I don't see a reference to RMS saying nobody should have kids - do you?
I also don't see how his views on pedophilia, are relevant to his views on software? Sure, people like to dig up unrelated dirt on people they do hits on; so?
If that is really ALL he said on the subject, well... to me it comes across as a random comment to a news story. And the skilled reader might notice it includes the words "skeptical" and "seems", which indicates he didn't even have a firm opinion either way. You may say that's insensitive or not very thoughtful, and I'd agree, but to turn it into "RMS advocates pedophilia" and whatnot is just sick. If anything, YOU guys are diluting pedophilia by mixing up such statements with it, and all that mosly because someone is hurting the feelings of a bank account here or there.
So unless there's followups from him detailing his position, I gotta say, what the fuck is wrong with you, and who do you think you are... ?
You know, I love bashing the US more so than the next guy, but I don't think that's fair. You have a point about power in general, yeah. It makes dumb people *really* dumb, and that sometimes reaches its zenith in the US, no doubt. But it's not cleanly divided up amongst nations, there are scumbags and great people everywhere. And not even the scumbags of the USA are worth forgetting about the brilliant minds and big hearts that country also harbours. I know this is kind of besides your point, and obvious kitsch to boot, but I just wanted to attach it to your rant:P
I tried it without at first, but thought that can't be right haha... Oh well, now I have this awesome poem to remember it by. Thank's for pointing it out!
It's LCD though, not LED. But I guess you could use it for the opposite, like fake dilated pupils when your boss hands you a memo. Or hey, why not send mixed signals by doing that only with one eye, kinda like going o_O
You may say that's silly, but surely it makes more sense than seeing blinking dollar signs... o_O
Designing and building a spaceship model, that's creative. Copying the Millenium Falcon is more creative than just watching Star Wars, sure, but less creative than, you know, creating something.
After all, we're not talking about creative in the sense that making a bread is "creative" because something gets "created" - the word imagination was slung about, too. Tellingly, you completely omitted that word from your response. I wonder why that is:P
Do you think you're being quite the musician when you copy an mp3 file in a text editor byte by byte, too? I wonder. And even IF you settle for just cloning something, why does it have to be a turd?
Get over your non-inspired creative ethos quickly, please - it doesn't help.
Help with what, exactly? The self-esteem issues of the clowns I'm mocking? What, exactly, are you expecting my help for here? Are you seriously pretending this could achieve something great and special if it only wasn't for the naysayers?
On the one hand I agree with you, on the other I have to think that punishing corrupt politicians doesn't automatically creates honest ones (I don't even like the distinction between "politician" and "citizen" a lot -- all adults are equally responsible for what goes on in the state that derives its authority from them), and killing greedy people doesn't automatically feed, clothe and shelter the poor.
There is lots of stuff to be built, to be constructed, to be found out, for oneself and collectively, to be communicated etc... and we're fucked mostly because we're not doing that, not because we're being overpowered in any way, shape or form. You have to realize that anything you could accuse a politician or CEO of, someone else, a lowly drone most likely, executed for them. So if the drones would simply stop BUILDING THEIR OWN PRISON AND ATTACHING THEIR OWN COLLARS *ahem* (sorry for screaming, sometimes it gets to me ^^), there wouldn't even be much need to punish anyone; the former leaders would just wither away like a plant that's not being watered anymore.
I say it's much easier to help people see through deception, than to try to stem the flow of deceivers... fuck em, ignore them, they're not worth the dirt under your fingernails; focus on attaining and spreading immunity. Don't stare too much into the abyss, it's not all there is.
You have the worst imagination of anyone I've talked to on Slashdot to date.
You couldn't possibly know, neither from a short comment nor from a 5 page long one. But you can wish, can't you?
It's about inspiring kids to use their imagination to create and broaden their horizons on what's possible.
How does recreating something being creative and using your imagination? I guess this ties in with the above, huh. I agree that plenty of technical things can be learned here; but that also applies to stuff that is less derpy, stuff that can be learned from adults who actually have something resembling priorities, a brain or at least taste. So that's just a lame attempt at pulling a false dichotomy if anything.... it's either the Millenium Falcon or 8 hours of textbooks a day, sure... good thing you're not being a defensive or anything, haha.
You don't need to inspire kids to use their imagination; and there is no need to rush in there with some garbage adults cooked up to make money, and the excretions of those infected with it. Let this cultural stain die already, how about that?
Sure, people tend to be noobs that way. I actually think assuming bad character when dealing with dirty and/or poor people is projection to no little degree: if someone is starving through no fault of their own, and I'm well fed through no merit of my own, I better make up a story real quick in which I'm not the asshole; the rest follows from there. Just like we love to believe that we're somehow a winner when being taken advantage of by someone with a big bullshit smile. That can also go the other way, too, of course... there's also prejudice against people who prosper coming from those who don't... but I think that's much easier to forgive; while dreaming up stories how those we indirectly trample deserve it makes my blood boil. But none of this has anything to do with the topic haha, I'm just rambling.
That's outdated. It's perfectly possible to train smiling with your eyes. That's the whole point of being a sociopath, no connection to any actual emotional state or bond with the other required.
No, what this describes is the average (if not cocky) amateur doing something fishy, it's how you catch a dumb person in an unprepared lie. But that's about it.
Actually, I'd even say the average crook is going to be look slicker and come across warmer than the average person. Kinda like I'd expect a professional boxer to have a stronger biceps than average.
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I don't see a reference to RMS saying nobody should have kids - do you?
I also don't see how his views on pedophilia, are relevant to his views on software? Sure, people like to dig up unrelated dirt on people they do hits on; so?
If that is really ALL he said on the subject, well... to me it comes across as a random comment to a news story. And the skilled reader might notice it includes the words "skeptical" and "seems", which indicates he didn't even have a firm opinion either way. You may say that's insensitive or not very thoughtful, and I'd agree, but to turn it into "RMS advocates pedophilia" and whatnot is just sick. If anything, YOU guys are diluting pedophilia by mixing up such statements with it, and all that mosly because someone is hurting the feelings of a bank account here or there.
So unless there's followups from him detailing his position, I gotta say, what the fuck is wrong with you, and who do you think you are... ?
You're just rephrasing the correction of the idiotic GP, while pretending it's a rebuttal of that correction? How thick are you?
Whoa, slow down and back up a little... define "social"? Do you actually mean being social, or Being Social(tm)?
Also: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/
And you really think by playing word games you're anything but being ironic when you say that? Seriously?
You know, I love bashing the US more so than the next guy, but I don't think that's fair. You have a point about power in general, yeah. It makes dumb people *really* dumb, and that sometimes reaches its zenith in the US, no doubt. But it's not cleanly divided up amongst nations, there are scumbags and great people everywhere. And not even the scumbags of the USA are worth forgetting about the brilliant minds and big hearts that country also harbours. I know this is kind of besides your point, and obvious kitsch to boot, but I just wanted to attach it to your rant :P
I tried it without at first, but thought that can't be right haha... Oh well, now I have this awesome poem to remember it by. Thank's for pointing it out!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Joo_Janta_200_Super-Chromatic_Peril_Sensitive_Sunglasses
Though most people have SEP field generators built into their brains anyway, so that'd be kinda redundant.
It's LCD though, not LED. But I guess you could use it for the opposite, like fake dilated pupils when your boss hands you a memo. Or hey, why not send mixed signals by doing that only with one eye, kinda like going o_O
You may say that's silly, but surely it makes more sense than seeing blinking dollar signs... o_O
If if's and but's
were tits and butts
you'd get some
every day.
Yeah yeah "it's only a joke". Kill yourself though.
People talking into headsets while walking down the street just isn't creepy enough.
So, in the opinion of the esteemed moderator, what would motivate someone to make light of this?
No wait, don't even answer. You're fucked, and you're fucking us. Kill yourself. Now.
Of course lobsters feel. As do humans, who happen to have been doing the exact same thing to each other for a long, long time.
Like what? You can't even say.
And even if you could, not even a doorknob would believe everybody but YOU is identical. Therefore...
Just how sure are you of this?
Don't you have boots to lick or something?
No, he kinda kicked it up a notch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjniYBfsX7I
"Hope. Change."
One of "man's greatest moments"? How so? That's some hilarious shit and I want to hear all the details.
Oh, and of course we would know about the south pole, it's not like it was "do the expedition THEN, in a suicidal way, or NEVER EVER!!!!".
I actually would have preferred detailed answers instead of butthurt moderation which confirms my point - but oh well ^^
Designing and building a spaceship model, that's creative. Copying the Millenium Falcon is more creative than just watching Star Wars, sure, but less creative than, you know, creating something.
After all, we're not talking about creative in the sense that making a bread is "creative" because something gets "created" - the word imagination was slung about, too. Tellingly, you completely omitted that word from your response. I wonder why that is :P
Do you think you're being quite the musician when you copy an mp3 file in a text editor byte by byte, too? I wonder. And even IF you settle for just cloning something, why does it have to be a turd?
Help with what, exactly? The self-esteem issues of the clowns I'm mocking? What, exactly, are you expecting my help for here? Are you seriously pretending this could achieve something great and special if it only wasn't for the naysayers?
On the one hand I agree with you, on the other I have to think that punishing corrupt politicians doesn't automatically creates honest ones (I don't even like the distinction between "politician" and "citizen" a lot -- all adults are equally responsible for what goes on in the state that derives its authority from them), and killing greedy people doesn't automatically feed, clothe and shelter the poor.
There is lots of stuff to be built, to be constructed, to be found out, for oneself and collectively, to be communicated etc... and we're fucked mostly because we're not doing that, not because we're being overpowered in any way, shape or form. You have to realize that anything you could accuse a politician or CEO of, someone else, a lowly drone most likely, executed for them. So if the drones would simply stop BUILDING THEIR OWN PRISON AND ATTACHING THEIR OWN COLLARS *ahem* (sorry for screaming, sometimes it gets to me ^^), there wouldn't even be much need to punish anyone; the former leaders would just wither away like a plant that's not being watered anymore.
I say it's much easier to help people see through deception, than to try to stem the flow of deceivers... fuck em, ignore them, they're not worth the dirt under your fingernails; focus on attaining and spreading immunity. Don't stare too much into the abyss, it's not all there is.
You couldn't possibly know, neither from a short comment nor from a 5 page long one. But you can wish, can't you?
How does recreating something being creative and using your imagination? I guess this ties in with the above, huh. I agree that plenty of technical things can be learned here; but that also applies to stuff that is less derpy, stuff that can be learned from adults who actually have something resembling priorities, a brain or at least taste. So that's just a lame attempt at pulling a false dichotomy if anything.... it's either the Millenium Falcon or 8 hours of textbooks a day, sure... good thing you're not being a defensive or anything, haha.
You don't need to inspire kids to use their imagination; and there is no need to rush in there with some garbage adults cooked up to make money, and the excretions of those infected with it. Let this cultural stain die already, how about that?
What are you even talking about? About some kind of imaginary past I presume... but care to give details?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbLCHeXU694
*waves lighter in the air*
Sure, people tend to be noobs that way. I actually think assuming bad character when dealing with dirty and/or poor people is projection to no little degree: if someone is starving through no fault of their own, and I'm well fed through no merit of my own, I better make up a story real quick in which I'm not the asshole; the rest follows from there. Just like we love to believe that we're somehow a winner when being taken advantage of by someone with a big bullshit smile. That can also go the other way, too, of course... there's also prejudice against people who prosper coming from those who don't... but I think that's much easier to forgive; while dreaming up stories how those we indirectly trample deserve it makes my blood boil. But none of this has anything to do with the topic haha, I'm just rambling.
That's outdated. It's perfectly possible to train smiling with your eyes. That's the whole point of being a sociopath, no connection to any actual emotional state or bond with the other required.
No, what this describes is the average (if not cocky) amateur doing something fishy, it's how you catch a dumb person in an unprepared lie. But that's about it.
Actually, I'd even say the average crook is going to be look slicker and come across warmer than the average person. Kinda like I'd expect a professional boxer to have a stronger biceps than average.