Your first point is an excellent one--there is always a temptation to focus on the negative, or over-accentuate the positive, at the expense of a realistic view.
Which leads into your second point, BTW. I dunno whom you mean by "people at large", or "perfectly natural" sexual activities. I do know what a realistic view of the equipment in question would suggest as "perfect" and "natural" uses, endorsed by such constituencies as Christianity. Also, I daresay, the overwhelming majority of cultures in all times and places. But hey, let's not just assert that (popularity == correct) here.
How about we pursue a "separation of bedroom and state"? That way, people can no longer feel guilty (I, for one, see no value in guilt), in private about acts that others may find unspeakable.
Voyeurism, as I see it, is symptomatic of the dry-rot that we'd be better off avoiding. Or, as in the Jane's Addiction song: "And the news is just another show with sex and violence."
How you tastefully manage things without slipping into some puritanical/victorian reality-distortion is an exercise in good taste.
Oh, I daresay even the most-postal post-modernist would become downright practical, bereft of his cushy little modern context.
And I worked on a doctorate for a couple of years, so I know whereof I speak.;)
However, I feel that the scout organization has fallen so far from its original intended roots
The organization is no more than the sum of its members.
The two or three scout parents I know are the kind of old fashioned, independent thinking, screw-the-post-modernists sort of people whom you'd want to have around in case of actual emergency. Can't speak for their sons, whom I have not met.
Succumbing to the moral dry-rot so rampant in contemporary America is something we have to eschew individually.
You make Theo de Raadt's point very nicely.
I bought a 300MB Seagate IDE drive and tried to install OpenBSD3.9 thereon.
Install was OK, but when I tried to compile some larger ports, the drive would error-out and the system locked hard.
Installed a new IDE controller (as the motherboard is relatively old), but problem no fix-fix.
Put in an older, smaller unit, all is good.
Gave the drive to a friend who runs Windows, who uses it happily.
My conclusion is that there are some ghosts in the machine.
Better documentation could be used for an exorcism.
Seagate: you draw vacuum.
Look at the various conspiracy theories in circulation: free speech could go anywhere.
Good taste constrains free speech to the "reasonable".
Re:/. is really more of an Alice in Chains crowd:
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Dot-Com Bubble v2.0?
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Ballmer reference "woven" in for exercise by the reader.
With a login like "LordSnooty", one would suppose your command of irregular verbs "more gooder".;)
/. is really more of an Alice in Chains crowd:
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Angry Chair
Sitting On An Angry Chair
Angry Walls That Steal The Air
Stomach Hurts And I Don't Care
What Do I See Across The Way
See Myself Molded In Clay
Stares At Me, Yeah I'm Afraid
Changing The Shape Of His Face
Candles Red I Have A Pair
Shadows Dancing Everywhere
Burning On The Angry Chair
Little Boy Made A Mistake
Pink Cloud Has Now Turned To Grey
All That I Want Is To Play
Get On Your Knees, Time To Pray Boy
I Don't Mind, Yeah
I Dont Mind, I-I-I
Lost My Mind, Yeah
But I Don't Mind, I-I-I
Can't Find It Anywhere
I Don't Mind
Corporate Prison We Stay
I'm A Dull Boy, Work All Day
So I'm Strung Out Anyway
Lonliness Is Not A Phase
Field Of Pain Is Where I Graze
Serenity Is Far Away
Saw My Reflection And Cried
So Little Hope That I Died
Feed Me Your Lies, Open Wide
Weight Of My Heart, Not The Size
Pink Cloud Has Now Turned To Grey
All That I Want Is To Play
Get On Your Knees Time To Pray
We'd hit the playground with a nerf football and play tag with it. Really needed to work on the hand/eye coordination and agility, plus little wind sprints to retrieve the ball after a miss.
Genuninely wish I could feel surprise that the state which has elected T. Kennedy, Kerry, Dukakis, Studds, and Romney would take such a tack.
Riches and poverty are subjective.
On of the richest men I never saw was the Amish fellow in Lancaster who refused to be cheapened by a CNN appearance--we got to hear his calm voice, while admiring his shins and shoes.
No one exceeds on heartbeat from their demise. Pursue wisdom; let the loot fall where it may.
Your assertion that US troops aren't going to bother to learn anything whatsoever about Iraq may hold true for a small minority.
However, the gadget will likely have a catalytic effect: given something that can ease some of the basic communication challenges, the bulk of the troops will likely become somewhat conversational rather quickly.
I base my remark on personal experiences of the US Navy in Japan and the Philippines--I wouldn't expect Iraq to be substantially different.
Your point about the need for good translators is not without merit, but the pessimistic tone elicits a yawn, sir.
Will the Wikipedians settle on emacs, or vi?
Will the Citizendoids reflexively assume the opposite editor?
Will the fresh reinforcements tip the balance in favor of either editor in Teh Eternal Struggle?
Anything to save us from the crap on cable news...
(pauses to open a root terminal and type #emerge --sync)
So, we can infer that there is at least one person with the attention span required to read the EULA.
Life is just too fscking short to be bored with these annoying Redmond details.
Particularly in a decade or so when all of those now-empowered youths learn enough English to take in http://www.paulgraham.com/
Suddenly, Western civilization is flattened by a limitless swarm of Lisp-powered shopping carts.
Not even OPEC will survive OLPC. Fear.
Oh, I wouldn't go blaming just Mr. Softy.
They're symptomatic.
Overall, it's just a thumb-wrestling match between buyer and seller, over the marketplace.
Best we can hope for is an even break.
So I think the YouTube acquisition may well represent a legal opportunity for Google (and the Internet industry generally), rather than a vulnerability. After all, litigation to define the copyright rules for new online services are inevitable -- better to choose your battles and plan for them, rather than fleeing the fight and letting some other company create bad precedents that will haunt you later.
In summary, RMS and the like are NOT the key to the continued existance of open source. That is like saying the current Pope is the key to the continued existance of Christianity.
I agree with you, for all I find the comparison with the Pontifex Maximus problematic.
RMS is someone whose reasoning I disagree with fundamentally, but still admire. He's played an extremist hand quite consistently, and has achieved much good.
Stylistically, I like TdR better. RMS's attempt to base his thought on ethics, without ever explicitely defining the origins of his ethical system, requires too great a leap of faith. The pragmatic approach of TdR avoids problematic abstractions.
However, neither RMS nor TdR seem to be accomplishing much in the way of delivering computing power to disadvantaged children. Some on the OpenBSD opined that it's all about enslaving a new market. Tip o' the hat to Gettys for persevering in the face of purely negative worldviews.
Between the two of them, the FSF, OpenBSD, and OLPC are getting considerable press out of the flap.
In the short term, Gettys is right: something is better than nothing. In the longer term, RMS and TdR are right. We need to continue towards a swell future where there is no source-code coupling between buyer and seller: you buy the gear, you own it.
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Your first point is an excellent one--there is always a temptation to focus on the negative, or over-accentuate the positive, at the expense of a realistic view.
Which leads into your second point, BTW. I dunno whom you mean by "people at large", or "perfectly natural" sexual activities. I do know what a realistic view of the equipment in question would suggest as "perfect" and "natural" uses, endorsed by such constituencies as Christianity. Also, I daresay, the overwhelming majority of cultures in all times and places. But hey, let's not just assert that (popularity == correct) here.
How about we pursue a "separation of bedroom and state"? That way, people can no longer feel guilty (I, for one, see no value in guilt), in private about acts that others may find unspeakable.
Voyeurism, as I see it, is symptomatic of the dry-rot that we'd be better off avoiding. Or, as in the Jane's Addiction song: "And the news is just another show with sex and violence." How you tastefully manage things without slipping into some puritanical/victorian reality-distortion is an exercise in good taste.
Oh, I daresay even the most-postal post-modernist would become downright practical, bereft of his cushy little modern context. ;)
And I worked on a doctorate for a couple of years, so I know whereof I speak.
The two or three scout parents I know are the kind of old fashioned, independent thinking, screw-the-post-modernists sort of people whom you'd want to have around in case of actual emergency. Can't speak for their sons, whom I have not met.
Succumbing to the moral dry-rot so rampant in contemporary America is something we have to eschew individually.
I was thinking of their new slogan, to replace "It just works.":
When the chips are down, MicroSoft will be there.
You make Theo de Raadt's point very nicely.
I bought a 300MB Seagate IDE drive and tried to install OpenBSD3.9 thereon.
Install was OK, but when I tried to compile some larger ports, the drive would error-out and the system locked hard.
Installed a new IDE controller (as the motherboard is relatively old), but problem no fix-fix.
Put in an older, smaller unit, all is good.
Gave the drive to a friend who runs Windows, who uses it happily.
My conclusion is that there are some ghosts in the machine.
Better documentation could be used for an exorcism.
Seagate: you draw vacuum.
Look at the various conspiracy theories in circulation: free speech could go anywhere.
Good taste constrains free speech to the "reasonable".
Ballmer reference "woven" in for exercise by the reader. ;)
With a login like "LordSnooty", one would suppose your command of irregular verbs "more gooder".
Angry Chair
Sitting On An Angry Chair
Angry Walls That Steal The Air
Stomach Hurts And I Don't Care
What Do I See Across The Way
See Myself Molded In Clay
Stares At Me, Yeah I'm Afraid
Changing The Shape Of His Face
Candles Red I Have A Pair
Shadows Dancing Everywhere
Burning On The Angry Chair
Little Boy Made A Mistake
Pink Cloud Has Now Turned To Grey
All That I Want Is To Play
Get On Your Knees, Time To Pray Boy
I Don't Mind, Yeah
I Dont Mind, I-I-I
Lost My Mind, Yeah
But I Don't Mind, I-I-I
Can't Find It Anywhere
I Don't Mind
Corporate Prison We Stay
I'm A Dull Boy, Work All Day
So I'm Strung Out Anyway
Lonliness Is Not A Phase
Field Of Pain Is Where I Graze
Serenity Is Far Away
Saw My Reflection And Cried
So Little Hope That I Died
Feed Me Your Lies, Open Wide
Weight Of My Heart, Not The Size
Pink Cloud Has Now Turned To Grey
All That I Want Is To Play
Get On Your Knees Time To Pray
ODERINT DVM METVANT
Let them hate so long as they fear.
Lucius Accius, Fragment
(170 BC - 86 BC)
We'd hit the playground with a nerf football and play tag with it. Really needed to work on the hand/eye coordination and agility, plus little wind sprints to retrieve the ball after a miss.
Genuninely wish I could feel surprise that the state which has elected T. Kennedy, Kerry, Dukakis, Studds, and Romney would take such a tack.
Riches and poverty are subjective.
On of the richest men I never saw was the Amish fellow in Lancaster who refused to be cheapened by a CNN appearance--we got to hear his calm voice, while admiring his shins and shoes.
No one exceeds on heartbeat from their demise. Pursue wisdom; let the loot fall where it may.
Yes, while all of the Warhammer games have been great, they are to game interfaces what C++ is to coding.
Or just s/autism/slashdotism/
Oh, wait...
More specifically, decadence is boring.
I wouldn't censor Stern--free speech is too important--except via the tuner.
...acting as referee between TdR and RMS, cycling through GPLv3 and OLPC.
She'd pass out, I'm bettin'.
Your assertion that US troops aren't going to bother to learn anything whatsoever about Iraq may hold true for a small minority.
However, the gadget will likely have a catalytic effect: given something that can ease some of the basic communication challenges, the bulk of the troops will likely become somewhat conversational rather quickly.
I base my remark on personal experiences of the US Navy in Japan and the Philippines--I wouldn't expect Iraq to be substantially different.
Your point about the need for good translators is not without merit, but the pessimistic tone elicits a yawn, sir.
Will the Wikipedians settle on emacs, or vi?
Will the Citizendoids reflexively assume the opposite editor?
Will the fresh reinforcements tip the balance in favor of either editor in Teh Eternal Struggle?
Anything to save us from the crap on cable news...
(pauses to open a root terminal and type #emerge --sync)
So, we can infer that there is at least one person with the attention span required to read the EULA.
Life is just too fscking short to be bored with these annoying Redmond details.
Particularly in a decade or so when all of those now-empowered youths learn enough English to take in http://www.paulgraham.com/
Suddenly, Western civilization is flattened by a limitless swarm of Lisp-powered shopping carts.
Not even OPEC will survive OLPC.
Fear.
Oh, I wouldn't go blaming just Mr. Softy.
They're symptomatic.
Overall, it's just a thumb-wrestling match between buyer and seller, over the marketplace.
Best we can hope for is an even break.
Yes. The sooner enough people get bent over and used by proprietary technology, the faster we can move on to something that doesn't suck like this.
This blog post http://battellemedia.com/archives/002973.php
Has this thoughtful closing:
It's about managing the debate, it seems.
No, no. The security holes in record #26 were far, far worse.
The Stones won't quit rolling, even if you drop them out of a tree.
Relax. Think about your breathing.
RMS is someone whose reasoning I disagree with fundamentally, but still admire. He's played an extremist hand quite consistently, and has achieved much good.
Stylistically, I like TdR better. RMS's attempt to base his thought on ethics, without ever explicitely defining the origins of his ethical system, requires too great a leap of faith. The pragmatic approach of TdR avoids problematic abstractions.
However, neither RMS nor TdR seem to be accomplishing much in the way of delivering computing power to disadvantaged children. Some on the OpenBSD opined that it's all about enslaving a new market. Tip o' the hat to Gettys for persevering in the face of purely negative worldviews. Between the two of them, the FSF, OpenBSD, and OLPC are getting considerable press out of the flap.
In the short term, Gettys is right: something is better than nothing.
In the longer term, RMS and TdR are right. We need to continue towards a swell future where there is no source-code coupling between buyer and seller: you buy the gear, you own it.