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I can Yell at the top of my lungs that gays are going to hell. But the second I start saying that Gay's need to be punished, it stops being protected speech.
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Tell that to the Sheaf, who didn't in any way threaten anyone, with their offensive cartoon.
Exactly how would you do this? Everything will be done on computers in the future, taxes, job applications, schooling, you name it.
If we don't create alternatives now(and not in 10-25 years), the Trusted Computing Group will p3wn us.
For those keeping score there's only one key peice missing:
a law requiring the use of this DRM, or making illegal non DRM stuff, for the trusted computing group to win.
" Prove how convinced you are by putting your money where your mouth is, and if you're right, you'll amass a fortune."
But what if one don't *have* any money, and if you've exhausted ones creditors??
If there's anything that this is proving, it's that the crazies are not in the minority here. 500,000 people chanting "death to america, death to israel?"
but 500,000 out of 1,000,000,000 is still clearly in the minority.
That's the problem when you're dealing with people on the orders of billions, a million or two here (the ~1/1000 moonbats) get out of hand, and if they have sufficient capital they can cause serious concequences, if not totally unset the already fragile global state of affairs.
I'm all for taking responsibility for actions but...
How the hell do you do this? Will every ant I smush require payment to his family for damages? What about all the air I'm breathing? I don't think I have any way of really making it less CO2 since I don't own anything that could grow plants with. What about all the time I'm wasting of people who are reading these words here on slashdot? The people who are hurt because their loved ones are wasting time on slashdot? the people who are negatively effected by people who are vocal with them due to psychological struggling with themselves due to the lack of their loved ones who are too busy being tied up reading my words on slashdot?
There are externalities that no one considers, while your guideline is a good one, I don't think it's airtight.
You sir, just shot yourself in the foot. I can understand "Schadenfreude" iff I already have an understanding of the components of set A (A={the, malicious, satisfaction, obtained, from, the, misfortune, of, others}). Since english allows the members of set A to be expressed, english also allows "Schadenfreude" to be understood. Now, I could be incorrect here, but I'm pretty sure the idea here is that if Sapir-Whorf were the case, and if you were missing an understanding of any members of A, you would not understand "Schadenfreude" without another explanation.
"the vietnam era hippies (beatles etc.) were a politically-motivated group, rebelling against the establishment. that's why they actually accomplished something."
Actually, most of them were pot/acid filled horny teenagers with nothing better to do. just like every other "movement" of that kind in the last, oh, I think I can safely say 'couple millenia'. I can't provide any really old examples, but I'm pretty sure they existed. Heard of punks? (maybe a north american+UK thing). they think they're an important movement too. so do many gays. Even metalheads often do. secretly, though, they're just a bunch of kids who have similiar taste in music. maybe they have similiar taste in politics too, but rocking out tends not to changed the world much.
the golden age era beatniks (kerouac etc.) were a politically-motivated group, rebelling against the establishment. that's why they actually accomplished something. Even so, most beatniks were in it for the easy sex and the benzedrine.
"Many people do leave their countries. They overwhelmingly come to the US. "
I keep hearing this.
Perhaps...this is a misconception?
Perhaps there are just so many people surging out of every nations borders that the US has no choice but to notice that there are people trying to overflow into its borders?
News flash, dude, the world is overpopulated, and a billion children born in the next, what, 7 years? are going to need room to live, effectively causing an economic push to places like, say, the US where the native population cannot sustain itself. That, I believe, is the real reason that people "overwhelmingly come to the US"; every other square inch of this rock has been taken, or poisoned, or has been taken over by US-backed fanatic dictators.
You weren't very specific as far as what the difference is between opinion and ideology.
So far what I can tell, is that you're saying an opinion is something you think that you will do, whereas an ideology is something you think others should do. Is this correct? Define your terms, as you made little sense.
"The only point of contention that we do really follow religiously is the idea of intellectual property."
We need no such thing and at least the free software movement does *not* follow religiously the idea of "intellectual property." I think what you meant to think was that the point of contention is that you really want to follow religiously the idea of copyright. Then the rest of your post would read as follows.
" Many OSS/FSF supporters indeed support copyright, but only as a method of naming authors. I support copyright insofar as credit is given where credit is due. Money and excessive restrictions (such as DRM) are completely invalid (in my view). This is the only valid "cause" that I think OSS really has. Otherwise we would get along quite well with M$ and the other big guys. Walker in his article points out that IBM and other big names have latched on to OSS as a means for symbiosis. This is the strength of his argument. It is really a good article."
Because if you used that other term your statement would be completely meaningless.
Unless something significant has changed, the government of Canada is just shy of 500B$CAN at the moment. The liberal government has been lowering that number for a little while(although way too slow for my liking) source.
"it used to be commonplace, well into the 20th century, to refer to someone who drove a hard bargain as a Jew. Now tell me is it mere 'political correctness' which prevents us from using the word Jew in this way, or is it that we have become a more enlightened species?"
That phrase is still commonplace here, especially in the jewish community.
It depresses me.
It seems to me absurd that you need permission to record a song from a giant beaurocracy who more often than not will not grant permission. What a great way to entice artists to record new and better songs.
Repeated sites is an option that you can turn off. I don't know what version you were using that it was so buggy, but I'm pretty sure all bugginess stopped many versions ago. We're on version 2.1 now, iirc.
Besides, with time the network that stumbleupon has access to will grow as the people on it both grow in number and experience.
Granted I don't want to give you the idea that stumbleUpon is perfect; It's just pretty damn good and the main reason you cite (that it repeats sites) isn't a bug; it's a feature, that can be turned off. (The idea is for people on dialup or who don't Stumble very often, a small prefetched list is often enough. Power users of course, need more).
StumbleUpon is the next iteration of the evolution of the WWW. It's both addicting as hell, and helps to create content. Don't just be a blogger; be a Stumbler! StumbleUpon:Generica blog::Computer:Television.
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During most of my life I've worked on weekends; usually friday night, saturday sunday. And pretty much everything interesting worthy of my time involving large numbers of people was either on a friday, sunday or saturday; I would have however probably been able to make this zombie-march-thing, since it was on a tuesday. You cannot please everyone's schedule all the time; and to think that everyone should follow your schedule is pure hubris.
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" I can Yell at the top of my lungs that gays are going to hell. But the second I start saying that Gay's need to be punished, it stops being protected speech. "
Tell that to the Sheaf, who didn't in any way threaten anyone, with their offensive cartoon.
You could have enslaved the south, and repopulated it. Then you get the land AND rid of the backwards hicks.
Instructions????
but what if your wallet is empty?
Exactly how would you do this? Everything will be done on computers in the future, taxes, job applications, schooling, you name it.
If we don't create alternatives now(and not in 10-25 years), the Trusted Computing Group will p3wn us.
For those keeping score there's only one key peice missing:
a law requiring the use of this DRM, or making illegal non DRM stuff, for the trusted computing group to win.
" Prove how convinced you are by putting your money where your mouth is, and if you're right, you'll amass a fortune."
But what if one don't *have* any money, and if you've exhausted ones creditors??
albertan scum
every problem can be solved with sufficient doses of drugs.
If there's anything that this is proving, it's that the crazies are not in the minority here. 500,000 people chanting "death to america, death to israel?"
but 500,000 out of 1,000,000,000 is still clearly in the minority.
That's the problem when you're dealing with people on the orders of billions, a million or two here (the ~1/1000 moonbats) get out of hand, and if they have sufficient capital they can cause serious concequences, if not totally unset the already fragile global state of affairs.
nt
I'm all for taking responsibility for actions but...
How the hell do you do this? Will every ant I smush require payment to his family for damages? What about all the air I'm breathing? I don't think I have any way of really making it less CO2 since I don't own anything that could grow plants with. What about all the time I'm wasting of people who are reading these words here on slashdot? The people who are hurt because their loved ones are wasting time on slashdot? the people who are negatively effected by people who are vocal with them due to psychological struggling with themselves due to the lack of their loved ones who are too busy being tied up reading my words on slashdot?
There are externalities that no one considers, while your guideline is a good one, I don't think it's airtight.
You sir, just shot yourself in the foot. I can understand "Schadenfreude" iff I already have an understanding of the components of set A (A={the, malicious, satisfaction, obtained, from, the, misfortune, of, others}). Since english allows the members of set A to be expressed, english also allows "Schadenfreude" to be understood.
Now, I could be incorrect here, but I'm pretty sure the idea here is that if Sapir-Whorf were the case, and if you were missing an understanding of any members of A, you would not understand "Schadenfreude" without another explanation.
"the vietnam era hippies (beatles etc.) were a politically-motivated group, rebelling against the establishment. that's why they actually accomplished something." Actually, most of them were pot/acid filled horny teenagers with nothing better to do. just like every other "movement" of that kind in the last, oh, I think I can safely say 'couple millenia'. I can't provide any really old examples, but I'm pretty sure they existed. Heard of punks? (maybe a north american+UK thing). they think they're an important movement too. so do many gays. Even metalheads often do. secretly, though, they're just a bunch of kids who have similiar taste in music. maybe they have similiar taste in politics too, but rocking out tends not to changed the world much. the golden age era beatniks (kerouac etc.) were a politically-motivated group, rebelling against the establishment. that's why they actually accomplished something. Even so, most beatniks were in it for the easy sex and the benzedrine.
"Many people do leave their countries. They overwhelmingly come to the US. "
I keep hearing this.
Perhaps...this is a misconception?
Perhaps there are just so many people surging out of every nations borders that the US has no choice but to notice that there are people trying to overflow into its borders?
News flash, dude, the world is overpopulated, and a billion children born in the next, what, 7 years? are going to need room to live, effectively causing an economic push to places like, say, the US where the native population cannot sustain itself. That, I believe, is the real reason that people "overwhelmingly come to the US"; every other square inch of this rock has been taken, or poisoned, or has been taken over by US-backed fanatic dictators.
"FBI Says MS-Windows Costs Billions Every Year due to negligence." That's what they *should* say, but nooo.
You weren't very specific as far as what the difference is between opinion and ideology.
So far what I can tell, is that you're saying an opinion is something you think that you will do, whereas an ideology is something you think others should do. Is this correct? Define your terms, as you made little sense.
"The only point of contention that we do really follow religiously is the idea of intellectual property."
We need no such thing and at least the free software movement does *not* follow religiously the idea of "intellectual property." I think what you meant to think was that the point of contention is that you really want to follow religiously the idea of copyright. Then the rest of your post would read as follows.
" Many OSS/FSF supporters indeed support copyright, but only as a method of naming authors. I support copyright insofar as credit is given where credit is due. Money and excessive restrictions (such as DRM) are completely invalid (in my view). This is the only valid "cause" that I think OSS really has. Otherwise we would get along quite well with M$ and the other big guys. Walker in his article points out that IBM and other big names have latched on to OSS as a means for symbiosis. This is the strength of his argument. It is really a good article."
Because if you used that other term your statement would be completely meaningless.
Unless something significant has changed, the government of Canada is just shy of 500B$CAN at the moment. The liberal government has been lowering that number for a little while(although way too slow for my liking)
source.
goedel escher bach d:
"it used to be commonplace, well into the 20th century, to refer to someone who drove a hard bargain as a Jew. Now tell me is it mere 'political correctness' which prevents us from using the word Jew in this way, or is it that we have become a more enlightened species?"
That phrase is still commonplace here, especially in the jewish community.
It depresses me.
It seems to me absurd that you need permission to record a song from a giant beaurocracy who more often than not will not grant permission. What a great way to entice artists to record new and better songs.
Repeated sites is an option that you can turn off. I don't know what version you were using that it was so buggy, but I'm pretty sure all bugginess stopped many versions ago. We're on version 2.1 now, iirc.
Besides, with time the network that stumbleupon has access to will grow as the people on it both grow in number and experience.
Granted I don't want to give you the idea that stumbleUpon is perfect; It's just pretty damn good and the main reason you cite (that it repeats sites) isn't a bug; it's a feature, that can be turned off. (The idea is for people on dialup or who don't Stumble very often, a small prefetched list is often enough. Power users of course, need more).
StumbleUpon is the next iteration of the evolution of the WWW. It's both addicting as hell, and helps to create content. Don't just be a blogger; be a Stumbler! StumbleUpon:Generica blog::Computer:Television.
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During most of my life I've worked on weekends; usually friday night, saturday sunday. And pretty much everything interesting worthy of my time involving large numbers of people was either on a friday, sunday or saturday; I would have however probably been able to make this zombie-march-thing, since it was on a tuesday. You cannot please everyone's schedule all the time; and to think that everyone should follow your schedule is pure hubris.