If I don't approve of my tax dollars subsidizing a particular political campaign, may I demand that a candidate's money be revoked? If I don't believe in a particular military mission, may I demand that funding be revoked? If I disagree with corporate/farm/welfare/disaster recovery funding subsidies, may I demand that funding be revoked? Noone would believe that such a fine-grained funding scheme would even be possible, much less desirable. Why do people feel like the art world is any different? Sure, voice your opinion that you don't like a piece. But how is that any different than any other spending decision made with public funds?
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. -- Edward Abbey
It is a simple fact that artists are not compensated appropriately for their work. Public funding *IS* needed to support most forms of art. Even acceptable, highly-popular art like classical music needs public funding. So, pulling that funding is most definitely a form of censorship.
You've missed his point entirely. He is not praising Venture for his beliefs. He is not praising Singer for his beliefs. He is lamenting their inability to vocalize those beliefs in the strictures of contemporary America.
While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say. -- Lee Gomes
I'm glad to hear you've made it to world of Freenixs. It still isn't as painless as it needs to be, but the benefits will outweigh the cost in the long run.
I've had some problems with BA in the past too, but recently I've had a string of very positive incidents with the company and their technicians.
Just wanted some equity in the responses...
Re:Proof that slashdot trolls are little kiddies
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I was just thinking the same thing myself. What a pleasant change of pace to have a positive, exchange of information on the subject without a lot of flame crap.
> What does communication of ideas have to do with > using applications meant for another OS, It was a metaphor. Metaphors are used to imply a comparison.
Let's review:
Certainly, there is benefit to be gained from being able to run as many apps as possible from as many platforms as possible.
(Pay attention -- Now we are getting into the metaphor)
If an individual only spoke one language, that individual could only derive benefit from interacting with others of his ilk. If, however, I can speak multiple languages, I can derive great benefits from all that diversity and wealth of knowledge.
> I dare all BSD users to stop using all GPL'ed > applications and all Linux applications right > now and see how good your OS really is. A significant portion of that GPL'ed code is older than Linux and was designed to run on many operating systems. Therefore, Linux does not "own" them.
GPL != Linux
Applications != OS
Unix became what it did because of the exchange of ideas from the BSD as well.
Cross-polination, Dude. Stop trying to mandate that everyone speak the same language. Different ideas from different camps makes everything better.
> If they are so good why do they need Linux > compatibility, why, because they are jealous of > what we have. Or perhaps because we can. Linux emulation is one of the emulations supported.
Just because someone is multi-lingual doesn't mean they are jealous about what's being spoken in other languages. It means that they care to communicate and share ideas.
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Well, while not *HUGE*, "Mallrats" was made for $6 million. "Chasing Amy" was made for $250,000.
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Isn't that the basic strength of open source? Sure, if you never look at the code, many things could be hidden, but the threat of having millions of code weenies checking it out probably reduce the threat to a non-issue.
Leenoos Turfelds is tu be-a geefee un hunurery Ducturete-a degree-a frum zee Uneefersitiy ooff Stuckhulm. Mr. Turfelds is heeeled es zee creetur ooff zee Leenoox oopereteeng system, a ferseeun ooff Uneex imbreced by zee Oopee Suoorce-a mufement. Bork Bork Bork!
Awfully tough words against privacy issues for someone who hides behind an "Anonymous Coward" label... But, regardless, if you invite someone over for dinner, they have no right to start taking an inventory of what you have and setting up eavesdropping equipment to keep track of that after their stay is over...
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If I don't approve of my tax dollars subsidizing a particular political campaign, may I demand that a candidate's money be revoked? If I don't believe in a particular military mission, may I demand that funding be revoked? If I disagree with corporate/farm/welfare/disaster recovery funding subsidies, may I demand that funding be revoked? Noone would believe that such a fine-grained funding scheme would even be possible, much less desirable. Why do people feel like the art world is any different? Sure, voice your opinion that you don't like a piece. But how is that any different than any other spending decision made with public funds?
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. -- Edward Abbey
It is a simple fact that artists are not compensated appropriately for their work. Public funding *IS* needed to support most forms of art. Even acceptable, highly-popular art like classical music needs public funding. So, pulling that funding is most definitely a form of censorship.
You've missed his point entirely. He is not praising Venture for his beliefs. He is not praising Singer for his beliefs. He is lamenting their inability to vocalize those beliefs in the strictures of contemporary America.
While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say. -- Lee Gomes
I'm glad to hear you've made it to world of Freenixs. It still isn't as painless as it needs to be, but the benefits will outweigh the cost in the long run.
:)
For instance, no more "?'s" in your articles!
I've had some problems with BA in the past too, but recently I've had a string of very positive incidents with the company and their technicians.
Just wanted some equity in the responses...
I was just thinking the same thing myself. What a pleasant change of pace to have a positive, exchange of information on the subject without a lot of flame crap.
Warms the heart...
> What does communication of ideas have to do with
> using applications meant for another OS,
It was a metaphor. Metaphors are used to imply a comparison.
Let's review:
Certainly, there is benefit to be gained from being able to run as many apps as possible from as many platforms as possible.
(Pay attention -- Now we are getting into the metaphor)
If an individual only spoke one language, that individual could only derive benefit from interacting with others of his ilk. If, however, I can speak multiple languages, I can derive great benefits from all that diversity and wealth of knowledge.
> I dare all BSD users to stop using all GPL'ed
> applications and all Linux applications right
> now and see how good your OS really is.
A significant portion of that GPL'ed code is older than Linux and was designed to run on many operating systems. Therefore, Linux does not "own" them.
GPL != Linux
Applications != OS
Unix became what it did because of the exchange of ideas from the BSD as well.
Cross-polination, Dude. Stop trying to mandate that everyone speak the same language. Different ideas from different camps makes everything better.
> If they are so good why do they need Linux
> compatibility, why, because they are jealous of
> what we have.
Or perhaps because we can. Linux emulation is one of the emulations supported.
Just because someone is multi-lingual doesn't mean they are jealous about what's being spoken in other languages. It means that they care to communicate and share ideas.
Well, while not *HUGE*, "Mallrats" was made for $6 million. "Chasing Amy" was made for $250,000.
Try $20,000.
Isn't that the basic strength of open source? Sure, if you never look at the code, many things could be hidden, but the threat of having millions of code weenies checking it out probably reduce the threat to a non-issue.
While the project has had some flaws, excoriating it for its fringe lamer proponents is a little unfair. Where have we seen that before?
Leenoos Turfelds is tu be-a geefee un hunurery Ducturete-a degree-a frum zee Uneefersitiy ooff Stuckhulm. Mr. Turfelds is heeeled es zee
creetur ooff zee Leenoox oopereteeng system, a ferseeun ooff Uneex imbreced by zee Oopee Suoorce-a mufement. Bork Bork Bork!
Awfully tough words against privacy issues for someone who hides behind an "Anonymous Coward" label... But, regardless, if you invite someone over for dinner, they have no right to start taking an inventory of what you have and setting up eavesdropping equipment to keep track of that after their stay is over...