NARAL is for letting women choose for themselves whether or not they're going to have an abortion. Not the government, not the church, but the person who is actually, ultimately responsible for the fetus.
That's like saying that NAMBLA isn't for child molestation, they're just for letting men and little boys choose for themselves whether or not they're going to have sex. Not the government, not the church, not the parents, but the people who are ultimately involved in man-boy love.
Bullshit. Groups like NARAL fight against it when people want to offer "Choose Life" license plates in their states.
When you get to college, being a "nerd" isn't necessarily a bad thing when it comes to dating. When you leave high school, women gain an appreciation for a man who can say something more substantive than "DUH. I was on the football team."
Why do there always have to be (punitive) damages paid? They lost and they will now comply. FOSS has won. No revenge. Case closed.
Because it provides people with a reason to do the right thing.
It's like this, if you break the rules either you get away with it or you get caught and have to comply with no additional penalty.
If you know that getting caught doing the wrong thing will cost you more than just doing the right thing in the first place, you have an incentive to stay above board.
I'm a former Apple user. Woz helped make Apple great, but he and Jobs caused Apple to stagnate and pretty much kept Apple out of the position that Microsoft and IBM(Lenovo) are in now.
When Woz speaks about social issues, I'll give a listen, but even though I have great respect for him as a man, his business instincts are worth no more than yours or mine.
In short though, why do people care? It's in large part because of Woz's innovation, the personal computer revolution was born.
At the time, my thought were something like this...
"Wow, I hope this isn't true." "I guess it's possible, but the linux kernel has been out for over ten years now and they're just noticing?" "I'll reserve judgement until I see what they have..." "I'm still reserving judgement until I see what they have..." "If they had something, I think they'd show it..." "I don't think that they have any proof of their claims" "I'm pretty sure that they're lying" "Darl McBride is fucking crazy" "What is wrong with these people?" "This isn't even funny anymore." "Wake me up when it's over and Darl McBride is in prison married to the guy with the most cigarettes or SCO is bankrupt" "Wow, that took longer than I expected"
Did you read any of his "reporting" about GPLv3? Time and time again he refers to RMS and those who agree with him as "extremists". He sounds like he's talking about the Montana Freemen.
When they were hired their salaries were on par with their American colleagues, and none ever felt that they were there as cheap labour, as opposed to highly skilled additions to the company.
Have you considered that they were depressing wages because the additional supply of labor drove down what they were being paid?
Your great nation was built upon the importation of top-notch talent from around the world - Bohr, Einstein, all were immigrants.
Not to mention Tesla.
H1Bs aren't about bringing the best and brightest. They're about increasing the supply of educated labor to drive down prices.
Einstein, Bohr, Tesla, et all were not brought here on "Worker" visas.
says who? in the 'sane' USA, the state electrocutes people.
We don't put people in prison for saying politically unpopular things. Though it's quite assholeish, it's completely legal for someone to praise Hitler in the US. In Germany, they'll put you in jail.
Excepting the geographical accident that places both of them in Germany, there is NOTHING analagous between Nazism and the actions of the government in this case.
Except, of course, for the fact that the Nazis made something illegal that was perfectly legal in the rest of the sane world.
Leland, if you want to know, join the fucking ESRB. They are a private organization, not a government branch, and their workings are not subject to the inspection of Joe Citizen. Idiot.
Their "decisions" have an effect on Joe Citizen, it's not unreasonable to ask how they make them.
Ask him if he's ever had a man make angry love to him.
If he says yes, laugh at him If he says no, ask him if he wants to because there are millions of technology enthusiasts in the world that want to fuck him up!
BTW, I'm not making light of rape. I'm suggesting that people like him should get back a share of the misery that they introduce into the world.
None of these would be simple, easy or cheap but IMHO they would vastly improve the user experience.
Develop a new GUI system that is a bit less arcane and easier to develop for.
This relates to the first one, but get rid of library hell. It's such a pain in the ass to have to download three or four sets of libraries just to make one app.
Find a way to eliminate dependancy hell. URPMI made great strides in that direction but it's an even bigger pain in the ass when you have to install 30 dependancy packages just to install the one you want.
Any military project like this (regardless of country) seems a bit scary to me - it's introducing robotic drones to do a war-maker's bidding.
For quite a while, military training has had the goal of dehumanizing a recruit. A recruit has to be conditioned to kill on command. For most people it's abnormal to kill someone who isn't an immediate threat to themselves or to a loved one, but soldiers have to kill.
You want to see robotic drones? Look for the guys that they call "Private".
Isn't that the beauty of open source? Even if the government does shut you down, the source is open and then this Iranian student can fork the project and have it hosted in Iran.
Cell Phone unlocking is a DMCA Exemption that the Library of Congress imposed sometime last year. No lawsuits are going to be coming. Maybe threats of lawsuits, but no actual lawsuits.
Fraggle Rock was also on NBC, Encyclopedia Brown has been on PBS, and Happily Ever After also plays on BET. Why pay extra for such a family-values unfriendly channel?
Because without HBO and its paying subscribers those shows would have never been produced to be aired on NBC, PBS or BET.
BTW, I was trying to bait you. I salute you for being able to resist the temptation.
What kind of crap-ass parents let their kids watch HBO?!?!?!?!?!?
HBO doesn't make as high of a percentage of children's programming as they used to but when I was a kid they had Fraggle Rock, that was clearly for kids, Encyclopedia Brown, and they still have their "Happily Ever After" minority fairy tales. Or maybe that's what you're talking about, you don't want your kids to see minorities in a positive light because of the fairy tales.
Same for ESPN -- they can sell it for $20 and capture the jock market.
Beer bellied Al Bundy's who were jocks 20+ years ago are the ones watching ESPN. Most jocks don't make enough money to influence the programming decisions at their parents' house.
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I won't hide behind anonymity to say it. In the vast majority of cases, I believe that abortion is murder.
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NARAL is for letting women choose for themselves whether or not they're going to have an abortion. Not the government, not the church, but the person who is actually, ultimately responsible for the fetus.
That's like saying that NAMBLA isn't for child molestation, they're just for letting men and little boys choose for themselves whether or not they're going to have sex. Not the government, not the church, not the parents, but the people who are ultimately involved in man-boy love.
Bullshit. Groups like NARAL fight against it when people want to offer "Choose Life" license plates in their states.
LK
When you get to college, being a "nerd" isn't necessarily a bad thing when it comes to dating. When you leave high school, women gain an appreciation for a man who can say something more substantive than "DUH. I was on the football team."
LK
Why do there always have to be (punitive) damages paid? They lost and they will now comply. FOSS has won. No revenge. Case closed.
Because it provides people with a reason to do the right thing.
It's like this, if you break the rules either you get away with it or you get caught and have to comply with no additional penalty.
If you know that getting caught doing the wrong thing will cost you more than just doing the right thing in the first place, you have an incentive to stay above board.
LK
All of the parties will provide various slightly off-topic and apocryphal anecdotes and statistics to support their position.
And 80% of those statistics are made up on the spot.
LK
That's a valid question.
I'm a former Apple user. Woz helped make Apple great, but he and Jobs caused Apple to stagnate and pretty much kept Apple out of the position that Microsoft and IBM(Lenovo) are in now.
When Woz speaks about social issues, I'll give a listen, but even though I have great respect for him as a man, his business instincts are worth no more than yours or mine.
In short though, why do people care? It's in large part because of Woz's innovation, the personal computer revolution was born.
LK
The ACLU isn't interested because actually defending someon'e rights won't piss anyone off.
LK
I'd agree with calling RMS an absolutist. But what could be less "extreme" than software philosophy?
LK
At the time, my thought were something like this...
"Wow, I hope this isn't true."
"I guess it's possible, but the linux kernel has been out for over ten years now and they're just noticing?"
"I'll reserve judgement until I see what they have..."
"I'm still reserving judgement until I see what they have..."
"If they had something, I think they'd show it..."
"I don't think that they have any proof of their claims"
"I'm pretty sure that they're lying"
"Darl McBride is fucking crazy"
"What is wrong with these people?"
"This isn't even funny anymore."
"Wake me up when it's over and Darl McBride is in prison married to the guy with the most cigarettes or SCO is bankrupt"
"Wow, that took longer than I expected"
LK
Did you read any of his "reporting" about GPLv3? Time and time again he refers to RMS and those who agree with him as "extremists". He sounds like he's talking about the Montana Freemen.
LK
When they were hired their salaries were on par with their American colleagues, and none ever felt that they were there as cheap labour, as opposed to highly skilled additions to the company.
Have you considered that they were depressing wages because the additional supply of labor drove down what they were being paid?
Your great nation was built upon the importation of top-notch talent from around the world - Bohr, Einstein, all were immigrants.
Not to mention Tesla.
H1Bs aren't about bringing the best and brightest. They're about increasing the supply of educated labor to drive down prices.
Einstein, Bohr, Tesla, et all were not brought here on "Worker" visas.
LK
says who? in the 'sane' USA, the state electrocutes people.
We don't put people in prison for saying politically unpopular things. Though it's quite assholeish, it's completely legal for someone to praise Hitler in the US. In Germany, they'll put you in jail.
LK
Excepting the geographical accident that places both of them in Germany, there is NOTHING analagous between Nazism and the actions of the government in this case.
Except, of course, for the fact that the Nazis made something illegal that was perfectly legal in the rest of the sane world.
LK
Leland, if you want to know, join the fucking ESRB. They are a private organization, not a government branch, and their workings are not subject to the inspection of Joe Citizen. Idiot.
Their "decisions" have an effect on Joe Citizen, it's not unreasonable to ask how they make them.
LK
Ask him if he's ever had a man make angry love to him.
If he says yes, laugh at him
If he says no, ask him if he wants to because there are millions of technology enthusiasts in the world that want to fuck him up!
BTW, I'm not making light of rape. I'm suggesting that people like him should get back a share of the misery that they introduce into the world.
LK
You got it right.
LK
LK
Any military project like this (regardless of country) seems a bit scary to me - it's introducing robotic drones to do a war-maker's bidding.
For quite a while, military training has had the goal of dehumanizing a recruit. A recruit has to be conditioned to kill on command. For most people it's abnormal to kill someone who isn't an immediate threat to themselves or to a loved one, but soldiers have to kill.
You want to see robotic drones? Look for the guys that they call "Private".
LK
Isn't that the beauty of open source? Even if the government does shut you down, the source is open and then this Iranian student can fork the project and have it hosted in Iran.
LK
Cell Phone unlocking is a DMCA Exemption that the Library of Congress imposed sometime last year. No lawsuits are going to be coming. Maybe threats of lawsuits, but no actual lawsuits.
LK
Fraggle Rock was also on NBC, Encyclopedia Brown has been on PBS, and Happily Ever After also plays on BET. Why pay extra for such a family-values unfriendly channel?
Because without HBO and its paying subscribers those shows would have never been produced to be aired on NBC, PBS or BET.
BTW, I was trying to bait you. I salute you for being able to resist the temptation.
LK
What kind of crap-ass parents let their kids watch HBO?!?!?!?!?!?
HBO doesn't make as high of a percentage of children's programming as they used to but when I was a kid they had Fraggle Rock, that was clearly for kids, Encyclopedia Brown, and they still have their "Happily Ever After" minority fairy tales. Or maybe that's what you're talking about, you don't want your kids to see minorities in a positive light because of the fairy tales.
LK
Same for ESPN -- they can sell it for $20 and capture the jock market.
Beer bellied Al Bundy's who were jocks 20+ years ago are the ones watching ESPN. Most jocks don't make enough money to influence the programming decisions at their parents' house.
LK
Then again, I'm sure everyone who was alienated by the Betamax -> VHS move was saying the same thing then ...
I was a kid when Sony lost on Betamax. I remember people saying "Well, it's Sony so I think it's the safer bet."
Sony is so quick to cut and run, BlueRay lost before the first unit shipped.
LK
Can we get a newer port of Opera to the Zaurus?
LK