>I never said it was completely impossible to make money by selling a bad product,
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>An advertisement will _never_ convince people to buy things they don't want and don't need; if you disagree, please go and try to sell a bad product, and we will see how well your 'mind control' works.
"Seeing" is the process of constructing meaning from the raw activation of the light receptors in your eyes. That's why optical illusions work. After all, it's simply patterns of ink on a page - why should you see things that seem impossible? It's because the image is designed to get your brain to construct a particular meaning out of the image.
I'm well aware of that. What I'm getting at is that the same process that produces changes in how visual sense data gets interpreted also produces changes in how all your other sense data gets interpreted. This includes the sense data that introspection and narrative construction generates.
You'll get patent suits for sure if you sell it. There's a patent on almost everything about making CPU's and networked devices. Also, anything that uses high-assurance security (EAL6/7) is still under old classification they used to reduce exports for crypto. They didn't mention the implications of that when they opened up crypto exports. ;)
So, your best case is to build something that barely functions by modern standards but still usable. Here's you some inspiration:
>but they have a looooooooooooot of work left to do to become anything close to a first-world nation.
ur bias is leaking. being a 'first world' nation (a very arbitrary classification in the first place) is not a necessarily desirable attribute for a country to have. u can keep ur defacto oligarchy, ur mind numbing culture and media, which brainwashes citizens to conform and support foreign wars at enormous expense to human life and effort (through wasted tax money), let us keep our poverty, culture, and sane values...
normally i wouldnt be so forthright and defensive, but the arrogant blindness of the comment really struck me as needing a counter, however unsupported by sources it may be (at this point, the futility and greed behind these wars and the global interference of wester nations, one in particular, is common knowledge).
A first-world nation has a highly reliable electrical, water, sewage, garbage collection, road, fuel, transportation, communication, financial, and (now) Internet infrastructure.
These services are, arguably, literally necessary for the country as a whole to grow at (or exceed) a pace equal to a first-world nation.
Last I heard, India (on the whole) was deeply lacking in those areas.
You guys can start with that. ;)
I'm hardly biased, I'm a pretty big fan of India (in fact, one of my best friends is Indian and he is AWESOME!), I just know what needs to be done to succeed in the long term.
> which brainwashes citizens to conform and support foreign wars at enormous expense to human life and effort
Lol.
Not that I disagree about the americans spending too much on defense, but how can you say this with a straight face while India continually engages in a military dick-swinging contest with Pakistan?
a lot of pakistans intelligence services are financed by the cia (seriously, search it) and it is well-documented that the 'militants' coming over the border r paki agents. the dick swinging is over ownership of Kashmir, and no surprises, US-published maps of India do not include Kashmir as part of it. and india is never the aggressor in borded encounters, this is verifiably true.
please i sincerely request u to watch this - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qVHzAinRH4g - to see the sort of propoganda us regularly engages in to dupe the global discourse. it is a very intense 1 hr watch and i daresay ull enjoy it more than many movies. noone has anything against americans themselves. just that their money is going to finance a govt that is increasingly mort aggressive at establishing global domminance, and that too using underhand tactics. please watch it and tell me ur opinion of it. my american friends liked it a lot.
> And yeah, Pakistan is obviously doing some awful stuff too. But you're not gonna convince anyone sensible that India is completely innocent.
"some awful stuff" such as three invasions, several incursions by army regulars and by proxy, actively financing and training militant groups that attack India? Are you seriously comparing that with a couple instances of artillery shelling? Pakistan also routinely provides artillery cover fire for militants infiltrating into India.
You know it's much more than that right? Read that wikipedia page.
Just based on 10 seconds of skimming through that page: BSF shot and killed a couple of kids, in one instance BSF fire killed a 60 year-old man while he was farming.
Are you seriously giving the BSF a total free pass?
It's "third world" as in "third party", i.e. everyone who wasn't either NATO or Warsaw Pact. First and second worlds were coined later. It doesn't mean "third class", never did.
i think thats exactly what he was saying. the part about 'sedating the masses' is also very apparent when u look at the robotic and homogenous modes of behaviour and 'exploration' promoted at school. they are also trying very hard to reduce interaction of kids with people outside their age group or level (including parents) which drastically cuts down on learning things in life that school will never teach u.
if that were to be true (elite not 'growing' at the masses' expense) it would have already happened. modern world is essentially what u describe, elites, lesser elites and then the struggling commons.
from last comment in the thread -
>An advertisement will _never_ convince people to buy things they don't want and don't need; if you disagree, please go and try to sell a bad product, and we will see how well your 'mind control' works.
le contradiction