.... that allowing to talk apologists of mas murderers advances nobody's freedom.
It is the political equivalent of people claiming the Earth is flat, something completely unsustainable, but when it comes to Nazi apologism the action is also perverse and I would add evil, which is a word I don't use lightly.
The US owes its existence to the wants, needs, and conflicts between European powers and European settlers, derives its institutions from the ones tried in Europe, adopts most European languages at its own (English, Spanish being the 2 most important) and as far as the 20th century was involved in 2 wars started in Europe that shaped the rest of the world.
The US also used economic systems first used and developed in Europe (capitalism, slavery).
There are of course things that are uniquely USian, but nobody can deny than the US is firmly in the thread of European history, unlike places like China, India or North Africa and West Asia which have historical traditions completely different.
All the people in Europe fighting for the independence of their different statelets are shooting themselves in the foot.
The reality of the world today is that big blocks are emerging. We have already well defined China and India, then the US that increase it sphere of influence greatly with NAFTA (and if it wasn't for their idiotic reluctance, we would have free movement of people between Mexico, Canada and the US as propossed by Mexico recently), we also have ASEAN (300 million souls more less), MERCOSUR in South America, etc.
In Europe we have derided people in small countries "fighting for their independence" (like Poland, and sorry, 50 million people compared against any of the block mentioned, is small, same goes for the UK) failing that "independence" in today's world is synonymous with irrelevance and dependency.
The longer European countries take to realize this and embrace a proper European state, the later they will arrive to the negotiating table with the other power blocks forming around the world. This desire to remain small and irrelevant is truly disturbing.
The 3 distro-traitors had at least the decency to say that Linux is not infringing on any patents whatsoever.
And completely bypassing their worthless opinion in the subject, it is not for them to say or not if there are patent problems, since MS is not telling them what is there and most likely it would not be up to them to fix the problem anyway.
I studied music and wanted to be a musician, but it is hard work that is mostly lowly paid.
The problem is that you are getting confused about the role of musicians in society. Their role is not to make CDs, their role is to create music (compose it, perform it).
The musicians that have understood this are working hard touring and playing music. The ones that want to live a parasitic life of play once, sit in you fat ass for the royalties kind of lifestyle, well, they can go to the moon as far as I am concerned.
Recorded music brought an anomaly in how musicians and people relate to music. Before recorded music the musicians neede to perform in front of paying audiences in order to make a living, this was fair because they were doing as in any other trade: they performed a job, they weh compensated for their efforts.
Come the recording of music, and now some musicians play once, and they want to make money for doing precious little, based in a completely artificial mechanism (copyright) that the companies exploiting them have extended beyond anything that is fair.
If copyright was limited in a reasoned, sensible way, I may be more inclined to sob for the poor musicians (the poor ones actually don't care about CDs, they have to do real work to make a living or earn some money), as things stand now I can't care less if the rich fat cats are deceive from their profits. I will not partake in breaking the law mind you, but find nor place on my heart for musicians that are masochistic and lazy.
Once they have done the work to implement something, copying and distribution sot them close to zero.
They finish a given product and they remove features and sell it cheaper. Tell me other industry where they would do that.
WHen it comes to hardware you start with a basic device and you are stuff in top of that. You add things. That is why a premium is legitimate.
Software manufacturers do not get yet the idea that they should charge for services, not features.
People using advanced features will require more hand holding, while others with more basic needs can always be lured to advanced features if they are already sitting on their machines.
Artificial segmentation is the dumbest idea, conceived most likely by people with no idea how software works and is distributed.
All the histories in the bible are said with a clear moral aim. SOme are scare tactics, some others are edifying moral tales, some others are anecdotes, but the moral of the history, so to speak, is always there.
In the ohter hand games are aimless violence whose only aim is to pander to basic savage instincts, which are normally very close of the worst part of our humanity.
Even an atheist like me can understand the difference.
You pseudo libertarian quasi anarchist types decry the nanny state but offer no solutions to achieve pacific coexistence.
I utterly fail to see how rating, not banning, but rating a game is nannyism in any way.
The UK very often is completely out of whack, but banning is nowadays a very rare occurrence to their credit. A game that is obviously viciously and gratuitously violent, if the accounts I have read are to be trusted, rightly should be available only to adults, since only a demented person would agree that such material is readily available to minors (who are not equipped emotionally and intellectually to deal with this type of material. For bunnies sakes, they are struggling to find who they are, in such state they are completely unqualified and unprepared to deal with horrific violence, even in the form of a game).
People are as violent as they have always been. Fortunately there is a legal and cultural framework that tries to make sure people are not hurt randomly.
A frame of respect and pacific resolution of conflicts is not being soft, one of the bravest things you can do is to control your violent impulses to give negotiations and accommodation a chance.
The softy-softy namby-pamby approach to conflict resolution is to smack somebody whenever you feel like it. It solves nothing and gets people hurt.
Any sane person can see how the premise of tetris is harmless.
That is not the case when you are simulating horrific acts of realistic violence against realistically rendered people. TO come with these rubbish examples is an attempt to insult the intelligence of other people frankly...
But he is pointing out, correctly, that they had a psychological impact.
If they did not have an impact they wold not sell, plain and simple, so what should be done is addressing the topic but without reaching for the weasel out exit of "there is no proof" this or that. Enough people seem to have anecdotal evidence that certain kind of people are often involved in very violent fare this should not be dismissed just like that, because we are talking about people's lives being damaged.
The trivialization and glamorization of violence is something that we expect only fully developed adults to manage appropriately, young people lack the necessary life experience to know better, specially children, that learn by mimicking.
If there was such high demand for mindless violence in games, somebody would put shops selling just that.
Maybe, just maybe, many people think it is a sick pursuit and in reality, apart from some individuals with psychological issues, nobody wants to play such crap?
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.... that allowing to talk apologists of mas murderers advances nobody's freedom.
It is the political equivalent of people claiming the Earth is flat, something completely unsustainable, but when it comes to Nazi apologism the action is also perverse and I would add evil, which is a word I don't use lightly.
US history is an appendage of European one.
The US owes its existence to the wants, needs, and conflicts between European powers and European settlers, derives its institutions from the ones tried in Europe, adopts most European languages at its own (English, Spanish being the 2 most important) and as far as the 20th century was involved in 2 wars started in Europe that shaped the rest of the world.
The US also used economic systems first used and developed in Europe (capitalism, slavery).
There are of course things that are uniquely USian, but nobody can deny than the US is firmly in the thread of European history, unlike places like China, India or North Africa and West Asia which have historical traditions completely different.
All the people in Europe fighting for the independence of their different statelets are shooting themselves in the foot.
The reality of the world today is that big blocks are emerging. We have already well defined China and India, then the US that increase it sphere of influence greatly with NAFTA (and if it wasn't for their idiotic reluctance, we would have free movement of people between Mexico, Canada and the US as propossed by Mexico recently), we also have ASEAN (300 million souls more less), MERCOSUR in South America, etc.
In Europe we have derided people in small countries "fighting for their independence" (like Poland, and sorry, 50 million people compared against any of the block mentioned, is small, same goes for the UK) failing that "independence" in today's world is synonymous with irrelevance and dependency.
The longer European countries take to realize this and embrace a proper European state, the later they will arrive to the negotiating table with the other power blocks forming around the world. This desire to remain small and irrelevant is truly disturbing.
... the other distros are more like losing some bad hair frankly, they were bit players and now I hope they go down the drain.
The 3 distro-traitors had at least the decency to say that Linux is not infringing on any patents whatsoever.
And completely bypassing their worthless opinion in the subject, it is not for them to say or not if there are patent problems, since MS is not telling them what is there and most likely it would not be up to them to fix the problem anyway.
If MS does not take any action in enforcing their "patents", then many people would start to question if MS really has anything at all.
FUD like this is the short term strategy of the technological scoundrel, innovative companies are busy doing actual useful stuff.
.... is pretty useless.....
If the traitor distros die then we all stand united.
If they don't (and I don't see how they can possibly continue now) they will become increasingly irrelevant.
The moment MS commits the mistake to sue somebody, these distros would stop receiving any further support form anybody in the Linux world.
They are a bunch of shortermist @(@!)(@@#!%^#
I studied music and wanted to be a musician, but it is hard work that is mostly lowly paid.
The problem is that you are getting confused about the role of musicians in society. Their role is not to make CDs, their role is to create music (compose it, perform it).
The musicians that have understood this are working hard touring and playing music. The ones that want to live a parasitic life of play once, sit in you fat ass for the royalties kind of lifestyle, well, they can go to the moon as far as I am concerned.
Recorded music brought an anomaly in how musicians and people relate to music. Before recorded music the musicians neede to perform in front of paying audiences in order to make a living, this was fair because they were doing as in any other trade: they performed a job, they weh compensated for their efforts.
Come the recording of music, and now some musicians play once, and they want to make money for doing precious little, based in a completely artificial mechanism (copyright) that the companies exploiting them have extended beyond anything that is fair.
If copyright was limited in a reasoned, sensible way, I may be more inclined to sob for the poor musicians (the poor ones actually don't care about CDs, they have to do real work to make a living or earn some money), as things stand now I can't care less if the rich fat cats are deceive from their profits. I will not partake in breaking the law mind you, but find nor place on my heart for musicians that are masochistic and lazy.
But they have a look at you and price it accordingly.
This is what monopoly is all about, the only way to dismantle it is refusing to accept the shoddy deal.
Once they have done the work to implement something, copying and distribution sot them close to zero.
They finish a given product and they remove features and sell it cheaper. Tell me other industry where they would do that.
WHen it comes to hardware you start with a basic device and you are stuff in top of that. You add things. That is why a premium is legitimate.
Software manufacturers do not get yet the idea that they should charge for services, not features.
People using advanced features will require more hand holding, while others with more basic needs can always be lured to advanced features if they are already sitting on their machines.
Artificial segmentation is the dumbest idea, conceived most likely by people with no idea how software works and is distributed.
What you are saying is completely out of context.
All the histories in the bible are said with a clear moral aim. SOme are scare tactics, some others are edifying moral tales, some others are anecdotes, but the moral of the history, so to speak, is always there.
In the ohter hand games are aimless violence whose only aim is to pander to basic savage instincts, which are normally very close of the worst part of our humanity.
Even an atheist like me can understand the difference.
Where are all the games from the era trivializing such behavior?
Play whatever the heck you want.
Questioning the reasons behind gamers demanding, enjoying and consuming such tripe is a legitimate question that is not asked often enough.
You pseudo libertarian quasi anarchist types decry the nanny state but offer no solutions to achieve pacific coexistence.
I utterly fail to see how rating, not banning, but rating a game is nannyism in any way.
The UK very often is completely out of whack, but banning is nowadays a very rare occurrence to their credit. A game that is obviously viciously and gratuitously violent, if the accounts I have read are to be trusted, rightly should be available only to adults, since only a demented person would agree that such material is readily available to minors (who are not equipped emotionally and intellectually to deal with this type of material. For bunnies sakes, they are struggling to find who they are, in such state they are completely unqualified and unprepared to deal with horrific violence, even in the form of a game).
People are as violent as they have always been. Fortunately there is a legal and cultural framework that tries to make sure people are not hurt randomly.
A frame of respect and pacific resolution of conflicts is not being soft, one of the bravest things you can do is to control your violent impulses to give negotiations and accommodation a chance.
The softy-softy namby-pamby approach to conflict resolution is to smack somebody whenever you feel like it. It solves nothing and gets people hurt.
Any sane person can see how the premise of tetris is harmless.
That is not the case when you are simulating horrific acts of realistic violence against realistically rendered people. TO come with these rubbish examples is an attempt to insult the intelligence of other people frankly...
But he is pointing out, correctly, that they had a psychological impact.
If they did not have an impact they wold not sell, plain and simple, so what should be done is addressing the topic but without reaching for the weasel out exit of "there is no proof" this or that. Enough people seem to have anecdotal evidence that certain kind of people are often involved in very violent fare this should not be dismissed just like that, because we are talking about people's lives being damaged.
They may be whining, but they are not a minority.
The minority are "adults" that want to be entertained with hyper violent games.
Even if portrayed in a game.
The trivialization and glamorization of violence is something that we expect only fully developed adults to manage appropriately, young people lack the necessary life experience to know better, specially children, that learn by mimicking.
If there was such high demand for mindless violence in games, somebody would put shops selling just that.
Maybe, just maybe, many people think it is a sick pursuit and in reality, apart from some individuals with psychological issues, nobody wants to play such crap?
.... when you stop selling us your "Linux is not supported in mission critical environments" one.
Well, in reality land, where you clearly are not, Sun, IBM, Red Hat and many others offer you 24x7 Linux support.
So what is your problem again?
EU, India, China, Russia do not have software patents.
Blah, blah, blah.
Please point us to that certification information in which applications are certified.