Music always was a shared cultural heritage of all people in a community.
Musicians made a living performing, writing music for others (sponsored by rich patrons like the church, the nobility, the burgoise or the State in communist countries), it was common practice to freely took music by another composer and use it in your own compositions ("variations over a theme of..." are legion in the classical music world).
The recording industry is trying to steal away our cultural heritage, and here you are, justifying them.
People that refuse to believe in falacies based on the "insights" of camel herders, shepperds or. er, provincial carpenters frankly deserve only contempt.
Specially since they twitch the teaching of their "prophets" to suit their needs. I just can imagine Jesus reaction in learning what you and your murderous President had done while invoking the name of God in vane so many times.
.... in order, amongst other things, to pay my respect to the victims of the terrorist attacks.
But if the price is to be treated like a criminal on arrival and to start building a "record" on file in the US, then I will pass and will boycott the US as a touristic destination (and even as an stopover, better fly to Paris, Amsterdam or Madrid, were as a Mexican I am treated with dignity and fly from there to my own country, without been hindered by idiotic US immigration regulations and crass attitudes).
... the people that left their brain at the door have hijacked the represntation of the ones that did not, and people outside the ultra conservative religious communities see precious little in the way of spousing modern democratic enlightened values.
You are the exception that confirms the rule if we believe what you are saying at face value.
.... unlike others trying to sound balanced without presenting a single argument.
Your definition of intelligence clearly does not match mine, I don't consider people that defend the "wisdom" passed to us by ignorant shepperds, religious zealots or camel herders, intelligent.
If you do all the power to you, I just hope people fighting evolutionary theory would be consistent and reject any benefits to their lifes arised for its day to day application in medicine, biology, etc. Then those people may earn some respect although I would still roll my eyes in disbelief.
Politicians are far too dangerous people to be left unchecked to their own devices.
It is welcome that anybody, including famous people, get involved in politics.
In an era where most people do not care about politics it should be encouraging that somebody with such narrow field of expertise (now pray tell us, who does not have a narrow field of expertise in this world? Is that not stating the fucking oibvious?) actually cares, in a place that people are thrown out in jail at the whim ot this person you try to justify so warmly.
Kasparov is a brave man for questioning Mr Putin, who obivously has no idea nor interest about the promotion of democracy.
With all due respect, but you have no idea what you are talking about.
First of all Red Hat, or any other company for that matter, are not appropriated the work of others. That is a vulgar lie.
The people that have produced the software (Red Hat payed employees amongst them) have released it under licensing terms that allows companies like Red Hat to make bussiness. All the GPLed parts are freely available, and they not only make them available but are contributing to a completely free project like Fedora.
Red Hat, under the terms of the GPL, is nopt obliged to produce anything if they do not wish to do so. They could just package the software and charge for those services, but what they are selling is support training and advice.
Software is a commodity, the GPL helps to comodize it.
You are a vulgar liar and should be ashamed of yourslef or are a completely ignorant person that can't even take the time to understand the GPL but then ejaculates an opinion like if you knew what you are talking about.
..., can I call you comrade, can't I? I mean, you show such ignorance about how open markets work that either you have been in cave for 50 years or are a Communist, comrade. Which one is it?
The Indians are not stealing your jobs. US people in particular, and Western people in general, are pricing themselves too high given the expensive lifestyles they lead.
Which expensive lifestyles? SUVs, overeating, rampant consumerism, irrational Imperial wars in the other side of the planet. All tha adds up until your economy, or parts of it, become uncompetitive.
Indians are "stealing" your jobs in the same sense that a more capable, cheaper worke in the US would be stelaing your job if he was hired to do it instead of yourslef, comrade.
As for the English capabilities of the Indians,, frankly, stop beating that horse. It has been fucking dead for ages.
You know what, If I feel like creating a distro tomorrow neithr you or anybody else should be mocking my attempts. THat would be my damn problem, if you want the comfort of a supported OS, and you care about OSS you have choices.
I don't understand why people are so set on in the monopoly mentality. They get a choice to exercise their freedom, and what to they do? Demand to lose that freedom of choice.
First of all, if you can't be bothered to write without all the lame abbreviations (a complete lack of respect to the people you are talking to) I will not necessarily concede that you are one of the normal people, because I find you extremely pedantic.
Conceding you are not like this in real life, what you are saying is nonsense.
UNIX has succeeded and continues to succeed every day: companies that need mission critical systems normaly look for UNIX base solutions first since it is a proven, economical, scalable choice.
Not that Linux is in town big companies are looking at it, and frankly Linux has taken by storm the back office in many companies (ISPs could not be viable without Linux. Googlewould not be viable without Linux).
So frankly your measure of success must be quite particular.
And as for UNIX backups not being easy, I will pass and will not explain to you how wrong you are. Ignorance and inexperience is something that can't be put straight in the short time it takes to write an/. reply....
.... until very recently, Japanese workers did not lose their jobs. If they were not really needed any more they were given a menial job where they could not hurt profits and be respected for their previous contributions to their company.
It may not make financial sense, but shows where the long term thinking is. Compare such attitude with the typicaly USian way of getting rid of somebody: escorting the employee out of the building like a criminal. If that reflects any long term thinking (removing all vestiges of a corporate memory) then I am Batman, the awesome cape crusader.
The Japanese pretty much command high tech in the houselds of every person on this planet. Even the cheap imports from China normally have Japanese design and innovation in the back.
Car industry? Japan.
Eletronics? Japan.
Robotics? Japan.
Even entertainment, Japan controls both the generation and reproduction of muscial and filmographic content.
Frankly I don;t know what you are smoking, but many people will be very enthusiatic to get such quality stuff....
Deal with it. Those SUVs, expenditures in Imperial adventurism, grossly over eating, etc. sooner or later added all toghether were going to catch with your economy.
Get fit and mean again (getting rid of a dilapidator like BUsh would have been a great first initial step, but you guys like big goverments as long as the big bulge of your deficit is in the military...
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Music always was a shared cultural heritage of all people in a community.
Musicians made a living performing, writing music for others (sponsored by rich patrons like the church, the nobility, the burgoise or the State in communist countries), it was common practice to freely took music by another composer and use it in your own compositions ("variations over a theme of..." are legion in the classical music world).
The recording industry is trying to steal away our cultural heritage, and here you are, justifying them.
What a moron.
And rightly soo.
People that refuse to believe in falacies based on the "insights" of camel herders, shepperds or. er, provincial carpenters frankly deserve only contempt.
Specially since they twitch the teaching of their "prophets" to suit their needs. I just can imagine Jesus reaction in learning what you and your murderous President had done while invoking the name of God in vane so many times.
.... in order, amongst other things, to pay my respect to the victims of the terrorist attacks.
But if the price is to be treated like a criminal on arrival and to start building a "record" on file in the US, then I will pass and will boycott the US as a touristic destination (and even as an stopover, better fly to Paris, Amsterdam or Madrid, were as a Mexican I am treated with dignity and fly from there to my own country, without been hindered by idiotic US immigration regulations and crass attitudes).
... the people that left their brain at the door have hijacked the represntation of the ones that did not, and people outside the ultra conservative religious communities see precious little in the way of spousing modern democratic enlightened values.
You are the exception that confirms the rule if we believe what you are saying at face value.
.... unlike others trying to sound balanced without presenting a single argument.
Your definition of intelligence clearly does not match mine, I don't consider people that defend the "wisdom" passed to us by ignorant shepperds, religious zealots or camel herders, intelligent.
If you do all the power to you, I just hope people fighting evolutionary theory would be consistent and reject any benefits to their lifes arised for its day to day application in medicine, biology, etc. Then those people may earn some respect although I would still roll my eyes in disbelief.
... call motorcycle drivers?
Organ donnors. Check the statistics, to drive a motorbike is one of the riskiest activities you can undertake.
He means that he, as a non risk taker, benefitted from the risks taken by others...
You must be crazy.
Politicians are far too dangerous people to be left unchecked to their own devices.
It is welcome that anybody, including famous people, get involved in politics.
In an era where most people do not care about politics it should be encouraging that somebody with such narrow field of expertise (now pray tell us, who does not have a narrow field of expertise in this world? Is that not stating the fucking oibvious?) actually cares, in a place that people are thrown out in jail at the whim ot this person you try to justify so warmly.
Kasparov is a brave man for questioning Mr Putin, who obivously has no idea nor interest about the promotion of democracy.
YOu guys in the US really need to revisit books about political sciences.
Honestly, you have no idea what a real socialist stands for.
To cut it short for you, no US politician I have heard of ever can be called a Socialist.
... because it shows sexism, plain and simple.
And we know the IT insdustry is sexist, much more than others, but that is one of our little dirty secrets.
I have worked in many industries and IT is one of the most disgracefully sexist I have to work in.
To deny the above ends any rational discussion frankly....
Honestly man, the one that seems to lack any substantial life is you.
All my female colleagues would laugh at you, they are all great SAs, DBAs, programmers, etc.
That general tone when talking about women from IT guys explains it all.
France is a signatory of the European Convention on Human Rights, exposing vulnerabilities I am pretty sure is a matter of freedom of speech.
I hope this guy gets advised properly and appeals the ruling at the European level.
I'll keep it in my evangelization arsenal....
If you wrtie a software that needs to be supported you will make money.
If you just support already existing sofware the deal is even better for you.
So what the heck your damn point is?
With all due respect, but you have no idea what you are talking about.
First of all Red Hat, or any other company for that matter, are not appropriated the work of others. That is a vulgar lie.
The people that have produced the software (Red Hat payed employees amongst them) have released it under licensing terms that allows companies like Red Hat to make bussiness. All the GPLed parts are freely available, and they not only make them available but are contributing to a completely free project like Fedora.
Red Hat, under the terms of the GPL, is nopt obliged to produce anything if they do not wish to do so. They could just package the software and charge for those services, but what they are selling is support training and advice.
Software is a commodity, the GPL helps to comodize it.
You are a vulgar liar and should be ashamed of yourslef or are a completely ignorant person that can't even take the time to understand the GPL but then ejaculates an opinion like if you knew what you are talking about.
What a prick.
..., can I call you comrade, can't I? I mean, you show such ignorance about how open markets work that either you have been in cave for 50 years or are a Communist, comrade. Which one is it?
The Indians are not stealing your jobs. US people in particular, and Western people in general, are pricing themselves too high given the expensive lifestyles they lead.
Which expensive lifestyles? SUVs, overeating, rampant consumerism, irrational Imperial wars in the other side of the planet. All tha adds up until your economy, or parts of it, become uncompetitive.
Indians are "stealing" your jobs in the same sense that a more capable, cheaper worke in the US would be stelaing your job if he was hired to do it instead of yourslef, comrade.
As for the English capabilities of the Indians,, frankly, stop beating that horse. It has been fucking dead for ages.
..... can you please ensure the "Insightful" on the comment avobe is amacked down please?
If this person can't be bothered to read the posting it can't surely be called "insightful"...
.... to decide how many distros are needed?
You know what, If I feel like creating a distro tomorrow neithr you or anybody else should be mocking my attempts. THat would be my damn problem, if you want the comfort of a supported OS, and you care about OSS you have choices.
I don't understand why people are so set on in the monopoly mentality. They get a choice to exercise their freedom, and what to they do? Demand to lose that freedom of choice.
First of all, if you can't be bothered to write without all the lame abbreviations (a complete lack of respect to the people you are talking to) I will not necessarily concede that you are one of the normal people, because I find you extremely pedantic.
/. reply....
Conceding you are not like this in real life, what you are saying is nonsense.
UNIX has succeeded and continues to succeed every day: companies that need mission critical systems normaly look for UNIX base solutions first since it is a proven, economical, scalable choice.
Not that Linux is in town big companies are looking at it, and frankly Linux has taken by storm the back office in many companies (ISPs could not be viable without Linux. Googlewould not be viable without Linux).
So frankly your measure of success must be quite particular.
And as for UNIX backups not being easy, I will pass and will not explain to you how wrong you are. Ignorance and inexperience is something that can't be put straight in the short time it takes to write an
.... until very recently, Japanese workers did not lose their jobs. If they were not really needed any more they were given a menial job where they could not hurt profits and be respected for their previous contributions to their company.
It may not make financial sense, but shows where the long term thinking is. Compare such attitude with the typicaly USian way of getting rid of somebody: escorting the employee out of the building like a criminal. If that reflects any long term thinking (removing all vestiges of a corporate memory) then I am Batman, the awesome cape crusader.
Honestly, in which planet do you live?
The Japanese pretty much command high tech in the houselds of every person on this planet. Even the cheap imports from China normally have Japanese design and innovation in the back.
Car industry? Japan.
Eletronics? Japan.
Robotics? Japan.
Even entertainment, Japan controls both the generation and reproduction of muscial and filmographic content.
Frankly I don;t know what you are smoking, but many people will be very enthusiatic to get such quality stuff....
You almost literally said only USians can innovate.
To pretend otherwise is completely dishonest.
Deal with it. Those SUVs, expenditures in Imperial adventurism, grossly over eating, etc. sooner or later added all toghether were going to catch with your economy.
Get fit and mean again (getting rid of a dilapidator like BUsh would have been a great first initial step, but you guys like big goverments as long as the big bulge of your deficit is in the military...