A "Christian" terrorist killing abortion doctors is explicitly doing it to influence the behaviour of other abortion doctors.
Terrorism is a tactic. It has been used by governments against their people (France, where the term was invented), revolutionaries, states (Allied bombing campaigns against German cities, German bombing campaigns against British cites), Christians, Islamists, Budhists, Hindus, Comunists, Capitalists....
Some common sense! You can't copyright software on its own! It must be part of a device that you are copyrighting.
I think you're confusing copyright and patents. Of course you can copyright software. Saying you can't copyright software is like daying you can't copyright poetry.
no it isn't, in spite of word "terrorism" having the word "terror" in it. Terrorists simply want to kill certain people, out of hatred and a feeling of powerlessness.
Crap. The meaning of terrorism is the same as it always was -
Attempting to achieve polilical ends by terrorising your enemies.
You know, "shock and awe".
People who say shit like "they hate our freedom" or "terrorists just want to kill certain people out of hatred" are either idiots with their fingers in their ears or people trying to distract you from what's really going on.
And yes, I do use FreeBSD exclusively on everything but my laptop.
Why don't you use FreeBSD on your laptop?
The BSD license allows people to use code for pretty much whatever purpose, provided that they don't claim to have written it. The GPL allows people to use code for whatever purpose -- provided they conform to the GPL ideology, license their code under the GPL, and don't use it in certain ways that Stallman et al. think are unacceptable.
You are an idiot troll.
The GPL requires that software derived from GPL code be distributed under the GPL. End users must get access to the code under the same terms you got access to the code. If you don't want to give people the same freedom you got then fuck off.
Nobody gets any influence over your "ideology". Stallman gets no veto over what is acceptable use. That is your paranoid fantasy.
Download Minix and you get a microkernel OS. Browsing the FTP site for packages and I see SSH, X, Vim, the make suite and Perl. It seems any actual useful programs are left as an exercise to the student.
Are there any useful programs other than SSH, X, Vim, make and Perl?
BSD has been around for a long time and is still with us, but in terms of usability it's still light years behind Linux.
Some examples are needed here. Just exactly how is BSD harder to use than Linux?
The biggest thing that irks me about the BSDs, is a complete lack of decent package management and decent installers that do most of the hard work for you.
If they were to say something like, "The earth is a big place and there's all kinds of weird weather everywhere, every year, and it's been like that since the beginning of time, and the planet goes through regular cycles of long ice ages with short warm interglacial period in between, and we really don't know when the next ice age is gonna come, but there's not much we can do about it", there wouldn't be a reason for their existence and their jobs, is there?
It wouldn't fit the science, either.
You know, they don't pull this stuff out of there arses, unlike you.
We do have the best healthcare — overall, despite recent attempts to damage it — you just can't trust outfits like WHO to compare it, because in their openly-Socialist opinion, the worst thing you could say about a healthcare system, is that it is "not free".
Assuming by "we" you mean the USA...... you are out of your gourd.
And indeed, this would be the perfect weapon for initiating a nuclear war - launch and strike the opposing forces command structure before they are aware (as you note), just as the plan was with the B-2 Spirit - but much quicker.
And of course that lead to the USSR developing headless launch capabilities which, if it wasn't for Stanislav Petrov would have killed us all.
If Stuxnet is designed to prevent the total destruction of Israel
That's a big "if" you're waving around there partner.
Stuxnet could be a weapon designed for use against Iran, possibly by Israel, but "designed to prevent the total destruction of Israel", that's pretty hyperbolic.
People who mess with the military often find themselves six feet under (unless they're cremated first).
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Cretin.
Executing 6 million Jews, plus another 5 million Gypsies and homosexuals, was also a tactic.
No, that was a goal.
You use tactics to obtain what you want.
The extermination of the "undesirables" was what the Nazis wanted to do, not a tactic.
Don't be fucking stupid.
There is no double standard.
A "Christian" terrorist killing abortion doctors is explicitly doing it to influence the behaviour of other abortion doctors.
Terrorism is a tactic. It has been used by governments against their people (France, where the term was invented), revolutionaries, states (Allied bombing campaigns against German cities, German bombing campaigns against British cites), Christians, Islamists, Budhists, Hindus, Comunists, Capitalists....
Some common sense! You can't copyright software on its own! It must be part of a device that you are copyrighting.
I think you're confusing copyright and patents. Of course you can copyright software. Saying you can't copyright software is like daying you can't copyright poetry.
no it isn't, in spite of word "terrorism" having the word "terror" in it. Terrorists simply want to kill certain people, out of hatred and a feeling of powerlessness.
Crap. The meaning of terrorism is the same as it always was -
Attempting to achieve polilical ends by terrorising your enemies.
You know, "shock and awe".
People who say shit like "they hate our freedom" or "terrorists just want to kill certain people out of hatred" are either idiots with their fingers in their ears or people trying to distract you from what's really going on.
I'll take the $500B version that Solyndra got!
What fucked up fantasy land are you living in?
Solyndra got a loan guarantee of 535M, not B.
You do know there is a 3 orders of magnitude difference?
"nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
Where is the Judicial branch in that?
I was just thinking... you could give that $98bn to someone like SpaceX, and have them build a working, *profitable* lunar or space colony.
Well, profitable for SpaceX.
Fuck, give me $98bn, I'd be profitable too.
And yes, I do use FreeBSD exclusively on everything but my laptop.
Why don't you use FreeBSD on your laptop?
The BSD license allows people to use code for pretty much whatever purpose, provided that they don't claim to have written it. The GPL allows people to use code for whatever purpose -- provided they conform to the GPL ideology, license their code under the GPL, and don't use it in certain ways that Stallman et al. think are unacceptable.
You are an idiot troll.
The GPL requires that software derived from GPL code be distributed under the GPL. End users must get access to the code under the same terms you got access to the code. If you don't want to give people the same freedom you got then fuck off.
Nobody gets any influence over your "ideology". Stallman gets no veto over what is acceptable use. That is your paranoid fantasy.
Download Minix and you get a microkernel OS. Browsing the FTP site for packages and I see SSH, X, Vim, the make suite and Perl. It seems any actual useful programs are left as an exercise to the student.
Are there any useful programs other than SSH, X, Vim, make and Perl?
BSD has been around for a long time and is still with us, but in terms of usability it's still light years behind Linux.
Some examples are needed here. Just exactly how is BSD harder to use than Linux?
The biggest thing that irks me about the BSDs, is a complete lack of decent package management and decent installers that do most of the hard work for you.
Debian?
It's easy to understand.
BSD::GNU as Somalia::USA.
Mods: this is flamebait, not troll.
Linux would insist upon using a large number of partitions.
For values of "large" that include "one".
The Daily Fail? You're posting a link to the Daily Fail?
Watch out, that could cause cancer.
http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/
First it was "Global Warming", then when it became obvious that wasn't happening it was "Climate Change".
No.
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=global+warming%2Cclimate+change&year_start=1970&year_end=2008&corpus=5&smoothing=3
Click the little linky thing.
If they were to say something like, "The earth is a big place and there's all kinds of weird weather everywhere, every year, and it's been like that since the beginning of time, and the planet goes through regular cycles of long ice ages with short warm interglacial period in between, and we really don't know when the next ice age is gonna come, but there's not much we can do about it", there wouldn't be a reason for their existence and their jobs, is there?
It wouldn't fit the science, either.
You know, they don't pull this stuff out of there arses, unlike you.
True, but the point of perimetr was that the loop would still exist even after a so called "decapitation" strike.
We do have the best healthcare — overall, despite recent attempts to damage it — you just can't trust outfits like WHO to compare it, because in their openly-Socialist opinion, the worst thing you could say about a healthcare system, is that it is "not free".
Assuming by "we" you mean the USA... ... you are out of your gourd.
And indeed, this would be the perfect weapon for initiating a nuclear war - launch and strike the opposing forces command structure before they are aware (as you note), just as the plan was with the B-2 Spirit - but much quicker.
And of course that lead to the USSR developing headless launch capabilities which, if it wasn't for Stanislav Petrov would have killed us all.
Well, there are two possibilities here, one of the is that anonymous GP is a prat.
The other is, WOOOSH.
Wait, was that a neutrino?
Oh, so you recognize Palestine as a nation now?
Do you float in water?
But who else would Iran use their nuclear weapons on?
I don't know.
Who would the US use their nuclear weapons on? Or the UK, France, Russia, China, Israel?
Iran is not an arab country.
If Stuxnet is designed to prevent the total destruction of Israel
That's a big "if" you're waving around there partner.
Stuxnet could be a weapon designed for use against Iran, possibly by Israel, but "designed to prevent the total destruction of Israel", that's pretty hyperbolic.
People who mess with the military often find themselves six feet under (unless they're cremated first).
Who's military are you talking about here?
It's generally animals that come across as being closer to humans in their intelligence / emotions that people are averse to eating.
Pigs.
Almost indistinguishable from most human beings.
Very tasty indeed.
Bullshit.
Somewhere between 2 to 24 billion barrels recoverable.
US consumption is around 7 billion barrels a year.
So it'd last between 3 months and 3 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakken_formation