I have worked most of my life in the private sector in big multinational corporations. I understand who drives the movement and made aware my employers or clients of these issues when they arise. Many more companies that you can possibly imagine, making gazillions of money, are perfectly comfortable with the concepts spoused by Richard Stallman (hint: they are not in the business of writing software).
I am in support of FOSS and resent any prospective freeloaders that want to use Free software and give nothing in return. They should use closed source (and see how their business never taking off).
And they do not know state borders (unless you think an Al Quaeda operative will have a GPS on board to ensure they don go astray. Oh wait, their target may be on another state).
Given the situation above, the issue of identifying passengers becomes a Federal one in the US and an international one pretty much elsewhere. If I was in charge of the Fed Gov in the US (ha,ha,ha) I am sure as hell that I would want my own mechanism to ensure people are who they say they are, I have no problem with that.
The problem IMHO is the tool they want to use. They should use passports, they want the Big Brother approach that encroaches in everybody's privacy.
As for "spur of the moment" flights, pulease, give me a frigging brake. I do it regularly, I just make sure I always have a valid passport. If it would take me 12 weeks to renew it then I would start the renewal procedure 12 weeks before expiry date. To do this once every 10 years (or one every 5, as we Mexicans have to do) is a minuscule price to pay frankly.
.... we already need an official photo id for traveling in planes.
I use my passport, but alas, I travel a lot internationally, thus I am disciplined regarding this.
Other people use local (as in country) forms of identification (drivers licenses mostly), which are not centrally linked in any way (although the scumbag Tony Blair and his cronies are working hard to centralize this, starting with us, Johnny Foreigner types, as the obvious soft target. Bastards).
You don't need to wait 12 weeks to travel locally. You just need to make sure you always have a passport that is valid. A bit of discipline should be enough to ensure this.
So if a almost blind "free" idiot decides to drive a car and kills me, or a dirty restauranteur makes me get thypoid or some other east sickness, there is nothing to defend the innocent, unsuspecting public?
..... how burying your head in the sand (or worse) is going to make the problem go away?
Whenever you use a piece of software your are under licensing obligations. If you chose not to care that is your prerrogative, but it is an inmature choice to take.
There is plenty of evidence that god does not exist.
Multitude of processes in nature can proceed according to mathematical laws and there has never been an observation of any god perturbing them.
Which is why some religious nuts hate evolutionary theory so much: it puts firmly in the realms of chance all what is so carefully crafted in Genesis. NO god neeeded for evolution, since it is a natural, self contained process.
It is becoming a high risk holiday, perhaps similar to swimming with sharks or bungee jumping, or perhaps more dangerous than that, but the point is that we are not talking Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary here anymore, it gets so crowded up there that rubbish is becoming a real issue now.
Inalienbale human rights are not based in any belief, they are based in the observation, very scientific, that people treated unfairly wiil beat your a@@ at the first chance they get.
Ethics, sociology, antropology, history and many other sciences and disciplines can enlighten our way if required.
Gravity exists. It is measurable, we use it every day in scientific calculations.
This "Matrixsy" nonsense about something being there or us thinking it is there, is fine for so-so movies, but for real life is a complete non starter.
Or jump from the top of a 20 storey building. I put my reputation here on the line of fire that if you are silly enough to do that you will end as a human tortilla 20 floors below. I *know* it would happen.
That does not mean a Christian can't do scientific research, he may be completely wrong about religion (since god does not exist) but that does not preclude that on his field of expertise he adheres to the scientific method and reaches valid results.
You do know that your patently simple defintion would have had you excommunicated or executed at some time in history, don't you?
Jesus himself named the head of his Church (at least according to Catholic dogma, I an frankly not interested in the hundreds of deviations from this), which pretty much meant that he wanted some form of earthly organization to spread his teachings.
And this organization, the church, had many intestine wars fighting to define what was a true Christian.
If defining a Christian was su puerile to define, people would have not fought and died in defense of their definition of the term.
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I have worked most of my life in the private sector in big multinational corporations. I understand who drives the movement and made aware my employers or clients of these issues when they arise. Many more companies that you can possibly imagine, making gazillions of money, are perfectly comfortable with the concepts spoused by Richard Stallman (hint: they are not in the business of writing software).
I am in support of FOSS and resent any prospective freeloaders that want to use Free software and give nothing in return. They should use closed source (and see how their business never taking off).
You stereotype people at your own peril.
And they do not know state borders (unless you think an Al Quaeda operative will have a GPS on board to ensure they don go astray. Oh wait, their target may be on another state).
Given the situation above, the issue of identifying passengers becomes a Federal one in the US and an international one pretty much elsewhere. If I was in charge of the Fed Gov in the US (ha,ha,ha) I am sure as hell that I would want my own mechanism to ensure people are who they say they are, I have no problem with that.
The problem IMHO is the tool they want to use. They should use passports, they want the Big Brother approach that encroaches in everybody's privacy.
As for "spur of the moment" flights, pulease, give me a frigging brake. I do it regularly, I just make sure I always have a valid passport. If it would take me 12 weeks to renew it then I would start the renewal procedure 12 weeks before expiry date. To do this once every 10 years (or one every 5, as we Mexicans have to do) is a minuscule price to pay frankly.
.... we already need an official photo id for traveling in planes.
I use my passport, but alas, I travel a lot internationally, thus I am disciplined regarding this.
Other people use local (as in country) forms of identification (drivers licenses mostly), which are not centrally linked in any way (although the scumbag Tony Blair and his cronies are working hard to centralize this, starting with us, Johnny Foreigner types, as the obvious soft target. Bastards).
You don't need to wait 12 weeks to travel locally. You just need to make sure you always have a passport that is valid. A bit of discipline should be enough to ensure this.
So if a almost blind "free" idiot decides to drive a car and kills me, or a dirty restauranteur makes me get thypoid or some other east sickness, there is nothing to defend the innocent, unsuspecting public?
The word "anarchy" is ringing on my head.
They were found to be a monopoly.
They were convicted of what you are saying.
Thus they are a convicted monopolist.
..... how burying your head in the sand (or worse) is going to make the problem go away?
Whenever you use a piece of software your are under licensing obligations. If you chose not to care that is your prerrogative, but it is an inmature choice to take.
... should that be the right state of things?
In other countries such actions of private entities are explicitly outlawed.
What would have you done hero?
What he is saying is truth: the music industry execs have not got a clue and he, as the old pro he is, he finds it disturbing.
Your ad hominem does not address the valid points he is making.
He is one of the most important figures in pop music, respect to that.
So what is exactly wrong with him?
There is plenty of evidence that god does not exist.
Multitude of processes in nature can proceed according to mathematical laws and there has never been an observation of any god perturbing them.
Which is why some religious nuts hate evolutionary theory so much: it puts firmly in the realms of chance all what is so carefully crafted in Genesis. NO god neeeded for evolution, since it is a natural, self contained process.
I can use my brain even if my ass is fat.
Climbing mount Everest is not what it used to be.
It is becoming a high risk holiday, perhaps similar to swimming with sharks or bungee jumping, or perhaps more dangerous than that, but the point is that we are not talking Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary here anymore, it gets so crowded up there that rubbish is becoming a real issue now.
.... a child refusing to accept Evolutionary theory should not get a pass.
Spin it any way you want, that would be akin do denying the validy of arithmetic when enroled in a course of calculus.
It kept my father alive for 10 years.
It allowed me to lead a productive life in spite of some disabilities.
It pulled out mankind from squalor and disease into comfortable middle class aspiritions.
What did religions gave us before that? Nothing remotely compaable.
Inalienbale human rights are not based in any belief, they are based in the observation, very scientific, that people treated unfairly wiil beat your a@@ at the first chance they get.
Ethics, sociology, antropology, history and many other sciences and disciplines can enlighten our way if required.
Soviet Communism did not respect the most basic postulates of economic theory.
Gravity exists. It is measurable, we use it every day in scientific calculations.
This "Matrixsy" nonsense about something being there or us thinking it is there, is fine for so-so movies, but for real life is a complete non starter.
Or jump from the top of a 20 storey building. I put my reputation here on the line of fire that if you are silly enough to do that you will end as a human tortilla 20 floors below. I *know* it would happen.
... as source of wisdom.
The logical follow up to that would have been to enumerate all the actions and thoughts that show he did love him.
To any reasonbale person that would amount to enough proof.
Please tell us when a beligerant state has backed down in a conflict because a deity told them not to do it.
Might has always been right, religion or no religion.
The only hope of changing that is reason in the way of agreements and laws, not religion.
... is studied by ethics.
You don't need religon for that (although religions clearly have loads of ethical teachings).
Every time somebody mentions these obvious conondrums the world mistranslation is freely waived in the air as a blank cheque from god.
If all was so badly mistranslated, why should anybody put his faith on such a shaky ground?
Science and religion do not mix.
That does not mean a Christian can't do scientific research, he may be completely wrong about religion (since god does not exist) but that does not preclude that on his field of expertise he adheres to the scientific method and reaches valid results.
This is my fist.
That is your face.
Do you want to test if it is my fist hitting your face, your face hitting my fist, or the mind making it all up?
Waste of time nonsense frankly.
Or, as they are commonly known, Catholics.
And if Christians can't afree on anything, I think they all should frankly not be taken very seriously.
You do know that your patently simple defintion would have had you excommunicated or executed at some time in history, don't you?
Jesus himself named the head of his Church (at least according to Catholic dogma, I an frankly not interested in the hundreds of deviations from this), which pretty much meant that he wanted some form of earthly organization to spread his teachings.
And this organization, the church, had many intestine wars fighting to define what was a true Christian.
If defining a Christian was su puerile to define, people would have not fought and died in defense of their definition of the term.