Yeah, it's our fault that the third world is a toilet. We're not the ones who are running the regimes of their oppressive dictators. We're not the ones diverting international aid away from starving people. Yes, production of biofuels makes the cost of some food items increase. But if they'd grow their own fucking food, it wouldn't be an issue.
Free software isn't developed according to the same models as proprietary software. We get that. It's just backwards to complain about how people take the time to celebrate the achievements of free software developers.
The government doesn't need to maximize profits, but even they have an and to money. Appointed beaurocrats are a lot harder to remove than a failing CEO or board of directors.
Paying doctors less is a bad idea. High income attracts the best and brightest. If they can't make that money in medicine, they will gravitate towards other professions like the law.
When the Government is paying for all health care, how long will it be until they start refusing people care that the statistics do not favor?
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The problem with "genetic choice" is that we haven't been around long enough to know the purpose of all of our traits. If enough people were to, for example, not pass on the sicle cell trait who's to say that humanity won't be wiped out by a malaria epidemic? Of course, that's an outlandish scenario, but it's meant to raise a point not prove one. We just don't know why humanity comes in all of our different variations. It's a dangerous game to start removing traits artificially.
Don't you understand that they have to be free to be as gay as Richard Simmons' underpants on a picnic in Paris in the spring time or they are denying who they are?
I have gay friends, and we have an unspoken agreement. I won't talk to you about my sex life and I expect you to not talk to me about yours. It works just great.
I didn't RTFA either, but I have heard of the research previously. They ask the person to focus on the painful memory while they are given the drug. So, if you want to forget the bad thing, focus on it while they give you the drug.
I can see how Sony was happy, but I can't see how raping people's privacy for a buck is ethical in any form or shape. And in some parts of the world, it's probably even illegal.
That all depends on if they allowed the researchers to may in-game data to real world data.
How is your privacy effected if the researchers find out that "WillowCakes341" had a middle-of-the-woods encounter with "BendyStraw_Jack"?
The only reason why people are willing to pay as much as they are for new games is because they know that they can sell them later. The used game market props up the new game market.
Forget it. Feinstein has been in the Senate so long, that the party establishment wants to keep her. People owe her favors and like it or not, that's how things get done in washington.
I repeat: When did Diane turn Republican? These two activities (protecting RIAA and superimposing Christian morality) are more like a Republican tactic. The founder of the Democratic Party, Thomas Jefferson, would be ashamed.
Sigh...
Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. He cared nothing for freedom and liberty. He cared with his and his (white) descendents' ability to amass wealth and power.
In short, pull your head out of your ass.
Democrats and Republicans are basically the same on public policy issues. Democrats run deficits. Republicans run deficits. Democrats are beholden to corporations and lobbyists. Republicans are beholden to corporations and lobbyists. Where they differ is on social issues. Most Demorats think that there should be no restrictions on abortions. Most Republicans think that there should be few restrictions on gun ownership. Everything else is bullshit.
While I support protecting children,
What a brave stand you take.
I also recognize that nudity is not a sin and does not need to be censored.
Again, you have no fucking clue of what you're talking about. Nudity is normal and natural. Child pornography isn't just naked people. It's children, sometimes infants performing sex acts. It's graphic and it's disgusting. About 15 years ago I was accidentally exposed to child pornography and it's not a trivial affair. You don't even want to read discriptions of what I saw. You can't unsee something like that. That said, I hate it and those who trade in it, but I'm not willing to give up any of my freedoms in some misguided attempts to fight it.
Then, I would have pulled out my pen and said "The same is true of this pen, but your calculator and my pen can't do anything useful when we're not actively using them. OpenBSD can and does."
I had a professor say that kind of thing in class once. He said that "Linux will never be as secure as Windows because it's open source. Anyone can see the source code and use it to hack your computers."
It was completely involuntary on my part, but I let out a loud, and I do mean LOUD, "WHAT?".
He turned and looked at me, I said "I'm sorry but that's not correct. Look at OpenBSD, it's open source too and there has been exactly one remote exploit in a default install in the past six years. Microsoft wishes that Windows had that kind of track record." He stammered and stuttered and then moved on with his lecture.
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Have you ever seen that episode of South Park with the Goobacks?
Same thing here. If the place where the come from sucks, maybe they should try doing something about it.
LK
Bio-fuels (starving the third world)
Yeah, it's our fault that the third world is a toilet. We're not the ones who are running the regimes of their oppressive dictators. We're not the ones diverting international aid away from starving people. Yes, production of biofuels makes the cost of some food items increase. But if they'd grow their own fucking food, it wouldn't be an issue.
LK
Free software isn't developed according to the same models as proprietary software. We get that. It's just backwards to complain about how people take the time to celebrate the achievements of free software developers.
LK
I'm not sure, but I'd be willing to bet that having ovaries and wombs has a lot to do with this.
That has more to do with how than why. Why is a much different question.
LK
When was the last time anyone using a recent distro and recent software touched an rpm?
For me, it was yesterday. I installed a VirtualBox rpm on my Mandriva machine.
LK
The government doesn't need to maximize profits, but even they have an and to money. Appointed beaurocrats are a lot harder to remove than a failing CEO or board of directors.
Paying doctors less is a bad idea. High income attracts the best and brightest. If they can't make that money in medicine, they will gravitate towards other professions like the law.
LK
When the Government is paying for all health care, how long will it be until they start refusing people care that the statistics do not favor?
LK
The problem with "genetic choice" is that we haven't been around long enough to know the purpose of all of our traits. If enough people were to, for example, not pass on the sicle cell trait who's to say that humanity won't be wiped out by a malaria epidemic? Of course, that's an outlandish scenario, but it's meant to raise a point not prove one. We just don't know why humanity comes in all of our different variations. It's a dangerous game to start removing traits artificially.
LK
You're not the boss of them!
You heteronormative oppressor!
Don't you understand that they have to be free to be as gay as Richard Simmons' underpants on a picnic in Paris in the spring time or they are denying who they are?
I have gay friends, and we have an unspoken agreement. I won't talk to you about my sex life and I expect you to not talk to me about yours. It works just great.
LK
If we did those things, the DRM added to the next iteration of windows would be Draconian, to say the least.
LK
This is slashdot baby. Survival of the fittest around here.
LK
I didn't RTFA either, but I have heard of the research previously. They ask the person to focus on the painful memory while they are given the drug. So, if you want to forget the bad thing, focus on it while they give you the drug.
LK
I can see how Sony was happy, but I can't see how raping people's privacy for a buck is ethical in any form or shape. And in some parts of the world, it's probably even illegal.
That all depends on if they allowed the researchers to may in-game data to real world data.
How is your privacy effected if the researchers find out that "WillowCakes341" had a middle-of-the-woods encounter with "BendyStraw_Jack"?
LK
The only reason why people are willing to pay as much as they are for new games is because they know that they can sell them later. The used game market props up the new game market.
LK
Damn you, I was going to say that.
LK
/me runs fingers through beard
I look forward to it.
LK
Well, if they aren't worshipping a god, looks like they are free already.
Atheism by choice is freedom. Atheism at the end of an AK-47 is no better than any other form of religious oppression.
In case you were unaware, the Cubans don't have the first one.
LK
Godless communists.
Seriously though, how can software be free when the people aren't?
LK
Forget it. Feinstein has been in the Senate so long, that the party establishment wants to keep her. People owe her favors and like it or not, that's how things get done in washington.
LK
I repeat: When did Diane turn Republican? These two activities (protecting RIAA and superimposing Christian morality) are more like a Republican tactic. The founder of the Democratic Party, Thomas Jefferson, would be ashamed.
Sigh...
Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. He cared nothing for freedom and liberty. He cared with his and his (white) descendents' ability to amass wealth and power.
In short, pull your head out of your ass.
Democrats and Republicans are basically the same on public policy issues. Democrats run deficits. Republicans run deficits. Democrats are beholden to corporations and lobbyists. Republicans are beholden to corporations and lobbyists. Where they differ is on social issues. Most Demorats think that there should be no restrictions on abortions. Most Republicans think that there should be few restrictions on gun ownership. Everything else is bullshit.
While I support protecting children,
What a brave stand you take.
I also recognize that nudity is not a sin and does not need to be censored.
Again, you have no fucking clue of what you're talking about. Nudity is normal and natural. Child pornography isn't just naked people. It's children, sometimes infants performing sex acts. It's graphic and it's disgusting. About 15 years ago I was accidentally exposed to child pornography and it's not a trivial affair. You don't even want to read discriptions of what I saw. You can't unsee something like that. That said, I hate it and those who trade in it, but I'm not willing to give up any of my freedoms in some misguided attempts to fight it.
Server security and file/directory permissions.
LK
Then, I would have pulled out my pen and said "The same is true of this pen, but your calculator and my pen can't do anything useful when we're not actively using them. OpenBSD can and does."
LK
I had a professor say that kind of thing in class once. He said that "Linux will never be as secure as Windows because it's open source. Anyone can see the source code and use it to hack your computers."
It was completely involuntary on my part, but I let out a loud, and I do mean LOUD, "WHAT?".
He turned and looked at me, I said "I'm sorry but that's not correct. Look at OpenBSD, it's open source too and there has been exactly one remote exploit in a default install in the past six years. Microsoft wishes that Windows had that kind of track record." He stammered and stuttered and then moved on with his lecture.
LK
I bought my copy of Kaspersky from Best Buy. They don't have any of my personal data.
LK