[plug] International student w/ DDoS and social engineering history

[Chris Caston]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 12:23, simon wrote:
> Alex Polglaze (apolglaze at book-keepingnetwork.com.au) wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > simon wrote:
> >
> > > Chris Caston (caston at arach.net.au) wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Unemployment benefits are a compensation for living in a society that
> > >>won't employ your talents.
> > >>
> > >>If then (having not been accepted for employment) society is happy to
> > >>accept your talents as self-employed person but won't grant you the
> > >>resources required to setup your business so that you can then hire
> > >>other people to work in your business and set it up in a way so that the
> > >>business serves your life instead of consuming your life then you are
> > >>just a slave.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ....... what?
> >
> > Ditto
> >
> > Setting up your own business requires guts, determination and persistence, not
> > government handouts.
> >
> > Profit is what society pays you for your talents and abilities.
> >
> > Its just a marketing exercise in which you have to supply something that
> > somebody wants.
> >
> > That's why there are so many unemployed artists, supplying stuff that nobody wants.
> >
> > My 2c worth :-)
> 
> Can I add my 2c to that?
> 
> I find it disappointing when people a) find excuses for failure instead of
> learning from it and b) try to shift blame to some other entity.
> 
> Society is what it is. Wanting the rewards from society without wanting to
> play by the rules society has set is like wanting candy from a vending machine
> with wanting to put some coins in.
> 


i'd like to change that analogy a bit. What if you live in a society
that is happy to let you put coins into the vending machines and buy
candy but makes the prices of buying and setting up your own vending
machine so high that it is completely out of reach?

It could be 20,000 or it could be 100,000 it makes no difference if you
can't get that behind you.

> Being successful at anything takes a lot of commitment. Blaming failure on
> others (or, in this case, society in general) is counterproductive and
> probably just a symptom of a lack of commitment.
> 
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