if no one believes corruption can be fixed, corruption is the status quo
if people demand corruption be fixed, it tends to get a little more fixed
of course corruption is never going to go away. no fucking shit. this isn't a revelation. but to keep it at a minimum, it also must not be accepted
"Not everyone is on a crusade to improve reality. It is unreasonable to expect or demand everyone to work to improve reality."
you actually described everyone. we all have tolerance levels for certain levels of bullshit, then we get outraged. my assertion is that those with a high level of tolerance for bullshit ("they stuck a toilet plunger up his ass? oh well, whatever") are complicit with those who do real evil in this world. such heavy handed condemnation is of course not suitable for people who tolerate low level crime, but you need to draw the line somewhere. you do draw the line somewhere, right?
what you describe as the ideal curvaceous woman is a man's idea of an attractive woman. a woman's idea of an attractive woman is not the same as a man's idea of an attractive woman. for whatever reason, a lot of women are very self-loathing. and no, its not the usual bogeyman we try to blame for our own behavior, "the media", its some sort of innate psychological thing. a lot of women really think the body of a prepubescent boy is the ideal female appearance for some reason
if you take a woman with a banging bod, subject her to constant attention from all men, she can still go home and look in the mirror and find something to criticize. and she does: she think's she's too fat
the fashion industry has no real power. the fashion industry is given power by the people who buy clothes: women. and there's a lot of self-loathing in the female world. a shame
you don't believe that the situation can be improved
police abuse can be improved, and has improved historically. compare the bullshit cops in the 1800s got away with and what they get away with today. not that something like the abner louima case isn't modern and horrifying, but there aren't abner louimas happening every week
you have a nihilistic empty view of humanity. improvement is historically real. we have a long way to go, and its difficult, but that doesn't mean it isn't happening. admit to that simple truth, or follow your mindless pointlessness and hopelessness to its inevitable conclusion and go swallow a shotgun
i object to and categorically reject your attitude. its hysterical teenage bullshit. grow the fuck up, please
when you figure out how to have a human society without the need for police, get back to us. until then, your rant speaks more to your psychological problems than any valid observation of reality
the human mind has many types of intelligence: spatial, social, emotional, etc.
one of our most powerful is, in fact, our social intelligence. a rodent needs a good sense of smell to escape predators and find food. living in a social group, the biggest threat and reward for you comes not from the bushes: berries or fangs, but from your fellow humans: jealous potential murderer or coy potential mate
therefore, you have this powerful cognition machine sitting in your head hewn from millenia of evolution in human groups. well, use it. there is nothing wrong with bringing your powerful social intelligence machinery to bear on nonsocial problems. think of it as using otherwise wasted cpu cycles on protein folding or finding mersenne primes: you "use" your social intelligence by imagining a math problem as a social setting (cue that famous scene from the russel crowe flick "a beautiful mind"), or reimagining your relationship as captain of a cruise ship and all its engineering problems as instead a relationship with a woman and all of the attendant problems that comes with that
it is in fact, not some sort of weird mental trick i am referring to, it is in fact almost a subconcious and completely natural effort for most of us, this repurposing of social intelligence, since our social intelligence is probably our most potent form of intelligence. you look at clouds and bark on trees and stars in the sky and see faces and bodies, its effortless. this is because your mind is powerfully prejudiced and primed to process its world in terms of social cues and meanings first. yes, spatial intelligence is important for many things, like throwing a spear or building a hut. but none of that matters if you didn't see the backstabber in your hunting party or missed the social cues that the big man's daughter was interested in you. social intelligence is our most important form of intelligence: i am sure plenty of people can outrank barack obama on a traditional iq test. but iq tests test only certain forms of intelligence. barack obama's ability to recognize, manipulate, and use social networks to gain power (or any politician's such ability, its called charisma) is in fact a much more important form of iq than anything a traditional iq test reveals
there is nothing wrong with anthropomorphism. it is entirely natural, and in fact, useful. in fact, if you see something wrong with anthropomorphism, all you are doing is denying a powerful aspect of your own intellect to come to bear on problems of interest to you. or perhaps you are in fact impoverished in your social intelligence abilities, and your anathema to anthropomorphism is just a symptom of your own poverty, not a valid comment on other people's lines of thinking
so when the engineers and technicians talk about and react to events with the mars rovers in terms of a social relationship with another person, specifically, a woman ("she"), all they are doing is putting themselves in a frame of mind to maximize their intellectual abilities to process the issues that come up
free music over the internet is simply nothing but advertising. this radical system brought to by emulating the almost century-old practice of radio play. money is made in concerts, advertising. for writers, its merchandicing tie ins, book signings, speaking engagements, movie deals, etc. movie houses, btw, survived tv, the vhs, dvd, and the internet, and are stil gaining in profits, and no one is saying you should be able to sneak into a movie theatre for free. hollywood producers just lose their aftermarket dvd revenue streams. boo fucking hoo: hollywood made plenty of cash before the dvd and the vhs... the vhs of course which they fought tooth and nail... before realizing it meant MORE money, not less money for them. meatspace is a finite resource and should be doled out via economic costs, it is genuinely scarce, the number of seats in concert/ theatre. no such scarcity exists with COPYING files. it's not philosophically impossible to steal something by copying it
meanwhile, software writers have been doing fine giving away free software for decades now. ever hear linux? even in the windows world, go to sites like download.com, tucows.com: thousands of vendors giving away free software in order to generate business. they make their money via customization for specific clients. any generalized software is an opportunity to pad your resume and advertise your services and establish yourself as an authority
what is this system called? make up your own mind, but it is vastly superior to trying to do the impossible of policing and filtering the internet and financially blackmailing the few 0.01% of uncareful sharers you do manage to catch
the internet has already killed ip law. all that is happening now is the law, and the uninformed opinion of those like you, having to catch up to the new reality, the new status quo: anything that can be digitized is free. not because i say so, i'm no authority. it just IS free, because of what new technology has made possible. a pimply teenager in his basement in pasadena with broadband has greater distribution power of bertelsmann+time warner+every other publisher in 1980... hey dude in dresden: want every single creative output of an obscure lounge singer in wellington? here ya go. the only catch is: NO ONE CONTROLS THIS, or even can control this. sure they can bankrupt a few poor souls, as if that changes the behavior of millions of teenagers with no spending money and high technical acumen. no army of lawyers can defeat them
its called disruptive technology, and plenty of examples from history exist of new technology coming along and dramatically overthrowing social and legal precedents and establishments. guess what? we still exist as a moral species, we're only richer now for those new technologies. oh darn
what if you don't change your opinion or the law doesn't change? who fucking cares what you think. who fucking cares what i think. its all just damage damage for the internet to route around and do its thing
does not foster technological and cultural innovation
ip law is an impediment to technological and cultural innovation
it has hopelessly been compromised by government agendas and corporate greed, and no longer serves individual innovators and creators
it is your moral duty to ignore ip law, or better, destroy it
i hope to see in my lifetime the complete neutralization of any effective ip law in this world. the internet makes it possible to route around the damage that is ip law, things like the pirate party in europe gives us hope as social opinion moves in line with obvious morality on the issue of the complete bankruptcy of ip law
and part of that reason IS web technologies that use it, how it can be intertwined on many platforms
so yes, RMS is issuing an opinion that is not directly related to web technology, but that's the whole problem
nowadays, pretty much if is not web related, or if its an opinion on a non-web related aspect of development, it IS of lesser import
and all i am saying is that by shielding himself from how most of interact with communication technology, RMS is winding up issuing edicts out of touch with the most important thrusts
i am asserting the dominance of communication technology above all else. i think reality bears me out on that assertion. and i am finding fault with RMS for not taking that into account when delivering his opinion on mono
and stop issuing opinions on subject matter he doesn't have the time to partake of. seems rather straightforward, no?
i'm sorry. i admire the man, but that doesn't lend me to unthinking cultlike worship of him, as it apparently does with you
this is typical cult of personality bullshit you find in any academic institution. i'm sorry that slashdot ends in.org and not.edu, for the sake of my impertinent insults on your religious hagiography of computer science
you tell me the real experts don't have time or interest in mucking around with the latest flavor of the month technology
under a story about RMS issuing an opinion on the latest flavor of the month technology
pfffffft
look: i'm sure the man is a genius, but you have to understand, google was once a flavor of the month. html was once a flavor of the month. hell, tcp/ip was once a flavor of the month. thousands of flavors of the months come and go. but some stick around and become the "real issues" you refer to. and you can't be "too busy thinking about the real issues" when you don't even have a grasp on what the real issues are anymore, partly out of your own conscious effort to shield yourself from the entire framework of interaction that defines the reality of any users or developers in the field you are issuing edicts and opinions on
so would the amish be a good group of people to consult on mono?
i'm sorry, if the guy doesn't partake of contemporary technological reality, he's just a bizarre fossil, and his opinion loses validity
i'm sure the man is a genius, but if he consciously curtails his involvement in how the rest world interacts with the web and adapts some alien SMTP modus operandi, i'm not going to take his opinion on web-related technologies seriously. you really think there's no basis for me doing that?
now give me my troll mod for not kowtowing to the apparent sainthood of RMS in your eyes
Slashdot Mirror
no time ;-(
obsession with penis size: also a male-only thing
can't wait to see it in action the next michael bay movie
if no one believes corruption can be fixed, corruption is the status quo
if people demand corruption be fixed, it tends to get a little more fixed
of course corruption is never going to go away. no fucking shit. this isn't a revelation. but to keep it at a minimum, it also must not be accepted
"Not everyone is on a crusade to improve reality. It is unreasonable to expect or demand everyone to work to improve reality."
you actually described everyone. we all have tolerance levels for certain levels of bullshit, then we get outraged. my assertion is that those with a high level of tolerance for bullshit ("they stuck a toilet plunger up his ass? oh well, whatever") are complicit with those who do real evil in this world. such heavy handed condemnation is of course not suitable for people who tolerate low level crime, but you need to draw the line somewhere. you do draw the line somewhere, right?
what you describe as the ideal curvaceous woman is a man's idea of an attractive woman. a woman's idea of an attractive woman is not the same as a man's idea of an attractive woman. for whatever reason, a lot of women are very self-loathing. and no, its not the usual bogeyman we try to blame for our own behavior, "the media", its some sort of innate psychological thing. a lot of women really think the body of a prepubescent boy is the ideal female appearance for some reason
if you take a woman with a banging bod, subject her to constant attention from all men, she can still go home and look in the mirror and find something to criticize. and she does: she think's she's too fat
the fashion industry has no real power. the fashion industry is given power by the people who buy clothes: women. and there's a lot of self-loathing in the female world. a shame
against the concept of genius
in other words, not a very useful argument
you don't believe that the situation can be improved
police abuse can be improved, and has improved historically. compare the bullshit cops in the 1800s got away with and what they get away with today. not that something like the abner louima case isn't modern and horrifying, but there aren't abner louimas happening every week
you have a nihilistic empty view of humanity. improvement is historically real. we have a long way to go, and its difficult, but that doesn't mean it isn't happening. admit to that simple truth, or follow your mindless pointlessness and hopelessness to its inevitable conclusion and go swallow a shotgun
i object to and categorically reject your attitude. its hysterical teenage bullshit. grow the fuck up, please
then you frame your objections in terms of the need to clean things up, not rail against in general
when you figure out how to have a human society without the need for police, get back to us. until then, your rant speaks more to your psychological problems than any valid observation of reality
;-)
you can frame words that basically supports and rephrases exactly what i am saying as somehow refuting what i am saying?
whoosh
the human mind has many types of intelligence: spatial, social, emotional, etc.
one of our most powerful is, in fact, our social intelligence. a rodent needs a good sense of smell to escape predators and find food. living in a social group, the biggest threat and reward for you comes not from the bushes: berries or fangs, but from your fellow humans: jealous potential murderer or coy potential mate
therefore, you have this powerful cognition machine sitting in your head hewn from millenia of evolution in human groups. well, use it. there is nothing wrong with bringing your powerful social intelligence machinery to bear on nonsocial problems. think of it as using otherwise wasted cpu cycles on protein folding or finding mersenne primes: you "use" your social intelligence by imagining a math problem as a social setting (cue that famous scene from the russel crowe flick "a beautiful mind"), or reimagining your relationship as captain of a cruise ship and all its engineering problems as instead a relationship with a woman and all of the attendant problems that comes with that
it is in fact, not some sort of weird mental trick i am referring to, it is in fact almost a subconcious and completely natural effort for most of us, this repurposing of social intelligence, since our social intelligence is probably our most potent form of intelligence. you look at clouds and bark on trees and stars in the sky and see faces and bodies, its effortless. this is because your mind is powerfully prejudiced and primed to process its world in terms of social cues and meanings first. yes, spatial intelligence is important for many things, like throwing a spear or building a hut. but none of that matters if you didn't see the backstabber in your hunting party or missed the social cues that the big man's daughter was interested in you. social intelligence is our most important form of intelligence: i am sure plenty of people can outrank barack obama on a traditional iq test. but iq tests test only certain forms of intelligence. barack obama's ability to recognize, manipulate, and use social networks to gain power (or any politician's such ability, its called charisma) is in fact a much more important form of iq than anything a traditional iq test reveals
there is nothing wrong with anthropomorphism. it is entirely natural, and in fact, useful. in fact, if you see something wrong with anthropomorphism, all you are doing is denying a powerful aspect of your own intellect to come to bear on problems of interest to you. or perhaps you are in fact impoverished in your social intelligence abilities, and your anathema to anthropomorphism is just a symptom of your own poverty, not a valid comment on other people's lines of thinking
so when the engineers and technicians talk about and react to events with the mars rovers in terms of a social relationship with another person, specifically, a woman ("she"), all they are doing is putting themselves in a frame of mind to maximize their intellectual abilities to process the issues that come up
free music over the internet is simply nothing but advertising. this radical system brought to by emulating the almost century-old practice of radio play. money is made in concerts, advertising. for writers, its merchandicing tie ins, book signings, speaking engagements, movie deals, etc. movie houses, btw, survived tv, the vhs, dvd, and the internet, and are stil gaining in profits, and no one is saying you should be able to sneak into a movie theatre for free. hollywood producers just lose their aftermarket dvd revenue streams. boo fucking hoo: hollywood made plenty of cash before the dvd and the vhs... the vhs of course which they fought tooth and nail... before realizing it meant MORE money, not less money for them. meatspace is a finite resource and should be doled out via economic costs, it is genuinely scarce, the number of seats in concert/ theatre. no such scarcity exists with COPYING files. it's not philosophically impossible to steal something by copying it
meanwhile, software writers have been doing fine giving away free software for decades now. ever hear linux? even in the windows world, go to sites like download.com, tucows.com: thousands of vendors giving away free software in order to generate business. they make their money via customization for specific clients. any generalized software is an opportunity to pad your resume and advertise your services and establish yourself as an authority
what is this system called? make up your own mind, but it is vastly superior to trying to do the impossible of policing and filtering the internet and financially blackmailing the few 0.01% of uncareful sharers you do manage to catch
the internet has already killed ip law. all that is happening now is the law, and the uninformed opinion of those like you, having to catch up to the new reality, the new status quo: anything that can be digitized is free. not because i say so, i'm no authority. it just IS free, because of what new technology has made possible. a pimply teenager in his basement in pasadena with broadband has greater distribution power of bertelsmann+time warner+every other publisher in 1980... hey dude in dresden: want every single creative output of an obscure lounge singer in wellington? here ya go. the only catch is: NO ONE CONTROLS THIS, or even can control this. sure they can bankrupt a few poor souls, as if that changes the behavior of millions of teenagers with no spending money and high technical acumen. no army of lawyers can defeat them
its called disruptive technology, and plenty of examples from history exist of new technology coming along and dramatically overthrowing social and legal precedents and establishments. guess what? we still exist as a moral species, we're only richer now for those new technologies. oh darn
what if you don't change your opinion or the law doesn't change? who fucking cares what you think. who fucking cares what i think. its all just damage damage for the internet to route around and do its thing
does not foster technological and cultural innovation
ip law is an impediment to technological and cultural innovation
it has hopelessly been compromised by government agendas and corporate greed, and no longer serves individual innovators and creators
it is your moral duty to ignore ip law, or better, destroy it
i hope to see in my lifetime the complete neutralization of any effective ip law in this world. the internet makes it possible to route around the damage that is ip law, things like the pirate party in europe gives us hope as social opinion moves in line with obvious morality on the issue of the complete bankruptcy of ip law
but don't blame me for lost connections
take, take, take what you need
but don't tweet about me in the same second
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1894028,00.html
playstation 4
and part of that reason IS web technologies that use it, how it can be intertwined on many platforms
so yes, RMS is issuing an opinion that is not directly related to web technology, but that's the whole problem
nowadays, pretty much if is not web related, or if its an opinion on a non-web related aspect of development, it IS of lesser import
and all i am saying is that by shielding himself from how most of interact with communication technology, RMS is winding up issuing edicts out of touch with the most important thrusts
i am asserting the dominance of communication technology above all else. i think reality bears me out on that assertion. and i am finding fault with RMS for not taking that into account when delivering his opinion on mono
and stop issuing opinions on subject matter he doesn't have the time to partake of. seems rather straightforward, no?
i'm sorry. i admire the man, but that doesn't lend me to unthinking cultlike worship of him, as it apparently does with you
this is typical cult of personality bullshit you find in any academic institution. i'm sorry that slashdot ends in .org and not .edu, for the sake of my impertinent insults on your religious hagiography of computer science
you tell me the real experts don't have time or interest in mucking around with the latest flavor of the month technology
under a story about RMS issuing an opinion on the latest flavor of the month technology
pfffffft
look: i'm sure the man is a genius, but you have to understand, google was once a flavor of the month. html was once a flavor of the month. hell, tcp/ip was once a flavor of the month. thousands of flavors of the months come and go. but some stick around and become the "real issues" you refer to. and you can't be "too busy thinking about the real issues" when you don't even have a grasp on what the real issues are anymore, partly out of your own conscious effort to shield yourself from the entire framework of interaction that defines the reality of any users or developers in the field you are issuing edicts and opinions on
then yes, i have to question his authority and opinions on contemporary technological issues
and therefore of greater validity than anything RMS could utter
i question the validity of the man's authority on technologies he does not partake of
so where's his unthinking cultish followers with my troll mod?
yet a further degree of separation from the reality the majority of us living and working in the field
and yet you apparently think RMS is beknighted to command unquestionable authority on the subject matter
no. how about he is a bizarre fossil?
now give me my troll mod for not kowtowing in unthinking cultlike worship to your saint
so would the amish be a good group of people to consult on mono?
i'm sorry, if the guy doesn't partake of contemporary technological reality, he's just a bizarre fossil, and his opinion loses validity
i'm sure the man is a genius, but if he consciously curtails his involvement in how the rest world interacts with the web and adapts some alien SMTP modus operandi, i'm not going to take his opinion on web-related technologies seriously. you really think there's no basis for me doing that?
now give me my troll mod for not kowtowing to the apparent sainthood of RMS in your eyes
stallman's opinion valid on inbox organization would have a lot of validity
on mono, not so much, considering his bizarre detachment from contemporary web reality