> Luckily, most people in my society agree with me, and there is a way for a society to collectively make rules for itself. They're called laws.
You have a fundamental misconception as to how laws happen. Just because something is a law doesn't mean most people agree with it, know about it, or would like it if they found out.
Laws come from a few people with a strong preference that push hard for them, and not enough people with an equally strong preference and a strong political presence opposing them. The vast majority of people are entirely ignorant of the vast majority of laws. Even the people that pass the laws generally don't bother to read them. It's still entirely possible for laws that serve a few and only mildly inconvenience many to get created. I frequently think this must be the default.
These laws can still be exaggerated to the point of stupidity. I lived for several years in a new condo, part of a three unit building. The parking area (just for the three private residences - not shared with any business) had four spaces, and two of them were legally required to be marked as handicapped, even though no one that lived there (and no one that visited) could legally use them.
This was just stupid, and as a result of having to park on the street for years at my own home, I dislike ADA type laws, and think they should be abolished, because they're not going to be made sane.
I've heard a lot of arguments against the GPL, but come on, it's not easy or cheap to make your GPL'd source available? That takes the biscuit. All it needs is a tiny bit of paper in the box with your product, or a single file on the disk that says we make our source available at this URL...
Welcome to/., where someone can, in the same paragraph, talk about how easy it is to follow the GPL and get the GPL wrong.
I used to run that server, and had the MaxServers set at 150, so I guess it's my fault. I sent mail, and they upped the MaxServers from 150 to 256, then recompiled and upped again to 512. It should be better now, sorry bout that.
> If you want unrestricted access to the net, get
> your own connection and pay for it!
If you want unrestricted access to books, buy your own library. If you are poor, you don't deserve to read anyway.
Wrong. My tax dollars pay for the library, and I don't want my or anyone elses access blocked because parents are too lazy and stupid to take care of their own children.
Current blocking software blocks a lot more than porn as "objectionable", and it uses secret blocking lists. I don't want my library to be blocked from viewing the ACLU site just because it's easier than responsible parenting.
If you don't want your kids to ever see anything objectionable, gouge out their eyes. Until then, don't tell me to prevent them from seeing.
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> (can a construct be nauseated? the answer may surprise you)
Doing something horrid enough to leave a mindless robot incapacitated with disgust is something everyone should strive for in D&D.
Sadly, I have no mod points to mark this Flamebait
The Linux community is what keeps the masses away from Linux.
The GPLv3 just scares off corporations.
> Luckily, most people in my society agree with me, and there is a way for a society to collectively make rules for itself. They're called laws.
You have a fundamental misconception as to how laws happen. Just because something is a law doesn't mean most people agree with it, know about it, or would like it if they found out.
Laws come from a few people with a strong preference that push hard for them, and not enough people with an equally strong preference and a strong political presence opposing them. The vast majority of people are entirely ignorant of the vast majority of laws. Even the people that pass the laws generally don't bother to read them. It's still entirely possible for laws that serve a few and only mildly inconvenience many to get created. I frequently think this must be the default.
These laws can still be exaggerated to the point of stupidity. I lived for several years in a new condo, part of a three unit building. The parking area (just for the three private residences - not shared with any business) had four spaces, and two of them were legally required to be marked as handicapped, even though no one that lived there (and no one that visited) could legally use them.
This was just stupid, and as a result of having to park on the street for years at my own home, I dislike ADA type laws, and think they should be abolished, because they're not going to be made sane.
Welcome to
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DistributeWithSourceOnInternet
We don't get out much anymore. It takes forever to render these new comment threads in Mosaic.
That's a lie, you have opinions on everything.
Creating himself a solid, known base of operations would be the dumbest thing I could imagine him doing right now.
I used to run that server, and had the MaxServers set at 150, so I guess it's my fault. I sent mail, and they upped the MaxServers from 150 to 256, then recompiled and upped again to 512. It should be better now, sorry bout that.
> If you want unrestricted access to the net, get
> your own connection and pay for it!
If you want unrestricted access to books, buy your own library. If you are poor, you don't deserve to read anyway.
Wrong. My tax dollars pay for the library, and I don't want my or anyone elses access blocked because parents are too lazy and stupid to take care of their own children.
Current blocking software blocks a lot more than porn as "objectionable", and it uses secret blocking lists. I don't want my library to be blocked from viewing the ACLU site just because it's easier than responsible parenting.
If you don't want your kids to ever see anything objectionable, gouge out their eyes. Until then, don't tell me to prevent them from seeing.