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I brought all this
So you can survive when law is lawless
Humans never evolved from large societies, and while there are many large societies today that work, it reqiures them to take into account nature.
For instance, in Western culture, we try everything we can to ensure courts aren't biased. Biased courts are the antithesis to proper justice, but bias is common in nature.
(See what happens when the law system breaks down in countries in revolution.)
We inherently have the ability to be evil, and good. Without that ability, we would have never survived. Imagine an early human not being able to steal food from a beehive,
because of a fear of hurting their species. In times of hunger, we did what we had to do to survive. Other tribes would be killed to ensure another tribes survival. At the same time,
knowledge would be spread between humans to help others, and I'm sure random stranger encounters would go a lot better if it wasn't an immediate fight. Travel was obviously common,
and if early humans were too afraid of conflict with othres, I don't think it would be as common as it was.
I think natively, there are some governmental systems that can and cannot work. If you don't attempt to treat humans as they are, a force of nature, and try to treat them as anything else
(remember, we did not evolve as ants or bees did, in a colony system), your system will be doomed to fail. We have the ability to act on good and bad if the need comes. In times of revolution
if things get too chaotic, humans will act on that ability. Factions will form. Struggles for power and resources will happen. Nature will return, and the system you thought would be created
will once again vanish. You've put yourself and your lineage at risk because you wanted to create a system that went against nature.
There is no escape, this is what our species is. It doesn't matter how much you hate that, if you don't treat it with respect (and acknowledge the existence of it), you become a cause of suffering.
"Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself--as though that were so necessary-- that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar. And that is not all: even if man really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point. And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive sufferings of all sorts, only to gain his point!”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Keep in mind that this is just an experiment. The Kindle 2 based devices don't have a lot of CPU power, so they have trouble decoding. You will hear clicks and pops fairly often, and if you have stereo files, you will notice it switching between mono and stereo decoding mode.
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I have ADHD. I've always found Windows 7+ boring, which is interesting as someone in the IT field. I first got interested in computers at a very young age. Potty training age. Any free time I've had, I'd always spend it on a computer. Homework, not getting done if there's a computer nearby. Learning, gaming, more learning, I always found it extremely interesting.
My first introduction to Linux was when I was in Middle School. I hated it. "How do I install software? I can't just download it?" "Why can't I just put a disk in and just use it?" (Things have come a long way!). I didn't get serious about it until I tried running a web server in 2012 using Windows Server 2003. I learned very quickly the importance of keeping an OS up to date. It was then that I remembered that there was this completely free operating system that gets updated regularly, so I decided to give it another try. I used Ubuntu, so it made sense to me to try Ubuntu Server. I started to appreciate apt and package managers as a more secure way to download software from trusted sources. There were plenty of guides on software like LAMP. Plenty of neat catches that take up time, but are invaluable to learn. You got closer to the software and the hardware with every step, and really begin to learn how computers work. You can play with security settings, and it's not just going through a boring list of GPOs, there's text files everywhere that you can edit and see what change they make. It's all interesting. The things that annoyed me before, have become interesting "Oh, things don't mount instantly because there wasn't a service that did it, but it can be done with a line of text on a console", and don't get me started on the console. Once commands get into my long term memory, I really start to fly around the OS. People have even commented "I don't know how you remember all these commands" and it's an amazing feeling. Any given day, I can scroll through man pages, new software, do experiments, and help other people who have trouble with it, and really enjoy doing it. At my job, I'm known as the "Linux guy" and it's a title I can easily live with. It's a skill that takes years to hone, but I never found it to be work, it was always something I did in my spare time because of the excitement of getting my hands dirty.
While the OS was probably never designed with ADHD in mind, it all came about with how it was written. Every new iteration of Unix to Linux has added, and removed functionality in small parts. Open source developers add small bits of code here, and there, Unix developers all had different ideas in mind and added their small contribution to the source, which all ended up creating a hodgepodge of entropy, and that is what makes it special. People that don't have ADHD can't get their heads around the OS that has 15 different ways to accomplish your task. Sometimes you want to do it the easy way, and sometimes you want to do it the hard way to learn. It has both permissions, ACLs, and SELinux that can cause issues. They don't understand why one line of code can trash your entire setup, and doesn't even ask you "Are you sure you want to chmod -R 600 /?" The OS doesn't ask you because it trusts you. When you write a script that installs all your patches and builds your software and it all comes together, it's satisfying and affirming. Linux doesn't scold you when you mess up, it lets you come to conclusions as to why something went wrong, it's patient.
When people don't understand me, Linux does. Long live NIX!