I haven't seen Kahuna around for awhile so I'm continuing his work. If you have any objection, you can go suck CmdrTaco's cock. You have no right to an opinion because you're a faggot AC.
Their site is down for some reason *shrug* but you can find a Google cache of their press release about training their staff here. Also, I suspect it's not a big deal since most casual users will be frightened away by the new interface and it won't be a big issue. I think most people will still prefer 98 or ME because they're more familiar with the GUI and they won't be in a big hurry to upgrade. Are they going to know how to install Windows? Probably not. So they won't bother with XP until they purchase a new computer, and for most by the time that happens, Roadrunner will have trained their techs.
This might initially seem to apply to only those nations under strict regimes and which limit access to information, but it seems that it could be fought in other nations, too. Consider that it would allow French citizens to get around the ban on Nazi memorabilia. If we make it more difficult for them to comply with the court order, we'd better hope the French government doesn't hear of it because it might put more restrictive limitations on Yahoo. To be honest, I couldn't care the least about Yahoo, and I think it's excellent that something like this be created, but if governments which we respect and recognize find out about this and they start putting more restrictive orders on censorship, we set a dangerous precedent.
I'd like to take a bit to reflect on the linux community and where it's come out of and the state of it now.
As a user of the operating system, I find it to be largely an excellent product. And the community has been hugely successful in waging a war against Microsoft and for the brief time it's been a serious competitor to the software giant, it has indeed made huge strides.
The product, beginning several years ago, has enjoyed excellent growth, especially in the past few years. While the pace may be slowing, it should not take away from the growth of the community in previous years.
The state of the community, itself, is a bit more disturbing. In general, the linux community supports open source, that software usually should be free, and that intellectual property should be very much limited.
In the battles for freedoms to distribute the DeCSS source and for MP3s, the community has gained the reputation as thieves. In this, they have taken on companies and organiations that are generally respected or at least accepted by the public. Not to say that the organizations, such as the MPAA or the RIAA, are right, but the public tends to believe them.
It's very easy to portray what the linux community does as theft of products, services, and a threat to the United States economy. As long as the community supporting linux has the reputation as thieves, it will also tend to give the product a bad name.
I'm by no means saying the causes to fight far are wrong, but it's necessary to pick which battles to fight, and the community seems to have chosen too many to fight at once. The media can control and influence public opinion, and tends to be biased toward the rich, like it or not. In such an environment, linux is at a handicap already, and fighting the battles they do makes it that much worse.
It tends to reveal a more disturbing, and to an extent hypocritical attitude about the linux community. The United States is based on capitalism, and what the linux community seems to support is far closer to socialism.
The attitude is to support big government against big business, but that same big government should not touch the people. I can't see how this is possible, and it's definitely asking far too much. You simply cannot treat a business different than a person in what rights they are entitled to and what liberties they are granted. What this is suggesting is that the government take up an ideology of what is good and what is evil, and this is simply not acceptable. This goes against anything the United States was founded on, and is a rather scary thought.
Capitalism has worked well for the United States and while it is not a perfect system, it tries to protect the rights of all when it is regulated to some extent. You cannot choose who to regulate and who to let alone, you must instead regulate all equally for a system to be anything close to fair.
Instead, the linux community acts like freeloaders. They want to have good products, yet they are unwilling to give any payment to those who bring the products to them. They fight the rights and liberties of those who control intellectual property, but they want their rights and liberties protected by the government.
This is a narrow view of the world and an immature one. The linux community can't even seem to get along, and it is populated by many immature individuals. Not to say that everyone in the community possesses these attitudes and undesirable qualities, but they certainly do prevail.
And one of the largest sites and a favorite among the linux community, Slashdot, is a hotbed for trolling and flames. A real troll is a masterpiece, it takes time to develop into what it targets to annoy. It attempts to appear as a legitimate post. A real troll is funny. Trolling is enjoyable, but what prevails on Slashdot is not real trolling but flooding with pointless comments. This reflects poorly on the immaturity when those with different views have resorted to tactics of flames and flooding to harass rather than to make the reader think.
The normal user within the community embodies what is frowned upon in our society. Yet the image of a long-haired linux zealot gains praise within the community. At best it's a misunderstood group with conflicting views, and at worst, it's an anti-social band that makes quite a threat to the rights and liberties we value in the great nation of the United States. The linux community, with growing support of its ideas, is a dangerous threat to the software indutry, the internet boom, and possibly leading a collapse of the economy in the United States and possibly around the world. It is dangerous when we start to support a double standard to eliminate the rich. This is the beginnings of communism, a threat which the western world spent nearly half a century fighting. Of all the scares in the history of this nation of communism and a breakdown of the values, rights, and freedoms which we in the United States cherish, quite possibly the worst one yet is the linux community with its dangerous views and goals that seem to be gaining acceptance throughout more than just its small band of followers.
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I haven't seen Kahuna around for awhile so I'm continuing his work. If you have any objection, you can go suck CmdrTaco's cock. You have no right to an opinion because you're a faggot AC.
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The rules and details are mirrored here in Google's cache. Hope that helps, sir.
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Their site is down for some reason *shrug* but you can find a Google cache of their press release about training their staff here. Also, I suspect it's not a big deal since most casual users will be frightened away by the new interface and it won't be a big issue. I think most people will still prefer 98 or ME because they're more familiar with the GUI and they won't be in a big hurry to upgrade. Are they going to know how to install Windows? Probably not. So they won't bother with XP until they purchase a new computer, and for most by the time that happens, Roadrunner will have trained their techs.
This might initially seem to apply to only those nations under strict regimes and which limit access to information, but it seems that it could be fought in other nations, too. Consider that it would allow French citizens to get around the ban on Nazi memorabilia. If we make it more difficult for them to comply with the court order, we'd better hope the French government doesn't hear of it because it might put more restrictive limitations on Yahoo. To be honest, I couldn't care the least about Yahoo, and I think it's excellent that something like this be created, but if governments which we respect and recognize find out about this and they start putting more restrictive orders on censorship, we set a dangerous precedent.
As a user of the operating system, I find it to be largely an excellent product. And the community has been hugely successful in waging a war against Microsoft and for the brief time it's been a serious competitor to the software giant, it has indeed made huge strides.
The product, beginning several years ago, has enjoyed excellent growth, especially in the past few years. While the pace may be slowing, it should not take away from the growth of the community in previous years.
The state of the community, itself, is a bit more disturbing. In general, the linux community supports open source, that software usually should be free, and that intellectual property should be very much limited.
In the battles for freedoms to distribute the DeCSS source and for MP3s, the community has gained the reputation as thieves. In this, they have taken on companies and organiations that are generally respected or at least accepted by the public. Not to say that the organizations, such as the MPAA or the RIAA, are right, but the public tends to believe them.
It's very easy to portray what the linux community does as theft of products, services, and a threat to the United States economy. As long as the community supporting linux has the reputation as thieves, it will also tend to give the product a bad name.
I'm by no means saying the causes to fight far are wrong, but it's necessary to pick which battles to fight, and the community seems to have chosen too many to fight at once. The media can control and influence public opinion, and tends to be biased toward the rich, like it or not. In such an environment, linux is at a handicap already, and fighting the battles they do makes it that much worse.
It tends to reveal a more disturbing, and to an extent hypocritical attitude about the linux community. The United States is based on capitalism, and what the linux community seems to support is far closer to socialism.
The attitude is to support big government against big business, but that same big government should not touch the people. I can't see how this is possible, and it's definitely asking far too much. You simply cannot treat a business different than a person in what rights they are entitled to and what liberties they are granted. What this is suggesting is that the government take up an ideology of what is good and what is evil, and this is simply not acceptable. This goes against anything the United States was founded on, and is a rather scary thought.
Capitalism has worked well for the United States and while it is not a perfect system, it tries to protect the rights of all when it is regulated to some extent. You cannot choose who to regulate and who to let alone, you must instead regulate all equally for a system to be anything close to fair.
Instead, the linux community acts like freeloaders. They want to have good products, yet they are unwilling to give any payment to those who bring the products to them. They fight the rights and liberties of those who control intellectual property, but they want their rights and liberties protected by the government.
This is a narrow view of the world and an immature one. The linux community can't even seem to get along, and it is populated by many immature individuals. Not to say that everyone in the community possesses these attitudes and undesirable qualities, but they certainly do prevail.
And one of the largest sites and a favorite among the linux community, Slashdot, is a hotbed for trolling and flames. A real troll is a masterpiece, it takes time to develop into what it targets to annoy. It attempts to appear as a legitimate post. A real troll is funny. Trolling is enjoyable, but what prevails on Slashdot is not real trolling but flooding with pointless comments. This reflects poorly on the immaturity when those with different views have resorted to tactics of flames and flooding to harass rather than to make the reader think.
The normal user within the community embodies what is frowned upon in our society. Yet the image of a long-haired linux zealot gains praise within the community. At best it's a misunderstood group with conflicting views, and at worst, it's an anti-social band that makes quite a threat to the rights and liberties we value in the great nation of the United States. The linux community, with growing support of its ideas, is a dangerous threat to the software indutry, the internet boom, and possibly leading a collapse of the economy in the United States and possibly around the world. It is dangerous when we start to support a double standard to eliminate the rich. This is the beginnings of communism, a threat which the western world spent nearly half a century fighting. Of all the scares in the history of this nation of communism and a breakdown of the values, rights, and freedoms which we in the United States cherish, quite possibly the worst one yet is the linux community with its dangerous views and goals that seem to be gaining acceptance throughout more than just its small band of followers.