What you are advocating is to ignore the long term game for the sake of immediacy.
Hackers that have a tunnel visions strictly concentrated on hacking should be considered incapable technicians.
Hackers should understand the context in which their applications work and how they will affect and be affected by the society in which they will be run.
When I studied Engineering (Computing Engineering), we attended the same lectures as Civil or Industrial Engineers regarding ethics and how your work happens in a context.
What you are advocating is to ignore the social context in which applications are deployed and carry on coding with blinders firmly worn. Such attitude is short sighted, fortunately people like Stallman point to the perils ahead, wise hackers should pause, take notice, and then reach their own conclusions.
It is funny that you don't look at your own countrymen for a clue.
Spain has become one of the more liberal countries in the world and you can pretty much pursue your happiness as you see fit without the meddling of the state at every point.
Having said this, the Conservatives just promised a couple of days ago to start to dismantle the surveillance state that the closet socialists in Labour have built during the last 12 years.
I heard their statement on this regard and I was genuinely surprised and pleased, so maybe you are being a bit to irratonal about this....
It is all good and dandy to ignore this inconvenience, the fact is that Singapore is a tiny autocracy were democratic politics don't exist and the basic respect of all human dignity can be ignored if the state (i.e. the rulers) deem this necessary.
- Twitter never was a pro Iran democracy forum. As a matter of fact nobody stopped Iranian or others to use Twitter as they see fit and I am sure it continues to be used for pro-democracy advocates.
- If you know he was a child molester, you missed his trials, where were you hiding?
- The "surgery fetish" as you ungraciously call it, may have deep psychological reasons, that most likely have to do with his childhood, which is well known wasn't a happy one.
- I am an atheist also, people like you give us a bad name. I can perfectly feel sad for the passing of an artist while not forgetting the needy in the world. Multitask man, multitask.
- You are too sensitive, the problems of the world are not going to be solved by ignoring the death of a talented individual.
Evidence is now pouring from archaeological sites all around the world that link our ability to enjoy the arts (music, painting, dancing) with our innate humanity.
It is most likely that our common interest for artistic pursuits actually strengthens our social links, which have been mightily important since the time that our ancestors had to face the Neanderthals. Our evolutionary cousins it seems did not have sophisticated art like we did.
What is the first thing we do when we sit around a fire in the dead of the night? Chat, sing and dance.
To belittle arts as something somehow irrelevant or unimportant just shows a monumental ignorance and insensitivity about what is important in life.
As an example when people in Venezuela tried to tackle juvenile street crime they turned to music. If somebody like you would have been in charge "El sistema" (the program that gives kids musical instruments and instruction) would have been dumped as something unimportant. The reality is that thousands of children in Venezuela's slums have escaped a life of misery and delinquency.
But lets keep pretending that the arts,a dn music in particular, have no real benefits in our daily life.
I could go in a tirade about how sports can also be a cohesive force in society, but I would just refer you to watching the 4th goal of Brazil vs Italy in the final of the Football Worldcup in Mexico City in 1970. Only somebody monumentally blind and insensitive can't appreciate the beauty of these young men collaborating towards a final objective and how this affected positively hundreds of millions all around the world.
Who cares about people being able to put a tune together (Michael Jackson actually wrote his music, and introduced many influences in the same fashion as Aaron Copland introducing Jazz on his. Just ask any real musician, not somebody that listens for fun).
Bunches of acts have acknowledge musical influence from MJ.
He also opened the doors to the music industry for many artists that have been literally gethoized for ages.
I truly think that when it is all done and dusted, Michael Jackson will be remembered as the most important pop musician after the Beattles, they both alone will stand as the giants of 20th Century popular music.
One party realizes that irrespective of the truth the damage is too much to contemplate, so they try to settle.
It is funny how you, and other MJ haters, don't question the morals of the parents or guardians of the children that decided to settle. I know there is no amount of money that would keep me quiet if a child of mine had been interfered with, so I think one can also argue that if the parents settled that means they either put money before ethics and morals (in the case MJ actually did something) or were a bunch of scum-bags blackmailing Jackson knowing he had done something that clearly was inappropriate (sleeping in the same bed with children) but not illegal.
So we can play it both ways, which is why it is better to let the legal system play things out and accpet whatever conclussions are reached.
Why didn't you show up as a witness in the trials.
Jackson obviously made very bad choices in life: even if he didn't do anything untoward against children, he should have known better about how he related to children, having said this making stupid choices in life do not necessarily make you a paedophile (and the legal system says as much, so why people keep peddling things that have been legally checked?)
Michael Jackson made it possible for black performers to be in an equal footing with anybody else (in the US that is).
Before him being non white in the music industry in the US was a real ceiling, he refused to play ball with companies that would use this kind of implicit apartheid, he was so popular that radio and TV stations could not afford not to have him.
You follow some steps in a certain sequence in order to get the work done. It is like lying bricks or driving an excavator.
Certainly a degree of creativity is required, but please don't fuck mention writers block the day true artists are dying, it is frankly disrespectful.
You don't code in front of the computer. Programming involves as the last step to transfer the results of your work into a file to be processed by the software in your computer.
Programming is done with pen and paper, designing an algorithm, writing pseudo code, checking limit cases to see how your algorithms will behave.
Once you have done tons of work *thinking* and have arrived to a solution, then you sit down in front of a computer and transcribe what is written on paper to the computer. The last stage of programming is being a typist, so if you are sitting in front of your computer doing nothing then you simply are not a proper programmer.
If you are starting with nothing in front of your computer I think you have to enrol in some proper programming courses. Pronto.
And please don't bring this "writers block" nonsense again. Mario Vargas Llosa may have writers block, or Tomi Morrison, or Gunther Grass.
A programmer does not have writers block, a programmer that does not program is just a lazy fuck or complete unprepared for his trade, so stop the lame excuses and get coding.
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What you are advocating is to ignore the long term game for the sake of immediacy.
Hackers that have a tunnel visions strictly concentrated on hacking should be considered incapable technicians.
Hackers should understand the context in which their applications work and how they will affect and be affected by the society in which they will be run.
When I studied Engineering (Computing Engineering), we attended the same lectures as Civil or Industrial Engineers regarding ethics and how your work happens in a context.
What you are advocating is to ignore the social context in which applications are deployed and carry on coding with blinders firmly worn. Such attitude is short sighted, fortunately people like Stallman point to the perils ahead, wise hackers should pause, take notice, and then reach their own conclusions.
There is no use to have a system that is open to be torpedoed by a company that actually has threatened to use its patent portfolio.
Why should one ignore the threats?
Oh, sorry, you are posting as an AC.
Surprising how many MS defenders decide to post as ACs....
Specially if it is calling names!
And particularly if it is against a nasty company that breaks the law with impunity with almost clock work regularity.
Oh yeah, but the people writing a little $ are immoral, unethical or whatever...
It is funny that you don't look at your own countrymen for a clue.
Spain has become one of the more liberal countries in the world and you can pretty much pursue your happiness as you see fit without the meddling of the state at every point.
Having said this, the Conservatives just promised a couple of days ago to start to dismantle the surveillance state that the closet socialists in Labour have built during the last 12 years.
I heard their statement on this regard and I was genuinely surprised and pleased, so maybe you are being a bit to irratonal about this ....
UKians can vote in both local an EU elections. You can't vote in national elections afaik.
Can you check in a map where Ancient Egypt and Rome are?
Check also Inca and Maya cultures.
We are talking hundreds or even one or two thousand years.
Why do some people believe on this geographical (or climatic) predestination bullshit?
You clearly know nothing about Singapore.
It is all good and dandy to ignore this inconvenience, the fact is that Singapore is a tiny autocracy were democratic politics don't exist and the basic respect of all human dignity can be ignored if the state (i.e. the rulers) deem this necessary.
With all the ongoing censorship?
I lived in Kuala Lumpur for a few years, and I have to say that your vision of Malaysia is quite rosy.
Lets forget about the religious police and the de facto apartheid that exists in the country, you have no access to a free press of any denomination.
USians can't just come and work in the UK.
The rest of us learn English as a matter of fact, and then one or two more languages as needed.
That in order to avoid plug-and-chug we develop the corresponding mathematical theory to solve an equation or make an integral?
Once you are done and dusted with the theory behind a concept then you proceed to apply the concept as needed.
- Twitter never was a pro Iran democracy forum. As a matter of fact nobody stopped Iranian or others to use Twitter as they see fit and I am sure it continues to be used for pro-democracy advocates.
- If you know he was a child molester, you missed his trials, where were you hiding?
- The "surgery fetish" as you ungraciously call it, may have deep psychological reasons, that most likely have to do with his childhood, which is well known wasn't a happy one.
- I am an atheist also, people like you give us a bad name. I can perfectly feel sad for the passing of an artist while not forgetting the needy in the world. Multitask man, multitask.
- You are too sensitive, the problems of the world are not going to be solved by ignoring the death of a talented individual.
Evidence is now pouring from archaeological sites all around the world that link our ability to enjoy the arts (music, painting, dancing) with our innate humanity.
It is most likely that our common interest for artistic pursuits actually strengthens our social links, which have been mightily important since the time that our ancestors had to face the Neanderthals. Our evolutionary cousins it seems did not have sophisticated art like we did.
What is the first thing we do when we sit around a fire in the dead of the night? Chat, sing and dance.
To belittle arts as something somehow irrelevant or unimportant just shows a monumental ignorance and insensitivity about what is important in life.
As an example when people in Venezuela tried to tackle juvenile street crime they turned to music. If somebody like you would have been in charge "El sistema" (the program that gives kids musical instruments and instruction) would have been dumped as something unimportant. The reality is that thousands of children in Venezuela's slums have escaped a life of misery and delinquency.
But lets keep pretending that the arts,a dn music in particular, have no real benefits in our daily life.
I could go in a tirade about how sports can also be a cohesive force in society, but I would just refer you to watching the 4th goal of Brazil vs Italy in the final of the Football Worldcup in Mexico City in 1970. Only somebody monumentally blind and insensitive can't appreciate the beauty of these young men collaborating towards a final objective and how this affected positively hundreds of millions all around the world.
Stravinsky, and the Beatles.
Who cares about people being able to put a tune together (Michael Jackson actually wrote his music, and introduced many influences in the same fashion as Aaron Copland introducing Jazz on his. Just ask any real musician, not somebody that listens for fun).
Bunches of acts have acknowledge musical influence from MJ.
He also opened the doors to the music industry for many artists that have been literally gethoized for ages.
I truly think that when it is all done and dusted, Michael Jackson will be remembered as the most important pop musician after the Beattles, they both alone will stand as the giants of 20th Century popular music.
What stupid thing have you got to say about him?
That is called a settlement.
One party realizes that irrespective of the truth the damage is too much to contemplate, so they try to settle.
It is funny how you, and other MJ haters, don't question the morals of the parents or guardians of the children that decided to settle. I know there is no amount of money that would keep me quiet if a child of mine had been interfered with, so I think one can also argue that if the parents settled that means they either put money before ethics and morals (in the case MJ actually did something) or were a bunch of scum-bags blackmailing Jackson knowing he had done something that clearly was inappropriate (sleeping in the same bed with children) but not illegal.
So we can play it both ways, which is why it is better to let the legal system play things out and accpet whatever conclussions are reached.
Why didn't you show up as a witness in the trials.
Jackson obviously made very bad choices in life: even if he didn't do anything untoward against children, he should have known better about how he related to children, having said this making stupid choices in life do not necessarily make you a paedophile (and the legal system says as much, so why people keep peddling things that have been legally checked?)
... a taster of what art is all about.
Michael Jackson made it possible for black performers to be in an equal footing with anybody else (in the US that is).
Before him being non white in the music industry in the US was a real ceiling, he refused to play ball with companies that would use this kind of implicit apartheid, he was so popular that radio and TV stations could not afford not to have him.
Look pal, programming is a technical trade.
You follow some steps in a certain sequence in order to get the work done. It is like lying bricks or driving an excavator.
Certainly a degree of creativity is required, but please don't fuck mention writers block the day true artists are dying, it is frankly disrespectful.
You don't code in front of the computer. Programming involves as the last step to transfer the results of your work into a file to be processed by the software in your computer.
Programming is done with pen and paper, designing an algorithm, writing pseudo code, checking limit cases to see how your algorithms will behave.
Once you have done tons of work *thinking* and have arrived to a solution, then you sit down in front of a computer and transcribe what is written on paper to the computer. The last stage of programming is being a typist, so if you are sitting in front of your computer doing nothing then you simply are not a proper programmer.
If you are starting with nothing in front of your computer I think you have to enrol in some proper programming courses. Pronto.
And please don't bring this "writers block" nonsense again. Mario Vargas Llosa may have writers block, or Tomi Morrison, or Gunther Grass.
A programmer does not have writers block, a programmer that does not program is just a lazy fuck or complete unprepared for his trade, so stop the lame excuses and get coding.
1/4 cm
Use 4 3/16 inches and do the exact calculation .
The rest of us, in the other 200+ countries that use metric, will sit down and laugh.