The guy who killed himself was mentally unstable. Lets not make too much of an issue out of this as most people don't committ suicide just because they lost their job.
Once again I can see what I have posted earlier will apply to someone else. So here goes:
No reasonable person is going to quit their high paying job, sell their house and flip burgers for a living just to make a political stand about Linux. Try explaining that to your kids:
"Why do we have to move out of our lovely home and sell our cars?"
"No sacrifice can be too great to save Linux! Even if we must sell ourselves on the streets it shall be worth it!"
"Linux? What is Linux? How can it be some important that we have to move into a crime infested neighborhood into an apartment in subsidized housing?"
"Linux is the great Open Source Operating System. Software freedom is of the uptmost importance! Do you want to be using Windows for the rest of your life?"
"But Windows works. You are doing this to us because of some stupid computer thing? We thought you loved us! Who cares about Lenox?"
"Its not 'some computer thing'. Its LINUX not Lenox! DAMMIT. I DO love you! Thats why I can't bear to have you live in a world without software freedom! It would be too cruel to you."
"Oh but forcing us to live like crackheads isn't too cruel? Forcing us to lose 2000sq feet of living space isn't cruel? Forcing us to sell our cars and use public transportation isn't cruel? Forcing our children to go to underfunded and crime infested inner city public schools isn't cruel? You are now working at McDonalds as a janitor after spending tens of thousands of dollars to get your Comp/Sci degree and you think that isn't cruel? Are you fucking daft!?
"That is ENOUGH! I have made the final decision for this family. We shall suffer and sacrifice for the GLORY OF STALLMAN!"
"No actually we're leaving. I'm divorcing you and taking the kids and we're going to find a guy that doesn't have a hard on for that RMS guy you have a poster of in our bedroom. Have a nice life".
Again to reiterate this is not the civil rights movement here. This is not the abolition movement. This is not even the feminist movement. Its fucking OSS. Computer stuff. This crap doesn't even have longevity. Centuries (or even decades) from now no one is going to give a rats ass about "Linux and the Open Source Software" movement begun by the freakishly unkept Richard Stallman.
I'll simply repeat here what I posted earlier in response to someone else:
No reasonable person is going to quit their high paying job, sell their house and flip burgers for a living just to make a political stand about Linux. Try explaining that to your kids:
"Why do we have to move out of our lovely home and sell our cars?"
"No sacrifice can be too great to save Linux! Even if we must sell ourselves on the streets it shall be worth it!"
"Linux? What is Linux? How can it be some important that we have to move into a crime infested neighborhood into an apartment in subsidized housing?"
"Linux is the great Open Source Operating System. Software freedom is of the uptmost importance! Do you want to be using Windows for the rest of your life?"
"But Windows works. You are doing this to us because of some stupid computer thing? We thought you loved us! Who cares about Lenox?"
"Its not 'some computer thing'. Its LINUX not Lenox! DAMMIT. I DO love you! Thats why I can't bear to have you live in a world without software freedom! It would be too cruel to you."
"Oh but forcing us to live like crackheads isn't too cruel? Forcing us to lose 2000sq feet of living space isn't cruel? Forcing us to sell our cars and use public transportation isn't cruel? Forcing our children to go to underfunded and crime infested inner city public schools isn't cruel? You are now working at McDonalds as a janitor after spending tens of thousands of dollars to get your Comp/Sci degree and you think that isn't cruel? Are you fucking daft!?
"That is ENOUGH! I have made the final decision for this family. We shall suffer and sacrifice for the GLORY OF STALLMAN!"
"No actually we're leaving. I'm divorcing you and taking the kids and we're going to find a guy that doesn't have a hard on for that RMS guy you have a poster of in our bedroom. Have a nice life".
Again to reiterate this is not the civil rights movement here. This is not the abolition movement. This is not even the feminist movement. Its fucking OSS. Computer stuff. This crap doesn't even have longevity. Centuries (or even decades) from now no one is going to give a rats ass about "Linux and the Open Source Software" movement begun by the freakishly unkept Richard Stallman.
You are fucking cracked. No reasonable person is going to quit their high paying job, sell their house and flip burgers for a living just to make a political stand about Linux. Try explaining that to your kids:
"Why do we have to move out of our lovely home and sell our cars?"
"No sacrifice can be too great to save Linux! Even if we must sell ourselves on the streets it shall be worth it!"
"Linux? What is Linux? How can it be some important that we have to move into a crime infested neighborhood into an apartment in subsidized housing?"
"Linux is the great Open Source Operating System. Software freedom is of the uptmost importance! Do you want to be using Windows for the rest of your life?"
"But Windows works. You are doing this to us because of some stupid computer thing? We thought you loved us! Who cares about Lenox?"
"Its not 'some computer thing'. Its LINUX not Lenox! DAMMIT. I DO love you! Thats why I can't bear to have you live in a world without software freedom! It would be too cruel to you."
"Oh but forcing us to live like crackheads isn't too cruel? Forcing us to lose 2000sq feet of living space isn't cruel? Forcing us to sell our cars and use public transportation isn't cruel? Forcing our children to go to underfunded and crime infested inner city public schools isn't cruel? You are now working at McDonalds as a janitor after spending tens of thousands of dollars to get your Comp/Sci degree and you think that isn't cruel? Are you fucking daft!?
"That is ENOUGH! I have made the final decision for this family. We shall suffer and sacrifice for the GLORY OF STALLMAN!"
"No actually we're leaving. I'm divorcing you and taking the kids and we're going to find a guy that doesn't have a hard on for that RMS guy you have a poster of in our bedroom. Have a nice life".
Again to reiterate this is not the civil rights movement here. This is not the abolition movement. This is not even the feminist movement. Its fucking OSS. Computer stuff. This crap doesn't even have longevity. Centuries (or even decades) from now no one is going to give a rats ass about "Linux and the Open Source Software" movement begun by the freakishly unkept Richard Stallman.
Look, the IT market is going to shit so fast it seems like diareah (sp?) and you're pissed at folks not wanting to abandon their already shrinking job market because of some stupid political stand?
Try explaining to your kids why you can't buy them food or pay for their school or why the lights just got shut off. An answer of "Oh well I had to make sure my stance on ensuring the freedom of Linux and GPL software everywhere was loud and clear. Sorry you feel faint from hunger but hey at least my startling irrelevant opinions on the computer industry's morality remain untarnished!"
I mean are you on 100% Genetically Enhanced Columbian Crack Cocaine? Janitors and receptionists? WTF would they care about Linux at all for? Its just a job for them. Most likely they aren't even AWARE of anything other than windows (I'll bet you $5 the receptionists at SCO or even Red Hat have Windows based PC's on their desks). This isn't the civil rights movement were talking about here. A LITTLE bit of perspective would do you a world of good.
OMG, consolidation of ISP's! Our freedom is destroyed unless there's 100 ISP's in every town, village and county in the US!
If you can get online and get to any website you want to then your freedom is still intact. Not being ablt to chose between a thousand ISP's however is not freedom threatening. Jesus. Industries mature, did these guys bother to take an economics 101 course before posting this mindless drivel?
This is more than a mere prank. This immature person is homeless and has been evading capture by traveling all around the US just so he can keep up his supposed "white hat" activities. Its fucking LAME.
The "white hats are good so don't punish them when they break the law in the name of good" argument died 3 years ago with the dot.com bust. Let it rest in peace.
Do you want to come home to your house, turn on the lights only to find someone sitting on your sofa waiting to explain to you how insecure your house is because he was easily able to pick the locks? Even if he does no damage to your house and steals nothing is that something you'd like to come home to?
Now imagine word spreads about this type of behaviour with no consequences (jail time). Now you'll come home every week or 2 or 3 times a week to some unauthorized person sitting in your living room? Is this what you want? Its just fine and dandy because the intent is good right? What? Road to hell? What? Paved with good intentions?
Scientists are interesting people. They're very smart and brilliant but they have the same failings as the rest of us. Their addictions or vice is technology itself. A scientist just isn't happy unless he's researching this, or disproving that. This requires 2 things which will ensure that the DoD will be able to manipulate ALL scientists both willing and unwilling until the end of time and that is 1. research is expensive and requires millions or billions of dollars that only the government has and 2. research requires communication. No scientist would be happy working on something brilliant only to never tell anyone about it. Besides to be sure it works he/she would want to subject their work to peer review. Well other scientists aren't the only ones observing the work being put out for review. The DoD is watching as well.....
Half the planet is gone? So there's only 2.5 Billion humans left on Earth? Oh you were exaggerating, lying and fabricating because you don't want us to fight anyone, anywhere for any reason? Oh ok I get it now.
I loved Farscape just like I loved Firefly and thus both were promptly cancelled. The Sci-Fi network which aired Farscape is really more into the psuedo-fantasy "Crossing Over" crap instead of hardcore Sci-Fi. Now THAT pisses me off. I hate it when a channel doesn't stay true to what it is. At least MTV launched MTV2 for videos and the G4 video game channel is still rockin. Sighs...
I would rate ST TOS as middle of the road. #1 for me is DS9, then NG, next Enterprise, TOS and Voyager. I liked how TNG and DS9 take you further into Federation life and especially DS9's continuity. I hate shows that lack continuity (with the exception of all the Law and Order series. Those just rock.) Voyager took the mushy stuff TOO far and thus was crap. I have a good feeling about Enterprise. It ought to really shape up this and next year. If written perfectly this series should end right at the beginning of the Earth/Romulus War.
Tell that to one of the most successful businessmen in history ever, the Pope who was too busy selling indulgences to notice he was sowing the seeds for Martin Luther's Protestant revolution.
Ethics has absolutely nothing to do with Religion. Just because there is some overlap does not necessitate a belief in GAWD. One can act with the uptmost honor and integrity while being the most ardent of Athiests.
The G4 channel is a failure? By what measure? What are you basing this on? I love the channel and would be very sad to see it go so I would like to know what you are basing this on.
I've called Dell Tech Support numerous times over the years and have NEVER had them hang up on me, not even the ones who were obviously working out of India.
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The guy who killed himself was mentally unstable. Lets not make too much of an issue out of this as most people don't committ suicide just because they lost their job.
Once again I can see what I have posted earlier will apply to someone else. So here goes:
No reasonable person is going to quit their high paying job, sell their house and flip burgers for a living just to make a political stand about Linux. Try explaining that to your kids:
"Why do we have to move out of our lovely home and sell our cars?"
"No sacrifice can be too great to save Linux! Even if we must sell ourselves on the streets it shall be worth it!"
"Linux? What is Linux? How can it be some important that we have to move into a crime infested neighborhood into an apartment in subsidized housing?"
"Linux is the great Open Source Operating System. Software freedom is of the uptmost importance! Do you want to be using Windows for the rest of your life?"
"But Windows works. You are doing this to us because of some stupid computer thing? We thought you loved us! Who cares about Lenox?"
"Its not 'some computer thing'. Its LINUX not Lenox! DAMMIT. I DO love you! Thats why I can't bear to have you live in a world without software freedom! It would be too cruel to you."
"Oh but forcing us to live like crackheads isn't too cruel? Forcing us to lose 2000sq feet of living space isn't cruel? Forcing us to sell our cars and use public transportation isn't cruel? Forcing our children to go to underfunded and crime infested inner city public schools isn't cruel? You are now working at McDonalds as a janitor after spending tens of thousands of dollars to get your Comp/Sci degree and you think that isn't cruel? Are you fucking daft!?
"That is ENOUGH! I have made the final decision for this family. We shall suffer and sacrifice for the GLORY OF STALLMAN!"
"No actually we're leaving. I'm divorcing you and taking the kids and we're going to find a guy that doesn't have a hard on for that RMS guy you have a poster of in our bedroom. Have a nice life".
Again to reiterate this is not the civil rights movement here. This is not the abolition movement. This is not even the feminist movement. Its fucking OSS. Computer stuff. This crap doesn't even have longevity. Centuries (or even decades) from now no one is going to give a rats ass about "Linux and the Open Source Software" movement begun by the freakishly unkept Richard Stallman.
I'll simply repeat here what I posted earlier in response to someone else:
No reasonable person is going to quit their high paying job, sell their house and flip burgers for a living just to make a political stand about Linux. Try explaining that to your kids:
"Why do we have to move out of our lovely home and sell our cars?"
"No sacrifice can be too great to save Linux! Even if we must sell ourselves on the streets it shall be worth it!"
"Linux? What is Linux? How can it be some important that we have to move into a crime infested neighborhood into an apartment in subsidized housing?"
"Linux is the great Open Source Operating System. Software freedom is of the uptmost importance! Do you want to be using Windows for the rest of your life?"
"But Windows works. You are doing this to us because of some stupid computer thing? We thought you loved us! Who cares about Lenox?"
"Its not 'some computer thing'. Its LINUX not Lenox! DAMMIT. I DO love you! Thats why I can't bear to have you live in a world without software freedom! It would be too cruel to you."
"Oh but forcing us to live like crackheads isn't too cruel? Forcing us to lose 2000sq feet of living space isn't cruel? Forcing us to sell our cars and use public transportation isn't cruel? Forcing our children to go to underfunded and crime infested inner city public schools isn't cruel? You are now working at McDonalds as a janitor after spending tens of thousands of dollars to get your Comp/Sci degree and you think that isn't cruel? Are you fucking daft!?
"That is ENOUGH! I have made the final decision for this family. We shall suffer and sacrifice for the GLORY OF STALLMAN!"
"No actually we're leaving. I'm divorcing you and taking the kids and we're going to find a guy that doesn't have a hard on for that RMS guy you have a poster of in our bedroom. Have a nice life".
Again to reiterate this is not the civil rights movement here. This is not the abolition movement. This is not even the feminist movement. Its fucking OSS. Computer stuff. This crap doesn't even have longevity. Centuries (or even decades) from now no one is going to give a rats ass about "Linux and the Open Source Software" movement begun by the freakishly unkept Richard Stallman.
You are fucking cracked. No reasonable person is going to quit their high paying job, sell their house and flip burgers for a living just to make a political stand about Linux. Try explaining that to your kids:
"Why do we have to move out of our lovely home and sell our cars?"
"No sacrifice can be too great to save Linux! Even if we must sell ourselves on the streets it shall be worth it!"
"Linux? What is Linux? How can it be some important that we have to move into a crime infested neighborhood into an apartment in subsidized housing?"
"Linux is the great Open Source Operating System. Software freedom is of the uptmost importance! Do you want to be using Windows for the rest of your life?"
"But Windows works. You are doing this to us because of some stupid computer thing? We thought you loved us! Who cares about Lenox?"
"Its not 'some computer thing'. Its LINUX not Lenox! DAMMIT. I DO love you! Thats why I can't bear to have you live in a world without software freedom! It would be too cruel to you."
"Oh but forcing us to live like crackheads isn't too cruel? Forcing us to lose 2000sq feet of living space isn't cruel? Forcing us to sell our cars and use public transportation isn't cruel? Forcing our children to go to underfunded and crime infested inner city public schools isn't cruel? You are now working at McDonalds as a janitor after spending tens of thousands of dollars to get your Comp/Sci degree and you think that isn't cruel? Are you fucking daft!?
"That is ENOUGH! I have made the final decision for this family. We shall suffer and sacrifice for the GLORY OF STALLMAN!"
"No actually we're leaving. I'm divorcing you and taking the kids and we're going to find a guy that doesn't have a hard on for that RMS guy you have a poster of in our bedroom. Have a nice life".
Again to reiterate this is not the civil rights movement here. This is not the abolition movement. This is not even the feminist movement. Its fucking OSS. Computer stuff. This crap doesn't even have longevity. Centuries (or even decades) from now no one is going to give a rats ass about "Linux and the Open Source Software" movement begun by the freakishly unkept Richard Stallman.
A non-executive role at SCO is not analgolous to murder or robbery.
Look, the IT market is going to shit so fast it seems like diareah (sp?) and you're pissed at folks not wanting to abandon their already shrinking job market because of some stupid political stand?
Try explaining to your kids why you can't buy them food or pay for their school or why the lights just got shut off. An answer of "Oh well I had to make sure my stance on ensuring the freedom of Linux and GPL software everywhere was loud and clear. Sorry you feel faint from hunger but hey at least my startling irrelevant opinions on the computer industry's morality remain untarnished!"
I mean are you on 100% Genetically Enhanced Columbian Crack Cocaine? Janitors and receptionists? WTF would they care about Linux at all for? Its just a job for them. Most likely they aren't even AWARE of anything other than windows (I'll bet you $5 the receptionists at SCO or even Red Hat have Windows based PC's on their desks). This isn't the civil rights movement were talking about here. A LITTLE bit of perspective would do you a world of good.
OMG, consolidation of ISP's! Our freedom is destroyed unless there's 100 ISP's in every town, village and county in the US!
If you can get online and get to any website you want to then your freedom is still intact. Not being ablt to chose between a thousand ISP's however is not freedom threatening. Jesus. Industries mature, did these guys bother to take an economics 101 course before posting this mindless drivel?
Thats just because you aren't a REAL tech person!
This is more than a mere prank. This immature person is homeless and has been evading capture by traveling all around the US just so he can keep up his supposed "white hat" activities. Its fucking LAME.
The "white hats are good so don't punish them when they break the law in the name of good" argument died 3 years ago with the dot.com bust. Let it rest in peace.
You are talking about the gambling industry aren't you? I remember the gambling Slashdot article from a few weeks ago.
Do you want to come home to your house, turn on the lights only to find someone sitting on your sofa waiting to explain to you how insecure your house is because he was easily able to pick the locks? Even if he does no damage to your house and steals nothing is that something you'd like to come home to?
Now imagine word spreads about this type of behaviour with no consequences (jail time). Now you'll come home every week or 2 or 3 times a week to some unauthorized person sitting in your living room? Is this what you want? Its just fine and dandy because the intent is good right? What? Road to hell? What? Paved with good intentions?
Scientists are interesting people. They're very smart and brilliant but they have the same failings as the rest of us. Their addictions or vice is technology itself. A scientist just isn't happy unless he's researching this, or disproving that. This requires 2 things which will ensure that the DoD will be able to manipulate ALL scientists both willing and unwilling until the end of time and that is 1. research is expensive and requires millions or billions of dollars that only the government has and 2. research requires communication. No scientist would be happy working on something brilliant only to never tell anyone about it. Besides to be sure it works he/she would want to subject their work to peer review. Well other scientists aren't the only ones observing the work being put out for review. The DoD is watching as well.....
Half the planet is gone? So there's only 2.5 Billion humans left on Earth? Oh you were exaggerating, lying and fabricating because you don't want us to fight anyone, anywhere for any reason? Oh ok I get it now.
I loved Farscape just like I loved Firefly and thus both were promptly cancelled. The Sci-Fi network which aired Farscape is really more into the psuedo-fantasy "Crossing Over" crap instead of hardcore Sci-Fi. Now THAT pisses me off. I hate it when a channel doesn't stay true to what it is. At least MTV launched MTV2 for videos and the G4 video game channel is still rockin. Sighs...
I would rate ST TOS as middle of the road. #1 for me is DS9, then NG, next Enterprise, TOS and Voyager. I liked how TNG and DS9 take you further into Federation life and especially DS9's continuity. I hate shows that lack continuity (with the exception of all the Law and Order series. Those just rock.) Voyager took the mushy stuff TOO far and thus was crap. I have a good feeling about Enterprise. It ought to really shape up this and next year. If written perfectly this series should end right at the beginning of the Earth/Romulus War.
Where are you from anyway?
"We want NASA to be a precursor to Starfleet, but they are more like a bad post office."
HAHAHHAH. Thats the funniest thing I've heard all day.
Neither Trek or Buffy are crap. The people who think they're above such fare however are another story altogether......
I think steampunk has to be one of the silliest things ever thought up.
What exactly is wrong with liking "Huge-eyed Schoolgirls meet the Evil Nazi Rape Machine?" Are you gay or something?
Madonna, Britney and Christina are not whores. They're sluts. There's a difference.
And you CAN think for yourself. You can decide for yourself that watching women shake their can cans is a good thing for a guy to be interested in.
Tell that to one of the most successful businessmen in history ever, the Pope who was too busy selling indulgences to notice he was sowing the seeds for Martin Luther's Protestant revolution.
Ethics has absolutely nothing to do with Religion. Just because there is some overlap does not necessitate a belief in GAWD. One can act with the uptmost honor and integrity while being the most ardent of Athiests.
I LOVE this show. Percy is such a sleazy skanky whore that she's become irresistible to me! More Starhunter!
The bad acting, filming, directing, bad boying, key gripping and producing is also quite humorous.
The G4 channel is a failure? By what measure? What are you basing this on? I love the channel and would be very sad to see it go so I would like to know what you are basing this on.
Sex sells. Whats wrong with that?
And if you are a guy and you didn't like the performance whats wrong with you?
So what happens when robots replace the workforce?
I've called Dell Tech Support numerous times over the years and have NEVER had them hang up on me, not even the ones who were obviously working out of India.