Googled it, will now don my tin foil hat and descend into my concrete bunker. Literally everything I can find on the OFA makes them sound like a propaganda machine. The vague goals, the disguisting level of "positivity" in their quotes, and a thousand other things make it...obvious.
Thanks for telling me about them, I needed to stay up tonight anyways.
If it wasn't against the law I would have cleared out the occupy crowd with bear mace. I'm extremely glad you linked me that. Again, in his interviews, and a few of his youtube videos from conventions at least I liked him a lot.
Literally the first thing I read on the site was this: US citizens: tell Congress you will work to replace anyone that votes to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
Then I saw this: In the US: tell major newspapers to follow the LA Times and stop publishing letters that deny known facts such as global heating.
Neither of those things are issues that are 100% either way. I want to cut SS/medicaire/medicaid. It's relatively forgiveable to do so since he is implying that it's simply a message to his viewership. The second one however is literally censorship. A man who raises his entire fucking ideology around things being "free" and "censorship is bad" shouldn't say something like that.
Sure most known evidence points to it being true, and most likely it is. But even if we had the entire timescale of humanity to go by we couldn't pretend to *absolutely* understand each and every weather and climate cycle. He's a scientist, he has a degree in physics for fuck sake. He has to know and understand that science isn't ever concrete. What kind of fucking scientist uses the phrase "known facts"?
I don't care if you're talking about gravity nothing is just plain "fact." Be it gravity, evolution, Electro-Dynamics, Chromo-Dynamics, or really anything that is "accepted, mostly accepted" in science shouldn't be called "fact." And it's not.
His disdain for opposing viewpoints definitely rubs me the wrong way. Hell I absolutely hate the NSA, and I hope a 10.0 earthquake hits half an inch under the surface and is somehow localized to their headquarters. However, I also am willing to bet that at least one form of their surveillance has saved at least one life.
"However, every single piece of the kit that I depend on is put at constant threat by patent trolls, where is RMS? Making an enamored speech does not cut the mustard."
I sort of agree with this actually. I think enamored speeches can be extremely beneficial, but not in these contexts. I think he should personally lobby for his cause. Even though a lot of lobbyists are immora/amoral assholes, being able to summon passion about the subject helps persuade. I'm sure some of the politicians are bought, but not all of them.
To be honest he might already be doing this, and if he is, that is more than enough. Hell, just getting the word out is heavy work.
I did come across something pretty insane that he apparently does (according to wiki.) "he uses wget and reads the fetched pages from his e-mail mailbox," He doesn't use a web browser for a site he doesn't know for certain isn't spying. That combined with the phone thing...that's a lot of dedication.
I think RMS has become something of a techno-survivalist. I never thought I would say those words, but some of the things he has said scream it. Very similar underlying philosophies at least.
Yeah I pretty much agree with you...though I don't know a solution to holding financial data.
I believe that a large part of the problem is as follows: Even a if a company starts out small if it has the opportunity to collect mountains of data, it is practically expected to sell them to 3rd parties now. Any time you have something bad that literally "everyone is doing" you're going to have a bad time.
I've never met him, but there is definitely something about the way he looks that makes me think he probably smells pretty bad. I could be wrong. Still, it would be worth handling the most cloying soup-in-the-back-of-your-nose BO smell to have a reasonably long chat with the guy.
I'll never understand the hate for RMS entirely. As far as I've seen in several videos and interviews he actually seems fairly level headed. He seems to understand very well that what he chooses to do is his own personal belief. He thinks that belief adopted by others would be better for those individuals, but he's not trying to cram it down anyone's throat. At least I personally, after watching a few hours worth of his videos feel that way.
He definitely is a bit pretentious ("I wouldn't even accept an iBad as a present"), but the guy graduated magna cum laude at Harvard, and then went to MIT (to not finish his degree.) It would be hard not to be a little pretentious, and have more than a bit of an ego.
I'm impatient, and unplug/plug my micro USB in a lot...like a lot. Maybe 20-30 times a day? Anyways I've been using my galaxy S2's charger cable since I got my S2 (right at launch), and I'm currently using it with my S3 with no issues. I know it's more about wear on the chargeport (I MAY have exceeded 10k cycles on my S2), but I can at least say there is no issue with the cable connectors.
A lot of the complaints are because of buying knockoff cables. My galaxy's cable that comes with it stays in perfect, and fits flush. The chinese knockoff I bought for work has to "wiggle just so" to get it charging, as many people complain. I think the OEM mfg is doing something fishy with it, or the chinese knockoffs have thinner metal or something.
We have problems at our shop during soft launches - that's inevitble. Sometimes even with the real-deal. But when there are lorem ipsum references, test methods, a *login in which you cannot fail to login too many times,* and a lot more I'm forgetting...when those things are wrong it's not a matter of "the site isn't polished there are a few kinks sorry" it's incompetence.
A regular bug to me is something like the login not working (which also happened.) That to me might be a huge bug, but it is understandable.
Failing to lock you out after a number of failed login attempts though is a flaw in implementation, and just plain design and planning. That's not something in which difficulty increases with load - it's literally something I personally can do right now. I'm a pretty good developer, both for the desktop and the web, but I'm noting special. However even I could have recognized these issues essentially instantly.
I recognize the words "sensible" and "adult conversation: from being a kid. The first line of that conversation is "well you need to understand how this all works" in a condescending tone. The adult then explains why something the kid doesn't like (and has a legitimate reason to dislike) is necessary, and part of being an adult is dealing with necessary things you don't like. The implication being that continued belief in it being ridiculous is childish.
She's going to say "Look guys we know you don't like us spying, but we have to for the greater good, and you just need to accept that. We're not doing it because we don't like you...it's because we care about you SO much."
Most of that money goes to entitlement programs, military contractors, and the NSA (if the $1 trillion budget is a real thing then they cost more than police, fire, etc) You'll notice "infrastructure and services" is combined into one to encompass everything you said. So yeah, the spending breakdown is why I think more taxes are a bad idea. The vast majority goes to entitlment programs I don't support, military spending I don't support, and an agency that spies on me for a living.
I think it has more to do with the relative density and reflectivity (in relation to wifi waves) of the human body than movement... Though again, that's basically just ultrasound with light radiation.
I know you don't want to hear this but: Yes most of the time there is.
I hate that argument, like, a lot. Let's say 5 people make 10 million dollars a year. 4 of them are legacy ivy league grads who came from wealthy families and had it (fairly) easy. The other one grew up in the projects, built a small business out of his 1 bedroom apartment, and grew it into an empire.
Because it's easy for the first 4 the last one should get extorted out of his hard-earned money?
How can anyone ever think that a 90% tax on anything is okay? Personally I think any tax that exceeds 50% should be unlawful. They didn't do half of my work, why the hell should they get half my money? However the government getting more money from my work than I do? I don't even know what to say to that.
"I'll just make a note here... Anyone who makes a fucking party political issue about a story which is not a party political issue, I'm going to mod down as offtopic from now on in."
Either way we got lucky with Tunguska. I wonder if the next large airburst like that will hit a city. It would be absolutely horrible... But the fringe benefit of our space budget multiplying overnight?
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Googled it, will now don my tin foil hat and descend into my concrete bunker. Literally everything I can find on the OFA makes them sound like a propaganda machine. The vague goals, the disguisting level of "positivity" in their quotes, and a thousand other things make it...obvious.
Thanks for telling me about them, I needed to stay up tonight anyways.
If it wasn't against the law I would have cleared out the occupy crowd with bear mace. I'm extremely glad you linked me that. Again, in his interviews, and a few of his youtube videos from conventions at least I liked him a lot.
Literally the first thing I read on the site was this:
US citizens: tell Congress you will work to replace anyone that votes to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
Then I saw this:
In the US: tell major newspapers to follow the LA Times and stop publishing letters that deny known facts such as global heating.
Neither of those things are issues that are 100% either way. I want to cut SS/medicaire/medicaid. It's relatively forgiveable to do so since he is implying that it's simply a message to his viewership. The second one however is literally censorship. A man who raises his entire fucking ideology around things being "free" and "censorship is bad" shouldn't say something like that.
Sure most known evidence points to it being true, and most likely it is. But even if we had the entire timescale of humanity to go by we couldn't pretend to *absolutely* understand each and every weather and climate cycle. He's a scientist, he has a degree in physics for fuck sake. He has to know and understand that science isn't ever concrete. What kind of fucking scientist uses the phrase "known facts"?
I don't care if you're talking about gravity nothing is just plain "fact." Be it gravity, evolution, Electro-Dynamics, Chromo-Dynamics, or really anything that is "accepted, mostly accepted" in science shouldn't be called "fact." And it's not.
His disdain for opposing viewpoints definitely rubs me the wrong way. Hell I absolutely hate the NSA, and I hope a 10.0 earthquake hits half an inch under the surface and is somehow localized to their headquarters. However, I also am willing to bet that at least one form of their surveillance has saved at least one life.
I read a few of the articles you talked about, and I sort of understand the hate now. His speaking style doesn't translate very well onto paper.
"However, every single piece of the kit that I depend on is put at constant threat by patent trolls, where is RMS? Making an enamored speech does not cut the mustard."
I sort of agree with this actually. I think enamored speeches can be extremely beneficial, but not in these contexts. I think he should personally lobby for his cause. Even though a lot of lobbyists are immora/amoral assholes, being able to summon passion about the subject helps persuade. I'm sure some of the politicians are bought, but not all of them.
To be honest he might already be doing this, and if he is, that is more than enough. Hell, just getting the word out is heavy work.
I did come across something pretty insane that he apparently does (according to wiki.)
"he uses wget and reads the fetched pages from his e-mail mailbox,"
He doesn't use a web browser for a site he doesn't know for certain isn't spying. That combined with the phone thing...that's a lot of dedication.
I think RMS has become something of a techno-survivalist. I never thought I would say those words, but some of the things he has said scream it. Very similar underlying philosophies at least.
Yeah I pretty much agree with you...though I don't know a solution to holding financial data.
I believe that a large part of the problem is as follows:
Even a if a company starts out small if it has the opportunity to collect mountains of data, it is practically expected to sell them to 3rd parties now. Any time you have something bad that literally "everyone is doing" you're going to have a bad time.
I've never met him, but there is definitely something about the way he looks that makes me think he probably smells pretty bad. I could be wrong.
Still, it would be worth handling the most cloying soup-in-the-back-of-your-nose BO smell to have a reasonably long chat with the guy.
I'll never understand the hate for RMS entirely. As far as I've seen in several videos and interviews he actually seems fairly level headed. He seems to understand very well that what he chooses to do is his own personal belief. He thinks that belief adopted by others would be better for those individuals, but he's not trying to cram it down anyone's throat. At least I personally, after watching a few hours worth of his videos feel that way.
He definitely is a bit pretentious ("I wouldn't even accept an iBad as a present"), but the guy graduated magna cum laude at Harvard, and then went to MIT (to not finish his degree.) It would be hard not to be a little pretentious, and have more than a bit of an ego.
At least he's not Torvalds.
Let's all use esoteric abbreviations.
I was under the impression that 7-11% of the Earth's landscape was inhabited. Even avoiding a 5% chance of an awful disaster counts as "lucky" to me.
I'm impatient, and unplug/plug my micro USB in a lot...like a lot. Maybe 20-30 times a day? Anyways I've been using my galaxy S2's charger cable since I got my S2 (right at launch), and I'm currently using it with my S3 with no issues. I know it's more about wear on the chargeport (I MAY have exceeded 10k cycles on my S2), but I can at least say there is no issue with the cable connectors.
But then you're just....crossing a bridge. Crossing a bridge is boring without the anticipation of confrontation imo.
Also the trolls make me laugh.
A lot of the complaints are because of buying knockoff cables. My galaxy's cable that comes with it stays in perfect, and fits flush. The chinese knockoff I bought for work has to "wiggle just so" to get it charging, as many people complain. I think the OEM mfg is doing something fishy with it, or the chinese knockoffs have thinner metal or something.
We have problems at our shop during soft launches - that's inevitble. Sometimes even with the real-deal. But when there are lorem ipsum references, test methods, a *login in which you cannot fail to login too many times,* and a lot more I'm forgetting...when those things are wrong it's not a matter of "the site isn't polished there are a few kinks sorry" it's incompetence.
A regular bug to me is something like the login not working (which also happened.) That to me might be a huge bug, but it is understandable.
Failing to lock you out after a number of failed login attempts though is a flaw in implementation, and just plain design and planning. That's not something in which difficulty increases with load - it's literally something I personally can do right now. I'm a pretty good developer, both for the desktop and the web, but I'm noting special. However even I could have recognized these issues essentially instantly.
I recognize the words "sensible" and "adult conversation: from being a kid. The first line of that conversation is "well you need to understand how this all works" in a condescending tone. The adult then explains why something the kid doesn't like (and has a legitimate reason to dislike) is necessary, and part of being an adult is dealing with necessary things you don't like. The implication being that continued belief in it being ridiculous is childish.
She's going to say "Look guys we know you don't like us spying, but we have to for the greater good, and you just need to accept that. We're not doing it because we don't like you...it's because we care about you SO much."
I bet that would make a good game.
Something less than 50. Total. Taking into account sales tax statistically accrued by members of that bracket.
Because those services use SUCH huge amounts of FEDERAL tax dollars. Of course how could we be so blind.
Go read a graph:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/01/16/us/politics/16fivethirtyeight-gov1/16fivethirtyeight-gov1-blog480.jpg
Most of that money goes to entitlement programs, military contractors, and the NSA (if the $1 trillion budget is a real thing then they cost more than police, fire, etc)
You'll notice "infrastructure and services" is combined into one to encompass everything you said. So yeah, the spending breakdown is why I think more taxes are a bad idea. The vast majority goes to entitlment programs I don't support, military spending I don't support, and an agency that spies on me for a living.
I think it has more to do with the relative density and reflectivity (in relation to wifi waves) of the human body than movement...
Though again, that's basically just ultrasound with light radiation.
"won't help solve these problems."
Who ever said that was the goal of a slashdot discussion? Do you realistically expect to solve a problem?
I know you don't want to hear this but:
Yes most of the time there is.
I hate that argument, like, a lot. Let's say 5 people make 10 million dollars a year. 4 of them are legacy ivy league grads who came from wealthy families and had it (fairly) easy. The other one grew up in the projects, built a small business out of his 1 bedroom apartment, and grew it into an empire.
Because it's easy for the first 4 the last one should get extorted out of his hard-earned money?
How can anyone ever think that a 90% tax on anything is okay? Personally I think any tax that exceeds 50% should be unlawful. They didn't do half of my work, why the hell should they get half my money? However the government getting more money from my work than I do? I don't even know what to say to that.
"I'll just make a note here... Anyone who makes a fucking party political issue about a story which is not a party political issue, I'm going to mod down as offtopic from now on in."
User RedmanCometh has joined your bandwagon..
Because American culture has so much to do with this. Take your smugness and fuck right off.
There is some American culture for you.
Either way we got lucky with Tunguska. I wonder if the next large airburst like that will hit a city.
It would be absolutely horrible...
But the fringe benefit of our space budget multiplying overnight?
You say that, but right now some chinese 14 year old is probably bruting your SSN from the recovery form...