I'm from a planet where people actually know how to read and follow court cases, in which decisions are often based on precedents that go back centuries, obscure technical concepts, and complicated theoretical arguments. Ever see The Paper Chase?
Let's try a simple example: I once saw an episode of "The People's Court" in which a landlord seized the personal property of a tenant who hadn't paid the rent. Sayts the judge: "You can do that! You're not an innkeeper!" So tell me, why does one have to be a bartender in order to seize property?
Here's a tricky one: in 1942, the Supremes ruled in Wickard v. Filburn that a farmer growing wheat for his own use was not protected by the Interstate Commerce Clause for prosecution for exceeding his wheat quota, even though he had no plans to move it across state lines. It was widely assumed that the Supremes would uphold the mandatory insurance provision of Obamacare under that precedent. But they decided it didn't apply. Can you explain why? Using ony common sense concepts, no fancy words like estoppl or frolic (yes, that's legal term).
There's a good reason the law isn't ust codified "common sense": people don't agree on what it is. Some people think it's common sense that gay peope be allowed to marry, others doubt the common sense of of letting gay people even live.
How many times must I repeat: FSF deserves credit for the basics. But their participation in the resulting Open Source movement (which all the fun stuff gets done) consists solely of complaining that its a sellout.
Well, blame the latest release of Chrome, in which the automatic spell checker is broken. Without it, I can't even spell my own name, never mind that of a unphonetic country.
BTW, know any good Portuguese restaurants in Portland, OR? One of the few things I miss about my old place in San Jose is the food in the Little Portugal district.
Believe it or not, I've also worked on projects that produced GPL-licensed code. As I said before, FSF contributed the development model (including the idea of a license that requires repurposers to continue to make source code available) but that's all they've contributed. And that was 30 fucking years ago, so I think they've worn that one out.
I say FSF doesn't matter because their anti-IP ideology prevents them from participating in the Open Source movement, which they repeatedly condemn. Credit for your paycheck belongs to the OS movment, not to FSF.
you can just stick any Ubuntu-compatible repository into the sources list
But if you do that, you're violating the "free software only" model, If you don't care about that model, why are you bothering with Trisuel in the first place? Just install Ubuntu and be done with it.
Marginal is cool to everybody. Look at the way the American Right talks about the evils of the "mainstream media" even though most American media actually caters to the Right.
Actually, a lot of linguists feel that there's no such thing as "language" only "dialect". Portugese and Spanish are not as different as many dialetcts that are considered to be variations on the same language.
Another way of putting it: the language/dialect distinction is a political concept, not a scientific one. Someone once said that a language is a dialect with an army.
You're talking about "Open Source" software. I certainly agree that Open software matters, since I use it every day myself. But it's not the same as "Free" software, as the FSF people are the first to insist.
"Free" softwsare is about two thing: a collaorative, semi-anarchic development process, and a rebellion against "ownership" of software. The development model is the basis for all Open Source projects, and it is indeed a big deal. A lot (like thousands!) of good products have been created that way. The "Free" software crowd deserves credit for inventing this model.
But that's the extent of the credit any sane person gives them. They're too busy fighting ancient, irrelevent battles to have accommplished anything since then. All that kool free-as-in-beer software we all love is not their product, it's the product of the Open Source movement, a movement that FSF zealots thoroughly condemn. That's why the guy in the gnu costume was handing out copies of an obscure Linux distro that won't even run on most hardware.
Especially when they're pushing a distro nobody's ever heard of and which does a terrible job of promoting itself. I looked on both Trisquel's home page and its Wikipedia entry, and the only justification I could find for its existence was that it had Gallician support. (Why they didn't just contribute Gallician localization to an existing distro is unclear.) Other than that, it appears to be a simple Ubuntu fork.
Now that is ironic. Not just a fringe OS, but a fringe version of the OS. How fringe? The very existence of the Gallician language is controversial. It's spoken only in the northwest corner of Spain, which would be part of Portugal if borders were drawn by actual cultural boundaries. (The Portugese language originated there.) But it's unpatriotic to refer to Gallician as a dialect of Portugese, so they have to pretend have their own language, mainly distinguished by the fact that Gallicia refuses to participate in efforts to reform Portugese spelling.
You think politicians say stupid things because they're stupid? No, they say stupid things because that's what the voters want to hear. So who's stupid in this scenario?
And exactly how does that give the tablet "a full-size USB port"? But I guess that's Sloppy Editor for "USB A port", OTG is indeed a good substitute for. Dumb of me not to see that.
I wouldn't recommend cowering even if I could guarantee that the storm was a combination of the Camille and the 1991 "perfect storm".. But is the fact that a hype-prone media is hyping the storm the way the hype everything a good reason not to take it seriously? The fact that the boy keeps crying wolf is not a reason to doubt that wolves exist.
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Jeeze dude, you're so busy being my (Slashdot) freak that you can't even take the time to understand my joke.
Your quote about the fool misses my entire argument. Which is that politicians are not fools, they're smart people who pander to fools.
I'm from a planet where people actually know how to read and follow court cases, in which decisions are often based on precedents that go back centuries, obscure technical concepts, and complicated theoretical arguments. Ever see The Paper Chase?
Let's try a simple example: I once saw an episode of "The People's Court" in which a landlord seized the personal property of a tenant who hadn't paid the rent. Sayts the judge: "You can do that! You're not an innkeeper!" So tell me, why does one have to be a bartender in order to seize property?
Here's a tricky one: in 1942, the Supremes ruled in Wickard v. Filburn that a farmer growing wheat for his own use was not protected by the Interstate Commerce Clause for prosecution for exceeding his wheat quota, even though he had no plans to move it across state lines. It was widely assumed that the Supremes would uphold the mandatory insurance provision of Obamacare under that precedent. But they decided it didn't apply. Can you explain why? Using ony common sense concepts, no fancy words like estoppl or frolic (yes, that's legal term).
There's a good reason the law isn't ust codified "common sense": people don't agree on what it is. Some people think it's common sense that gay peope be allowed to marry, others doubt the common sense of of letting gay people even live.
Forgive the nitpick, but you mean private versus public. The word "civil" refers to the community as a whole, including its government.
How many times must I repeat: FSF deserves credit for the basics. But their participation in the resulting Open Source movement (which all the fun stuff gets done) consists solely of complaining that its a sellout.
Well, blame the latest release of Chrome, in which the automatic spell checker is broken. Without it, I can't even spell my own name, never mind that of a unphonetic country.
BTW, know any good Portuguese restaurants in Portland, OR? One of the few things I miss about my old place in San Jose is the food in the Little Portugal district.
I live in Portland OR, and here you're not a hipster unless you have tattoos.
Believe it or not, I've also worked on projects that produced GPL-licensed code. As I said before, FSF contributed the development model (including the idea of a license that requires repurposers to continue to make source code available) but that's all they've contributed. And that was 30 fucking years ago, so I think they've worn that one out.
I say FSF doesn't matter because their anti-IP ideology prevents them from participating in the Open Source movement, which they repeatedly condemn. Credit for your paycheck belongs to the OS movment, not to FSF.
you can just stick any Ubuntu-compatible repository into the sources list
But if you do that, you're violating the "free software only" model, If you don't care about that model, why are you bothering with Trisuel in the first place? Just install Ubuntu and be done with it.
I have two cats that I love so much it hurts. If a hurricane were bearing down on me, I'd get them to some place safe and fuck a bunch of boats.
How ironic is it that you misspelled a word while playing spelling nazi?
As opposed to rude violence?
You're under the impression that the laws are based on common sense? Are you from another planet?
Slashdot users amaze me. They're experts not just on U.S. law but Canadian law as well!
Canada? Is that north or south of Minnesota
(I'm only half joking, since TPP seems to not grasp that this story took place outside the U.S.)
This isn't about being different. This is wanting to save the world, but doing everything you can to make sure the world ignores you.
Marginal is cool to everybody. Look at the way the American Right talks about the evils of the "mainstream media" even though most American media actually caters to the Right.
What is a "hipster" anyway?
Actually, a lot of linguists feel that there's no such thing as "language" only "dialect". Portugese and Spanish are not as different as many dialetcts that are considered to be variations on the same language.
Another way of putting it: the language/dialect distinction is a political concept, not a scientific one. Someone once said that a language is a dialect with an army.
You're talking about "Open Source" software. I certainly agree that Open software matters, since I use it every day myself. But it's not the same as "Free" software, as the FSF people are the first to insist.
"Free" softwsare is about two thing: a collaorative, semi-anarchic development process, and a rebellion against "ownership" of software. The development model is the basis for all Open Source projects, and it is indeed a big deal. A lot (like thousands!) of good products have been created that way. The "Free" software crowd deserves credit for inventing this model.
But that's the extent of the credit any sane person gives them. They're too busy fighting ancient, irrelevent battles to have accommplished anything since then. All that kool free-as-in-beer software we all love is not their product, it's the product of the Open Source movement, a movement that FSF zealots thoroughly condemn. That's why the guy in the gnu costume was handing out copies of an obscure Linux distro that won't even run on most hardware.
Like I said, they simply don't matter.
but the FSF isn't about being practical, they are focused on software freedom.
Please don't use "software freedom" without scare quotes. If you leave them out, you imply that FSF actually matters.
Anyway, I'm glad this is about the Gospel According to Stallman and not about some weird geopolitical agenda. Had me worried.
Especially when they're pushing a distro nobody's ever heard of and which does a terrible job of promoting itself. I looked on both Trisquel's home page and its Wikipedia entry, and the only justification I could find for its existence was that it had Gallician support. (Why they didn't just contribute Gallician localization to an existing distro is unclear.) Other than that, it appears to be a simple Ubuntu fork.
Now that is ironic. Not just a fringe OS, but a fringe version of the OS. How fringe? The very existence of the Gallician language is controversial. It's spoken only in the northwest corner of Spain, which would be part of Portugal if borders were drawn by actual cultural boundaries. (The Portugese language originated there.) But it's unpatriotic to refer to Gallician as a dialect of Portugese, so they have to pretend have their own language, mainly distinguished by the fact that Gallicia refuses to participate in efforts to reform Portugese spelling.
Do Linux zealots actually work at being marginal?
You think politicians say stupid things because they're stupid? No, they say stupid things because that's what the voters want to hear. So who's stupid in this scenario?
Come on, somebody had to say it!
And exactly how does that give the tablet "a full-size USB port"? But I guess that's Sloppy Editor for "USB A port", OTG is indeed a good substitute for. Dumb of me not to see that.
I wouldn't recommend cowering even if I could guarantee that the storm was a combination of the Camille and the 1991 "perfect storm".. But is the fact that a hype-prone media is hyping the storm the way the hype everything a good reason not to take it seriously? The fact that the boy keeps crying wolf is not a reason to doubt that wolves exist.