>You are clearly unfamiliar with the finer points of intellectial debate or argumentative contention, so I will merely quote again the idiocy that makes it relevant, as you apparently have no idea:
your clearly unfamiliar with concept of a logical falicy.
>Newton's law of universal gravitation
a diffrent concept with the same name.
>Do you think this is a motherfucking game? Trust me, child, I do not "play" with words, though it seems you are referring to what we familiar with the English language refer to as semantics
at this point I feel like I've bit the troll. Speaking of English works, are you familiar with Irony. What about the fable of the pot calling the kettle black?
Despite being socially obtuse and offputting, Stallman is not only litterate in his correspondence, uncompromising in moral character, and keen at percieving threats to our freedoms.
Most Americans are not. Instead most Americans look to the TV, we look to celebrities. We look to proffesional PR men, and "Event organizers" more concerned about their own social capital and position on the ladder. We've become a nation of 12 year old girls, more concerned about appearance than substances. This is why America is rotting.
If more people had principles, we wouldn't have to worry about SOPA/PIPA, the DMCA, and people might vote for canidates that made a diffrence.
Between him and Schiener, I say is this generations two defining intellectuals.
>It is a point of contention whether initial drafts of the Constititution were written on hemp paper
fucking irrelivant.
>but abstract concepts that are either universal principles describing the fundamental nature of something or, in this case, statutes passed by a legislative body.
and your missing an abstract concept that law is only as good as its enforced. Trying holding up a piece of paper to a squad of armed men and see how good it protects you.
The concept of a written document is only as good as people willing to enforce it. In the USA, the constitution has only been enforced at the convience of the government. Ever, in history.
Thinking it protects you has precident. Now matter how much you want to play with words. Speaking of abstract concepts, it doesn't seem like you can understand those either.
thats bullshit. I know the constitution inside and out. The constitution is just that, a piece of paper. All laws are just that, pieces of fucking paper.
If the system won't enforce the laws, they for all intents and purposes don't exist. Stop arguing over technicalities.
Look at the former soviet union, which on paper, was a democracy with strong civil rights protections.
Heck, even on paper North Korea is a democracy with a very popular elected leader.
Its easy to see it somewhere else, but its sometimes hard to see the forrest from the trees
The implications of mathematics are fairly abstracted in terms, but in an engineering driven society, math is behind everything we do.
Encryption, the cornerstone of secure internet, is based on heavy math, and mathmatical relations.
Heck, all computers algorythms are math, and math is needed to optimize them.
statistics is what advertisers use to target ads, given access to people's personal information can draw mathematical relationships between habbits and demographics, and between demographics and desires, and strengths and weaknesses.
Politicians use the same sort of advertising model to construct campaigns, and law enforcement/military, to target dissedents.
>As a former teacher, the problem is that people want to spend money on ***EVERYTHING*** other than what will help educate children: public schools with the highest-paid, best trained teachers in the world
basicly as a former teacher, all a shit you care about is how much you get paid. See this is the fucking problem.
The other problem is that entire debate about education revolves around how money is being spent and where.
The biggest problem with our education system is the prussian style obediance training.
the %1 should not be taken as a litteral definition, because its fucking terrible.
the term One Percent has been an idiom in American English for a very long time. Its used to denote outliers which are exceptions to the rule.
Its general context is that 99% of group X fit characteristic Y, and its pretty safe to assume that X ~= Y, and its just %1 of cases, which are considered rare, Y doesn't happen or isn't true ( X != Y) , and the %1 are outliers, and exceptions to a rule.
The term is used by OWS, to say the Rich are outliers, who don't share the same troubles and burdens as us. Its a great term, but like the phrase "the one percent" in general, it should not be taken litterally.
The real definition we should look is not how much money someone makes, but their control over the system, i.e. ownership, and how much policy they control via softpower.
the entire concept of "middle class" is bullshit, you still work for your money, the entire concept you can earn a living wage does not make you special, better, or an oppressor, because your no more in control than someone living pay check to pay check.
Its also disingenious to lump people making $75k a year rich, even if they are comfortable. Its nothing more than a plot by the people who run the system to shift the blame.
Before them, it was the koch brothers, before then it was bilderberg, before that it was dupont, and standard oil, etc..... going all the way back to alexander hamilton and his federalist cronies lobbying for big business intrests of the day.
Here is a fact about today's society. We are ruled by the television, who has what rights is deterimined by PR men, and sold to you with celebrities, they determine what is and is not culturally acceptable, and they can and do change standards everyear to suit their will.
Want it to stop?
start a cultural revolution. Next time your in a movement for change, tell the PR and admen your not for sale.
At least when I was growing up, people were not affraid to say "I'm not for sale".
welp, if you were paying attention, its a lot more than metadata, and something closer to a perverse total take of all information on all systems at all time by all people, world wide, with attempts to crack encryption, and automaticly analyse it.
middle class office workers *are* incompetant. They have nice paying "intellectual labor" jobs not because they are smart, but because they fit the cultural mode that the boss wants them around the office.
When they are too stupid to figure things out they point fingers at other's shortcommings as the reason why.
I actually use gnome 3, and I'd hate to see it gone. I think even with its problems, its the future.
Sure they made some bad decisions.
>"The Outreach Program for Women (OPW) helps women (cis and trans) and genderqueer get involved in free and open source software." They've had around 30 interns for their most recent cycle.
I agree with the fact that someone needs to do this, but a desktop like gnome shouldn't be burdend. Why can't all the wealthy philanthropers with lots of money pay for these girls, instead of making a broke non for profit do it.
Or why can't be just start a foundation to teach minorities and women to code, funded by itself?
I am beginning to think that what the world needs is more female hackers, so we can beat the agitators to the punch. We also need more minorities.
the intent is to keep the scene the scene without letting corporate agitators use race, sex, etc... as an excuse to divide the scene and force agendas.
Think about how everytime some alternative brand of politics is brought up, and the usual corporate tools spend weeks harping that the effort to buy minority votes the major party spent means we are not racist/sexist for following them.
We see these proffesional activists show up in the geek/hacker scene trying to make a name for themselves by cherry picking examples to blow up for fame and fortune, while meanwhile they don't contribute anything, either personality or code.
We call this "lock ins", because its impossible to use anything else, even if what you have is pretty shitty. Windows might suck, but its the only thing that works for your specific software.
This is the only thing keeping windows, and for that matter, microsoft going. People don't like microsoft, they have to use it.
No, there is no short term solution.
Long term, microsoft is fucked, because when it launches new products, no one gives a fuck.
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>You are clearly unfamiliar with the finer points of intellectial debate or argumentative contention, so I will merely quote again the idiocy that makes it relevant, as you apparently have no idea:
your clearly unfamiliar with concept of a logical falicy.
>Newton's law of universal gravitation
a diffrent concept with the same name.
>Do you think this is a motherfucking game? Trust me, child, I do not "play" with words, though it seems you are referring to what we familiar with the English language refer to as semantics
at this point I feel like I've bit the troll. Speaking of English works, are you familiar with Irony. What about the fable of the pot calling the kettle black?
and without math, we'd have no modern society.
as long as people have exchanged goods and services for money, we've had math.
as long as we've made boats, or anything but the most basic structures, we've had some form of math.
to find human civilization that could possibly function without math, your going back to the stone age.
Astronomy, so you know when to plant the crops, and calenders, math.
Despite being socially obtuse and offputting, Stallman is not only litterate in his correspondence, uncompromising in moral character, and keen at percieving threats to our freedoms.
Most Americans are not. Instead most Americans look to the TV, we look to celebrities. We look to proffesional PR men, and "Event organizers" more concerned about their own social capital and position on the ladder. We've become a nation of 12 year old girls, more concerned about appearance than substances. This is why America is rotting.
If more people had principles, we wouldn't have to worry about SOPA/PIPA, the DMCA, and people might vote for canidates that made a diffrence.
Between him and Schiener, I say is this generations two defining intellectuals.
feature phone is the industry term for what we call "dumb" phones.
i.e. old motorola four letter phones running p2k os
>It is a point of contention whether initial drafts of the Constititution were written on hemp paper
fucking irrelivant.
>but abstract concepts that are either universal principles describing the fundamental nature of something or, in this case, statutes passed by a legislative body.
and your missing an abstract concept that law is only as good as its enforced. Trying holding up a piece of paper to a squad of armed men and see how good it protects you.
The concept of a written document is only as good as people willing to enforce it. In the USA, the constitution has only been enforced at the convience of the government. Ever, in history.
Thinking it protects you has precident. Now matter how much you want to play with words. Speaking of abstract concepts, it doesn't seem like you can understand those either.
thats bullshit. I know the constitution inside and out. The constitution is just that, a piece of paper. All laws are just that, pieces of fucking paper.
If the system won't enforce the laws, they for all intents and purposes don't exist. Stop arguing over technicalities.
Look at the former soviet union, which on paper, was a democracy with strong civil rights protections.
Heck, even on paper North Korea is a democracy with a very popular elected leader.
Its easy to see it somewhere else, but its sometimes hard to see the forrest from the trees
I think they mean its rare for them to get caught or prosecuted for it.
The only real crime in the USA is not being able to pull it off.
There is no rule of law. Its simply what you can get away with.
> Given Jobs's immense popularity, prosecutors might not have wanted to risk a trial,
This is why I'm an Anarchist.
>Where's your perspective coming from
citizen of a suposed free democracy.
>Philosphopy is the the father of all knowledge.
bullshit. Math is the father of all knowledge *which is not subjective*
>Did you know Pythagoras was a philospher ?
he was also a mathematician. His work in math is not directly related to philosphy. Nor do the two follow.
you drive a car to work, its go to know your its *air fuel ratio* is set correctly. Whats that math?
what about the mathmatical modeling done to put your engine driven machine together.
Or your mathematicaly arranged bicylce gears for you fucking hippies.
When you went to the fucking store, and bought something, you counted change with....math.
buildings stand because of mathematical calculations based on strength and materials.
ecetera ecetera ecetera.
The implications of mathematics are fairly abstracted in terms, but in an engineering driven society, math is behind everything we do.
Encryption, the cornerstone of secure internet, is based on heavy math, and mathmatical relations.
Heck, all computers algorythms are math, and math is needed to optimize them.
statistics is what advertisers use to target ads, given access to people's personal information can draw mathematical relationships between habbits and demographics, and between demographics and desires, and strengths and weaknesses.
Politicians use the same sort of advertising model to construct campaigns, and law enforcement/military, to target dissedents.
>As a former teacher, the problem is that people want to spend money on ***EVERYTHING*** other than what will help educate children: public schools with the highest-paid, best trained teachers in the world
basicly as a former teacher, all a shit you care about is how much you get paid. See this is the fucking problem.
The other problem is that entire debate about education revolves around how money is being spent and where.
The biggest problem with our education system is the prussian style obediance training.
well yes. The economist is a well written rag, but just remember its an opinion journal written by unabashed capitalists. Nothing more.
the %1 should not be taken as a litteral definition, because its fucking terrible.
the term One Percent has been an idiom in American English for a very long time. Its used to denote outliers which are exceptions to the rule.
Its general context is that 99% of group X fit characteristic Y, and its pretty safe to assume that X ~= Y, and its just %1 of cases, which are considered rare, Y doesn't happen or isn't true ( X != Y) , and the %1 are outliers, and exceptions to a rule.
The term is used by OWS, to say the Rich are outliers, who don't share the same troubles and burdens as us. Its a great term, but like the phrase "the one percent" in general, it should not be taken litterally.
The real definition we should look is not how much money someone makes, but their control over the system, i.e. ownership, and how much policy they control via softpower.
the entire concept of "middle class" is bullshit, you still work for your money, the entire concept you can earn a living wage does not make you special, better, or an oppressor, because your no more in control than someone living pay check to pay check.
Its also disingenious to lump people making $75k a year rich, even if they are comfortable. Its nothing more than a plot by the people who run the system to shift the blame.
having a 4 year degree does not make one "rich". This is more contempt at furthering the "middle class" concept, which is bogus.
middle class *is* working class.
no, its assholes who study English tend to think they can do everyone elses job, or that everyone is a fucking idiot.
Before them, it was the koch brothers, before then it was bilderberg, before that it was dupont, and standard oil, etc..... going all the way back to alexander hamilton and his federalist cronies lobbying for big business intrests of the day.
Here is a fact about today's society. We are ruled by the television, who has what rights is deterimined by PR men, and sold to you with celebrities, they determine what is and is not culturally acceptable, and they can and do change standards everyear to suit their will.
Want it to stop?
start a cultural revolution. Next time your in a movement for change, tell the PR and admen your not for sale.
At least when I was growing up, people were not affraid to say "I'm not for sale".
welp, if you were paying attention, its a lot more than metadata, and something closer to a perverse total take of all information on all systems at all time by all people, world wide, with attempts to crack encryption, and automaticly analyse it.
Here is the 900 pound elephant in the room.
middle class office workers *are* incompetant. They have nice paying "intellectual labor" jobs not because they are smart, but because they fit the cultural mode that the boss wants them around the office.
When they are too stupid to figure things out they point fingers at other's shortcommings as the reason why.
"you smelly perma-virgin neckbeard fedora wearing misogynist prick".
and before homophobia fell out of tune with mainstream society, the word "faggot" and inuendo of homosexuality was common as well.
I actually use gnome 3, and I'd hate to see it gone. I think even with its problems, its the future.
Sure they made some bad decisions.
>"The Outreach Program for Women (OPW) helps women (cis and trans) and genderqueer get involved in free and open source software." They've had around 30 interns for their most recent cycle.
I agree with the fact that someone needs to do this, but a desktop like gnome shouldn't be burdend. Why can't all the wealthy philanthropers with lots of money pay for these girls, instead of making a broke non for profit do it.
Or why can't be just start a foundation to teach minorities and women to code, funded by itself?
I am beginning to think that what the world needs is more female hackers, so we can beat the agitators to the punch. We also need more minorities.
the intent is to keep the scene the scene without letting corporate agitators use race, sex, etc... as an excuse to divide the scene and force agendas.
Think about how everytime some alternative brand of politics is brought up, and the usual corporate tools spend weeks harping that the effort to buy minority votes the major party spent means we are not racist/sexist for following them.
We see these proffesional activists show up in the geek/hacker scene trying to make a name for themselves by cherry picking examples to blow up for fame and fortune, while meanwhile they don't contribute anything, either personality or code.
oh no, we know.
We call this "lock ins", because its impossible to use anything else, even if what you have is pretty shitty. Windows might suck, but its the only thing that works for your specific software.
This is the only thing keeping windows, and for that matter, microsoft going. People don't like microsoft, they have to use it.
No, there is no short term solution.
Long term, microsoft is fucked, because when it launches new products, no one gives a fuck.
I am beginning to wonder if this is feminism, or agitators looking to make problems