This would be a good example of a situation that would benefit from my proposed universal third button in GUIs: "OK," "Cancel," and "STFU And Do What I Say Regardless of Whether It May Supposedly Damage My System" (could be shortened to "Fuck It" for visual considerations). As uninstalling these damn extensions involves modifying the registry, I would be tempted to tell it to just rip them out regardless.
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I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but if the two were to ever merge, all I can see is that one of them will end up running the show while the other one more or less gets their stuff appropriated. The rest of your latter points I agree with, though.
And since the AT&T lawsuit, have there been any other legal things brought up about BSD? For what it's worth, Microsoft et. al. are still lurking around waiting for an opportunity to find something to sue Linux about. And because of the different licenses, it makes sense that they would see BSD as much less of a threat.
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For one thing, Linux isn't Unix. BSD is Unix, Linux is only Unix-like. So if you say "A Single Free Unix," Linux is technically straight out. I'm sure this distinction is important for a lot of technical reasons that I'm not cognizant of.
source (more specifically, "functional Unix"). And personally, it would seem to me to be a sort of personal insult to throw away the BSD developers' legal victory back in the 80's in being allowed to exist at all.
Don't they generally say "declassified" if it was before? Technically one could argue the meaning of "unclassified" should be "it has not been determined what, if any, level of secrecy this document deserves/will get" like "not yet classified."
Heh: Everybody tells you you're paranoid for thinking companies would be that evil, and then...one day...yeah. The situation you describe sounds more or less exactly why Stallman started GNU in the first place.
One of my all-time favorite Slashdot quotes: "If there's an insane way to apply a law which everyone dismisses as 'nobody would ever apply it like that' then you can bet your ass it will be abused exactly like that."
Had to read that last sentence through a number of times until I realized what they were going for was "Now, though, they've given in to the Man and the likes of Money, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, and Comfortably Numb will soon no doubt be available as 99p downloads on iTunes."
Not "Now, though they've given in to the Man and the likes of Money, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, and Comfortably Numb will soon no doubt be available as 99p downloads on iTunes, this sentence is missing it's concluding thought."
I wouldn't say they give the articles to you in return, as they are already up for anyone to view, not behind a paywall. So use a less judgmental term if you want, but it looks to me like begging/soliciting/whatever.
I'm pretty sure that the U.S. has a track record of it not turning out so well when they whack the president or support an uprising against him...or hey, maybe we could roll in their with a bajillion dollars' worth of equipment and oust him ourselves...oh wait, that hasn't turned out so well, either. It's almost funny how people call for us to do something about it, then everyone yells at us when we do it.
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This would be a good example of a situation that would benefit from my proposed universal third button in GUIs: "OK," "Cancel," and "STFU And Do What I Say Regardless of Whether It May Supposedly Damage My System" (could be shortened to "Fuck It" for visual considerations). As uninstalling these damn extensions involves modifying the registry, I would be tempted to tell it to just rip them out regardless.
Said documentation is in .docx format...
I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but if the two were to ever merge, all I can see is that one of them will end up running the show while the other one more or less gets their stuff appropriated. The rest of your latter points I agree with, though.
And since the AT&T lawsuit, have there been any other legal things brought up about BSD? For what it's worth, Microsoft et. al. are still lurking around waiting for an opportunity to find something to sue Linux about. And because of the different licenses, it makes sense that they would see BSD as much less of a threat.
For one thing, Linux isn't Unix. BSD is Unix, Linux is only Unix-like. So if you say "A Single Free Unix," Linux is technically straight out. I'm sure this distinction is important for a lot of technical reasons that I'm not cognizant of.
source (more specifically, "functional Unix"). And personally, it would seem to me to be a sort of personal insult to throw away the BSD developers' legal victory back in the 80's in being allowed to exist at all.
Or if there's a big war and there's only one Israeli left, that would work, too: "The Israeli is the doer."
Yes, the Goa'uld are very insistent about their followers' religious beliefs.
I don't want to start up a browser only to see a popup box asking me to update my extensions. And only after installing them, to start up.
You would prefer to start the browser, update the extensions, and then restart it?
Plus, y'know, the Tevatron actually works for more than 3 minutes at a time. /sarcasm
Either way, that's not a "definition of irony", it's a subset of "irony".
Fixed that for you.
Don't they generally say "declassified" if it was before? Technically one could argue the meaning of "unclassified" should be "it has not been determined what, if any, level of secrecy this document deserves/will get" like "not yet classified."
with the sheer amount of information that such transparency would generate
Sounds like a good time for a massively-distributed reading assignment! :-D
TWSS?
Heh: Everybody tells you you're paranoid for thinking companies would be that evil, and then...one day...yeah. The situation you describe sounds more or less exactly why Stallman started GNU in the first place.
One of my all-time favorite Slashdot quotes: "If there's an insane way to apply a law which everyone dismisses as 'nobody would ever apply it like that' then you can bet your ass it will be abused exactly like that."
They explained it with the usual burst of technoblather from Tennant, an exasperated noise, and some waving of hands with "You wouldn't understand." :)
Spoiler: he plays a crazy person in that one, too :) Not that the Doctor is crazy per se, but that's the way Tennant sure played him.
I think you forgot to call someone a coward and mock them for their use of a pseudonym. How embarrassing for you :)
Had to read that last sentence through a number of times until I realized what they were going for was "Now, though, they've given in to the Man and the likes of Money, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, and Comfortably Numb will soon no doubt be available as 99p downloads on iTunes."
Not "Now, though they've given in to the Man and the likes of Money, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, and Comfortably Numb will soon no doubt be available as 99p downloads on iTunes, this sentence is missing it's concluding thought."
Which company do you avoid if they are all evil bastards? /zen
I wouldn't say they give the articles to you in return, as they are already up for anyone to view, not behind a paywall. So use a less judgmental term if you want, but it looks to me like begging/soliciting/whatever.
Wow: randomly hostile post, replying to a +5 Insightful, with no actual content whatsoever. WTF man?
it is that rapist Assange again
Alleged rapist.
those stupid peninsula niggers
"Me fail Geography?! Un-possible!!"
I'm pretty sure that the U.S. has a track record of it not turning out so well when they whack the president or support an uprising against him...or hey, maybe we could roll in their with a bajillion dollars' worth of equipment and oust him ourselves...oh wait, that hasn't turned out so well, either. It's almost funny how people call for us to do something about it, then everyone yells at us when we do it.
start a headline with the words "______ Korea Launches" unless it's missiles. My heart skipped a beat there.
For those of us who haven't memorized 30-year-old system calls...?