Using GNU/Linux and running proprietary software on top is almost as bad as just running MS Windows or OSX. The point is user freedom, and saying that "the average man/woman does x, therefore x is fine" is missing the point. You are running out of technical solutions to systematic problems. The day will come when Stallman's awful fiction story "The Right to Read" will come true, and you'll have to remember that we told you so.
At the risk of being late to the party, I've always thought of decryption as interpretation. The police have the hard drives and they may search them. Just because it looks like trash data, doesn't mean they do not have the data in question. Asking for decryption is asking for the data to be interpreted, something which they do not have the power to do.
And both you and I know that's a useless gesture, and sometimes you simply cannot boycott some companies. Tell me, can you find a computer not made in poor working conditions? Probably not. The problem is the system itself and the way we are headed to. The Americans have an obsession with "competing" with China and India, but this only means that they will end up working for Chinese and Indian wages in Chinese and Indian conditions. Don't worry about me. I'll be good enough to retire soon. You should worry about the people around you when they get tired of living like that.
The outrage is that this is the future that awaits most workers in almost any sector, and instead of trying to remedy this, we think it's a positive thing that people can choose between poor working conditions and starvation.
You don't consume it. At any given time there is x capacity. It either is being taken up or it's not. It might make sense to charge you more for using it during a peak hour, but that's not what any company has thus far proposed. Not that it matters anyway, because this wouldn't be a problem if they simply upgraded their networks with all that government cash they got.
Yes, it's not like the customers pay them every month for a service that costs pennies on the dollar to provide, and it's not like these telecoms routinely take government dollars to "upgrade" their networks, right? Yes, why if they don't charge you an arm and a leg using an arbitrary metric they won't be able to upgrade their network, which is why the US has the best service in the world, right? Oh, wait no.
Let me ask your question a different way: Would you take investment advice from a homeless person?
Well, that's an irrelevant question. Dr. Mason is an actual scientist, but he wouldn't need to be. A sophomore could tell me the same thing and I'd listen to him because the evidence stands on its own. If a homeless man came up to me and told me not to invest in something because of x and y reasons, and he backed those reasons up with sound arguments, yes, I'd listen to him. Maybe he's homeless because he was scammed in a similar way.
Would you be concerned if the surgeon who was about to operate on you had prison tattoos and canker sores?
But I have been seen by a doctor with tattoos, which is odd for me because many people in my country don't have tattoos. It turned out he used to be in the military.
But you see, the things you suggested might be pointers to incompetence are not found with Dr. Mason. The problem comes when you realize that you attacked Dr. Mason because he disagrees with you on an internet fight, not because he's been dismissed from academia, or because he's published false data, or anything like that. So again, how about you tell me how you think solar roadways would work? This should be easy for you, since you're not a homeless person and I assume you've taken at least one course in basic physics. As much as you try, you can't trick me. I am from a country with people far trickier than you.
Even if what you say about him is true (and it isn't as far as I've seen), what bearing does that have on what he has said? I don't need an old youtuber to tell me that solar roadways are a stupid idea. Next time attack the argument instead of the person. Better yet, how, in your words, would solar roadways work? Maybe if you perform this mental exercise you will realize why you sound so stupid.
I believe something like this actually happened in Texas already with shotguns being given to impoverished urban populations. Surprisingly no blood in the streets.
Sure, but I wonder why anyone would trust such things when the free version exists. You also shouldn't download binaries from random places on the internet. Remember, you don't know where it's been.
Who cares? Child porn is just an image of a crime scene. I don't see how a pedophile looking at it rapes the kid all over again. Go after the people actually abusing children.
In either case, it won't work. People will always find a way to share data and remain underground.
My guess is that a large part of that is simple copyright infringement or other such things. The "illegal content problem" is not really a problem. It's just people afraid of free speech and sharing of information.
And what if they sky was orange? It's a silly question, as criminals will always find a way to kill each other. In either case, if you are not a criminal, it likely will not affect you. How about tackling the gang problem? No, that would be difficult. It would take investment in communities, police work, and all sorts of hard things, and nobody wants that. No, let's put a band-aid on a hemorrhaging patient. At least that way, you can be content that gang members will be merely stabbing each other all while living in the same violent neighborhoods in squalid conditions.
It's obvious you are a troll. And as for having fewer guns, that didn't seem to work in Paris or California. It seems the problem is usually gang members, who are must of the murders in the US.
The rate was already dropping, and didn't drop any sharper. By that logic the US is safer because we have more guns and murder rates are still dropping.
So you are hoping that people who try to defend themselves are shot simply because they don't fit your ideology. It's nice knowing what people like you think of the value of human life. Must be why you are so quick to stand on corpses before they are even cold to give your terrible message.
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Using GNU/Linux and running proprietary software on top is almost as bad as just running MS Windows or OSX. The point is user freedom, and saying that "the average man/woman does x, therefore x is fine" is missing the point. You are running out of technical solutions to systematic problems. The day will come when Stallman's awful fiction story "The Right to Read" will come true, and you'll have to remember that we told you so.
We can do better than that. Call it the Hyper-loo.
This made me chuckle. I've supported gun rights before, but I bought my first gun last November. Interesting stuff.
At the risk of being late to the party, I've always thought of decryption as interpretation. The police have the hard drives and they may search them. Just because it looks like trash data, doesn't mean they do not have the data in question. Asking for decryption is asking for the data to be interpreted, something which they do not have the power to do.
And both you and I know that's a useless gesture, and sometimes you simply cannot boycott some companies. Tell me, can you find a computer not made in poor working conditions? Probably not. The problem is the system itself and the way we are headed to. The Americans have an obsession with "competing" with China and India, but this only means that they will end up working for Chinese and Indian wages in Chinese and Indian conditions. Don't worry about me. I'll be good enough to retire soon. You should worry about the people around you when they get tired of living like that.
The outrage is that this is the future that awaits most workers in almost any sector, and instead of trying to remedy this, we think it's a positive thing that people can choose between poor working conditions and starvation.
You don't consume it. At any given time there is x capacity. It either is being taken up or it's not. It might make sense to charge you more for using it during a peak hour, but that's not what any company has thus far proposed. Not that it matters anyway, because this wouldn't be a problem if they simply upgraded their networks with all that government cash they got.
Yes, it's not like the customers pay them every month for a service that costs pennies on the dollar to provide, and it's not like these telecoms routinely take government dollars to "upgrade" their networks, right? Yes, why if they don't charge you an arm and a leg using an arbitrary metric they won't be able to upgrade their network, which is why the US has the best service in the world, right? Oh, wait no.
I'm not sure why you think so, it's pretty standard to pay according to what you consume when supply (capacity) is limited.
Except that's not how bandwidth works. You don't consume bandwidth. This is why it doesn't make sense.
The entire concept of paying per multiple of bytes is ridiculous anyway. Maybe Verizon customers will decide this clown doesn't need their money.
Let me ask your question a different way: Would you take investment advice from a homeless person?
Well, that's an irrelevant question. Dr. Mason is an actual scientist, but he wouldn't need to be. A sophomore could tell me the same thing and I'd listen to him because the evidence stands on its own. If a homeless man came up to me and told me not to invest in something because of x and y reasons, and he backed those reasons up with sound arguments, yes, I'd listen to him. Maybe he's homeless because he was scammed in a similar way.
Would you be concerned if the surgeon who was about to operate on you had prison tattoos and canker sores?
But I have been seen by a doctor with tattoos, which is odd for me because many people in my country don't have tattoos. It turned out he used to be in the military. But you see, the things you suggested might be pointers to incompetence are not found with Dr. Mason. The problem comes when you realize that you attacked Dr. Mason because he disagrees with you on an internet fight, not because he's been dismissed from academia, or because he's published false data, or anything like that. So again, how about you tell me how you think solar roadways would work? This should be easy for you, since you're not a homeless person and I assume you've taken at least one course in basic physics. As much as you try, you can't trick me. I am from a country with people far trickier than you.
Even if what you say about him is true (and it isn't as far as I've seen), what bearing does that have on what he has said? I don't need an old youtuber to tell me that solar roadways are a stupid idea. Next time attack the argument instead of the person. Better yet, how, in your words, would solar roadways work? Maybe if you perform this mental exercise you will realize why you sound so stupid.
That was sarcasm. I don't personally own a gun, but I would like to one day.
I believe something like this actually happened in Texas already with shotguns being given to impoverished urban populations. Surprisingly no blood in the streets.
Or you can just refuse to use proprietary software that puts the interests of the developer over those of the user.
Sure, but I wonder why anyone would trust such things when the free version exists. You also shouldn't download binaries from random places on the internet. Remember, you don't know where it's been.
Who cares? Child porn is just an image of a crime scene. I don't see how a pedophile looking at it rapes the kid all over again. Go after the people actually abusing children. In either case, it won't work. People will always find a way to share data and remain underground.
My guess is that a large part of that is simple copyright infringement or other such things. The "illegal content problem" is not really a problem. It's just people afraid of free speech and sharing of information.
I guess the obvious solution to the problem is to just fork this project with the GPL instead. I bet that would make for some saltiness.
And what if they sky was orange? It's a silly question, as criminals will always find a way to kill each other. In either case, if you are not a criminal, it likely will not affect you. How about tackling the gang problem? No, that would be difficult. It would take investment in communities, police work, and all sorts of hard things, and nobody wants that. No, let's put a band-aid on a hemorrhaging patient. At least that way, you can be content that gang members will be merely stabbing each other all while living in the same violent neighborhoods in squalid conditions.
Alsp, he's just a journalist, a winner of the Hayek prize. Gee, I wonder why he doesn't think it's a problem. Nice to put ideology before facts.
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It's obvious you are a troll. And as for having fewer guns, that didn't seem to work in Paris or California. It seems the problem is usually gang members, who are must of the murders in the US.
The rate was already dropping, and didn't drop any sharper. By that logic the US is safer because we have more guns and murder rates are still dropping.
Or you can compare one nation against itself, before and after. Of course, that would require you to be intellectually honest.
So you are hoping that people who try to defend themselves are shot simply because they don't fit your ideology. It's nice knowing what people like you think of the value of human life. Must be why you are so quick to stand on corpses before they are even cold to give your terrible message.