snark
just trying to vent some frustration...
edit: I actually believe that software should guarantee freedom, but I've understood that gnu's play failed, copyright is not the side of freedom of individuals, but on the side of freedom for corporations-as-individuals. my own ignorant opinion (because I'm just guessing) is taboo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33248402
just make sure basic necessities (housing, education, medicine) stay out of the market economy.
the 'market economy' (capitalism) is good at some things, but terrible at others. we need to stop collectively using this social-technology (a kind of market super optimizer) in the wrong places.
this is larger than the arts. anybody has ever participated creatively in our culture understands that it's absolute bullshit to pretend we need money in order to want to contribute artistically.
we need money because food is for sale, because most of us do not own where we live hence we are forced (a priori) to come up with a whole lot of money every month or else you're out in the streets.
I'm more worried about the status of freedom in software, open source feels like a mirage to divert the attention away from the original issues from the FSF.
then again, bananas will never pushback against footing the entire bill, so they'll probably get wiped out.
why do you think they're having some trouble finding banana ancestors? how much banana is there left?