Uhhhh, nobody actually believes that "open source" means "source code is made available". The only people who SAY that are free software zealots who are attempting to destroy "open source". Basically, STFU troll.
No, Open means that you can openly use it any way you want, whereas Free means it doesn't cost anything.
Okay, now that we've been stupid at each other, could we perhaps be a little less stupid? Maybe you could agree with this: Free Software and Open Source refer to the same thing: software you can download, modify, and share with others.
You get uncontrolled capitalism when the government passes legislation that stops competition. Free-market capitalism (which, I must note, not many capitalists support) is very much controlled by customers, who are vicious in their lack of loyalty.
Oh, and if capitalism caused the poor to become poorer, then how do you explain the fact that the poor in capitalist countries are much better off than the poor in socialist countries? (and don't give me the Nordic countries -- they're capitalist countries with a socialist veneer.) Or if you don't like that comparison in space, let's try a comparison in time: why are the poor in capitalist countries richer than the poor in the same countries before they were capitalist?
Or do you not actually believe that the poor are richer, and were just tossing off a cliche?
Sweden's Pirate Party points out that the only way to give the "content" industry the protection it needs is to control all speech. Thus, file copying must be permitted not to protect a few thieves, but to protect everyone's freedom of speech.
In other words: Your need to make money isn't going to infringe our freedom of speech.
There are plenty of IPv4 addresses to go around. It's just that they're literally priceless. With no price for an IP address or the routing that goes with it, there's no market. So surprise surprise, there's a shortage!
Why don't people listen to us economists when we tell you how to solve your problems? There's plenty of evidence for what happens when you DON'T listen to us.
But no, I was making reference to the fact that unless you have experienced cold, you have no idea how enervating it is. When you get cold enough, you fall asleep and then you die.
The influence of money on government is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to the influence of government on money. If you want a corruption-free government, then you have to stop trying to regulate every business. I mean, for GOD'S SAKE, the ANGLE of the cut on green beans is REGULATED BY LEGISLATION.
The government has exactly one job: to monopolize violence to ensure that people can make arrangements free of violence. Everything else, people can arrange for themselves through voluntary peaceful means.
You're not talking about COOKING that which you hunted and gathered, are you ? Cooking requires a fire, and fires cause pollution. No, you must eat everything raw.
You, too, need to get outside more. Sometimes water falls from the sky (that's the blue dome overhead) and gets everything wet. It doesn't just fall in your glass. It falls on EVERYTHING and gets it all wet. Not like in Return to Castle Wolfenstein where the rain falls and falls and nothing gets wet.
Mmmmmm, no, regional trends are bullshit. During the Midieval Warming, it was warming everywhere. During the Little Ice Age, it was cooling everywhere. These cycles are 1500 years long (plus or minus 500 years), so you're only comparing this warming against the past one (1) warming.
It's funny how some people only feel alive during a crisis, so they feel the need to invent a crisis when none such exists.
You've never been cold, have you? It's 9 degrees outside here right now... not very cold, really. You start to feel cold about -10F. -20F feels pretty cold. -30F feels damn cold. The coldest I've personally experienced is -35F and THANK GOD there was no wind chill. Now imagine, say, Virginia hitting these temperatures.
Trust me on this one, global warming isn't the problem. Global cooling is. Fortunately, we won't have to face that for another couple of hundred years at least. If you think global warming is going to be a problem, then explain why all the great buildings of Europe were built during the peak of the previous warming. It was hotter then than it is now. It may never get as warm as it did then. We don't know.
Hehe, of course by "open the window" I mean that in the winter there is a plentiful supply of cold air to dump your heat into and keep your air conditioning costs low. And in the summer it rarely gets above 90 degrees during the day, and often gets down to 50 at night. It's all relative, of course.
Well, yes, and it's a strange point of view to say that a company is "addicted" to one of its inputs. One may as well say that Google is addicted to CPUS, or to buildings, or to fiber optic cables, or to people.
Nobody wants the high voltage lines in their backyard. High voltage lines cause cancer, you know. They're currently fighting NYRI, which is trying to bring upstate power down to New York City.
They should build a data center here in New York State's North Country. We have cheap and plentiful water power, plus its cold enough in the winter that cooling the data center is simple: just open a window.
The problem here is that you need to have a faith in environmentalism to believe that human-caused global warming exists. We have good scientific reason to *expect* the globe to be warming, and to continue to warm for another two to three hundred years. We also have good evidence to expect that global warming will be a good thing. It's the global *cooling* that we need to worry about.... in two or three hundred years. Ya think anybody is going to start preparing for the real threat? If you think I'm talking smack, picture Chicago buried under a mile of ice. It happened before, it WILL happen again. A little bit of warming is nothing compared to the next ice age.
Climate change is a documented fact. Within recorded human history we have gone through two 1500-year warming / cooling cycles. There's evidence on every continent of this. But human-caused global warming is bullshit. Basically, we're being asked to believe that the inevitable warming is *more* warm *now* than it *should* be. We have zero evidence of that. Nobody can say with any precision how quickly the earth warms when it warms. It was warmer during the Roman Warming than it is now. Fig trees grew in northern Italy where they don't grow now.
Yeah, teach climate change, but teaching global warming is as bad as teaching creationism. They're both faith-based education.
it's theirs to do with as they may, and no law you made should be able to take that away from them. You don't understand. Copyright is a bargain, not a property right. If you own physical property, you don't need to help of the state to guard it. You stay on your property and point a gun at anybody who tries to trespass (or you hire somebody to come if you need to leave). If you own intellectual property, you cannot stop somebody else from copying it. You need to make a bargain with everybody else (the state) to get them to respect your property. The bargain is that copyright expires.
But copyright no longer expires, so.... people justly feel free to copy, rip, mix.
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Uhhhh, nobody actually believes that "open source" means "source code is made available". The only people who SAY that are free software zealots who are attempting to destroy "open source". Basically, STFU troll.
No, Open means that you can openly use it any way you want, whereas Free means it doesn't cost anything.
Okay, now that we've been stupid at each other, could we perhaps be a little less stupid? Maybe you could agree with this: Free Software and Open Source refer to the same thing: software you can download, modify, and share with others.
And how open is that? If somebody held an open house, and then excluded black people, how open would that be?
Who is this ijit? It's all about the cost. Is it THAT hard to learn some economics before making a fool of yourself?
The difficulty of libertarianism is not "I must be free"; but "That other jerk must be free as well." Ha! Ain't that the truth!
You get uncontrolled capitalism when the government passes legislation that stops competition. Free-market capitalism (which, I must note, not many capitalists support) is very much controlled by customers, who are vicious in their lack of loyalty.
Oh, and if capitalism caused the poor to become poorer, then how do you explain the fact that the poor in capitalist countries are much better off than the poor in socialist countries? (and don't give me the Nordic countries -- they're capitalist countries with a socialist veneer.) Or if you don't like that comparison in space, let's try a comparison in time: why are the poor in capitalist countries richer than the poor in the same countries before they were capitalist?
Or do you not actually believe that the poor are richer, and were just tossing off a cliche?
Sweden's Pirate Party points out that the only way to give the "content" industry the protection it needs is to control all speech. Thus, file copying must be permitted not to protect a few thieves, but to protect everyone's freedom of speech.
In other words: Your need to make money isn't going to infringe our freedom of speech.
Figure out a different way to make money.
There are plenty of IPv4 addresses to go around. It's just that they're literally priceless. With no price for an IP address or the routing that goes with it, there's no market. So surprise surprise, there's a shortage!
Why don't people listen to us economists when we tell you how to solve your problems? There's plenty of evidence for what happens when you DON'T listen to us.
That's where we disagree. http://blog.russnelson.com/economics/changing-the-weather.html
WELL DUH! Sheesh.
But no, I was making reference to the fact that unless you have experienced cold, you have no idea how enervating it is. When you get cold enough, you fall asleep and then you die.
The influence of money on government is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to the influence of government on money. If you want a corruption-free government, then you have to stop trying to regulate every business. I mean, for GOD'S SAKE, the ANGLE of the cut on green beans is REGULATED BY LEGISLATION.
The government has exactly one job: to monopolize violence to ensure that people can make arrangements free of violence. Everything else, people can arrange for themselves through voluntary peaceful means.
You're not talking about COOKING that which you hunted and gathered, are you ? Cooking requires a fire, and fires cause pollution. No, you must eat everything raw.
You, too, need to get outside more. Sometimes water falls from the sky (that's the blue dome overhead) and gets everything wet. It doesn't just fall in your glass. It falls on EVERYTHING and gets it all wet. Not like in Return to Castle Wolfenstein where the rain falls and falls and nothing gets wet.
Mmmmmm, no, regional trends are bullshit. During the Midieval Warming, it was warming everywhere. During the Little Ice Age, it was cooling everywhere. These cycles are 1500 years long (plus or minus 500 years), so you're only comparing this warming against the past one (1) warming.
It's funny how some people only feel alive during a crisis, so they feel the need to invent a crisis when none such exists.
You've never been cold, have you? It's 9 degrees outside here right now ... not very cold, really. You start to feel cold about -10F. -20F feels pretty cold. -30F feels damn cold. The coldest I've personally experienced is -35F and THANK GOD there was no wind chill. Now imagine, say, Virginia hitting these temperatures.
Trust me on this one, global warming isn't the problem. Global cooling is. Fortunately, we won't have to face that for another couple of hundred years at least. If you think global warming is going to be a problem, then explain why all the great buildings of Europe were built during the peak of the previous warming. It was hotter then than it is now. It may never get as warm as it did then. We don't know.
Hehe, of course by "open the window" I mean that in the winter there is a plentiful supply of cold air to dump your heat into and keep your air conditioning costs low. And in the summer it rarely gets above 90 degrees during the day, and often gets down to 50 at night. It's all relative, of course.
Well, yes, and it's a strange point of view to say that a company is "addicted" to one of its inputs. One may as well say that Google is addicted to CPUS, or to buildings, or to fiber optic cables, or to people.
The sun goes down at night (you need to get out more), and the wind stops. Water, on the other hand, doesn't stop falling.
Nobody wants the high voltage lines in their backyard. High voltage lines cause cancer, you know. They're currently fighting NYRI, which is trying to bring upstate power down to New York City.
They should build a data center here in New York State's North Country. We have cheap and plentiful water power, plus its cold enough in the winter that cooling the data center is simple: just open a window.
The problem here is that you need to have a faith in environmentalism to believe that human-caused global warming exists. We have good scientific reason to *expect* the globe to be warming, and to continue to warm for another two to three hundred years. We also have good evidence to expect that global warming will be a good thing. It's the global *cooling* that we need to worry about .... in two or three hundred years. Ya think anybody is going to start preparing for the real threat? If you think I'm talking smack, picture Chicago buried under a mile of ice. It happened before, it WILL happen again. A little bit of warming is nothing compared to the next ice age.
Climate change is a documented fact. Within recorded human history we have gone through two 1500-year warming / cooling cycles. There's evidence on every continent of this. But human-caused global warming is bullshit. Basically, we're being asked to believe that the inevitable warming is *more* warm *now* than it *should* be. We have zero evidence of that. Nobody can say with any precision how quickly the earth warms when it warms. It was warmer during the Roman Warming than it is now. Fig trees grew in northern Italy where they don't grow now.
Yeah, teach climate change, but teaching global warming is as bad as teaching creationism. They're both faith-based education.
But copyright no longer expires, so
With every year that passes, gamers seem older and older. How are we to stop this?!? In March I'll be 50. A 50 year old gamer! That's not possible!
I used to care what people said in slashdot comments. Now, what isn't trolling is just plain stupid.