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Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle?
Glyn Moody writes "That's what Nikolai Pryanishnikov, president of Microsoft Russia, seems to think. Quoted in the context of continuing questions about Russia's plans to create its own national operating system based on GNU/Linux, Pryanishnikov said [via Google Translate]: 'We must bear in mind that Linux is not a Russian OS and, moreover, is at the end of its life cycle.' An off-the-cuff comment, or something more?"
It can be hard to live during the period where a phrase changes meaning, but to be honest that period was the previous 50 years, and we're now on the other side of it. At this point, people cling to the outdated meaning of that phrase only out of literary ideology.
I especially stress that because the actual words in the phrase "begging the question" have a plain meaning which is the new meaning, whereas the old meaning was nothing but a colloquialism. This is a great instance of the common usage improving the language as a whole.
On the other hand, common usage sometimes degrades the language as a whole, such as with the changing meaning of "literally". The etymology of that word has a plain meaning, which is the old meaning, and the new meaning is nothing but a colloquialism. Sometimes language evolution makes things better; sometimes worse.
>>>Money is the 'product of your body?!?'
LABOR is the product of my body, and I sell that labor for money. So yes money is a product of my body. And I'm not lying about socialism. As Judge Napolitano once put it, "A man knocks on your door and he holds a gun. He demands 20% of your paycheck, so he can give it to the poor. That's called theft, even if the man is Uncle Sam."
You have no more right to steal my labor, than the old 1700s and 1800s white men had a right to steal labor from the black men. When a man works, he deserves to get paid AND he deserves to be able to keep that payment for himself, except for a few necessary things (such as an army to protect his home from invasion).
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>>>The ability to amass and preserve a surplus is not an individual ability
The lone Amish family who tilled the fields, planted the seeds, and later harvested the crops (or sold them for cash) would vehemently disagree with that. They did the work by themselves - it was not a collective effort - therefore they have every right to keep the product of that labor.
Of course if they want to *voluntarily* share their wealth with others, they can, but that's a separate issue from Socialism which is FORCE not voluntary participation.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
No. I'm going to enforce the 10th Amendment instead - Congress (and the U.S.G. in general) shall not exercise powers never granted to it. i.e. No redistribution from the workers to the bankers (for example) or from
I don't mind having a safety net like Food Stamps, so poor people don't starve, but that's about the limit of my socialist tendencies. Middle and upper class persons should be paying their OWN bills, not extracting money from their neighbors' wallets via medicare or SS.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall