Actually, he doesn't need a lawyer, he needs a new government.
But yes, I would otherwise (apart from working to get a government which will abolish patents) ignore the whole "patents"-issue altogether and only worry when you're actually sued.
Software Piracy (‘soft-”wer ‘pI-r&-sE): Robbery of software on the high seas; the taking of software from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal.
> Saying that signing the Kyoto is sadomasochistic is ridiculous. That would be like calling > a 500 pound man who puts himself on a diet sadomasochistic.
Right. And it's not like we europeans have a lower standard of living, _despite_ of consuming only half the amount of oil, and producing half the amount of co2 per capita.
You sir, haven't ever worked with FreeBSD on a bigger scale. I'm Sysadmin for some hundreds of FreeBSD-Servers. And I wouldn't want to use FreeBSD for something like this ever again. I'd use Debian.
The first and second points of your post are completely irrelevant, as this depends solely on your taste, and furthermore, you can change it on Linux, respectively use several different interfaces.
The third however... I've never seen a so much fuck-upped packaging system as FreeBSD has, short of Solaris (and of course, there are some systems as windows, which have none at all). ESPECIALLY the totally bogus dependencies of FreeBSD.
And using the filesystem-structure, well, lets just mention that you can't build a FreeBSD-package without installing it. And you've got everything at least twice, including the "etc"-directory. Once where it should be, and once in/usr/local. There is nothing like a FSSTND
Want to know where libssl is? Well, it's in/usr/lib/ AND in/usr/local/lib/ AND there's an old version in/usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/.
Because, essentially, FreeBSD consists of a "base"-system which underlies no package-management, and a "ports"-system which offers some rudimentary package-management.
Some of the package-parameters may even be tweaked, either by using global variables in/etc/make.conf (you'll end up changing "WITHOUT_X11" every so often, depending on what you want to compile), or -- but only if you build with portinstall --/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. Some, like most options to./configure, may not be set, except if the package-manager has thought about it.
The price difference between a PC with windows and one without is about SFR 200 -- about USD 170. The Big Mac is SFR 6.50.
So instead of a windows I'd rather go to a nice restaurant, pay SFR 35 for something decent like veal and SFR 65 for two bottles of good red wine. Twice.
But yes, people in Switzerland are generally able to pay the Microsoft-Tax. The average income is about SFR 3300 a month -- with retirement funds and healthcare already paid.
Yes it is a direct democracy. This means we have two powers, apart from choosing our representatives: - The power to take up a referendum against a proposed law. This takes some 50'000 people to sign a paper saying so. If this suceeds, there will be a ballot where every citizen (from the age of 18 upwards) may vote for or against it. - The power to propose laws. This takes 100'000 people to back it. If that suceeds, there will again be a ballot.
The 26 cantons are not the main power. They have a lot to say in their respective area, like infrastructure or taxes, but they haven't too much to say when it comes to laws. Still, it's possible that one canton outlaws smoking in restaurants, where the others don't -- but it's just about impossible for a canton to lift the federal prohibition on drugs.
The voters from each canton send 2 representative to the "Ständerat", some kind like the US Senate (Upper House); and some more representatives, according to the population, to the Nationalrat (House of Commons). Both of these Houses need to ratify any proposed law. The Bundesrat (7 people) is the executive and is not directly chosen by the people, but by the Nationalrat and the Ständerat.
Anyway. This has just about nothing to do with the problem at hand. Which is that contrary to the rules, the Bundesverwaltung (administration; bureaucrats essentially) has given contracts to Microsoft without opening them for bids.
So the content not only got lost because of a stupid backup-strategy, but because of an even dumber login-required-strategy.
Linus said it: "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it;)" And thats precisly what avsim should have done.
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I don't see your problem with cursing; as it happens, there are also europeans here who don't share that specific american brain-damage (scissors-in-the-head) regarding curse- and cuss-words.
I'm a libertarian too, and I don't see that I could endorse any law which restricts someone else what he does with his property.
To quote http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/coffee.htm "Intellectual property law is not about your right to control your copy of your idea. What intellectual property law is really about is about your right to control my copy of your idea"
Dead authors, musicians, artists, etc don't see any benefit from it - they're dead.
"And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living" -- Thomas Babbington Macaulay, 1841
Actually, Thomas Jefferson said THIS about copyright:
"The saying there shall be no monopolies lessens the incitements to ingenuity, which is spurred on by the hope of a monopoly for a limited time, as of 14 years; but the benefit even of limited monopolies is too doubtful to be opposed to that of their general suppression."
I dare say this Thomas Jefferson would beat the RIAA, MPAA and the congress which allowed those copyright-extensions to bloody pulp.
I don't concur with Rome being peaceful. They were pretty belligerent. If you wanted to be someone politically, you had to server in the army first. If you wanted to raise really high, you had to conquer someone.
And no, crying "the Gaul have weapons of mass destruction" and calling the war of aggression a "retaliation" didn't count then anymore than it does now. Of course, now and then, it gets your population behind your war. For the rest, there is fast food and TV,
Well, FAT is mostly "not so fast". That thing _crawls_ if it has to cope with directories with lots of files.
Besides, the only use for that fucked-up filesystem is data exchange with operating systems which don't support decent filesystems. Unless I need that functionality, I'd use ext2.
I.e. a 25 year old guy will spend years in prison for screwing his 15 year old "girlfriend". A 18 year old guy gets probation. That's actually draconian from a swiss point of view. Here, the age-difference matters, and three years are allowed, up until both partners are 16 years old (age of consent). So an 18 years old teenager may fuck with a 15 years old one, but not a 14 years old one. And a 14 years old one may fuck with 11 to 17 years old ones.
Murderous tyrants can breathe easier now that we have a hand wringer for president.
The rest of the world is just glad that the president of the USA isn't the next murderous tyrant. And that along with the moron the fascists in his cabinet are gone too.
Well, its blindingly obvious that the Royal Navy is worth zilch and run by nincompoops and incompetents since July 31st 1970, 6 bells of the forenoon watch. That was when the last rum ration was issued.
So the move to use Microsoft Windows and the subsequent(and consequent) series of disasters associated with such an abysmal piece of software does not strike on as "odd" with the same rear-admirals (which probably carry the word "rear-" in front of their title in order to find their posteriors) who had risen up their ranks without their daily rum ration.
It should have been clear in 1970 that the Navy which ruled the waves for 200 years wouldn't take something like having their rum taken away lightly; and that most probably their best sailors and officers would turn away in disgust of such a move, leaving only the incompetent and spineless to run and ruin the Navy. And in recent times, leaving a software company from the USA to ruin the Navy. Perhaps they realised the case was hopeless and retired to a half-pay life of binge-drinking; at least they could have their rum on shore, to drown their shame in.
Well, I wouldn't. Because perl lacks some constructs you'll need later. Like "types".
I'd rather look for a language which offers many features and concepts to be found later (in the life) in other languges:
- A syntax like most languages (like C in fact -- perl would satisfy this) - Concepts like data-types (PHP, Perl, Python don't satisfy this) - the ability to program procedural OR object-oriented (C++, Perl) etc.
Which boils down to little more than C++. So I'd probably start with this (or with C, and let the Kids find out that C++ is available trough gcc too).
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How can you actually justify redeclaring a bookshelf as a Moby Dick Support Device? How can you really belief that argument?
Actually, he doesn't need a lawyer, he needs a new government.
But yes, I would otherwise (apart from working to get a government which will abolish patents) ignore the whole "patents"-issue altogether and only worry when you're actually sued.
Ask the bloody dictionary:
Software Piracy (‘soft-”wer ‘pI-r&-sE): Robbery of software on the high seas; the taking of software from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal.
Yes.
http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/conservativism-isnt/
And of course
http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/liberalism-isnt-either/
> Saying that signing the Kyoto is sadomasochistic is ridiculous. That would be like calling
> a 500 pound man who puts himself on a diet sadomasochistic.
Right. And it's not like we europeans have a lower standard of living, _despite_ of consuming only half the amount of oil, and producing half the amount of co2 per capita.
You sir, haven't ever worked with FreeBSD on a bigger scale. I'm Sysadmin for some hundreds of FreeBSD-Servers. And I wouldn't want to use FreeBSD for something like this ever again. I'd use Debian.
The first and second points of your post are completely irrelevant, as this depends solely on your taste, and furthermore, you can change it on Linux, respectively use several different interfaces.
The third however... I've never seen a so much fuck-upped packaging system as FreeBSD has, short of Solaris (and of course, there are some systems as windows, which have none at all). ESPECIALLY the totally bogus dependencies of FreeBSD.
And using the filesystem-structure, well, lets just mention that you can't build a FreeBSD-package without installing it. And you've got everything at least twice, including the "etc"-directory. Once where it should be, and once in /usr/local. There is nothing like a FSSTND
Want to know where libssl is? Well, it's in /usr/lib/ AND in /usr/local/lib/ AND there's an old version in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/.
Because, essentially, FreeBSD consists of a "base"-system which underlies no package-management, and a "ports"-system which offers some rudimentary package-management.
Some of the package-parameters may even be tweaked, either by using global variables in /etc/make.conf (you'll end up changing "WITHOUT_X11" every so often, depending on what you want to compile), or -- but only if you build with portinstall -- /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. Some, like most options to ./configure, may not be set, except if the package-manager has thought about it.
Summary: Gentoo is the better FreeBSD.
The price difference between a PC with windows and one without is about SFR 200 -- about USD 170. The Big Mac is SFR 6.50.
So instead of a windows I'd rather go to a nice restaurant, pay SFR 35 for something decent like veal and SFR 65 for two bottles of good red wine. Twice.
But yes, people in Switzerland are generally able to pay the Microsoft-Tax. The average income is about SFR 3300 a month -- with retirement funds and healthcare already paid.
Not quite..
Yes it is a direct democracy. This means we have two powers, apart from choosing our representatives:
- The power to take up a referendum against a proposed law. This takes some 50'000 people to sign a paper saying so. If this suceeds, there will be a ballot where every citizen (from the age of 18 upwards) may vote for or against it.
- The power to propose laws. This takes 100'000 people to back it. If that suceeds, there will again be a ballot.
The 26 cantons are not the main power. They have a lot to say in their respective area, like infrastructure or taxes, but they haven't too much to say when it comes to laws. Still, it's possible that one canton outlaws smoking in restaurants, where the others don't -- but it's just about impossible for a canton to lift the federal prohibition on drugs.
The voters from each canton send 2 representative to the "Ständerat", some kind like the US Senate (Upper House); and some more representatives, according to the population, to the Nationalrat (House of Commons). Both of these Houses need to ratify any proposed law. The Bundesrat (7 people) is the executive and is not directly chosen by the people, but by the Nationalrat and the Ständerat.
Anyway. This has just about nothing to do with the problem at hand. Which is that contrary to the rules, the Bundesverwaltung (administration; bureaucrats essentially) has given contracts to Microsoft without opening them for bids.
No, its not. Login/Password required. And Lame explanations why this should be necessary:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080116064652/http://www.avsim.com/
So the content not only got lost because of a stupid backup-strategy, but because of an even dumber login-required-strategy.
Linus said it: "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" And thats precisly what avsim should have done.
I don't see your problem with cursing; as it happens, there are also europeans here who don't share that specific american brain-damage (scissors-in-the-head) regarding curse- and cuss-words.
Non-production piracy is still piracy.
Yes, and you still be hanged for it. Yarr!
Intellectual Monopoly is not Property.
I'm a libertarian too, and I don't see that I could endorse any law which restricts someone else what he does with his property.
To quote http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/coffee.htm
"Intellectual property law is not about your right to control your copy of your idea. What intellectual property law is really about is about your right to control my copy of your idea"
Dead authors, musicians, artists, etc don't see any benefit from it - they're dead.
"And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living" -- Thomas Babbington Macaulay, 1841
The founding fathers would never stand for it.
Actually, Thomas Jefferson said THIS about copyright:
"The saying there shall be no monopolies lessens the incitements to ingenuity, which is spurred on by the hope of a monopoly for a limited time, as of 14 years; but the benefit even of limited monopolies is too doubtful to be opposed to that of their general suppression."
I dare say this Thomas Jefferson would beat the RIAA, MPAA and the congress which allowed those copyright-extensions to bloody pulp.
And its probably invalid due to prior art. The Rockridge-Extension to ISO 9660 (CD-Rom) probably predates it.
I don't concur with Rome being peaceful. They were pretty belligerent. If you wanted to be someone politically, you had to server in the army first. If you wanted to raise really high, you had to conquer someone.
And no, crying "the Gaul have weapons of mass destruction" and calling the war of aggression a "retaliation" didn't count then anymore than it does now. Of course, now and then, it gets your population behind your war. For the rest, there is fast food and TV,
That's what you get for Black Tot Day! You should never have stopped the grog. Inevitably this lead to the demise of the British Navy.
and it's an easy download for Macs and Linux machines.
Yes, try it with a 64bit-machine. Since last december a version is available. What it does is "not work" mostly.
Well, FAT is mostly "not so fast". That thing _crawls_ if it has to cope with directories with lots of files.
Besides, the only use for that fucked-up filesystem is data exchange with operating systems which don't support decent filesystems. Unless I need that functionality, I'd use ext2.
Yes, it's really not copied from MacOS X this time, it's from KDE!
http://www.internetling.com/2008/12/29/windows-7-the-kde-3-5-wannabe/
I.e. a 25 year old guy will spend years in prison for screwing his 15 year old "girlfriend". A 18 year old guy gets probation.
That's actually draconian from a swiss point of view. Here, the age-difference matters, and three years are allowed, up until both partners are 16 years old (age of consent). So an 18 years old teenager may fuck with a 15 years old one, but not a 14 years old one. And a 14 years old one may fuck with 11 to 17 years old ones.
Murderous tyrants can breathe easier now that we have a hand wringer for president.
The rest of the world is just glad that the president of the USA isn't the next murderous tyrant. And that along with the moron the fascists in his cabinet are gone too.
Well, its blindingly obvious that the Royal Navy is worth zilch and run by nincompoops and incompetents since July 31st 1970, 6 bells of the forenoon watch. That was when the last rum ration was issued.
So the move to use Microsoft Windows and the subsequent(and consequent) series of disasters associated with such an abysmal piece of software does not strike on as "odd" with the same rear-admirals (which probably carry the word "rear-" in front of their title in order to find their posteriors) who had risen up their ranks without their daily rum ration.
It should have been clear in 1970 that the Navy which ruled the waves for 200 years wouldn't take something like having their rum taken away lightly; and that most probably their best sailors and officers would turn away in disgust of such a move, leaving only the incompetent and spineless to run and ruin the Navy. And in recent times, leaving a software company from the USA to ruin the Navy. Perhaps they realised the case was hopeless and retired to a half-pay life of binge-drinking; at least they could have their rum on shore, to drown their shame in.
Such a sad state.
Well, I wouldn't. Because perl lacks some constructs you'll need later. Like "types".
I'd rather look for a language which offers many features and concepts to be found later (in the life) in other languges:
- A syntax like most languages (like C in fact -- perl would satisfy this)
- Concepts like data-types (PHP, Perl, Python don't satisfy this)
- the ability to program procedural OR object-oriented (C++, Perl)
etc.
Which boils down to little more than C++. So I'd probably start with this (or with C, and let the Kids find out that C++ is available trough gcc too).
Given Berlusconi is tied in with them, I'd guess not...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2638609.stm