You know, a lot of people forget that we invaded Iraq to liberate the Iraqi people from a dictator. I heard all of these rumours that there were weapons of mass destruction; that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons and was an imminent threat to the free world. I mean, he had the tools necessary to conspire to obtain weapons of mass destruction - telephones! computers! even a postal system!
I mean, how good are those Iraqis, eh? When Colin Powell was circling satellite photos at the UN conference, saying "They're stockpiling X, Y, and Z here," I thought for sure we had those guys. Only an evil empire could eliminate 100% of all evidence of their WMD programs.
I, for one, am proud that we are "pre-emptively defending ourselves." I like that we are starting wars because we don't like certain governments, because they are "evil." The world was so lost when nations had rights under that silly notion of sovereignty. I can't wait until we invade African countries to rid them of dictators, and I'm sure it will happen, since we, as Americans, sincerely care about liberation, and not about oil.
The reason voting should always have a paper trail is because no one can make changes to 100,000 pieces of paper in three hundred different locations without some major difficulty. It would require massive manpower and a lot of time. Changing 100,000 lines in a database can be accomplished by one person in less than five minutes.
I don't trust anyone that governs me to sit the right way on a toilet seat, much less control an easily tampered file that keeps them in power.
The Star Trek franchise has sucked for a long time. Just because it involves characters that we *want* to be cool doesn't mean anything. What's wrong with your mediocre paperbacks anyhow?
With the war in Iraq about to top 100 billion, I wonder if either party should be name-calling at this point. At least when "the Dems" were in office, we were arguing about blowjobs instead of war.
This would not have happened in a market unencumbered by overzealous regulations and socialist mindsets
Then do something about it. Name-calling slashdot readers isn't going to start any sort of political discussion. However, it will make you look like a dumbass.
The difference is the hierarchies. Let me explain.
Imagine it's a HUGE multi-national. Let's say Marshall Islands Auto Company makes their UltraCoupe, and they find out that a major flaw causes the car to fully engage it's front brakes -- half of the time throwing the car on top of itself, where it explodes and kills all the passengers. No one knows why, so there's no single person to blame. Management doesn't want to lose any credit for the huge sales success, Accounting doesn't want to pay for a recall, and the rest of the peons are just "doing their job." So the cars will continue to flip over and explode because no person feels directly responsible.
That is why I personally feel the size of companies should be restricted.
At some point you have to realize that the distribution of wealth is just the same as it was in the 1600s, but now the peasants don't spend their lives farming and dying We're still driving Toyotas instead of Rolls Royces, and living in $100,000 starter homes instead of $10,000,000 mansions. I'm not complaining, but that is the way it is.
So Linux has reduced the cost of software dev?
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I work in a pro audio shop called Atlanta Pro Audio (shameless plug). Saying that cheaper hardware has reduced the cost of an album is just like saying the reduced cost of computer hardware has lessened the expense of developing software.
It is true that Pro Tools has made the hardware costs of getting a *demo* out pretty cheap, but to say that the pro version only costs $15,000 is an untrue statement. If you really want to cut an album that will be suitable to SEND to a real mastering house, you will spend $50,000 at the very least. And if you want the little Mbox for $450, you still need a computer ($1,500), and plug-ins ($2,000), and keyboards ($2,000), and instruments ($MUCHO), and outboard gear ($MEGAMUCHO), and mics ($1000)...
Audio engineers are still expensive. Producers are expensive. Getting a record mastered, and I guarantee everything you've heard on the radio has been mastered, is *very* expensive. Mastering houses still have equipment in the.75 to 2 million dollar range.
All of this is still irrelevant. Payola still runs the music industry. I have heard it from more than one of our customers that if you have a million dollars for advertising, you have a gold record.
First of all, let me preface this statement by the fact that I would do what I'm about to suggest, if I had any programming knowledge at all. I am reading books on XML and Java, but I know it will be months before I could start programming...
If anyone in the linux community wants to make millions of dollars, they need to create an accounting package that is designed for small businesses, AND as easy to use as quickbooks, AND can support an high number of simultaneous users (50 or so). I've looked at NOLA, ARIA, Compiere, Lazy8, SQL Ledger, and a ton of others, but no one even comes close to the interface and ease of installation in QuickBooks. You could even create an entire linux distro around the package, since many *many* small businesses don't have sales people doing anything but selling, writing e-mails, and looking up phone numbers.
The application can't be cobbled together between open source projects. It needs an integrated and have a consistent, intuitive interface. It needs to have in-depth reporting, with the ability to drill down inside the reports to locate specific information. It needs to have inventory control - in short, support for everything that the big boys do. And you don't have to even sell the program - just sell the support. This is, and has been, one of the biggest gaps in software that everyone knows about, but no one has tried to fix.
I bought a sub-$100 HP printer that works fine for the occasional job, but I do remember spending about $500 for a similar printer 5 years ago. I imagine if I spent the same dollars today I would have a very nice printer indeed.
Components are getting cheaper, not necessarily better. Spend some money; get a better product. Unless it's the difference between Tommy Hilfiger and J.Crew, you usually get what you pay for. Imagine that.
-Dean
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I've been around linux for a while, but I am barely worthy of the title "script kiddie." I use linux at work for a SMB fileserver and print server, as well as to host some intranet applications. The main problem I have with linux is that too much software is installed with distros.
The real beauty of open source is the competition in addition too the sharing of ideas. There's nothing to stop someone from looking at a project, snipping parts of it for their own use, and releasing a better piece of software in a matter of weeks instead of months. Take a look at ARIA, which noticed that NOLA dev wasn't going anywhere, and now they're fixing bugs and adding features. Perhaps in a few months someone will take ARIA and integrate it into TUTOS. Any way it happens, you can be assured that the best functioning program will be the most popular.
The only problem with this is all the forking has lead to a top-heavy tree. Linux distros come absolutely loaded with software, and most of it goes unused. Sure, you can roll your own, if you're literate enough. I think to get people away from Windows, you have to start looking at why it's successful. It's because a) installing new software is easy, b) there are a lot of fully functional, well supported office/financial applications, c) the user is completely seperated from low-level configuration. Once you can install a linux distro simply by selecting the time, network settings, and username (pretty close in RH8.0), then boot into it with a bare minimum of visible configuration utilities, you will have won the battle. People want to turn on their computer, start and use an application (without reading a fucking manual), and then print, e-mail, or publish their results.
The first victim will be customization, but look at QuickBooks for christ's sake. It's a shit program, but it's popular because it gets the job done.
I got one of the Sony PCG-NVR23s, and three days after I got it, it slid off of the roof of my car and hit the pavement. Some of the plastic flew off, but everything works fine, and I haven't had any problems (or dropped it again) since.
But the benchmark throws up the remarkable statistic that the Java version required 14,004 lines of code, while the.NET version featured just 2,096 (and not the other way round, as we originally stated). The benefit of hindsight, or is one of our class libraries missing? ®
Are all of your linux gurus just scared of MS having a better product or what? Here's a news flash:
MICROSOFT ALREADY HAS BETTER PRODUCTS
WindowsXP / Office XP / XP Server is still the killer app that people are buying regardless of the high cost, simply because there's no other product on the market right now with that feature set and ease of use. Now, most of their server stuff is expensive and slow for many web hosting applications, but don't discount their products just because of the Corporate namesake in front of them.
OT: Give credit where credit is due.
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Intelligent people do not make huge assumptions based on one aspect of a problem.
I know you're trolling, but everyone knows that water is still the #1 way of moving goods economically across the globe. Unless you ignore things like bouyancy, the pitfalls of mucho potential energy, and aerodynamics, water will always be the safer, smarter way for transportation.
"The Bible is about salvation." And rules for buying and owning slaves. If the bible were true every banker would drop dead according to Ezekiel 18:13.
"There is of course some history and science included" Which is wrong most of the time - which is why us "liberals" don't think the Bible is trustworthy.
"You liberals attack the Bible for your perceived historial and scientific faults as if it should be a divine source for both subjects." No, but when it claims to foretell the future, it should be accurate. So when are the Jews going to get around to slaying the Assyrians? And where is the descendent of David who has been ruling Israel for these couple thousand years?
"This idea of yours and your ilk is the real idiocy." Ok, pot. Me kettle.
"Incorrect." Really? Name one way which Christianity has stayed the same.
"What example are YOU providing to the world, then?" Think for yourself. Don't rip people off.
"Are you going without? I assume you used a computer to type your message. Maybe all the liberals should give up all their goods and clothe themselves in rags so they can claim they're better than others." Nah, we just get what we need and try to avoid ripping people off for a living. I guess I'm a liberal!
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of the liberals love material things---to the point of worshipping them." Like little Gold statues, crosses, rosaries, icons, and sculpture, right? You're so good at stereotyping! Been taking lessons from YHVH or GW?
"It probably wouldn't matter what they wore, you'd probably still find some reason to attack them for preaching." They're not preaching. They get on TV, say "Praise God! Send me $20!" and that's about it. If they acted anything like Jesus, I wouldn't have a problem with them. The real trouble with Christians is they're fanatical about being ignorant of the Bible.
If a person read only the Bible, they would be one of the most ignorant on Earth as far as reality is concerned. Where is earth? Why, sitting on a firmament of course! With four corners! And you can see it all from one really tall mountain. Remember, Heaven is "up" and Hell is "down." Let's face it. Every Christian since the 1300s has been falling back on the "official" Christian outlook. Christianity has changed right along with humanity since day 1, except it always wants to be 75 years behind. If you wanna be spiritual, that's cool, but don't expect to find any useful information in there.
Oh, Christianity hasn't changed, blah, blah, blah... yea fucking right. So the reformation didn't happen? So the bible still has all the same books, even the Apocrypha found in the Catholic Bibles? So there aren't any women speaking in church? So all of you are still obeying the Sabbath? Or do you still believe in the 10 commandments?
Mod +1 Flame, +1 Offtopic, +1 Asshole
-Dean
PS Hey Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, et al: SUCK MY DICK! Stop ripping off the elderly with your gaudy, fake, materialistic bullshit! When's the last time anyone saw Jesus wearing a Rolex?!
"No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination." --Thomas Jefferson: Elementary School Act, 1817. ME 17:425
"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man." --Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah Moor, 1800.
"Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 1813.
I think we should expect nothing less than absolute, complete, and without-a-doubt separation of church and state. If you want to leave the door open for someone as intolerant as Falwell to lead his sheep into the New World Order (which should be exceptional at making him boatloads of money), be my guest.
My experience with developers is that they don't do any QA to make sure their shit works. I have yet to see any OS that is intuitive in any way, shape, or form. Developers are so brain dead that they immediately take a different idea (like the Start bar) and copy it all over, giving up any hope for interface improvement (hello KDE, Gnome).
Don't get me started on incompatibilities, broken libraries, corrupt DLLs, false advertising, and instability. Just remember, developers are stupid. Don't trust your computer with anything.
...anyone else with uncompromising viewpoints and a closed mind. Hard liners for any cause are usually the least effective because they don't know how to see another person's viewpoint. They're incapable of staring a genuinely useful dialogue. So they wander around, shouting from the top of their lungs what the right way - coincidentally it's always their way - and most people don't care to listen. With extremists, there's not chance to offer a compromise and make progress.
People like RMS only attract two kinds of people: the dumb (they don't know any better) and the helpless (they just want someone to follow).
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Well, I'm sure you've all thought about it. Science can help the lame walk, help the mute communicate, and now it lets the blind see. I wonder how long the ultra-right can continue condemning science as evil.
I'm going to the Tucker Best Buy...
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Tomorrow! Maybe they'll arrest me for being too polite as well and I can sue the unholy shit out of them. I'd take the money, open up a non-profit shop next door to them, and slowly grind them into submission.
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You know, a lot of people forget that we invaded Iraq to liberate the Iraqi people from a dictator. I heard all of these rumours that there were weapons of mass destruction; that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons and was an imminent threat to the free world. I mean, he had the tools necessary to conspire to obtain weapons of mass destruction - telephones! computers! even a postal system!
I mean, how good are those Iraqis, eh? When Colin Powell was circling satellite photos at the UN conference, saying "They're stockpiling X, Y, and Z here," I thought for sure we had those guys. Only an evil empire could eliminate 100% of all evidence of their WMD programs.
I, for one, am proud that we are "pre-emptively defending ourselves." I like that we are starting wars because we don't like certain governments, because they are "evil." The world was so lost when nations had rights under that silly notion of sovereignty. I can't wait until we invade African countries to rid them of dictators, and I'm sure it will happen, since we, as Americans, sincerely care about liberation, and not about oil.
The reason voting should always have a paper trail is because no one can make changes to 100,000 pieces of paper in three hundred different locations without some major difficulty. It would require massive manpower and a lot of time. Changing 100,000 lines in a database can be accomplished by one person in less than five minutes.
I don't trust anyone that governs me to sit the right way on a toilet seat, much less control an easily tampered file that keeps them in power.
(Apologies to Rowan Atkinson.)
THANK SPOCK
The Star Trek franchise has sucked for a long time. Just because it involves characters that we *want* to be cool doesn't mean anything. What's wrong with your mediocre paperbacks anyhow?
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With the war in Iraq about to top 100 billion, I wonder if either party should be name-calling at this point. At least when "the Dems" were in office, we were arguing about blowjobs instead of war.
This would not have happened in a market unencumbered by overzealous regulations and socialist mindsets
Then do something about it. Name-calling slashdot readers isn't going to start any sort of political discussion. However, it will make you look like a dumbass.
The difference is the hierarchies. Let me explain.
Imagine it's a HUGE multi-national. Let's say Marshall Islands Auto Company makes their UltraCoupe, and they find out that a major flaw causes the car to fully engage it's front brakes -- half of the time throwing the car on top of itself, where it explodes and kills all the passengers. No one knows why, so there's no single person to blame. Management doesn't want to lose any credit for the huge sales success, Accounting doesn't want to pay for a recall, and the rest of the peons are just "doing their job." So the cars will continue to flip over and explode because no person feels directly responsible.
That is why I personally feel the size of companies should be restricted.
At some point you have to realize that the distribution of wealth is just the same as it was in the 1600s, but now the peasants don't spend their lives farming and dying We're still driving Toyotas instead of Rolls Royces, and living in $100,000 starter homes instead of $10,000,000 mansions. I'm not complaining, but that is the way it is.
I work in a pro audio shop called Atlanta Pro Audio (shameless plug). Saying that cheaper hardware has reduced the cost of an album is just like saying the reduced cost of computer hardware has lessened the expense of developing software.
.75 to 2 million dollar range.
It is true that Pro Tools has made the hardware costs of getting a *demo* out pretty cheap, but to say that the pro version only costs $15,000 is an untrue statement. If you really want to cut an album that will be suitable to SEND to a real mastering house, you will spend $50,000 at the very least. And if you want the little Mbox for $450, you still need a computer ($1,500), and plug-ins ($2,000), and keyboards ($2,000), and instruments ($MUCHO), and outboard gear ($MEGAMUCHO), and mics ($1000)...
Audio engineers are still expensive. Producers are expensive. Getting a record mastered, and I guarantee everything you've heard on the radio has been mastered, is *very* expensive. Mastering houses still have equipment in the
All of this is still irrelevant. Payola still runs the music industry. I have heard it from more than one of our customers that if you have a million dollars for advertising, you have a gold record.
First of all, let me preface this statement by the fact that I would do what I'm about to suggest, if I had any programming knowledge at all. I am reading books on XML and Java, but I know it will be months before I could start programming...
If anyone in the linux community wants to make millions of dollars, they need to create an accounting package that is designed for small businesses, AND as easy to use as quickbooks, AND can support an high number of simultaneous users (50 or so). I've looked at NOLA, ARIA, Compiere, Lazy8, SQL Ledger, and a ton of others, but no one even comes close to the interface and ease of installation in QuickBooks. You could even create an entire linux distro around the package, since many *many* small businesses don't have sales people doing anything but selling, writing e-mails, and looking up phone numbers.
The application can't be cobbled together between open source projects. It needs an integrated and have a consistent, intuitive interface. It needs to have in-depth reporting, with the ability to drill down inside the reports to locate specific information. It needs to have inventory control - in short, support for everything that the big boys do. And you don't have to even sell the program - just sell the support. This is, and has been, one of the biggest gaps in software that everyone knows about, but no one has tried to fix.
I bought a sub-$100 HP printer that works fine for the occasional job, but I do remember spending about $500 for a similar printer 5 years ago. I imagine if I spent the same dollars today I would have a very nice printer indeed.
Components are getting cheaper, not necessarily better. Spend some money; get a better product. Unless it's the difference between Tommy Hilfiger and J.Crew, you usually get what you pay for. Imagine that.
-Dean
I've been around linux for a while, but I am barely worthy of the title "script kiddie." I use linux at work for a SMB fileserver and print server, as well as to host some intranet applications. The main problem I have with linux is that too much software is installed with distros.
The real beauty of open source is the competition in addition too the sharing of ideas. There's nothing to stop someone from looking at a project, snipping parts of it for their own use, and releasing a better piece of software in a matter of weeks instead of months. Take a look at ARIA, which noticed that NOLA dev wasn't going anywhere, and now they're fixing bugs and adding features. Perhaps in a few months someone will take ARIA and integrate it into TUTOS. Any way it happens, you can be assured that the best functioning program will be the most popular.
The only problem with this is all the forking has lead to a top-heavy tree. Linux distros come absolutely loaded with software, and most of it goes unused. Sure, you can roll your own, if you're literate enough. I think to get people away from Windows, you have to start looking at why it's successful. It's because a) installing new software is easy, b) there are a lot of fully functional, well supported office/financial applications, c) the user is completely seperated from low-level configuration. Once you can install a linux distro simply by selecting the time, network settings, and username (pretty close in RH8.0), then boot into it with a bare minimum of visible configuration utilities, you will have won the battle. People want to turn on their computer, start and use an application (without reading a fucking manual), and then print, e-mail, or publish their results.
The first victim will be customization, but look at QuickBooks for christ's sake. It's a shit program, but it's popular because it gets the job done.
-Dean
I got one of the Sony PCG-NVR23s, and three days after I got it, it slid off of the roof of my car and hit the pavement. Some of the plastic flew off, but everything works fine, and I haven't had any problems (or dropped it again) since.
From the newly updated article,
.NET version featured just 2,096 (and not the other way round, as we originally stated). The benefit of hindsight, or is one of our class libraries missing? ®
But the benchmark throws up the remarkable statistic that the Java version required 14,004 lines of code, while the
Are all of your linux gurus just scared of MS having a better product or what? Here's a news flash:
MICROSOFT ALREADY HAS BETTER PRODUCTS
WindowsXP / Office XP / XP Server is still the killer app that people are buying regardless of the high cost, simply because there's no other product on the market right now with that feature set and ease of use. Now, most of their server stuff is expensive and slow for many web hosting applications, but don't discount their products just because of the Corporate namesake in front of them.
Yes, oh yes, the Dead Milkmen.
-Dean
Intelligent people do not make huge assumptions based on one aspect of a problem. I know you're trolling, but everyone knows that water is still the #1 way of moving goods economically across the globe. Unless you ignore things like bouyancy, the pitfalls of mucho potential energy, and aerodynamics, water will always be the safer, smarter way for transportation.
-Dean
"The Bible is about salvation."
And rules for buying and owning slaves. If the bible were true every banker would drop dead according to Ezekiel 18:13.
"There is of course some history and science included"
Which is wrong most of the time - which is why us "liberals" don't think the Bible is trustworthy.
"You liberals attack the Bible for your perceived historial and scientific faults as if it should be a divine source for both subjects."
No, but when it claims to foretell the future, it should be accurate. So when are the Jews going to get around to slaying the Assyrians? And where is the descendent of David who has been ruling Israel for these couple thousand years?
"This idea of yours and your ilk is the real idiocy."
Ok, pot. Me kettle.
"Incorrect."
Really? Name one way which Christianity has stayed the same.
"What example are YOU providing to the world, then?"
Think for yourself. Don't rip people off.
"Are you going without? I assume you used a computer to type your message. Maybe all the liberals should give up all their goods and clothe themselves in rags so they can claim they're better than others."
Nah, we just get what we need and try to avoid ripping people off for a living. I guess I'm a liberal!
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of the liberals love material things---to the point of worshipping them."
Like little Gold statues, crosses, rosaries, icons, and sculpture, right? You're so good at stereotyping! Been taking lessons from YHVH or GW?
"It probably wouldn't matter what they wore, you'd probably still find some reason to attack them for preaching."
They're not preaching. They get on TV, say "Praise God! Send me $20!" and that's about it. If they acted anything like Jesus, I wouldn't have a problem with them. The real trouble with Christians is they're fanatical about being ignorant of the Bible.
-Dean
If a person read only the Bible, they would be one of the most ignorant on Earth as far as reality is concerned. Where is earth? Why, sitting on a firmament of course! With four corners! And you can see it all from one really tall mountain. Remember, Heaven is "up" and Hell is "down." Let's face it. Every Christian since the 1300s has been falling back on the "official" Christian outlook. Christianity has changed right along with humanity since day 1, except it always wants to be 75 years behind. If you wanna be spiritual, that's cool, but don't expect to find any useful information in there.
Oh, Christianity hasn't changed, blah, blah, blah... yea fucking right. So the reformation didn't happen? So the bible still has all the same books, even the Apocrypha found in the Catholic Bibles? So there aren't any women speaking in church? So all of you are still obeying the Sabbath? Or do you still believe in the 10 commandments?
Mod +1 Flame, +1 Offtopic, +1 Asshole
-Dean
PS Hey Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, et al: SUCK MY DICK! Stop ripping off the elderly with your gaudy, fake, materialistic bullshit! When's the last time anyone saw Jesus wearing a Rolex?!
Regular Joe: THIS IS RETARDED! Who would waste their time like this when people in the world are starving!!
Ultra Geeker: STFU n00b! Hackers are cool!
Stereotypers - Unite!
-Dean
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Oh, also because the show is a soap opera about the undead. How innovative!
-Dean
"No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination." --Thomas Jefferson: Elementary School Act, 1817. ME 17:425
"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man." --Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah Moor, 1800.
"Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 1813.
I think we should expect nothing less than absolute, complete, and without-a-doubt separation of church and state. If you want to leave the door open for someone as intolerant as Falwell to lead his sheep into the New World Order (which should be exceptional at making him boatloads of money), be my guest.
-Dean
My experience with developers is that they don't do any QA to make sure their shit works. I have yet to see any OS that is intuitive in any way, shape, or form. Developers are so brain dead that they immediately take a different idea (like the Start bar) and copy it all over, giving up any hope for interface improvement (hello KDE, Gnome).
Don't get me started on incompatibilities, broken libraries, corrupt DLLs, false advertising, and instability. Just remember, developers are stupid. Don't trust your computer with anything.
-Dean
You know them. Evangelists, politicians, slashdot editors - whatever they say depends on who is stuffing money in their coffers.
...anyone else with uncompromising viewpoints and a closed mind. Hard liners for any cause are usually the least effective because they don't know how to see another person's viewpoint. They're incapable of staring a genuinely useful dialogue. So they wander around, shouting from the top of their lungs what the right way - coincidentally it's always their way - and most people don't care to listen. With extremists, there's not chance to offer a compromise and make progress.
People like RMS only attract two kinds of people: the dumb (they don't know any better) and the helpless (they just want someone to follow).
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Well, I'm sure you've all thought about it. Science can help the lame walk, help the mute communicate, and now it lets the blind see. I wonder how long the ultra-right can continue condemning science as evil.
Tomorrow! Maybe they'll arrest me for being too polite as well and I can sue the unholy shit out of them. I'd take the money, open up a non-profit shop next door to them, and slowly grind them into submission.
..who think anime sucks. I like certain types of music, but I don't log on to slashdot to find out when my favorite band's album is coming out.