The right to bear arms was resonable when US was build, the purpose was to garantee that people are able to stop/trow a government they can't stop with legal democratic means (if there is some bug in the constitution, or some dictator takes control of the US). This was reasonable in the *past*. US won the war with UK, because a lot of poeple had guns.
But now this is useless! The technology has changed. The wars have changed!
Think about the wars in Serbia and Iraq. Were they won by people with light, simple guns? You need modern toys! Can you stop a tank with a pistol? Not to mention air crafts, navigation, communications,... If you think you can gather some fellows with guns and stop the US army, I think you are wrong.
NOW You, the US people have to fight for freedom, but not the freedom for guns, the freedom of speech, the freedom of information. You have to fight censorship and patents. Now in this fery moment there is much higher possibility for the US to be taken over and monopolized by corporations. Now information is you primary weapon - bear it!
I don't agree that all Linuxers hate Java!
I love Linux, I like Java, I use Java for lots of my needs (both GUI and server programming).
First of all the Linux community is a collection of people of all sorts and different interests. You can't say the Linux community likes this and dislikes that! Even some not so popular languages have large number of linux supporters
Socond Java is a very good language. I don't have time for pointing its features here but I think most of you are aware of them.
I don't say C/C++/Perl/Lisp are bad choises! In dact there better in most of the cases but Java is *very* good somethimes.
>most Chinese/ East European contributors to Linux >(like the people working on Chinese versions of >Linux) believe or even heard of libertarianism? I live in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria) and there lots of peaple here who have heard of libertarianiasm! I'm not aware about the situation in China. BTW freedom is the thing that highly centralized systems like communism are most afraid of. Freedom ruins them very fast and effectively I don't know what ERS said about Chinese but if he really stated that it would be bad if Chinese used made Linux their official OS - well millions of new Linux users is good but on the other hand if they are forced to do this it's very very bad - Everyone must be able to make his choise!(even if we don't like his choise) Most probably you have not lived in a country where your rights are higly retricted but it's awful. What if you were forced to use Windows:( The idea of the [open/free] software is to give everyone freedom!
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The right to bear arms was resonable when US was build, the purpose was to garantee that people are able to stop/trow a government they can't stop with legal democratic means (if there is some bug in the constitution, or some dictator takes control of the US). This was reasonable in the *past*. US won the war with UK, because a lot of poeple had guns.
But now this is useless! The technology has changed. The wars have changed!
Think about the wars in Serbia and Iraq. Were they won by people with light, simple guns? You need modern toys! Can you stop a tank with a pistol? Not to mention air crafts, navigation, communications,... If you think you can gather some fellows with guns and stop the US army, I think you are wrong.
NOW You, the US people have to fight for freedom, but not the freedom for guns, the freedom of speech, the freedom of information. You have to fight censorship and patents. Now in this fery moment there is much higher possibility for the US to be taken over and monopolized by corporations.
Now information is you primary weapon - bear it!
I don't agree that all Linuxers hate Java! I love Linux, I like Java, I use Java for lots of my needs (both GUI and server programming).
First of all the Linux community is a collection of people of all sorts and different interests. You can't say the Linux community likes this and dislikes that! Even some not so popular languages have large number of linux supporters
Socond Java is a very good language. I don't have time for pointing its features here but I think most of you are aware of them.
I don't say C/C++/Perl/Lisp are bad choises! In dact there better in most of the cases but Java is *very* good somethimes.
>most Chinese/ East European contributors to Linux >(like the people working on Chinese versions of >Linux) believe or even heard of libertarianism? I live in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria) and there lots of peaple here who have heard of libertarianiasm! I'm not aware about the situation in China. :( The idea of the [open/free] software is to give everyone freedom!
BTW freedom is the thing that highly centralized systems like communism are most afraid of. Freedom ruins them very fast and effectively
I don't know what ERS said about Chinese but if he really stated that it would be bad if Chinese used made Linux their official OS - well millions of new Linux users is good but on the other hand if they are forced to do this it's very very bad - Everyone must be able to make his choise!(even if we don't like his choise)
Most probably you have not lived in a country where your rights are higly retricted but it's awful. What if you were forced to use Windows