So instead he's just going to sit back and demand that somebody else put in all that effort so he can take advantage of it?

Any takers? Maybe this is an opportunity to create a new startup. Maybe this is a niche that can challenge Paypal. Take it. Run away with the idea. I don't care who implements it, as long as it gets implemented.

If you think it's such a good idea, implement it yourself.

Is that a joke? There are a bunch of ad blockers for Chrome. My favorite is AdThwart. But the regular AdBlock works well also. They're at least as good, if not better, than the ad blockers available for Firefox, Opera, and Konqueror.

The funny thing is, it's not even about the scarcity of water. It's basically a marketing gimmick.

If they just wanted water, it would be cheaper to desalinate and purify ocean water. But purified ocean water wouldn't be fresh from an Alaskan glacier, in eco-friendly bottles, constantly kept below 42 degrees.

Most people will get the point after seeing the title "Minority Report," regardless of who it's attributed to. So they might as well give credit to the right person.

Because WordPress gives you a comment system, plugins, themes, indexing, tags, categories, an admin page, and a bunch of other stuff that you no longer have to take care of yourself.

It would be a nightmare trying to add any of that stuff to HTML generated by Word or WordPerfect.

Not nearly as much. Average people have little to no power of large corporations.

You're so greedy you don't even realize it. If you don't like a corporation, don't buy their products. How do you think large corporations get so large?

I never said that such a system would be easily achieved. Due to the stupidity of much of the human race, it likely never will. I do, however, think it would be a good system.

Great. Everybody is an idiot except for you. I can't imagine why you're not getting more support...

My first point was referencing to the fact that giant corporations often exploit the average person in order to get richer

And average people exploit giant corporations every time they do business together. If they didn't think they were coming out ahead they wouldn't have done business with them.

My second point was referencing the fact that the rich are often able to lobby the government into doing their bidding

If society elects a government that sells them out to the rich, who's fault is that, really?

My third point was referencing the fact that often people will neglect to help others because the only way they believe that they can be helped is if they give them money.

And by getting rid of money you think they'll give something else? What's stopping them from giving something besides money right now?

I was more so talking about the system proposed by The Venus Project, sorry.

Good luck with that...

By only allowing those with worthless money (the people that don't have it don't necessarily not help society) to have possessions? By putting artificial limits on the amount of resources that could otherwise have been consumed? Odd.

That doesn't make any sense. If money is worthless then how did they use it to get possessions? Sounds worthwhile to me...

Second, if other people (aka society) really find those people helpful, then they (society) wouldn't mind voluntarily giving them money. The guy who fixes my car helps me out, so I give him money. The clerk at 7-11 helps me out, so I give him money. How is being a jobless bum helping me out? How is it helping anyone out?

Capitalism is convenient for the elite who want to get richer at the expense of everything else, convenient for corporations who want the government to do their bidding, and convenient for those with the power to help others in need to say "I can't help you, I don't have any money!"

Can you even explain what you mean or is it just mindless babble?

I also wasn't really talking about bartering at all.

I guess I don't really know what you're talking about then.

That's a straw man argument. Getting "bailed out" is the polar opposite of capitalism. And I agree, that shit needs to stop.

Funny thing, though - if you're against the government giving money to companies and interfering with businesses then you're probably pro-capitalist.

That is quite a stereotypical statement. Well done. I merely feel that money itself is (and especially will be in the future) useless, as it merely artificially limits the amount of resources that can be consumed. A society without money wouldn't necessarily let people leech off of their work for no good reason.

Wow.

Are you really claiming money limits resources? Are you sure it's not the other way around? Or do you honestly believe that I could grow an infinite amount of wheat and feed the world, but money is somehow limiting how much wheat I can grow? And in a world without money, we could produce an infinite number of cars, computers, houses, and everything, because none of the resources required to produce them would be limited by money, either? How would that work?

That's clearly ridiculous. Resources are limited. Scarcity is a fact. Money, prices, and the market system are just a method of dealing with scarcity.

Money is a medium exchange. It's easier to use than bartering. Can you imagine a software developer having to say, "I'll write some software for you in exchange for some of those apples you're growing?" And you'd have to do it everywhere you wanted to buy something. Interesting idea, but I think I'll stick with money.

As for leeching off society... money is convenient for doing that, too. If I walk into a store and say, "I want to buy a pound of apples, here's $5" the clerk doesn't have to look me up in a database to know I've done my fair share. Presumably I earned the $5 by providing something of value to somebody at some other time, but the store clerk doesn't have to worry about it. All he needs to know is that I have $5.

Funny how I never see capitalists whining that people aren't giving them free shit.

Makes me wonder who's the real "greedy pig"?

Trolling?

apt-get install imagemagick

Was that so hard?

If you want to play games, buy a 360...

Comments like this kinda piss me off, because they make Linux users look like idiots.

If you want to brag about the size of your e-penis, and how you "only use linux," then more power to you.

But it's pretty ridiculous to basically tell other people, "Linux isn't good at that, so fuck you, you shouldn't use a computer for it."

I use Linux on all four of my computers at home. But do you know what I would do if I wanted to play a Windows game? I'd install Windows on one of them.

It's an operating system. Get over it.

In the US, as an individual, you have to get a prescription for it from your doctor.

That's not saying much. Here in Colorado college students can get medical pot licenses for nausea. Maybe California is more strict.