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Baby_Hitler
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My 100,0000,0000,0000th post
#5051770 - 12/12/05 10:38 AM (18 years, 5 months ago) |
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...in binary that is.
In "regular" decimal notation that's 16,384 also known as 214, or 1282.
The next 2x milestone for me will be 215, or 32,768. It has taken me 3.5 years to make this many posts, if I continue posting at what is currently my average rate, it will take me another 3.5 years to reach the next power of 2. The next one 7 years, the next one 14 years, and so on as shown in this Excel graph:

I am currently 33, so the highest I really can hope to reach would be 218, or 262,144 posts at my present career average rate. When I reach that point, I would be approximately 86 years old.
For my 100,0000,0000,0000th post I have decided to write what I shall call...
THE BABY HITLER MANIFESTO
Enjoy.
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Baby Hitler Manifesto 1.0 December 12, 2005 Post #16384
It is my belief that the wealth and power structure of this world is the way it is because of two things : Money and Technology. Basically, the formula works like this:
Money * Technology = More Money.
Technology is the driving force that makes the statement "You gotta have/spend money to make money." true.
To complicate matters furthur, technology can be broken down into it's metaphorical "factors" Order and Value. An i-pod is the same thing as a tape cassette player except at a higher level of order and value. Same thing for a tommahawk, and a Tommahawk missile.
A clay pot exists at a higher level of order than an equivalent amount of unrefined raw material (dirt). This higher level of order grants it higher level of function, which gives it higher value.
Wealth is thus generated by converting chaos into order.
That's how wealth is generated. How wealth is accumulated is another matter. That usually is determined according to whomever provided the money rather than who actually generated the order*value.
Consequently, the prime function of technology has always been to serve "the masters" i.e. the investors. Usually it is in the best interest of the investors to provide some form of value to the customer, which is why the system is as benevolent as it is, but even still, all that man has created has been created primarily for the benefit of the wealthy.
There are some things that just can't be done without tons and tons of money. People with tons and tons of money benefit greatly from this fact. Most things can be done more efficiently on a large scale than on a small scale. The wealthy have this as an advantage as well.
It should also be noted that there are many cash intensive processes out there that could be scaled down to garage, or even jungle level, but big money isn't interested in developing these technologies because "they" have nothing to gain from it. In fact, it would only serve to allow the "lower class" to compete with them more successfully, and thus technology continues down the same path of the "upper class" benefitting from paying the "lower class" to generate wealth and technology in their name and in ways that benefit them the most.
One of the biggest things keeping the poor poor is culture. People are being herded through public schools, and many colleges (especially the more affordable ones) like so much cattle being processed for market, the buyers being, of course, our beloved and benevolent "ownership class" overlords.
Here is the basic formula for lower class culture:
Go to school, get a job, get married, have kids, send them to school, repeat cycle.
The lower class are the lower class because they are raised from childhood to grow up and work for somebody else. The public educational system is little more than an employee training camp teaching children first to do what they are told, and second the fundamental skills needed to operate our society.
Excuse me, their society.
Of course, much of this is conveniently done while the parents are at work, freeing up at least one parent so that they can go bang out some mufflers or frozen toaster pasteries at some guy's factory, or sell some magazines or concrete aggregates instead of teaching his/her children his/herself. We have almost completely seperated our real lives from our work lives to the point that we are literally selling parts of our lives to someone else so that they can be immensely wealthy, and in return we get to enjoy a tiny little bit of the wealth we create.
All of this is because wealth generating technology is designed to be big so that you, the working class, can't have it. That privilidge is reserved for the ownership class. By wealth generating technology I mean any thing or process that converts any person/place/thing/idea to a person/place/thing/idea of higher order/value i.e. manufacturing equipment, packaging equipment, processing equipment (such as the peanut sheller below), educational material, labratory equipment, medical equipment, processes, etc....
What this world needs now is affordable, scalable wealth generating technology that is economical at even very small scale to anyone with the knowledge to use it. The open source programming community is a good example of a movement such as this.
As is the Malian Peanut/Groundnut Sheller.a $50-$75 piece of equipment that can be easily mass produced even in third world conditions, and which does a proportional fraction of the work of a machine costing tens of thousands of dollars. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if an array of these shellers might actually outperform a traditional sheller for consiederably less cost.
The value of computer programs exist entirely in the structure of the data that they are comprised of, not in the material on which the data is stored. The plastic of the CD or DVD is a vessel for the order, the structure of the information in the program, that creates the value, but it itself has no value other than as a vessel for the order that is contained in the program.
Compaire that to, say, a metal lathe whose functionality is very dependant on the material which contains the order of it's structure; it's design. The lathe is decidedly more functional as a lathe when stored in the form of 1500 lbs of steel plugged into the wall than when it is sitting on a computer hard drive as a digitized model of a lathe.
The digitized model, however, is highly duplicatable and shareable. If someone had the equipment and the knowledge they could take the digitized model and (re)produce the lathe.
It's possible that you could even come up with a design for a lathe that could be made using only one piece of equipment; the lathe itself and a few other tools which could themselves be made using the lathe. Such a semi-self replicating lathe has a higher degree of scalability than does a lathe that does not have this feature. No lathe manufaturer today is going to tell their engineers to design a lathe like this. They don't want you building your own. They would much rather just sell you another one.
Anyway, the point I am getting at is that the have nots will always be slaves to the haves until somebody starts designing wealth generating technology for the little people that makes it possible to produce wealth more effectively with a smaller investment.
Of course, nobody is going to pay anybody to do that. So if it's going to get done it's going to take some kind of grassroots engineering movement dedicated to designing low investment, high scalability, open source wealth generating technology, as well as end-user technology that is designed to be made with said wealth generating technology
That means we need open source dishwashers, lawn mowers, radios, and weenie warmers as well as medical treatment and diagnostic medical testing and even open source medicines.
Also I know that with enough technical support one can build a super efficient, ecologically sound/sustainable home for only a few thousand dollars and a few months time. And then live comfortably in it spending less than $10,000 a year.
This type of living would free up more money and more time to spend on wealth generating activity i.e. becoming increasingly self employed, and working on designing more and more open technology so that we may all be, um...
Well you know.
More better off and stuff.
Anybody wanna start an Anarcho-Technologist cult in the woods?
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Seuss
Error: divide byzero


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Re: My 100,0000,0000,0000th post [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#5051875 - 12/12/05 11:11 AM (18 years, 5 months ago) |
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When I post something like this people always point out that this is why I don't have a girlfriend.
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Baby_Hitler
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Re: My 100,0000,0000,0000th post [Re: Seuss]
#5052028 - 12/12/05 11:53 AM (18 years, 5 months ago) |
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Good point. The movement is going to need women. There's nothing hotter than a chick soldering naked.
Maybe we should make as one of our first priorities the development of open source sex toys.
Then we can invite the ladies back to our earthship home/laboratory for "research".
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Krishna
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Re: My 100,0000,0000,0000th post [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#5052319 - 12/12/05 01:18 PM (18 years, 5 months ago) |
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Baby_Hitler said: Maybe we should make as one of our first priorities the development of open source sex toys.
Then we can invite the ladies back to our earthship home/laboratory for "research".
finally a gnu project that speaks to me!
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Phychotron
Crazy Mofo



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Re: My 100,0000,0000,0000th post [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#5052365 - 12/12/05 01:26 PM (18 years, 5 months ago) |
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on the 2^x under the graph, take out the ^, highlght the x, Press Ctrl 1 and then select the check box "superscript" to get the power...
it makes it look all pimped out... you should see some of my chem lab reports
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Re: My 100,0000,0000,0000th post [Re: Phychotron]
#5052726 - 12/12/05 02:42 PM (18 years, 5 months ago) |
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You should really be writing your chem lab reports in LaTeX if you want them to be pimped out.
But sorry for detracting from the revolutionary activity...
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trendal
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Re: My 100,0000,0000,0000th post [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#5052771 - 12/12/05 02:48 PM (18 years, 5 months ago) |
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Brilliant!
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debianlinux
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Re: My 100,0000,0000,0000th post [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#5053119 - 12/12/05 03:37 PM (18 years, 5 months ago) |
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Baby_Hitler said: Good point. The movement is going to need women. There's nothing hotter than a chick soldering naked.
Maybe we should make as one of our first priorities the development of open source sex toys.
Then we can invite the ladies back to our earthship home/laboratory for "research".
1st, i'm calling your bluff. you have never seen a chick, naked and soldering. 2nd, if you have ever soldered naked then you were either drunk or you did not proceed to solder while naked for very long at all. yes, this is experience talking. 3rd, your "manifesto" was interesting, entertaining, and thought provoking. thanks.
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Baby_Hitler
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Re: My 100,0000,0000,0000th post [Re: debianlinux]
#5053741 - 12/12/05 05:50 PM (18 years, 5 months ago) |
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Don't they make special low temp "sensual" solders?
Yes. I'm sure now that's what I'm thinking about.
And I did see this naked chick once. She wasn't soldering, but she could have been.
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