>"the kid's mother is a cunt" >"she 'decided' she was a lesbian" >"fat flabby she-husband" >"GO FUCK YOURSELF AND YOUR SELF RIGHTEOUS BULLSHIT, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE"
>ex doesn't want me living with my child and calls me a "misogynistic pig"
I'm sure you felt better after passing that little sermon, but quality of life in Western Europe and Scandinavia, which still has at least some social democracy, is way better than in the US except for the few at the top (those few also giving the impression that the US is "richer").
Ideology is for freshmen and propagandists - reality combines principles and practical compromise. This is one reason why RMS has been successful, I think: his main licences are surprisingly practical, when they could try (and fail) to do a lot more to prevent the things he dislikes.
Eh, the communities on Compuserve were a lot more competent and well-mannered than almost everything the Internet has to offer.
What the modern Internet offers is a lot of entertainment. And while we reminisce about being able to download complete hosts files, looking at most people's Internet usage, I'm sure the same would apply to them.
Well, it helps out governments, because it makes it harder to transmit internationally without going through centralised infrastructure; and it helps out big business, for exactly the same reason. It's a trivially obvious benefit for everyone powerful.
But I'm not sure whether it is a primary intention, or just the result of modern Western politicians being fucking useless at anything that doesn't involve channeling money to the people who the people who have paid for them. Spectrum cleanliness means better engineering, and better engineering costs money - whereas spectrum pollution doesn't! I ultimately blame the engineers who are complicit in making this junk, of course, whether that's el cheapo power supplies, powerline Ethernet or even greater evils like BPL.
And I just decided to transcribe the lyrics because I'm having a nostalgia attack now...
Ah, I remember when this was first released!
The day I got hooked up to the mighty Internet I was hooked into a world that I'd never forget Web sites, chat rooms, IRC and live video streams Online multimedia that looked like LSD dreams
Then I got my hands on something called CuteFTP I was told that I could have what I wanted for free Went on to some guys FTP 1:4 ratio Upload my swap file and download Super Mario
Then I heard of something called an MP3 player Had something to do with music, compression and layer I didn't give a damn about the facts given to me Just wanted to download songs without buying the CD
Later I found Vivo movies compressed on the 'net Download one movie per night - as much as I could get Titanic took a couple more, but less for Wet & Wild It was like Christmas every day and I was a rich man's child
Soon enough the downloads had to come straight back to me Turnd out it was the Feds who ran that awesome FTP Were setting up for all us online criminals They said, "Fuck free speech, it's corrupted our youth, it's all a load of bull!"
One more game, one more app, one more serial, one more crack, Warez are the only thing for me One more game, one more app, one more serial, one more crack, Could someone give the crack for Duke 3D
DCC's something IRC gives to everyone Need a crack for Paintshop Pro? in seconds download's done Stupid people buy domains with "warez" in the name When they're shut down I am pissed off but they're the ones to blame
Quake II came down in Denmark two days before the USA But thanks to FTPing I had my copy in a day Unreal was just that - unreal on my bandwidth supply It took three weeks to get it, it sucked, I'm asking myself why
Got a CD burner with just two uses in mind To download, copy and burn everything that I could find Sell the discs for friends for only seven bucks a pop Five bucks for the disc, two bucks for my time, seven bucks for Photoshop
Pisses me off when I'm searching for something that's hard to find I find a link to get a copy but Netscape is blind Says "can't find file" or something lame which doesn't help me out But three days later I get it and it removes all my doubt
Cops find out, it's the second time, this time I got to jail Not only am I broke, no PC, no warez, and my plan did fail Sittin' in the slammer gonna warez me a great big ginzu knife I'll be here for the next ten years - can I warez a wife?
One more game... Could someone give the crack for Duke 3D So it doesn't need the CD
One more game... Could someone give the crack for Duke 3D
One more game... Could someone give the crack for Duke 3D All I want is something for free
Dammit, I can find The Warez Song, but not the AOL Song by the same guy. Although I did only spend 20 seconds looking.
I got on the 'net in 1994, a few after before eternal September... although it was via Compuserve, and I didn't use direct PPP/SLIP access for another year. Then Demon Internet in 1996, and that was it.
The 'net was SnR-wise so much better before ~1998 - mostly a place for geeks, nerds and business types hang out, and while it had a social element, it wasn't just bringing the bullshit of the real world onto the 'net, but it's own form of community. Now it's just an extension of the real world - and if I want that, I'll go outside, tyvm.
Poor RMS' problem is he cheerleads capitalism but whines about the end results. Freedom must entail freedom from private (commercial) property, because businesses ARE going to use their private ownership for leverage.
Erm, I'm talking about people who think it is a wasted vote, not those who use their third party vote to send a message - I absolutely agree that it DOES work, as has been seen with the UKIP support causing the mainstream parties in the UK to move even further to the right.
They produce two party systems precisely because most people limit a "third vote" to send messages via single issue parties - then both mainstream parties react, and the party which reacts best gets into power.
People who think that both main parties are so shit that they're not worth voting for, are (rarely) either in such minorities as to be irrelevant, or (mostly) just lazy fuckers who like to whine. The majority of people are quite happy with the way things work, which is why they work as they do.
This. Internet access opportunities would be so much more varied if the amateur service were allowed to use particular spectrum allocations to develop with the same freedoms as the commercial services to which bandwidth is "auctioned" (as if the government has the right to *sell* bandwidth in the interests of private business!).
Meanwhile, shortwave radio - the best method of global communication - is fucked thanks to interference by pretty much everything. Government-regulated centralised control of communications is at a level the Soviets could have only dreamed of.
You can't do it, can you? Just like a religious fanatic, lol. Can't let it go.
And your refuge is a former colonial outpost now ruled by a corrupt dictatorship in which all land is leased from the government, and which gains most of its wealth not from production but from moving money around. You are of low intelligence.
Err, no it doesn't. If there were a sizeable proportion of people who gived a fuck, they'd form a Party with new candidates, etc. The Internet makes this shit easy. Fact is that people are happy with things mostly as they are. I think that sucks, but it's true.
Re 1), the aim would be to either encourage service providers who make use of something like Affero, or to simply reverse the regression to mainframes:P.
Is it not posible to have one mention of anything related to capital without a dullard walking in and whining about how IT'S ALL DA GUBMINT'S FAULT? It's like bible bashers shrieking every time the Sky Fairy's name is taken in vain.
Companies, or indeed all the law which supports capitalism, wouldn't exist without "politicians". And politicians wouldn't exist without the organisations which support them. It's all one fun dynamic system and you get away with things iff enough of the right people are on your side.
One thing the FSF's licences haven't dealt with properly is the problem of Free software being used to TAKE control rather than GIVE it. Most of the huge SaaS providers are running Free software, adapted as they will - but with code not distributed, because it doesn't need to be as long as they're not distributing their proprietary platforms - and with all your data on their systems. Should the GPL be adapted to deal with that? Could it?
Maybe the FSF need to prepare a set of terms to explain what counts as adequate vs inadequate control over systems and data - to be more clear about e.g. how one could prepare a 'phone ecosystem which leaves control in the hands of the user. For "server" to be a person's home computer rather than Google's cloud would perhaps be a start.
My point, unnecessary as it seems to repeat it, was that you're not putting trust in your employee unless you give them an ownership stake.
IOW, trust is something which leaves you fucked if someone breaks it - as in trust in a personal relationship. It's not trust if you have a well-established legal framework to run to if things go wrong. Make sense?
So, what you mean is, if you want to cheat, cheat in a way that the people approve.
Everyone knows that capitalism has created institutions too big to fail, and most people were okay with the enabling (de-)regulation of the last 15 years - having voted in all the governments which supported them. So, the bailouts are really with the consent of the people.
The only way an employer can put "trust" in an employee is to share ownership of the business, as in a partnership or co-operative. Anything else is just sleight of hand to get your employer to accept worse remuneration.
*dislike. Although sometimes "like", because people often treat familiarity with contempt.
You're right, of course. Any good casino can see anything you can see, and these dorks obviously played cockily, i.e. unrealistically. They probably didn't even make an attempt to hide their cards from people standing behind them - and if they had such a run of "luck", people would be very interested. Hiding gamblers' ruin is, after all, important casino buzz.
Gambling against the House should be treated like buying a snack: you get the enjoyment of a tasty nibble, but you lose money to pay for it. Sure, you can try to leave the store without paying for the snack, and you may get away with it once or twice. But you try it too often, and you're going to pay for all those snacks and more.
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Why would anyone who could be deployed choose to have children? Don't people even think of this?
I can understand divorce and hospitalisation, as they're (usually) not choices freely made.
>"the kid's mother is a cunt"
>"she 'decided' she was a lesbian"
>"fat flabby she-husband"
>"GO FUCK YOURSELF AND YOUR SELF RIGHTEOUS BULLSHIT, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE"
>ex doesn't want me living with my child and calls me a "misogynistic pig"
Your ex may have a point.
I'm sure you felt better after passing that little sermon, but quality of life in Western Europe and Scandinavia, which still has at least some social democracy, is way better than in the US except for the few at the top (those few also giving the impression that the US is "richer").
Ideology is for freshmen and propagandists - reality combines principles and practical compromise. This is one reason why RMS has been successful, I think: his main licences are surprisingly practical, when they could try (and fail) to do a lot more to prevent the things he dislikes.
I agree with you up to your weird use of "free".
...is based on the assumption that, for the rest of eternity, no one group of people with access to nuclear weaponry will get trigger-happy.
Hilarious.
Eh, the communities on Compuserve were a lot more competent and well-mannered than almost everything the Internet has to offer.
What the modern Internet offers is a lot of entertainment. And while we reminisce about being able to download complete hosts files, looking at most people's Internet usage, I'm sure the same would apply to them.
Well, it helps out governments, because it makes it harder to transmit internationally without going through centralised infrastructure; and it helps out big business, for exactly the same reason. It's a trivially obvious benefit for everyone powerful.
But I'm not sure whether it is a primary intention, or just the result of modern Western politicians being fucking useless at anything that doesn't involve channeling money to the people who the people who have paid for them. Spectrum cleanliness means better engineering, and better engineering costs money - whereas spectrum pollution doesn't! I ultimately blame the engineers who are complicit in making this junk, of course, whether that's el cheapo power supplies, powerline Ethernet or even greater evils like BPL.
And I just decided to transcribe the lyrics because I'm having a nostalgia attack now...
Ah, I remember when this was first released!
The day I got hooked up to the mighty Internet
I was hooked into a world that I'd never forget
Web sites, chat rooms, IRC and live video streams
Online multimedia that looked like LSD dreams
Then I got my hands on something called CuteFTP
I was told that I could have what I wanted for free
Went on to some guys FTP 1:4 ratio
Upload my swap file and download Super Mario
Then I heard of something called an MP3 player
Had something to do with music, compression and layer
I didn't give a damn about the facts given to me
Just wanted to download songs without buying the CD
Later I found Vivo movies compressed on the 'net
Download one movie per night - as much as I could get
Titanic took a couple more, but less for Wet & Wild
It was like Christmas every day and I was a rich man's child
Soon enough the downloads had to come straight back to me
Turnd out it was the Feds who ran that awesome FTP
Were setting up for all us online criminals
They said, "Fuck free speech, it's corrupted our youth, it's all a load of bull!"
One more game, one more app, one more serial, one more crack,
Warez are the only thing for me
One more game, one more app, one more serial, one more crack,
Could someone give the crack for Duke 3D
DCC's something IRC gives to everyone
Need a crack for Paintshop Pro? in seconds download's done
Stupid people buy domains with "warez" in the name
When they're shut down I am pissed off but they're the ones to blame
Quake II came down in Denmark two days before the USA
But thanks to FTPing I had my copy in a day
Unreal was just that - unreal on my bandwidth supply
It took three weeks to get it, it sucked, I'm asking myself why
Got a CD burner with just two uses in mind
To download, copy and burn everything that I could find
Sell the discs for friends for only seven bucks a pop
Five bucks for the disc, two bucks for my time, seven bucks for Photoshop
Pisses me off when I'm searching for something that's hard to find
I find a link to get a copy but Netscape is blind
Says "can't find file" or something lame which doesn't help me out
But three days later I get it and it removes all my doubt
Cops find out, it's the second time, this time I got to jail
Not only am I broke, no PC, no warez, and my plan did fail
Sittin' in the slammer gonna warez me a great big ginzu knife
I'll be here for the next ten years - can I warez a wife?
One more game...
Could someone give the crack for Duke 3D
So it doesn't need the CD
One more game...
Could someone give the crack for Duke 3D
One more game...
Could someone give the crack for Duke 3D
All I want is something for free
Dammit, I can find The Warez Song, but not the AOL Song by the same guy. Although I did only spend 20 seconds looking.
I got on the 'net in 1994, a few after before eternal September... although it was via Compuserve, and I didn't use direct PPP/SLIP access for another year. Then Demon Internet in 1996, and that was it.
The 'net was SnR-wise so much better before ~1998 - mostly a place for geeks, nerds and business types hang out, and while it had a social element, it wasn't just bringing the bullshit of the real world onto the 'net, but it's own form of community. Now it's just an extension of the real world - and if I want that, I'll go outside, tyvm.
Poor RMS' problem is he cheerleads capitalism but whines about the end results. Freedom must entail freedom from private (commercial) property, because businesses ARE going to use their private ownership for leverage.
Erm, I'm talking about people who think it is a wasted vote, not those who use their third party vote to send a message - I absolutely agree that it DOES work, as has been seen with the UKIP support causing the mainstream parties in the UK to move even further to the right.
They produce two party systems precisely because most people limit a "third vote" to send messages via single issue parties - then both mainstream parties react, and the party which reacts best gets into power.
People who think that both main parties are so shit that they're not worth voting for, are (rarely) either in such minorities as to be irrelevant, or (mostly) just lazy fuckers who like to whine. The majority of people are quite happy with the way things work, which is why they work as they do.
This. Internet access opportunities would be so much more varied if the amateur service were allowed to use particular spectrum allocations to develop with the same freedoms as the commercial services to which bandwidth is "auctioned" (as if the government has the right to *sell* bandwidth in the interests of private business!).
Meanwhile, shortwave radio - the best method of global communication - is fucked thanks to interference by pretty much everything. Government-regulated centralised control of communications is at a level the Soviets could have only dreamed of.
It is a wasted vote because there are no viable third parties.
And there are no viable third parties because no one gives enough of a fuck to form them.
You can't do it, can you? Just like a religious fanatic, lol. Can't let it go.
And your refuge is a former colonial outpost now ruled by a corrupt dictatorship in which all land is leased from the government, and which gains most of its wealth not from production but from moving money around. You are of low intelligence.
Err, no it doesn't. If there were a sizeable proportion of people who gived a fuck, they'd form a Party with new candidates, etc. The Internet makes this shit easy. Fact is that people are happy with things mostly as they are. I think that sucks, but it's true.
Re 1), the aim would be to either encourage service providers who make use of something like Affero, or to simply reverse the regression to mainframes :P.
you, who are clueless and rabidly anti-FOSS
Quoted for hilarity.
1) "Taking care of" something means dealing with it, not offering a solution which isn't really working and then saying "OK well at least we tried";
2) OK, right, you've mistaken me entirely for someone else. Or are Sunday morning trollin', which is a passable pastime.
Is it not posible to have one mention of anything related to capital without a dullard walking in and whining about how IT'S ALL DA GUBMINT'S FAULT? It's like bible bashers shrieking every time the Sky Fairy's name is taken in vain.
Companies, or indeed all the law which supports capitalism, wouldn't exist without "politicians". And politicians wouldn't exist without the organisations which support them. It's all one fun dynamic system and you get away with things iff enough of the right people are on your side.
So saying "One thing the FSF's licences haven't dealt with properly" is uninformed bullshit.
Lol, unnecessary hostility. Since
1) Few service providers have adopted Affero; and
2) It doesn't deal with the problem of lack of "control over the computing the server does for them. It also does not tell them what other software may be running on that server, examining or changing their data in other ways."; yet
3) other FSF licences are extremely popular,
the Affero licence clearly hasn't dealt with it.
One thing the FSF's licences haven't dealt with properly is the problem of Free software being used to TAKE control rather than GIVE it. Most of the huge SaaS providers are running Free software, adapted as they will - but with code not distributed, because it doesn't need to be as long as they're not distributing their proprietary platforms - and with all your data on their systems. Should the GPL be adapted to deal with that? Could it?
Maybe the FSF need to prepare a set of terms to explain what counts as adequate vs inadequate control over systems and data - to be more clear about e.g. how one could prepare a 'phone ecosystem which leaves control in the hands of the user. For "server" to be a person's home computer rather than Google's cloud would perhaps be a start.
My point, unnecessary as it seems to repeat it, was that you're not putting trust in your employee unless you give them an ownership stake.
IOW, trust is something which leaves you fucked if someone breaks it - as in trust in a personal relationship. It's not trust if you have a well-established legal framework to run to if things go wrong. Make sense?
Yeah. If I were caught cheating at high stakes gambling, I think, "I'm reporting you to the police," would be the most relieving thing to hear.
So, what you mean is, if you want to cheat, cheat in a way that the people approve.
Everyone knows that capitalism has created institutions too big to fail, and most people were okay with the enabling (de-)regulation of the last 15 years - having voted in all the governments which supported them. So, the bailouts are really with the consent of the people.
"Employer trust" hahahahaha.
The only way an employer can put "trust" in an employee is to share ownership of the business, as in a partnership or co-operative. Anything else is just sleight of hand to get your employer to accept worse remuneration.
*dislike. Although sometimes "like", because people often treat familiarity with contempt.
You're right, of course. Any good casino can see anything you can see, and these dorks obviously played cockily, i.e. unrealistically. They probably didn't even make an attempt to hide their cards from people standing behind them - and if they had such a run of "luck", people would be very interested. Hiding gamblers' ruin is, after all, important casino buzz.
Gambling against the House should be treated like buying a snack: you get the enjoyment of a tasty nibble, but you lose money to pay for it. Sure, you can try to leave the store without paying for the snack, and you may get away with it once or twice. But you try it too often, and you're going to pay for all those snacks and more.