Never, ever in the history of Earth has the ruling class decided “hmmm I’m starting to feel guilty about rolling around in a pool full of gold Krugerands maybe this is a little much”
As someone else pointed out, the problem with Barclay isn't that he's bald, is that he's a perv, but Barclay is still at the bottom.
Therefore, Dr Zimmerman (the EMH's creator/model) would go on top, because despite being an asshole, he still manages to look refined and elegant as a bald man instead of a man that can't let go of his hair.
sorry, this is as far as I go defiling Gene's memory with crude statements. I do not wish to speculate on his... placement on the kinsey scale; only repeat what is known in public
For DS9’s “If Wished Were Horses” he spoke out about having a leprechaun character which then changed to Rumpelstiltskin.
the character felt completely different /s
Giant bomb did a good analysis on this before. It's about italians and not irish, but the irish get a shoutout. Could have been better with Danny O'Dwyer, but then, that applies to most things.
IDK man, this part of the thread is full of so many layers of irony, devil's advocates and kitchen sinks that I'm lost in the sauce and contributing to the discussion with my own viewpoints so that some people can learn something.
yes. volunteering, creative works based on self actualization and need are things that exist, and are seperate to organizations with investors expecting a monetary return, yet somehow accept no money for the services they offer.
Another such institution would be a public library. The end goal of such institutions are to increase knowledge/capabilities of the local community. The "you are a product" part of it works in a kind of "non-zero sum game" like outcome where if you give resources to a community, the increase in skills of the community gives you a bigger return or less losses eventually, compared to if you let that community wallow in misery and deprivation. (Crime goes down, employment goes up, thus money within community increases, taxes are extracted from the community replacing the amount spent making the public resource. As a result of decreased crime/anti-social/maladaptive behaviours, the community has lesser public costs associated with them).
Thus, you get more programmers that know what the fuck they are doing, you have an operating system you couldn't have made by yourself, etc etc.
EDIT : It's one of the problems of thinking about things "normally"; you assume things are zero sum, that is, if I have an apple, and give it to someone else, I have no apple! but it's more, If I give him some surplus wood, and he gives me some surplus nails, we can both have tables that we could not have before, which is worth more than the wood I gave him.
it's free, because people have decided to come together and volunteer to create something that is beneficial to them, allows them to express themselves, and distribute it for free to better other people's lives and contribute to human existence. Part of their motivation to create such a thing is to not have the users be the product.
When there is a soup kitchen for homeless people, the homeless people are not a product.
rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed insufficiently radical. As the political leader of Louisiana, he commanded wide networks of supporters and often took forceful action. A controversial figure, Long is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or, conversely, denounced as a fascist and a demagogue.
This one hurt. I had a decade plus old piece of tech debt from when they fucking killed flash before I could move on to new projects.