Being an american with a swiss german last name, I couldn't agree more. The worst part is that when you ask them "What's that rule... the 'I' before 'E' thing", they'll be able to say "Oh, yeah, 'I' before 'E' except after 'C'". They just can't seem to apply that to any letter other than C! Idiots, I tell you, idiots. I once had a person attempt to correct me and tell me I spelled my own name wrong! Talk about a lack of understanding about english as well as its germanic roots.
We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And you are a pussy. And Roland de Pipuequaville is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and a half away from ass holes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!
Actually, IIRC, the word stealth was first used in public by a govt official when Regan accidentally leaked it. One of our stealths crashed somewhere, and Regan answered a question about it along the lines of, "yeah, it was one of our stealth planes." This is also how the RS-71 became the SR-71. I believe that was also courtesy of a Reganesque slipup on TV:).
51. Although OSS and Linux both state goals and ideals which are attractive, such as freedom to innovate, freedom to develop new technology, and free access to software and computer technology, efforts by competing open source efforts to develop or create new development communities are routinely attacked publicly by OSS and Linux members through a variety of oppressive means over the public Internet, such as threats of: murder, violence, death, oppression, mob mentality, intentional infliction of emotional distress, terror, defamation, identify theft, character assassination, threats to murder or firebomb the homes of individuals, and threats to overthrow governmental systems.
Wow, this guy really DOES read slashdot!
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How fitting. http://www.us.org/ is one of those shitty "search" sites by WebMagic. Any chance you europeans would set up a similar service for us poor blokes who don't live in the EU? And of course it happens to be from a company I've heard of, located not too far from where I used to live. Bastards.
This is like your 5th time saying this. Methinks you have no damned idea about security, and whoever keeps modding you up needs to get a clue.
Let me help you out. The following things ARE NOT attributes of a computer that is powered on and connected to a network: 100% secure, untouchable, inpenetrable.
I'd say it's much more probable that he has some issues with his color vision. He may not be fully colorblind, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have problems with it. A lot of people don't find out until they fail a color vision test or apply for certain jobs in the military.
Color vision deficiency is most commonly detected with special colored charts called the Ishihara Test Plates. On each plate is a number composed of colored dots. While holding the chart under good lighting, the patient is asked to identify the number. Once the color defect is identified, more detailed color vision tests may be performed.
You REALLY need to do your research before posting.
The United States is currently (2004) #2 in GDP per capita. It is also the richest nation in the world by purchasing power parity. You probably don't feel the numbers here are correct, so feel free to check other sites. this site mysteriously leaves out the US. Odd. Perhaps that's your source? Most of your exports go to germany and the UK. Only about 8% go to the US, so you don't really control that much in the way of our prices. You do have no external debt, and that's something to brag about, big time.
You do also produce 3.31 million bbl/day, which does indeed make you the 3rd largest exporter in the world.
You're not really a part of the EU, though you do contribute a sizable portion of their budget.
I'm not sure what the nobel peace "price" is, nor am I exactly sure what you mean. Your country HAS the prize? How did you get it? Are you planning on giving it back someday, or are you keeping it? Can I buy it on ebay? You do contribute a ton fo world aid, and should be applauded for that.
I'd also like to point out that, last I saw, LUXEMBOURG has the highest GDP/capita in the world right now. And not by a small margin, either. I wouldn't say that luxembourgers necessarily have it "better" than the americans, nor would your GDP/capita being higher. I'm afraid I have to ask you to back up your claim. In terms of the least labour-hours for a loaf of bread, that's the UK. I'd much rather live in america than the UK, because damn their housing sucks compared to america. I'd much rather have a huge place to live in with lots of room than be cramped into a smaller place. In terms of best places to live, I've gotta say mexicans have it about the best, they just have a terrible economy, socio-cultural problems up the ass, etc. But it's by far the most comfortable, beautiful, #1 place to live by me.
I will take this moment to admit that Norway is indeed one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and is doing MANY things right. I'm ashamed my country has been unable to at least catch up with you in many of these aspects. But I wouldn't say you have it the best out of everyone in the world:). If you were a real nerd, you'd remember the "cheap 1gbps fibre avaiable in hong kong for only $215 US per month and agree that they have it the best.
IANASS (i am not a smart scientist), but there's a lot of conjecture lately saying that ice ages are caused by periodic global warming. The earth gets hot, ice melts, the water gets colder, the conveyor stops moving, and all of a sudden it gets really damned cold without any heat being properly circulated in the oceans.
Of course some apparently smarter people disagree.
Oh, and from about this time back in 2003:
And New Scientist.com reports that a decade-long storm of galactic dust is entering our Solar System and some scientists worry that it might be thick enough to effect the sun's warming of the Earth. They ask if a storm like this caused the past ice ages and mass extinction.
Of course in Soviet Russia, files on the web possess YOU!
And on that note I'd like to say that every argument I've read in this thread is just as ridiculous. I have trouble believing this guy wasn't aware of the fact that he was viewing child porn. He could have been aware of the fact that they were stored locally on his computer. He was probably just too dumb to delete them all properly and regularly, and this is the only defense his attorney has left. A few pics mixed in with 10,000 other pics, sure, but how about this quote for those who didn't RTFA:
A federal agent said Barton's computer contained more than 450 pornographic images, including 156 porn images of children.
Prosecution witness Ben Murray, special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, said he made an exact replica of the hard drive so he could further examine the contents.
He said most of the pictures were viewed between midnight on Dec. 2 and 4 a.m. on Dec. 3 in 2003.
Murray said he also found 250-300 other pornographic images on the computer viewed before December.
156 child porn images out of 450. I don't consider that to be accidental stumble-upon rates. I think I've stumbled upon maybe 5 child porn images in my many years of surfing the net for porn. Without a proper copy of the full history it's hard to be the judge on this one, but I'd assume that if you kept running into child porn on a website and DIDN'T want to continue viewing child porn, you'd find a different site.
It also says in the article that he was convicted of "106 child sex exploitation charges". Shouldn't viewing child porn be a different law? Or is that where the molestation law comes in? 20 years seems a bit excessive for someone found not guilty of actually molesting anyone.
Actually, you lost it at the point where you started with the "typical American who is too busy whining and consuming to educate yourself and do something productive or beneficial." comments.
You are also wrong about wind farms. There's a huge one not far from my parents' place. The San Gorgonio Pass http://www.awea.org/projects/california.html#SanGo rgonioPass, as you can see in the link, was estimated to generate about 800 M kWh in 1998. I may not work for So. Cal Edison, but I'm judging they feel it's a fairly good ROI, since they're constantly putting new windmills in and experimenting on new types there. It's also fairly close to some major population centers, though.
As for the nuke... Be honest. "zillions" of years for the waste to be safe? Depends, but "thousands" is a much more honest estimate. The "huge catastrophe" comment? I'll take 1 little nuke catastrophe every 50-100 years over the daily harm being done by coal power plants. At least then my life insurance will pay out instead of failing to renew after my 10-year bout with lung cancer. And yes, I did grow up in a town that suffered a nuclear disaster. And yes, I know people from those crazy cancer clusters. It's still safer than coal.
Of course I'm of the opinion that rather than try to maintain and expand our infrastructure to transport energy all over the place, I'd like to see a windmill on every large piece of property, as well as a few on top of every tower or skyscraper. Decentralized, distributed computing has worked really well for a lot of projects, and I think following that model for energy production is a good idea. It'd end up driving down the unit costs for this sort of thing, put more money into R&D for this technology than the governments ever will, and just basically be a Good Thing(TM). Of course to really be practical we need new energy storage systems to replace batteries, since we all know wind and solar power don't perform very well in snowy, icy conditions.
Not to mention cold fusion, and everything else that should be researched further or simply made practical.
For the record I do agree entirely with your summary, I just have problems with a few of your points.
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I think you should know that while that MAY be the case in India, it is certainly quite different in Thailand. Daughters sold into prostitution are shunned and outcast by the family for it. If they ever safely return to their family, despite sending money home for years on end and being forced into the trade to begin with, they are basically a lower class of society and within the family. They're looked down on, called dirty whores, and blamed for everything they did during that period of time. This isn't uncommon throughout southeast asia.
Parents will quite often pick a kid before birth. They will decide on one, and treat it more like a dog than their child. They'll try not to grow attached to it, because they know its fate. It will have older, crummier clothes, and be treated like crap until it is old enough to be sold into sex slavery. At that point in time it'll have to send home all the money it earns, and if it ever survives without any fatal diseases or anything else, and gets a chance to return home, it will already have shamed the family and itself with its deeds.
I have to agree with you, these parents _really_ love their kids in ways westerners will never understand.
The odds of it happening to YOU don't matter, just as they don't in an asteroid collision. I'd wager 1 out of every 10billion ever born was killed by the impact of a meteorite or like object. All that REALLY matters is that these things do happen. You can probably safely predict it will happen within 20,000 light years of us within the next billion years. This being said, you can also say that the odds of a human surviving this event are somewhere so close to 0 that, well, they really don't matter. You wouldn't be that.00000000000001th person.
So what really matters is that, in this kind of a radius, this will probably happen to this planet eventually. Or at least quite possibly happen. A "killer asteroid" is also very, very likely at some point in the future. The chances of you being alive during the time it happens are very low, but the chances of anyone surviving are even lower. This makes this a Big Deal(TM).
Disclaimer: every statistic, calculation, or probability in this posting are entirely fictional and serve only to prove my point.
You may be surprised to learn that President Arroyo of the Philippines implemented 4-day workweeks just a couple of weeks ago, and the most recent reportssay it is going very smoothly. A clip from the article:
The DBM earlier said the government would save up to P144 million in energy expenses under the four-day work week program for employees of the executive branch.
Keeping in mind that that's only a few million dollars US, but this is also only a 2-month change to 4-day workweeks, and a much smaller country. Having worked this shift before, I have to say it's nice to have 3-day weekends, especially if you can choose if you work monday or friday, and it really doesn't take that long to get used to the extra 2 hours.
Why don't you try downloading hijack this. You could be blaming microsoft for spyware you downloaded. I fixed a computer just the other day that was exhibiting the same problems... it had AITwoUpdater loaded on it. You can see a forum posting of a similar situation here.
No, but he'd most certainly be able to keep the $5,000,000 from the book and movie deals. It wouldn't hurt if he helped the police find $1,000,000 *that he had "lost" or "forgotten about") of the missing $25M
That's funny, I think you answered this one yourself:
Even if the average young- to middle-aged Korean would like to tell the U.S. where to get off, the government isn't going to. Besides, the average Korean also LOVES their Windows-based games.
Then why don't you say THAT, instead of "THE US MILITARY". The UN and every country around the world murdered people by remaining neutral (or supplying murders) in Kosovo, Rwanda, and countless other fucked up conflicts throughout the world. Hell, we're STILL refusing to help in the Congo. You want to talk about murder? That's millions dead.
The US Military has been, especially in the last century, really good at mainly targeting some pretty bad dictators recently. I mean unless you think we should've sat down for a mutual wank session with Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Milosevich, or Saddam. Even Ho Chi Minh was a pretty bad dude. The US Military has also been extremely good about only going places and killing people your elected politicians have sent them to... wait a minute. I forgot, they don't do what they're told by scumbag politicians. That's not what a military does these days.
Why don't you make a copy of GPL, then add in some little line like:
7. This program may not be used to further any efforts to kill any living human being without prior, written authorization from the author.
OR the anti-arbortion/pro-life version:
7. This program may not be used to further any efforts to kill any human being (born or unborn) without prior, written authorization from the author.
OR the vegan version:
7. This program may not be used to further any efforts to murder any living organism (plant or animal, born or not-yet-born), even with prior, written authorization from the author.
OOOOR the environmentally-friendly version:
7. This program may not be used in conjunction with anything else which would continue or further the destruction of the earth's natural resources. This statement expressly prohibits the use of this program in conjunction with any fossil-fuel-burning technology, or products, or the use of this program on a computer that is being powered by electricity produced from fossil fuels.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR even more radical. We COULD just make the software free and open. And then anyone could use it... even soddomites, Saddamites, adulterers, blasphemers, lusters, gluttons, females, males, extremely intelligent chimps, somewhat-more-evolved monkeys... And YES, even politicians, murderers, and, yes, your most hated of all: the military.
Holy crap. I should write a license that'd do THAT. Then I could call it........ copylefting.
I hope you realize what makes this idea so grand, so novel. Gates thinks it's immoral to use software without paying for it, even if the creator doesn't WANT to be paid for it. You think it's immoral for software to be used by the military, even when the military spends most of their time NOT killing people. I think it's immoral for software to be used by spammers and the only surviving cousin of King Mathldefi of Nigeria, who only needs my help because his birth certificate was burned in the great war of 1841. This IS the point. Once you cross that line and start putting down those arbitrary decisions based on your own little moral code, the software loses its freedom. And that makes Baby Jesus cry.
I've found that even 80 year old amish women can be made to get the basic idea with proper analogies. Just try to dumb down your speech... a lot.
To go with your example, I'd tell the woman that she could think of memory as her own short term memory. She could have a few different things at once in her head about balancing her checkbook and a few different expenses, but she'd need to write down all the important stuff, and she'd have to go back a few pages in her check register to see where she wrote check #1001.
Sure, it's not entirely technically accurate. But it'll get the basic point across in a way they can understand, and if they do ever get advanced enough that your explanation needs to be more exact, you should be able to provide it. Hopefully the nerd eavesdropping on your conversation isn't dumb enough to consider you an idiot for making such "mistakes". If he does, though, you can always shoot him or her down later.
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Being an american with a swiss german last name, I couldn't agree more. The worst part is that when you ask them "What's that rule... the 'I' before 'E' thing", they'll be able to say "Oh, yeah, 'I' before 'E' except after 'C'". They just can't seem to apply that to any letter other than C! Idiots, I tell you, idiots. I once had a person attempt to correct me and tell me I spelled my own name wrong! Talk about a lack of understanding about english as well as its germanic roots.
That'd be the netherlands, holland area especially. Y'know, the dutch, not the danish.
Obviously you haven't watched the right movie.
We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And you are a pussy. And Roland de Pipuequaville is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and a half away from ass holes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!
Actually, IIRC, the word stealth was first used in public by a govt official when Regan accidentally leaked it. One of our stealths crashed somewhere, and Regan answered a question about it along the lines of, "yeah, it was one of our stealth planes." This is also how the RS-71 became the SR-71. I believe that was also courtesy of a Reganesque slipup on TV :).
Obviously. That's why nobody buys stuff on ebay.
People will also buy it if they don't see the shipping costs until the end of checkout.
Wow, this guy really DOES read slashdot!
How fitting. http://www.us.org/ is one of those shitty "search" sites by WebMagic. Any chance you europeans would set up a similar service for us poor blokes who don't live in the EU? And of course it happens to be from a company I've heard of, located not too far from where I used to live. Bastards.
Don't worry about that. We here at the International Grammarists Society will be implementing that solution very soon.
Churches are exempt from that list.
This is like your 5th time saying this. Methinks you have no damned idea about security, and whoever keeps modding you up needs to get a clue.
Let me help you out. The following things ARE NOT attributes of a computer that is powered on and connected to a network: 100% secure, untouchable, inpenetrable.
You should try reading some sites like securityfocus. I recommend a 2-part article that just came out, Software Firewalls: Made of straw? and part 2.
Actually it's more analogous to saying "Hey, your windshield might be cracked!" and then smashing it with a sledgehammer when they ask "where".
From: http://www.stlukeseye.com/Conditions/ColorBlindne
You do also produce 3.31 million bbl/day, which does indeed make you the 3rd largest exporter in the world.
You're not really a part of the EU, though you do contribute a sizable portion of their budget.
I'm not sure what the nobel peace "price" is, nor am I exactly sure what you mean. Your country HAS the prize? How did you get it? Are you planning on giving it back someday, or are you keeping it? Can I buy it on ebay? You do contribute a ton fo world aid, and should be applauded for that.
I'd also like to point out that, last I saw, LUXEMBOURG has the highest GDP/capita in the world right now. And not by a small margin, either. I wouldn't say that luxembourgers necessarily have it "better" than the americans, nor would your GDP/capita being higher. I'm afraid I have to ask you to back up your claim. In terms of the least labour-hours for a loaf of bread, that's the UK. I'd much rather live in america than the UK, because damn their housing sucks compared to america. I'd much rather have a huge place to live in with lots of room than be cramped into a smaller place. In terms of best places to live, I've gotta say mexicans have it about the best, they just have a terrible economy, socio-cultural problems up the ass, etc. But it's by far the most comfortable, beautiful, #1 place to live by me.
I will take this moment to admit that Norway is indeed one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and is doing MANY things right. I'm ashamed my country has been unable to at least catch up with you in many of these aspects. But I wouldn't say you have it the best out of everyone in the world :). If you were a real nerd, you'd remember the "cheap 1gbps fibre avaiable in hong kong for only $215 US per month and agree that they have it the best.
Of course some apparently smarter people disagree.
Oh, and from about this time back in 2003:
from farshores.this isn't a bad read either.
What, no sound? Even Star Trek has sound!
Screw this, I'm waiting for it to come out on DVD.
And on that note I'd like to say that every argument I've read in this thread is just as ridiculous. I have trouble believing this guy wasn't aware of the fact that he was viewing child porn. He could have been aware of the fact that they were stored locally on his computer. He was probably just too dumb to delete them all properly and regularly, and this is the only defense his attorney has left. A few pics mixed in with 10,000 other pics, sure, but how about this quote for those who didn't RTFA:
156 child porn images out of 450. I don't consider that to be accidental stumble-upon rates. I think I've stumbled upon maybe 5 child porn images in my many years of surfing the net for porn. Without a proper copy of the full history it's hard to be the judge on this one, but I'd assume that if you kept running into child porn on a website and DIDN'T want to continue viewing child porn, you'd find a different site.It also says in the article that he was convicted of "106 child sex exploitation charges". Shouldn't viewing child porn be a different law? Or is that where the molestation law comes in? 20 years seems a bit excessive for someone found not guilty of actually molesting anyone.
You are also wrong about wind farms. There's a huge one not far from my parents' place. The San Gorgonio Pass http://www.awea.org/projects/california.html#SanGo rgonioPass, as you can see in the link, was estimated to generate about 800 M kWh in 1998. I may not work for So. Cal Edison, but I'm judging they feel it's a fairly good ROI, since they're constantly putting new windmills in and experimenting on new types there. It's also fairly close to some major population centers, though.
As for the nuke... Be honest. "zillions" of years for the waste to be safe? Depends, but "thousands" is a much more honest estimate. The "huge catastrophe" comment? I'll take 1 little nuke catastrophe every 50-100 years over the daily harm being done by coal power plants. At least then my life insurance will pay out instead of failing to renew after my 10-year bout with lung cancer. And yes, I did grow up in a town that suffered a nuclear disaster. And yes, I know people from those crazy cancer clusters. It's still safer than coal.
Of course I'm of the opinion that rather than try to maintain and expand our infrastructure to transport energy all over the place, I'd like to see a windmill on every large piece of property, as well as a few on top of every tower or skyscraper. Decentralized, distributed computing has worked really well for a lot of projects, and I think following that model for energy production is a good idea. It'd end up driving down the unit costs for this sort of thing, put more money into R&D for this technology than the governments ever will, and just basically be a Good Thing(TM). Of course to really be practical we need new energy storage systems to replace batteries, since we all know wind and solar power don't perform very well in snowy, icy conditions.
Not to mention cold fusion, and everything else that should be researched further or simply made practical.
For the record I do agree entirely with your summary, I just have problems with a few of your points.
I think you should know that while that MAY be the case in India, it is certainly quite different in Thailand. Daughters sold into prostitution are shunned and outcast by the family for it. If they ever safely return to their family, despite sending money home for years on end and being forced into the trade to begin with, they are basically a lower class of society and within the family. They're looked down on, called dirty whores, and blamed for everything they did during that period of time. This isn't uncommon throughout southeast asia.
Parents will quite often pick a kid before birth. They will decide on one, and treat it more like a dog than their child. They'll try not to grow attached to it, because they know its fate. It will have older, crummier clothes, and be treated like crap until it is old enough to be sold into sex slavery. At that point in time it'll have to send home all the money it earns, and if it ever survives without any fatal diseases or anything else, and gets a chance to return home, it will already have shamed the family and itself with its deeds.
I have to agree with you, these parents _really_ love their kids in ways westerners will never understand.
The odds of it happening to YOU don't matter, just as they don't in an asteroid collision. I'd wager 1 out of every 10billion ever born was killed by the impact of a meteorite or like object. All that REALLY matters is that these things do happen. You can probably safely predict it will happen within 20,000 light years of us within the next billion years. This being said, you can also say that the odds of a human surviving this event are somewhere so close to 0 that, well, they really don't matter. You wouldn't be that .00000000000001th person.
So what really matters is that, in this kind of a radius, this will probably happen to this planet eventually. Or at least quite possibly happen. A "killer asteroid" is also very, very likely at some point in the future. The chances of you being alive during the time it happens are very low, but the chances of anyone surviving are even lower. This makes this a Big Deal(TM).
Disclaimer: every statistic, calculation, or probability in this posting are entirely fictional and serve only to prove my point.
The DBM earlier said the government would save up to P144 million in energy expenses under the four-day work week program for employees of the executive branch.
Keeping in mind that that's only a few million dollars US, but this is also only a 2-month change to 4-day workweeks, and a much smaller country. Having worked this shift before, I have to say it's nice to have 3-day weekends, especially if you can choose if you work monday or friday, and it really doesn't take that long to get used to the extra 2 hours.
Why don't you try downloading hijack this. You could be blaming microsoft for spyware you downloaded. I fixed a computer just the other day that was exhibiting the same problems... it had AITwoUpdater loaded on it. You can see a forum posting of a similar situation here.
No, but he'd most certainly be able to keep the $5,000,000 from the book and movie deals. It wouldn't hurt if he helped the police find $1,000,000 *that he had "lost" or "forgotten about") of the missing $25M
Even if the average young- to middle-aged Korean would like to tell the U.S. where to get off, the government isn't going to. Besides, the average Korean also LOVES their Windows-based games.
Then why don't you say THAT, instead of "THE US MILITARY". The UN and every country around the world murdered people by remaining neutral (or supplying murders) in Kosovo, Rwanda, and countless other fucked up conflicts throughout the world. Hell, we're STILL refusing to help in the Congo. You want to talk about murder? That's millions dead.
The US Military has been, especially in the last century, really good at mainly targeting some pretty bad dictators recently. I mean unless you think we should've sat down for a mutual wank session with Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Milosevich, or Saddam. Even Ho Chi Minh was a pretty bad dude. The US Military has also been extremely good about only going places and killing people your elected politicians have sent them to... wait a minute. I forgot, they don't do what they're told by scumbag politicians. That's not what a military does these days.
Why don't you make a copy of GPL, then add in some little line like:
7. This program may not be used to further any efforts to kill any living human being without prior, written authorization from the author.
OR the anti-arbortion/pro-life version:
7. This program may not be used to further any efforts to kill any human being (born or unborn) without prior, written authorization from the author.
OR the vegan version:
7. This program may not be used to further any efforts to murder any living organism (plant or animal, born or not-yet-born), even with prior, written authorization from the author.
OOOOR the environmentally-friendly version:
7. This program may not be used in conjunction with anything else which would continue or further the destruction of the earth's natural resources. This statement expressly prohibits the use of this program in conjunction with any fossil-fuel-burning technology, or products, or the use of this program on a computer that is being powered by electricity produced from fossil fuels.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR even more radical. We COULD just make the software free and open. And then anyone could use it... even soddomites, Saddamites, adulterers, blasphemers, lusters, gluttons, females, males, extremely intelligent chimps, somewhat-more-evolved monkeys... And YES, even politicians, murderers, and, yes, your most hated of all: the military.
Holy crap. I should write a license that'd do THAT. Then I could call it........ copylefting.
I hope you realize what makes this idea so grand, so novel. Gates thinks it's immoral to use software without paying for it, even if the creator doesn't WANT to be paid for it. You think it's immoral for software to be used by the military, even when the military spends most of their time NOT killing people. I think it's immoral for software to be used by spammers and the only surviving cousin of King Mathldefi of Nigeria, who only needs my help because his birth certificate was burned in the great war of 1841. This IS the point. Once you cross that line and start putting down those arbitrary decisions based on your own little moral code, the software loses its freedom. And that makes Baby Jesus cry.
I've found that even 80 year old amish women can be made to get the basic idea with proper analogies. Just try to dumb down your speech... a lot.
To go with your example, I'd tell the woman that she could think of memory as her own short term memory. She could have a few different things at once in her head about balancing her checkbook and a few different expenses, but she'd need to write down all the important stuff, and she'd have to go back a few pages in her check register to see where she wrote check #1001.
Sure, it's not entirely technically accurate. But it'll get the basic point across in a way they can understand, and if they do ever get advanced enough that your explanation needs to be more exact, you should be able to provide it. Hopefully the nerd eavesdropping on your conversation isn't dumb enough to consider you an idiot for making such "mistakes". If he does, though, you can always shoot him or her down later.