I dunno.... I think if we could stop global warming, then we could also stop hurricanes and tornados, which cause MUCH more damage in the US than global warming will ever cause.
Actually, it's more a matter of not cutting down the biomass. Every suburban tree is trying to plant biomass every year. All we need to do is stop mowing the seedlings. Oh, I suppose in those areas where they cut down all the trees to put up houses, you might have to jump-start the process, but yeah, this is a great idea.
Actually, since most people don't vote for the candidate they want, but instead vote against the one they like the least, negative advertising (including "smear messages") is the most useful information to have.
why RMS's stance on calling the OS "GNU/Linux" is important.
Important to whom? RMS? Or us? The reality is that it's GNU/Linux/X/Athena/BSD, but that's only slightly more insane than LiGNUx or GNU/Linux or Linux/GNU. It's a name. The name is not the thing. A distribution by any other name would smell as sweet. A name is not the appropriate place to acknowledge authorship. If RMS wanted to get credit for GNU, he would publish it. Is anybody running GNU after all these years? Nope, because RMS never completed GNU. Perhaps Linus finished GNU, but in that case, he gets to call it what he wants, just as anybody who took up a partially-finished project has the right to rename it.
GPL V3 AUTOMATICALLY REPLACES GPL V2 IF YOU USE THE STANDARD GPL V2 LANGUAGE.
Don't believe me. Go read it for yourself. With the standard licensing language, anybody who has a copy of a GPLv2 work can relicense it under the GPLv3. This has the potential for all sorts of interesting problems, like "If I contribute code to a GPLv3 project, can it be used under the GPLv2 fork of the same project?"
Voting is a crappy tool for controlling government, but it's a tool nonetheless.
In other words, ?you think our government is out of control? I agree with that sentiment. Now.... what to do about it? Voting obviously isn't working. What's the next step?
You're neglecting the evil that Al Gore would have thrust upon us. Since you're only looking at the side of the coin which happened to win, your entire argument can be ignored.
Charges of racism are very easy to make and nearly impossible to disprove. If a single black person calls a white person a racist, how can he possibly dispute it?
The incorrect presumption here is that voting matters. Does it really matter if you vote for a Demopublican or a Republicrat? Either way they're going to pick your pocket and line their own. No matter who you vote for, the government always gets elected. Funny how that works.
Sony hasn't wanted our business for years. Look at all the restrictions they put on their products: the weird file formats, the proprietary "Memory Stick", the DRM on their media products, the rootkit, and..... Mission Impossible 3.
"Free trade" would be a one-page agreement saying "There shall be no restrictions on trade between our countries." Signed: the president, the prime minister, the king, etc.
What we have is not free trade, but is instead "free-er trade". As such it is full of compromises which restrict our freedom.
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I dunno .... I think if we could stop global warming, then we could also stop hurricanes and tornados, which cause MUCH more damage in the US than global warming will ever cause.
At the end of the day scientists are human beings too, they have to pay the bills, report to a boss, have a reputation among their peers.
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Sounds like an argument against commercial science, and in favor of open source amateur science.
Then again, I'm a Quaker. We have a testimony against hireling priests.
Actually, it's more a matter of not cutting down the biomass. Every suburban tree is trying to plant biomass every year. All we need to do is stop mowing the seedlings. Oh, I suppose in those areas where they cut down all the trees to put up houses, you might have to jump-start the process, but yeah, this is a great idea.
Actually, since most people don't vote for the candidate they want, but instead vote against the one they like the least, negative advertising (including "smear messages") is the most useful information to have.
Those clever folks at Canonical have figured out how to do a combined live + install disk. Only one disk needed.
That was my reaction, too. You want senior engineers to program Java? Most of us never bothered to learn Java, or if we did, we grew out of it.
the Forbes Public License.
Don't. Go. There.
He has no delivery tact for his opinions,
He has actually gotten better over the years.
why RMS's stance on calling the OS "GNU/Linux" is important.
Important to whom? RMS? Or us? The reality is that it's GNU/Linux/X/Athena/BSD, but that's only slightly more insane than LiGNUx or GNU/Linux or Linux/GNU. It's a name. The name is not the thing. A distribution by any other name would smell as sweet. A name is not the appropriate place to acknowledge authorship. If RMS wanted to get credit for GNU, he would publish it. Is anybody running GNU after all these years? Nope, because RMS never completed GNU. Perhaps Linus finished GNU, but in that case, he gets to call it what he wants, just as anybody who took up a partially-finished project has the right to rename it.
I don't think you should have posted this. Let the metathread about the metadebate begin!
GPL V3 AUTOMATICALLY REPLACES GPL V2 IF YOU USE THE STANDARD GPL V2 LANGUAGE.
Don't believe me. Go read it for yourself. With the standard licensing language, anybody who has a copy of a GPLv2 work can relicense it under the GPLv3. This has the potential for all sorts of interesting problems, like "If I contribute code to a GPLv3 project, can it be used under the GPLv2 fork of the same project?"
Somebody "pacted"?? Gah! They've shited the language!
Voting is a crappy tool for controlling government, but it's a tool nonetheless.
.... what to do about it? Voting obviously isn't working. What's the next step?
In other words, ?you think our government is out of control? I agree with that sentiment. Now
You're neglecting the evil that Al Gore would have thrust upon us. Since you're only looking at the side of the coin which happened to win, your entire argument can be ignored.
Dependence. Look at the percentage of people employed by governments of one strip or another.
It's true that racist blogs and propaganda do a lot of harm,
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
19061969: Sometimes even I feel for corporations...
World: "So you're condoning corporatism? You're evil!"
Charges of racism are very easy to make and nearly impossible to disprove. If a single black person calls a white person a racist, how can he possibly dispute it?
"Everyone go out and kill a white man."
Smooth move, Yar! Way to allow yourself to get quoted out of context!
The incorrect presumption here is that voting matters. Does it really matter if you vote for a Demopublican or a Republicrat? Either way they're going to pick your pocket and line their own. No matter who you vote for, the government always gets elected. Funny how that works.
Snakker du Norsk?
One word: poutine.
Sony hasn't wanted our business for years. Look at all the restrictions they put on their products: the weird file formats, the proprietary "Memory Stick", the DRM on their media products, the rootkit, and ..... Mission Impossible 3.
"Free trade" would be a one-page agreement saying "There shall be no restrictions on trade between our countries." Signed: the president, the prime minister, the king, etc.
What we have is not free trade, but is instead "free-er trade". As such it is full of compromises which restrict our freedom.
As a foreigner living here, I find that American culture often needs a little help to laugh at itself.
That's not funny!