Do I need to tell you where I am going or are you brilliant enough to infer other uses of your fucking tax dollars?
BTW I am not communist and socialst, I am a democrat (as somebody that hopes for real democracy). Capitalism is fine as long as it benefits people, otherwise is as perverse as any other economic system. Nothing to be proud about it.
In underdevelopped countries remote communications would be highly beneficial in order to help patients that otherwise would have no access at all to some medical expertise.
Ploughs and tractors? For goodness sake, in many cases just basic modern agricultural techniques (thought via the net) would make a world of difference.
Honestly, whay don't you think out of the fucking box and forget tired cliches?
The UN people in charge of the food for oil programme have stated numerous times that the programme was one of the less corrupt they have ever seen.
The reason?
If the goverment of Hussein found somebody cheating, the person was unceremonouisly executed.
If the UN is innefective it is because powerful countries, like the US, are never commited to any serious initiative. The UN does not exist on thin air, if the member countries are not interested in making it work (as the US have shown numerous times) there is no way they can do anything against the hard political realities of the world.
Oh yes, please tell us in which cave have you been hiding. There are no more than a handful of socialist and communist countries left in the world, but of course the poor US is dominated by a conspiracy of socialists in the UN.
And anti-semitic of course. Fuck the fact that they are an occupying army in Palestine, let that slip to the side, the real reason Israel is condemned by many countries internationally is that they are all anti-semitic. Give me a real break.
In many of these countries the media is tigthly controlled. The best way to seed democratic values is to ensure that people can have access to information that tells them different points of view.
If the internet contributes to that, it is one of the best investments to fight corruption, dictators and despots.
People could be trained about how to clear landmines via the internet.
People could learn about agricultural techniques used in 1st world countries, or they could request help from different organizations and be helped remotely.
Human rights abuses could be documented safely outside countries in conflict.
Etc.
This place is suppossed to have creative, intelligent people.
You can copyright an implementation of an idea, that is not going away.
But patenting ideas is just plain stupid. You should be able to patent physical things, but patenting software is akin to patenting mathematics, i.i plain stupid.
Politics don't work like that in the EU. Pressure groups of organized citizens (NGOs, unions) have as much weight as big corps, this is thanks to strict laws on campaign financing which don't make politicians slaves of their donors.
Did you know that in most EU countries you can't buy adds on TV?
Did you know that the political parites can;t accept companies' contributions?
Di you know that the European comission has struck down big mergers due to competition concerns?
Look little USie, USia is not evil (not its people, we will talk about politicians another day) but in modern Europe democracy is a real way of life, not a pretense in which the rich and powerful pretend to represent the people.
As for Africa and Latin America being victims, look pal, the US has invaded most countries in Latin America one time or another and has crashed elected goverments and even has created puppet countries (Panama). You will never understand the damage colonialism has done, it is very easy to dismiss the state of victimhood of the African continent unless you live there and you learn all what the colonial power have done (and continue to do in some instances) to the African people.
Just a quick example: Mobute in Congo was the best buddy of the US during the cold war. A fucking genocidal cleptocrat. Why the US did not find an ally with democratic credentials is your guess, but that "friendship" allow that tyrant to brutalize his people for a couplke of decades. If I was a congolese I would feel agravated and would put some amount of blame in the US foreign policy.
Of some IT people: if users can't use Windows then they will stop using computers if forced to do something else, oh yes, [tm].
I have not seen evidence of this, but some people repeat it like a confirmed truism.
In my personal experience, people that are not computer savvy do not care what they are using as long as what they have to do is explained on clear terms. Computer savvy people may roll their eyes ocassionally for taking them out of their comfort zone, but they carry along doing their work just fine.
Explain that the money saved would have to be cut from other places otherwise (i.e. redundancies) and you will have the most willing learners you can imagine.
While dying they have to pay the last bills, the UNIX "IP" would ve a valluable asset that will be sold to the first lawyer willing to sue somebody again.
.... was when the company escorted out of the building a guy that had invested 10 years of his life who used to make emphasis on loyality to the company. For the way he was treated you may have believed he was just remmanded in custody by the police.
I am a sane person and would never do anything unprofessional, but when you go hurting people feelings like that, sooner or later somebody will want to be nasty, and that somebody would not be necessarily the same person that was treated like dirt.
My company (Fortune whatever blah,blah,blah) had been working happily with NT4/Office97.
As we all know, those are not being supported anymore by its manufacturer. Thus we were forced to upgrade (not really, but there are some people still lacking the guts to trust that their employees are not dumb and to explore options that exist out there).
We upgraded to W2K btw (I don't know why, although I presume licensing was the main issue).
SO as you can see, the consideration for bells and whistles was far in our priority list, we assumed the applications are good enough and then some people cover their @sses by ensuring commercial support from a known (I did not say reputable) manufacturer.
At home it is even worse. For people that are not computer literate there is no choice: new PC equals new software, no matter you want it or not and that you have perfectly valid licenses for working software.
My company (big one, believe me) is exploiting OS all around the place.
Full teams of SAs administering Linux, Web masters using Apache, programmers using bash, perl and python are working as I type (not me, but hye, somebody has to make the point:-) ).
If programmers create an infrastrucuture that companies can trus and use cheaply there will be work to harness that technology.
Do you think Isaac Newton was intending to study the gravitational fields and the laws that govern them in order to make a buck?
Do you trult think that Turing came with all his theory only to make a buck.
Heck, do you think Linus Torvalds started Linux in order ot make a buck?
Nothing you are passionate about for which you invest time, effort and even, shudder, money, is worth zero.
It appales me that there are people that have a balance sheet view of life in which any activitity has to be measured and acknoledged in a so far as how much money it brings.
If you are a programmer whoe imperative is to make a buck by selling software, then yes, most probably the GPL is a harder way to work. That does not mean that if you understand what you are doing and how you are licensing your code, the great software you realease under the GPL all of the sudden becomes worhtless.
Vincent van Gogh died in poverty but I am sure he would have never considered all his unsold masterpieces worth zero.
Zealots of the balance sheet should jump from the high cliff of their ego.
If the former you receive praise and understanding. If the later you are poinedt out you obviuos shortcommings and even the dirty laundry is airated in public.
I am sorry but this was something of your own making (as it was to give your work away under the GPL) so please grow up and bare the consequences of your actions.
The only sane way to ensure we don't kill each other is to allow a degree of cotrolled ordered mandated by a trusted authority.
If you don't trust the authority, fair enough, change it. There are plenty of ways to exert change without harming innocent people as many nutcases are prepared to do.
I hope you are ironic (and that the moderators that gave "interesting" to your post are also full of irony).
So the way to protest goverment abuse is to bomb a building with innocent people (in the purest sense of the word, since many babies died) and such a comment you think would come from a clear-sighted person?
I hope you are ironic and I, humourless git, just missed the point completely...
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Mobutu Seseseko.
Apartheid regime.
Somoza.
Pinochet.
Suharto.
Sadamm Hussein.
Do I need to tell you where I am going or are you brilliant enough to infer other uses of your fucking tax dollars?
BTW I am not communist and socialst, I am a democrat (as somebody that hopes for real democracy). Capitalism is fine as long as it benefits people, otherwise is as perverse as any other economic system. Nothing to be proud about it.
In underdevelopped countries remote communications would be highly beneficial in order to help patients that otherwise would have no access at all to some medical expertise.
Ploughs and tractors? For goodness sake, in many cases just basic modern agricultural techniques (thought via the net) would make a world of difference.
Honestly, whay don't you think out of the fucking box and forget tired cliches?
As usual, some people talk out of their ass.
The UN people in charge of the food for oil programme have stated numerous times that the programme was one of the less corrupt they have ever seen.
The reason?
If the goverment of Hussein found somebody cheating, the person was unceremonouisly executed.
If the UN is innefective it is because powerful countries, like the US, are never commited to any serious initiative. The UN does not exist on thin air, if the member countries are not interested in making it work (as the US have shown numerous times) there is no way they can do anything against the hard political realities of the world.
Oh yes, please tell us in which cave have you been hiding. There are no more than a handful of socialist and communist countries left in the world, but of course the poor US is dominated by a conspiracy of socialists in the UN.
And anti-semitic of course. Fuck the fact that they are an occupying army in Palestine, let that slip to the side, the real reason Israel is condemned by many countries internationally is that they are all anti-semitic. Give me a real break.
The black choppers are comming to get you buddy.
But what is bad with helping for chrissakes?
In many of these countries the media is tigthly controlled. The best way to seed democratic values is to ensure that people can have access to information that tells them different points of view.
If the internet contributes to that, it is one of the best investments to fight corruption, dictators and despots.
People could be trained about how to clear landmines via the internet.
People could learn about agricultural techniques used in 1st world countries, or they could request help from different organizations and be helped remotely.
Human rights abuses could be documented safely outside countries in conflict.
Etc.
This place is suppossed to have creative, intelligent people.
Some throw the towell at the first row.
Sad.
This is not a news site Mr. Mor On.
This is a *discussion* site.
.... use tar?
Uh?
You used one of the supported cards, didn't you?
It took me the monstrous amount of 5 minutes to set it up, and that for an unsupported card.
I can't see how this would be any different in any other PDA.
You can copyright an implementation of an idea, that is not going away.
But patenting ideas is just plain stupid. You should be able to patent physical things, but patenting software is akin to patenting mathematics, i.i plain stupid.
Politics don't work like that in the EU. Pressure groups of organized citizens (NGOs, unions) have as much weight as big corps, this is thanks to strict laws on campaign financing which don't make politicians slaves of their donors.
.... nobody loves you.
Did you know that in most EU countries you can't buy adds on TV?
Did you know that the political parites can;t accept companies' contributions?
Di you know that the European comission has struck down big mergers due to competition concerns?
Look little USie, USia is not evil (not its people, we will talk about politicians another day) but in modern Europe democracy is a real way of life, not a pretense in which the rich and powerful pretend to represent the people.
As for Africa and Latin America being victims, look pal, the US has invaded most countries in Latin America one time or another and has crashed elected goverments and even has created puppet countries (Panama). You will never understand the damage colonialism has done, it is very easy to dismiss the state of victimhood of the African continent unless you live there and you learn all what the colonial power have done (and continue to do in some instances) to the African people.
Just a quick example: Mobute in Congo was the best buddy of the US during the cold war. A fucking genocidal cleptocrat. Why the US did not find an ally with democratic credentials is your guess, but that "friendship" allow that tyrant to brutalize his people for a couplke of decades. If I was a congolese I would feel agravated and would put some amount of blame in the US foreign policy.
What stupid assertion.
Show us their balance sheet and their operational accounts wise boy...
Of some IT people: if users can't use Windows then they will stop using computers if forced to do something else, oh yes, [tm].
I have not seen evidence of this, but some people repeat it like a confirmed truism.
In my personal experience, people that are not computer savvy do not care what they are using as long as what they have to do is explained on clear terms. Computer savvy people may roll their eyes ocassionally for taking them out of their comfort zone, but they carry along doing their work just fine.
Explain that the money saved would have to be cut from other places otherwise (i.e. redundancies) and you will have the most willing learners you can imagine.
Anybody that has read about this know that this has nothing to do with the GPL.
My goofness, SCO stuff daily and there are some people that still don't get it.
While dying they have to pay the last bills, the UNIX "IP" would ve a valluable asset that will be sold to the first lawyer willing to sue somebody again.
Why are there people that trust conviced monopoly abusers?
Lets wait to hear your thanks when MS introduces successfully Palladium with the lame excuse of blocking spam.
So friggin easy!
.... was when the company escorted out of the building a guy that had invested 10 years of his life who used to make emphasis on loyality to the company. For the way he was treated you may have believed he was just remmanded in custody by the police.
I am a sane person and would never do anything unprofessional, but when you go hurting people feelings like that, sooner or later somebody will want to be nasty, and that somebody would not be necessarily the same person that was treated like dirt.
My company (Fortune whatever blah,blah,blah) had been working happily with NT4/Office97.
As we all know, those are not being supported anymore by its manufacturer. Thus we were forced to upgrade (not really, but there are some people still lacking the guts to trust that their employees are not dumb and to explore options that exist out there).
We upgraded to W2K btw (I don't know why, although I presume licensing was the main issue).
SO as you can see, the consideration for bells and whistles was far in our priority list, we assumed the applications are good enough and then some people cover their @sses by ensuring commercial support from a known (I did not say reputable) manufacturer.
At home it is even worse. For people that are not computer literate there is no choice: new PC equals new software, no matter you want it or not and that you have perfectly valid licenses for working software.
My company (big one, believe me) is exploiting OS all around the place.
:-) ).
Full teams of SAs administering Linux, Web masters using Apache, programmers using bash, perl and python are working as I type (not me, but hye, somebody has to make the point
If programmers create an infrastrucuture that companies can trus and use cheaply there will be work to harness that technology.
Do you think Isaac Newton was intending to study the gravitational fields and the laws that govern them in order to make a buck?
Do you trult think that Turing came with all his theory only to make a buck.
Heck, do you think Linus Torvalds started Linux in order ot make a buck?
Nothing you are passionate about for which you invest time, effort and even, shudder, money, is worth zero.
It appales me that there are people that have a balance sheet view of life in which any activitity has to be measured and acknoledged in a so far as how much money it brings.
If you are a programmer whoe imperative is to make a buck by selling software, then yes, most probably the GPL is a harder way to work. That does not mean that if you understand what you are doing and how you are licensing your code, the great software you realease under the GPL all of the sudden becomes worhtless.
Vincent van Gogh died in poverty but I am sure he would have never considered all his unsold masterpieces worth zero.
Zealots of the balance sheet should jump from the high cliff of their ego.
... or you can go out like you did.
If the former you receive praise and understanding. If the later you are poinedt out you obviuos shortcommings and even the dirty laundry is airated in public.
I am sorry but this was something of your own making (as it was to give your work away under the GPL) so please grow up and bare the consequences of your actions.
.... you can't just put yourself in an island.
The only sane way to ensure we don't kill each other is to allow a degree of cotrolled ordered mandated by a trusted authority.
If you don't trust the authority, fair enough, change it. There are plenty of ways to exert change without harming innocent people as many nutcases are prepared to do.
I hope you are ironic (and that the moderators that gave "interesting" to your post are also full of irony).
So the way to protest goverment abuse is to bomb a building with innocent people (in the purest sense of the word, since many babies died) and such a comment you think would come from a clear-sighted person?
I hope you are ironic and I, humourless git, just missed the point completely...
He has decided that to have a job doing exactly what you want to do is a human right.
it would be nice, no doubt, but you must be realistic no matter which enterprise you wish to pursue.
...is not synonymous of military invasion, no matter how you and your idols in the White House spin it.