What you call "tackling homelessness" will only incite more poor people with no skill to come to California to profit from the new money. The new money won't take homeless people off the streets, it will just attract more homeless people. Look at what is happening in Europe and the migrant crisis.
If open source software is amoral, then why try to impose a moral code of conduct among developers? Criticizing others for their censorship, while at the same using censorship to impose one's morality, is either a lack of self-awareness, or pure hypocrisy.
We were once strong people, who never hesitated to brave the world. Our strength allowed us to create the greatest civilization that ever existed. We used our strength to help others. We developed their countries, we gave them science, technology, medicine, and advanced philosophy. The whole world benefited from our strength and our generosity.
Now, we are a bunch of weak individuals who are afraid someone might use bad words. We feel so weak that we can't tolerate strength anymore. We shame strong people, because we are afraid of them. We are so weak that now the only thing we can do is to virtue signal, in the hope that other people won't hurt us.
Torvalds and to a lesser degree Stallman are in the image of our civilization. They were once strong men. Their strength allowed them to create great and successful projects, that the whole world could benefit from. Now they have become weak. They don't hope for excellence anymore, they hope for kindness, so they don't get hurt. It's sad.
You are right, that's why we should make sure we reduce the world population. Since first world countries consume more meat than third world countries, we should make sure those countries are the first to see their population diminish. As pretty much all of them have a natural negative growth rate, the only thing we have to do is to stop immigration in order to save the planet.
The "borrowed from a friend" was a loophole in the law, it was not in the spirit of the law. I'm not aware of any attempt by the recording industry to test it in court. However, since this way of sharing music generally encourage buying music, I suspect the music industry would never try to make this illegal.
As for the FTP server, it is "communicating to the public by telecommunication", and therefore clearly illegal. The reason a judge dismissed a case against the 29 P2P users was not because it was legal, but because the judge denied a request to order the ISPs to disclose the identity of their customers. The judged dismiss the case because of a lack of evidence, not because putting music on an FTP server or a shared directory is legal. Many people interpreted the case being dismissed as a proof file-sharing was legal, but that interpretation is completely wrong.
As for now, since piracy has been replaced with subscription services, the recording industry doesn't care that much about it anymore.
We were free to make copies of music we already bought. We didn't have the right to copy music we didn't buy ourselves first, nor to distribute copies of music we bought to someone else.
The subject is the mass hysteria against Russia in the US, which is the result of some people voluntarily trying to present any information out of context for political objectives. The goal of this "fake news" (information out of context is "fake news") is to demonize Russia (or Iran) in order to instill fear so people stop asking questions, or to associate political adversaries to this new boogeyman to easily destroy their reputation.
Mentioning that the US government, like all governments, uses all its power to regularly hack and spy on foreign governments, foreign agencies and even foreign businesses to help American businesses get lucrative contracts is relevant because it puts context back. The hope is to make people realize that this anti-Russia hysteria is ridiculous and only the result of manipulation.
I'm not saying the Russian government doesn't have spies, I'm saying the Russian government does not have a monopoly on hackers. Right now, the same way everyone having a "dissenting" opinion is called a Russian bot, every time a kid is hacking something, he is called a GRU officer. This is absolutely ridiculous and people who believe this are incredibly gullible.
BTW, do you remember when it was revealed the NSA was tapping 125 phones of German officials, including Angela Merkel phone? Don't you think the US government hacking and spying pretty much the whole German government for 20 years is a bit more serious than some Russian spies casing a building in the Netherlands?
It's just more anti-Russian hysteria (and government propaganda).
I mean don't you find it strange that the US justice department is able to determine the name of the officers who were in charge of the hacking? I mean they can find the method used, they can find the IP of a zombie used for the attack, if they can put their hands on the zombie they could find the IP of the one controlling the zombie, but finding the names of the officers who worked on that mission? Sorry, I don't believe that for a second. It's all bullshit.
Signed a guy who lives in Montreal (Canada) and who is using his real name for his user name.
You say the GPL is about politics, and then you say the CoC is about "forbidding" politics. If what you say is true, then the logical conclusion is the CoC is about forbidding the GPL.
Of course, what you say is not true at all. Both the GPL and the CoC are about ideologies. The GPL was about freedom, the CoC is about enforcing "equality", "safe space", and other leftist ideologies (which is basically about giving power to the weak, and removing power from the strong).
People who supported Linux generally did it because they supported the idea of freedom. From now on, if the CoC is not abandoned, supporting Linux will mean support leftist ideologies.
The CoC will exclude a lot of potential contributors who do not want to support leftist ideologies.
Feminists like you forget too easily that men also didn't have a right to vote. For example, in the UK, the universal right to vote for men was given at the exact same time as the universal right to vote for women. Feminists like you forget that men were sent to die on battlefields and they were the ones doing all dangerous work. The reality is feminists like you forget women were always protected and privileged. Men were always considered as having less value than women.
In today's society, the difference of perceived value is still everywhere. Let me take a very mundane example. Where I live (Montreal), a woman can ask a bus driver to drop her between two bus stops, in order to reduce the risk of her being assaulted. A man can't ask for this privilege, even though in Canada men are three times more likely to be the victim of a level 2 assault (with physical violence or the use of a weapon), and four times more likely to be the victim of a level 3 assault (resulting in injuries).
We are now to a point where white men are discriminated against openly, and everyone find this acceptable. We are now to a point where white men are nothing but second-class citizen by society. What is crazy is that you find this blatant discrimination against white men to be morally a good thing.
Although it's common for www.mysite.com to be a CNAME for mysite.com, this is not always the case. This means Chrome might display the same URL for two different web pages.
What do you suggest? That people who make mistakes are not punished? If that's your solution then people will stop caring about their jobs, they will make more and more mistakes, and finishing a project without flaws will become impossible. People who make mistakes should accept to be punished, and if they can't accept that, meaning if they try to hide their mistakes, they should be punished even more. Rogozin did exactly what any good manager should do.
It's very rare when it's -32C or below in Montreal. Last winter, the coldest temperature was on January 14 with -27C.
Since 1941, there was a total of 8 days with -32C or below (Dorval airport) :
Jan 15, 1957 with -37.8 Jan 4, 1981 with -35.2 Feb 15, 1943 with -33.9 Jan 3, 1981 with -33.5 Feb 16, 1943 with -33.3 Dec 25, 1980 with -32.4 Dec 20, 1942 with -32.2 Feb 10, 1951 with -32.2
I certainly don't feel bad for this guy, nor for anyone who is hiding behind anonymity, even if they share my political views. The reason why a minority of extremists can impose their politically correct / feminist / SJW dictatorship is because people use anonymity on the Internet and shut up in real life.
The only way democracy can work is if people speak up in real life. It's time people learn to do their citizen duties.
Anyway, you are naive. The reality is the vast majority of "news" you get are a subset of facts which are selected, interpreted and put into a specific context by the media. They are not "raw" facts. This selection, interpretation and the context presented make that news, in effect, opinions.
If you compare different media, particularly if you compare different media from different countries, you will realize that the same event can look quite different. This difference is even more visible when you compare Western media with media like RT, Al Jazeera, or the China Daily. For example, the war in Syria as reported by Western media, and the war in Syria reported by RT looked like it was two completely different wars.
You claim RT is not reliable, maybe, but Western media are even less reliable. Between the dictatorship of the politically correct, the lack of critical thinking from Western journalists, and the political agenda of each media, Western media are now so biased that they don't really inform anymore..
The irony is that you are only repeating the propaganda of American media.
RT is a very important source of information for me. I get news and opinions that are censored or manipulated everywhere else. Of course RT is not perfectly neutral, and because of its desire to publish as many opinions as possible it sometimes ends up publishing bullshit, but it is still far less driven by its political agenda and far less manipulative than Western media.
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What you call "tackling homelessness" will only incite more poor people with no skill to come to California to profit from the new money. The new money won't take homeless people off the streets, it will just attract more homeless people. Look at what is happening in Europe and the migrant crisis.
When I want to know where I am, I look at the name of the streets, or mile markers, not at patches of grass.
If open source software is amoral, then why try to impose a moral code of conduct among developers? Criticizing others for their censorship, while at the same using censorship to impose one's morality, is either a lack of self-awareness, or pure hypocrisy.
We were once strong people, who never hesitated to brave the world. Our strength allowed us to create the greatest civilization that ever existed. We used our strength to help others. We developed their countries, we gave them science, technology, medicine, and advanced philosophy. The whole world benefited from our strength and our generosity.
Now, we are a bunch of weak individuals who are afraid someone might use bad words. We feel so weak that we can't tolerate strength anymore. We shame strong people, because we are afraid of them. We are so weak that now the only thing we can do is to virtue signal, in the hope that other people won't hurt us.
Torvalds and to a lesser degree Stallman are in the image of our civilization. They were once strong men. Their strength allowed them to create great and successful projects, that the whole world could benefit from. Now they have become weak. They don't hope for excellence anymore, they hope for kindness, so they don't get hurt. It's sad.
I thought Android was based on Linux and several other open source softwares. Thanks for teaching me that it is instead an American made product.
Nortel? A crown jewel of Canadian IT? Really? Will you tell us next that Canadian Tire is the epitome of quality and customer service?
You are right, that's why we should make sure we reduce the world population. Since first world countries consume more meat than third world countries, we should make sure those countries are the first to see their population diminish. As pretty much all of them have a natural negative growth rate, the only thing we have to do is to stop immigration in order to save the planet.
The "borrowed from a friend" was a loophole in the law, it was not in the spirit of the law. I'm not aware of any attempt by the recording industry to test it in court. However, since this way of sharing music generally encourage buying music, I suspect the music industry would never try to make this illegal.
As for the FTP server, it is "communicating to the public by telecommunication", and therefore clearly illegal. The reason a judge dismissed a case against the 29 P2P users was not because it was legal, but because the judge denied a request to order the ISPs to disclose the identity of their customers. The judged dismiss the case because of a lack of evidence, not because putting music on an FTP server or a shared directory is legal. Many people interpreted the case being dismissed as a proof file-sharing was legal, but that interpretation is completely wrong.
As for now, since piracy has been replaced with subscription services, the recording industry doesn't care that much about it anymore.
We were free to make copies of music we already bought. We didn't have the right to copy music we didn't buy ourselves first, nor to distribute copies of music we bought to someone else.
The subject is the mass hysteria against Russia in the US, which is the result of some people voluntarily trying to present any information out of context for political objectives. The goal of this "fake news" (information out of context is "fake news") is to demonize Russia (or Iran) in order to instill fear so people stop asking questions, or to associate political adversaries to this new boogeyman to easily destroy their reputation.
Mentioning that the US government, like all governments, uses all its power to regularly hack and spy on foreign governments, foreign agencies and even foreign businesses to help American businesses get lucrative contracts is relevant because it puts context back. The hope is to make people realize that this anti-Russia hysteria is ridiculous and only the result of manipulation.
I'm not saying the Russian government doesn't have spies, I'm saying the Russian government does not have a monopoly on hackers. Right now, the same way everyone having a "dissenting" opinion is called a Russian bot, every time a kid is hacking something, he is called a GRU officer. This is absolutely ridiculous and people who believe this are incredibly gullible.
BTW, do you remember when it was revealed the NSA was tapping 125 phones of German officials, including Angela Merkel phone? Don't you think the US government hacking and spying pretty much the whole German government for 20 years is a bit more serious than some Russian spies casing a building in the Netherlands?
It's just more anti-Russian hysteria (and government propaganda).
I mean don't you find it strange that the US justice department is able to determine the name of the officers who were in charge of the hacking? I mean they can find the method used, they can find the IP of a zombie used for the attack, if they can put their hands on the zombie they could find the IP of the one controlling the zombie, but finding the names of the officers who worked on that mission? Sorry, I don't believe that for a second. It's all bullshit.
Signed a guy who lives in Montreal (Canada) and who is using his real name for his user name.
Evidence? That's so 1960. We now know that feelings are much more important to determine the truth than any of those "evidence" you speak of.
You say the GPL is about politics, and then you say the CoC is about "forbidding" politics. If what you say is true, then the logical conclusion is the CoC is about forbidding the GPL.
Of course, what you say is not true at all. Both the GPL and the CoC are about ideologies. The GPL was about freedom, the CoC is about enforcing "equality", "safe space", and other leftist ideologies (which is basically about giving power to the weak, and removing power from the strong).
People who supported Linux generally did it because they supported the idea of freedom. From now on, if the CoC is not abandoned, supporting Linux will mean support leftist ideologies.
The CoC will exclude a lot of potential contributors who do not want to support leftist ideologies.
Pushing for the PC agenda in order to please feminists and leftists generally ends up badly.
Feminists like you forget too easily that men also didn't have a right to vote. For example, in the UK, the universal right to vote for men was given at the exact same time as the universal right to vote for women. Feminists like you forget that men were sent to die on battlefields and they were the ones doing all dangerous work. The reality is feminists like you forget women were always protected and privileged. Men were always considered as having less value than women.
In today's society, the difference of perceived value is still everywhere. Let me take a very mundane example. Where I live (Montreal), a woman can ask a bus driver to drop her between two bus stops, in order to reduce the risk of her being assaulted. A man can't ask for this privilege, even though in Canada men are three times more likely to be the victim of a level 2 assault (with physical violence or the use of a weapon), and four times more likely to be the victim of a level 3 assault (resulting in injuries).
We are now to a point where white men are discriminated against openly, and everyone find this acceptable. We are now to a point where white men are nothing but second-class citizen by society. What is crazy is that you find this blatant discrimination against white men to be morally a good thing.
Although it's common for www.mysite.com to be a CNAME for mysite.com, this is not always the case. This means Chrome might display the same URL for two different web pages.
What do you suggest? That people who make mistakes are not punished? If that's your solution then people will stop caring about their jobs, they will make more and more mistakes, and finishing a project without flaws will become impossible. People who make mistakes should accept to be punished, and if they can't accept that, meaning if they try to hide their mistakes, they should be punished even more. Rogozin did exactly what any good manager should do.
Remember Ada or the multitude of languages that wanted to "human proof" programming? Why do you think Rust is different? Why do you reject Ada?
It's very rare when it's -32C or below in Montreal. Last winter, the coldest temperature was on January 14 with -27C.
Since 1941, there was a total of 8 days with -32C or below (Dorval airport) :
Jan 15, 1957 with -37.8
Jan 4, 1981 with -35.2
Feb 15, 1943 with -33.9
Jan 3, 1981 with -33.5
Feb 16, 1943 with -33.3
Dec 25, 1980 with -32.4
Dec 20, 1942 with -32.2
Feb 10, 1951 with -32.2
I certainly don't feel bad for this guy, nor for anyone who is hiding behind anonymity, even if they share my political views. The reason why a minority of extremists can impose their politically correct / feminist / SJW dictatorship is because people use anonymity on the Internet and shut up in real life.
The only way democracy can work is if people speak up in real life. It's time people learn to do their citizen duties.
Get Woke, Go Broke.
I said "news and opinions".
Anyway, you are naive. The reality is the vast majority of "news" you get are a subset of facts which are selected, interpreted and put into a specific context by the media. They are not "raw" facts. This selection, interpretation and the context presented make that news, in effect, opinions.
If you compare different media, particularly if you compare different media from different countries, you will realize that the same event can look quite different. This difference is even more visible when you compare Western media with media like RT, Al Jazeera, or the China Daily. For example, the war in Syria as reported by Western media, and the war in Syria reported by RT looked like it was two completely different wars.
You claim RT is not reliable, maybe, but Western media are even less reliable. Between the dictatorship of the politically correct, the lack of critical thinking from Western journalists, and the political agenda of each media, Western media are now so biased that they don't really inform anymore..
If you want real propaganda/disinformation outlet, look at all Western media.
The irony is that you are only repeating the propaganda of American media.
RT is a very important source of information for me. I get news and opinions that are censored or manipulated everywhere else. Of course RT is not perfectly neutral, and because of its desire to publish as many opinions as possible it sometimes ends up publishing bullshit, but it is still far less driven by its political agenda and far less manipulative than Western media.