>Moderate this up!!! > >Whom should one fear more??? I suppose it >depends on what you value. If you value equality >over liberty, you'll fear the fundamentalist >Christians. If you value liberty over equality, >you'll fear the progressive thought police >(initially led by Herbert Marcuse and furthered >by Harvard's Crits). I'm going to have to strongly disagree with you on that one. I hate both with a passion, because NEITHER of them support liberty. The radical Christians would be just as happy as the Leftists if they could universally enforce their values at the expense of others' liberties. If they weren't, then we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
I think that it would be much more productive for hardware vendors to push for support in the current major distributions than to roll their own. To maintain a distribution takes a lot of time and effort, and I don't think there's any practical way that an organization not focused on the distribution as a major product can expect to keep up with a company like RedHat or an organization like Debian. I use abit motherboards, and I'm certainly *not* going to use their distro. It seems like a masturbatory act more than anything else.
And more important, how would you convince them to adopt it? You wouldn't. That's the point: the MPAA and RIAA have their head up their collective ass. As anyone can(and has) not-so-astutely observe, there's nothing that the above lettered organizations can do to stop us. They can sue one person, but the hydra-like internet will pop up three new individuals to protest an unjust action for each such action taken. Besides, the illegal nature of (some) mp3 trading is a good thing in that the draconian measures taken to stop it breed a healthy distrust of authority in many who lacked it before. Oh, yeah, this post is redundant, since the mp3/pirated media discussion completed its natural course about a year and a half ago. I would suggest that moderators mark my post down as such, but I think that the moderation system was the biggest policy mistake CmdrTaco and the others ever made, except perhaps for attachment of the nom de plume "anonymous coward" to anonymous posts. It only encourages people to act down to the expectations set by such a degrading name. I guess the fuckwit moderators can mark this as off topic now, too.
general perspective. It's quite interesting stuff for anyone into MacOS-X, but also it has lots of practical stuff for anyone who's ever tried to create a usable theme for one of today's modern window managers How partisan. The link is to enlightenment.org. I suppose that using windowmaker, as I do, means forgoing the amenities which can be found in a modern wm, no, THE modern wm, Enlightenment! Or is it just that I don't use the MOST modern wm? Please, fill me in. I'm dying of curiousity here.
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>Moderate this up!!! > >Whom should one fear more??? I suppose it >depends on what you value. If you value equality >over liberty, you'll fear the fundamentalist >Christians. If you value liberty over equality, >you'll fear the progressive thought police >(initially led by Herbert Marcuse and furthered >by Harvard's Crits). I'm going to have to strongly disagree with you on that one. I hate both with a passion, because NEITHER of them support liberty. The radical Christians would be just as happy as the Leftists if they could universally enforce their values at the expense of others' liberties. If they weren't, then we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
I think that it would be much more productive for hardware vendors to push for support in the current major distributions than to roll their own. To maintain a distribution takes a lot of time and effort, and I don't think there's any practical way that an organization not focused on the distribution as a major product can expect to keep up with a company like RedHat or an organization like Debian. I use abit motherboards, and I'm certainly *not* going to use their distro. It seems like a masturbatory act more than anything else.
And more important, how would you convince them to adopt it?
You wouldn't. That's the point: the MPAA and RIAA have their head up their collective ass. As anyone can(and has) not-so-astutely observe, there's nothing that the above lettered organizations can do to stop us. They can sue one person, but the hydra-like internet will pop up three new individuals to protest an unjust action for each such action taken. Besides, the illegal nature of (some) mp3 trading is a good thing in that the draconian measures taken to stop it breed a healthy distrust of authority in many who lacked it before. Oh, yeah, this post is redundant, since the mp3/pirated media discussion completed its natural course about a year and a half ago. I would suggest that moderators mark my post down as such, but I think that the moderation system was the biggest policy mistake CmdrTaco and the others ever made, except perhaps for attachment of the nom de plume "anonymous coward" to anonymous posts. It only encourages people to act down to the expectations set by such a degrading name. I guess the fuckwit moderators can mark this as off topic now, too.
I'm working on a project like this right now for the local science fair... now it won't seem original!
general perspective. It's quite interesting stuff for anyone into MacOS-X, but also it has lots of practical stuff for anyone who's ever tried to create a usable theme for one of today's modern window managers
How partisan. The link is to enlightenment.org. I suppose that using windowmaker, as I do, means forgoing the amenities which can be found in a modern wm, no, THE modern wm, Enlightenment! Or is it just that I don't use the MOST modern wm? Please, fill me in. I'm dying of curiousity here.