On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:53 AM, German Geek <geek.de@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > See below. > > On 19 September 2012 04:45, Matijn Woudt <tijnema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:52 AM, agbo onyador <onyador@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > The growing power of the internet and global networks. >> > (on the world’s politics, economies and even on daily life of ordinary >> > people) Programmers and developers needed: >> > >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> >> I still cannot figure out if this is a joke or if you're really >> looking for world peace.. If you're serious, you might want to stop >> and take a look at Newton's third law, I quote from wikipedia: >> "When a first body exerts a force F1 on a second body, the second body >> simultaneously exerts a force F2 = −F1 on the first body. This means >> that F1 and F2 are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.", or >> simplified "To every action there is always an equal and opposite >> reaction." >> It fits also easily on humans, take one step into peace, and it will >> have an effect in opposite direction elsewhere. >> >> Also, why do you think you can make a better social network than the >> already existing ones? Even the big internet giant Google can't seem >> to make it's social network a big success, and you (without even an >> concrete idea) can do that better? >> >> You might as well just open a simple website with a 'Like' button and >> ask everyone to like that page, so we end up with peace!:) > > > Seems like an interesting point. But who says that good and evil are always > cancelling each other out? To me good and evil depend on the point of view. > So, what's good for A could be good for B too but bad for C, and therefore > what's good for C is bad for both A and B? Not necessarily (following a > implies b is not equivalent to b implies a). It gets complicated very > quickly with more parties and we have more than 6 billion! One cannot really > say that an action is good or bad for everyone following your argument. > However, world peace, less pollution and equal or less diverse wealth would > be good for everyone, because of less crime and less risk of loosing > everything. Maybe it would trigger something bad at the other end of the > universe, but the universe is pretty big (so I've heard :-), so what do we > care? I vote for world peace in that sense. Do I hear a vote for communism? That didn't really work out in the past, so why would it now? > > Strongly disagree with people saying "Someone else would do it if I > didn't.". That's just a lame excuse to get rich quick, like I heard from > people who sell weapons. Selling ads is not nearly as bad. It's just > annoying if they are too intrusive. Google's ads are not so intrusive and > look what great things Google does with the money they make in terms of Open > Source. I would say Google is the programmers' friend and if anything the > lesser evil. Sure they have ads all over, but I haven't yet been annoyed by > them as much as other popup ads. Besides that I wouldn't be where I am today > without Google (I'm not employed by them in case you're wondering). I absolutely agree. > Sorry to make this a serious discussion if you take it that way. :-) Just > hope to get some neurons firing. Hmm.. Remember this is a PHP list, but since traffic is pretty low lately, it's ok I guess.. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
