USA: You can make a fortune by yourself, it's possible.
Sweden: You won't accumulate ridiculous amounts of money.
USA: If you're f***** then your'e f*****.
Sweden: If you're f*****, then you must be writing a book about being f***** with ulterior motives about making a killing on it later on, or a masochist who enjoys it.
In a parliamentary democracy system like Swedens or Denmarks, third parties have a huge influence on politics as the two main-parties usually have about equal representation in parliament. This enables the third party to broker deals with each of the main-parties in exchange for their supporting vote in other matters.
"One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
They are quickly revealed to you post install, if your time is worth anything that is.
? Is he talking about the time you waste post-install where you're banging your hot wife instead of spending time swapping app-cd's, hunting.exe's on the net and installing drivers for your peripherals like on windows?
Solid critical thinking skills start with a decent education. Decent education starts by making it free, neutral and accessible.
So true.
Speaking as a philosopher of education I can say that there's no end to the practical application of logic and reasoning that you're taught in the course of the study.
It should be an obligatory course in elementary school, but for some reason it's much more important to have bible-stories read to you.
Makes sense right? I guess someone thinks it's a shortcut to good behavior being told what's right and wrong in broad general terms open to interpretation, instead of equipping people with the basic tools to figure those things out for themselves on a case by case basis in an exact, non-interpretable manner.
So before modding me a troll, or flamebait, or calling me an MS fanboi or shill, please post some technical arguments as to why Linux is better.
Before trying to pre-empty the bursting bladder of bile which you deliberately have chosen to position yourself under, you should bring something else to the table other than subjective notions of the OS + shiny distro-badges. Argumentum ad authoritam.
Add to this the possibility of a middleman-delivery.
Sure, if Nuclear Power X sets off a nuclear device in Nuclear Power Y's territory there'll be hell to pay, MAD would commence.
But what if Nuclear Power X gives a nuke to a non-nuclear country/foreign group of individuals, who then sets it off in Nuclear Power Y's territory?. Who would Y do MAD on then? Even if the origin of the device could be divined through fallout analysis, X could shake responsibility by saying "we have no idea how this could happen".
"ALL ELECTRONICS GOT TOASTED!"
Darth Vader: So what?
"SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT HAS COME TO AN END!"
Darth Vader: Pfff, what do I care?
"ALL DIGITALLY STORED PORN HAS BEEN ELECTROMAGNETICALLY WIPED!"
Darth Vader: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I think I got marked redundant because some people are so overzealous in their damnation of anything MS that somebody with a more open mind who gives them a fair chance is dangerous/annoying in their eyes.
It's all ethics at this point. The quality of a given thing is irrelevant if purchasing it means contributing to an unwanted situation.
I can understand why some people (well alot actually) would say "screw that, I want my shiny thing", but in the meantime they're strengthening a monopoly, blue-stamping hideous business-practices, poking a stick in the wheel of rapid innovation and unconsciously supporting a plethora of other generally unwanted stuff.
You may not mean to, but the consequences are the same nonetheless. Shopping at Wal-mart may be cheap, but if everybody does it, then nobody will have money to shop at Wal-mart because of lost jobs.
Give Microsoft a fair chance at what? Satisfying their stockholders? Because it sure as hell is not benefitting humanity.
Stallman has reduced himself to a religious leader rather than a promoter of openness for the common good. He's simply gone too far.
As long as Stallman doesn't say "free software because God wanted it so" I must object to the religious leader analogy. Religion != Philosophy. There's nothing wrong with burning for a particular philosophy as long as you have the reasoning to back it up, and I do think Stallman has the cognitive resources to do so.
Second, where's the harm in including ethics (the philosophical kind) in tech-related matters? Clearly technology has an effect on human society, me, you and everyone; why is it taboo to bring right and wrong into the picture? Yes, it's a million times easier to decide stuff if you only look at it from one angle (the tech-side of stuff), but fact of the matter is it is all interweaved.
Stallman is a deontologist in regards to information, he simply asks "what world would I want to live in? One where everything is Open Source? Or one where everything is proprietary?
Given the current distribution of those two aspects, I don't blame his fervor. Heck, I admire it, even. Deontology is a tough path to walk, you usually always have to pick the least gratifying choice when faced with an ethical decision.
I find it morbidly funny somehow that companies have to experience poverty themselves before they see the same benefits of Open Source as some third world countries have already been aware of for years.
...I suppose there'll be a lot of people with ressurection-sickness running around. Imagine doing a corpse-run when your ship got hit halfway between Earth and Mars.
I'm all for Ubuntu and OOo and all the rest--and I use them myself almost as much as I use MS products--but let's be honest: the vast majority of users simply don't have the time or determination to learn a new OS, productivity suite, and how to deal with a host of new quirks, bugs, and features.
They will have to. XP wont last forever, not because the users don't want it to, but because Microsoft Don't want it to. Sooner or later they'll have to change to something like Windows 7 or something else.
Yeah, big deal, some people would say, Windows is Windows. To put that into perspective: I was changing a computer at an institution as part of my work today (Win2000-box out, WinXP-box in), the inane user completely stalled and was openly yelling her frantic thoughtflow out loud because the desktop-background-color was slightly off compared to the old box' configuration (Win2000 is kinda turqoise where XP was light blue). If I had given her Aero she'd have had a heart-attack.
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Why the troll-mod?
USA: You can make a fortune by yourself, it's possible.
Sweden: You won't accumulate ridiculous amounts of money.
USA: If you're f***** then your'e f*****.
Sweden: If you're f*****, then you must be writing a book about being f***** with ulterior motives about making a killing on it later on, or a masochist who enjoys it.
You say it's a model rocket. But can you tell me what it really is?
Regards Kim Jong Il
Private The Plague reporting for duty, sir!
In a parliamentary democracy system like Swedens or Denmarks, third parties have a huge influence on politics as the two main-parties usually have about equal representation in parliament. This enables the third party to broker deals with each of the main-parties in exchange for their supporting vote in other matters.
"One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
Hear hear!
They are quickly revealed to you post install, if your time is worth anything that is.
? Is he talking about the time you waste post-install where you're banging your hot wife instead of spending time swapping app-cd's, hunting .exe's on the net and installing drivers for your peripherals like on windows?
Yeah, analogue stuff like that is bothersome.
When did the "troll" moderation come to mean "Opposes a marketing campaign I'm in some way allied with?"
He must be a Coal-Troll... aharh aharh harh....
Cool fact about democracy: if you're in the minority your vote doesn't count.
Please America, you've made "atheist" a hush-word already, please leave "democracy" alone.
Question: If SchrÃedingers cat pees in a toilet, do you flush or not?
Solid critical thinking skills start with a decent education. Decent education starts by making it free, neutral and accessible.
So true.
Speaking as a philosopher of education I can say that there's no end to the practical application of logic and reasoning that you're taught in the course of the study.
It should be an obligatory course in elementary school, but for some reason it's much more important to have bible-stories read to you.
Makes sense right? I guess someone thinks it's a shortcut to good behavior being told what's right and wrong in broad general terms open to interpretation, instead of equipping people with the basic tools to figure those things out for themselves on a case by case basis in an exact, non-interpretable manner.
So before modding me a troll, or flamebait, or calling me an MS fanboi or shill, please post some technical arguments as to why Linux is better.
Before trying to pre-empty the bursting bladder of bile which you deliberately have chosen to position yourself under, you should bring something else to the table other than subjective notions of the OS + shiny distro-badges. Argumentum ad authoritam.
The ONE country most likely to get nuked right now is the one and only country which ever got nuked (twice, even) in history.
I'm usually a moral relativist when it comes to global politics, but this just seems ridiculously unfair somehow.
Add to this the possibility of a middleman-delivery.
Sure, if Nuclear Power X sets off a nuclear device in Nuclear Power Y's territory there'll be hell to pay, MAD would commence.
But what if Nuclear Power X gives a nuke to a non-nuclear country/foreign group of individuals, who then sets it off in Nuclear Power Y's territory?. Who would Y do MAD on then? Even if the origin of the device could be divined through fallout analysis, X could shake responsibility by saying "we have no idea how this could happen".
There is no racism involved. Religion is a matter of choice, and so it should be open to discourse.
I could, for instance, say "I hate all muslims" and it wouldn't make me a racist. A generalizing fool, yes, but not a racist.
Apparently those wacky AC's don't know those wacky europeans are on Slashdot.
"ALL ELECTRONICS GOT TOASTED!"
Darth Vader: So what?
"SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT HAS COME TO AN END!"
Darth Vader: Pfff, what do I care?
"ALL DIGITALLY STORED PORN HAS BEEN ELECTROMAGNETICALLY WIPED!"
Darth Vader: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I think I got marked redundant because some people are so overzealous in their damnation of anything MS that somebody with a more open mind who gives them a fair chance is dangerous/annoying in their eyes.
It's all ethics at this point. The quality of a given thing is irrelevant if purchasing it means contributing to an unwanted situation.
I can understand why some people (well alot actually) would say "screw that, I want my shiny thing", but in the meantime they're strengthening a monopoly, blue-stamping hideous business-practices, poking a stick in the wheel of rapid innovation and unconsciously supporting a plethora of other generally unwanted stuff.
You may not mean to, but the consequences are the same nonetheless. Shopping at Wal-mart may be cheap, but if everybody does it, then nobody will have money to shop at Wal-mart because of lost jobs.
Give Microsoft a fair chance at what? Satisfying their stockholders? Because it sure as hell is not benefitting humanity.
Stallman has reduced himself to a religious leader rather than a promoter of openness for the common good. He's simply gone too far.
As long as Stallman doesn't say "free software because God wanted it so" I must object to the religious leader analogy. Religion != Philosophy. There's nothing wrong with burning for a particular philosophy as long as you have the reasoning to back it up, and I do think Stallman has the cognitive resources to do so.
Second, where's the harm in including ethics (the philosophical kind) in tech-related matters? Clearly technology has an effect on human society, me, you and everyone; why is it taboo to bring right and wrong into the picture? Yes, it's a million times easier to decide stuff if you only look at it from one angle (the tech-side of stuff), but fact of the matter is it is all interweaved.
Stallman is a deontologist in regards to information, he simply asks "what world would I want to live in? One where everything is Open Source? Or one where everything is proprietary?
Given the current distribution of those two aspects, I don't blame his fervor. Heck, I admire it, even. Deontology is a tough path to walk, you usually always have to pick the least gratifying choice when faced with an ethical decision.
Just because someone else does it doesn't make it ok.
I find it morbidly funny somehow that companies have to experience poverty themselves before they see the same benefits of Open Source as some third world countries have already been aware of for years.
...I suppose there'll be a lot of people with ressurection-sickness running around. Imagine doing a corpse-run when your ship got hit halfway between Earth and Mars.
I would think a stethoscope would be a better instrument for examining my ex-wife's heart!
Or you could jizz in its general direction and watch the accretion-disk form around the singularity.
And why should developing nations get a crippled version? That's actually quite insulting...
They only have need Ventrilo. Gamespy and Desert Combat. they call it "training".
I'm all for Ubuntu and OOo and all the rest--and I use them myself almost as much as I use MS products--but let's be honest: the vast majority of users simply don't have the time or determination to learn a new OS, productivity suite, and how to deal with a host of new quirks, bugs, and features.
They will have to. XP wont last forever, not because the users don't want it to, but because Microsoft Don't want it to. Sooner or later they'll have to change to something like Windows 7 or something else.
Yeah, big deal, some people would say, Windows is Windows. To put that into perspective: I was changing a computer at an institution as part of my work today (Win2000-box out, WinXP-box in), the inane user completely stalled and was openly yelling her frantic thoughtflow out loud because the desktop-background-color was slightly off compared to the old box' configuration (Win2000 is kinda turqoise where XP was light blue). If I had given her Aero she'd have had a heart-attack.
Depending on the heat-generation you may want to keep it away from your 'other' storage-devices.