Here's your resident French chauvinistic speaking.
In my country, there's only ONE party advocating wider gun availability, one party which keeps waiving the "insecurity" issue to the masses, one party which uses the "self-defense" expression...
It's the Front National, the racist, xenophobic, antisemitic, violent and neonazi party.
Who gives a damn shit about their click-through license agreements? I doubt they hold any water. And on top of that.... I'm French, I can't read zi engliche langouaige, and come and get me, and sue me in a french speaking court you scum licking lawyers... Bwaaaah ah aha ah aha.
Yeah, insightful, indeed. I could'nt imagine the software vendors fleeing as you claim they would, but then... who cares? Just use free software. Anyway... software companies have an interest in selling their stuff to govt agencies, even if it was at a loss: that pretty much sets the standard, most of the time. And there's a lot of corps. out there which are specialized in govt market (I'm not talkiung software specifically). To work with the govt, they certainly need to use compatible software. Hence your post is a farce.
That's a really nice troll, and I find it interesting that it got moderated up to 4. I guess that moderation shows how ignorant the average slashdot reader is. Anyway... As for your question, when is the last time something you bought had the label "made in france"... well that's a really good question and I suggest for example that you open up your ADSL modem, your DirecTV MPEG decoder chip (my uncle designed it...), or examine closely some flash ram chips (all made by ST Micro). More generally, french economy is much more oriented towards export than the US economy. And oh yeah, our trade balance is positive... you could compare this to the abyssal US trade deficit.
It does? Consider what, say, Microsoft can do to you, personally, if it decides it doesn't like you at all. Now consider what the government can do to you if it decides it dislikes you.
s/Microsoft/Scientology/, and there you go. Microsoft is NOT *that* powerful... what most microsoft-haters fail to take into account is that it's *not* the biggest or most powerful corporation around... and by far. Their market valuation is enormous, but as far as revenues go, and employees and political influence, typically Oil companies or pharmaceutical companies are much, much more powerful and probably much more crooked in general.
But they could be that big in no time, that being said.
Hmmm... kiddie porn is not about some 15 yo being photographed by her boyfriend. Look, what's the problem if her b/f takes pictures of her? Ok, people might see it, she might be ashamed, ridiculed at worse, and that's it. That's not a crime. What people are talking about here is 10yo or something being raped in front of a camera; quite a different matter. The problem is not so much that there be pictures of the act or not, but instead that the existence of customers for that kind of stuff might encourage the production of it. Quite a different issue.
And the reason, of course is... that the US insist on being allowed to legally slaughter minors (electrocution qualifies as slaughter to me). Or at least minors when the crime was commited.
People are the problem, and that's precisely my point. I don't want to trust any dumb luser around. I'm just not suicidal. The same way that my servers hopefully don't go down as often as stupid lusers remove important files "by mistake". Thank you for your attention.
Isn't Terraserver running on Microsoft "technology"? Wasn't it (falsely) advertised by them as the biggest database on the Web? (falsely, as IBM's patent server was bigger anyway).
Microsoft kind of had a monopoly as of late WRT performance-wise USABLE XSLT parsers. Now this is about to change with Apache's Xalan-C. IT should be quite fast. See Apache-XML's site.
Ok, I had the chance to hear your talk at Linux-Expo in Paris, and even had the chance to ask you a question, and I miserrably stumbled on my words so it did'nt get very far. Let me restate here slightly differently, because I think this is a very important issue.
You've managed to win over a significant part of the programming community; however, as the DeCSS case (and Mattel etc...) show, this is something that appeal everybody's freedom at large. But how should we reach the public? Do you have any plans for action? How do we the public and the medias to know that "Intellectual Property" is not that absolute right that big corporations have on us?
Then, a more provocative question: do you hate californians? I mean: in your talk, you never mentioned BSD even _once_. Though it seems to fit Free Software's definition pretty much. Why?
Tell him about the NSA backdoors and the "Netscape engineer are weenies"... even if it's 100% bollocks, it worked for me! Hey, Microsoft does'nt have to have a monopoly on false advertisement...
And a paranoid luddite? You seem to have a lot going on for you. I pity your children. BTW, ever read Voltaire? Or even just heard about him? That'd be a good start for you if you're really interested in seeing the truth.
I guess the only country you'd be happy in would be a place like Afghanistan. They are true god fearers. Also, FYI, there is nothing new to this phenomenon in Europe. During the French revolution for instance, churches were transformed into "Temple of Reason", and the churches' belongings seized and given back to the state.
And BTW it's interesting to notice how courageous you are by posting as an AC.
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I did'nt get this one. Care to elaborate?
Here's your resident French chauvinistic speaking.
In my country, there's only ONE party advocating wider gun availability, one party which keeps waiving the "insecurity" issue to the masses, one party which uses the "self-defense" expression ...
It's the Front National, the racist, xenophobic, antisemitic, violent and neonazi party.
Thank you for your attention. Hope this helps.
My point, precisely.
Who gives a damn shit about their click-through license agreements? I doubt they hold any water. And on top of that .... I'm French, I can't read zi engliche langouaige, and come and get me, and sue me in a french speaking court you scum licking lawyers ... Bwaaaah ah aha ah aha.
I'm downloading them, it's slow and have'nt had a time to look at them. Strange. Anyone knows?
US has the largest % of population in prison as I recall).
Indeed, they have; so maybe the problem with the US government is not the 'government' part, but the 'US' part?
Yeah, insightful, indeed. I could'nt imagine the software vendors fleeing as you claim they would, but then ... who cares? Just use free software. Anyway ... software companies have an interest in selling their stuff to govt agencies, even if it was at a loss: that pretty much sets the standard, most of the time. And there's a lot of corps. out there which are specialized in govt market (I'm not talkiung software specifically). To work with the govt, they certainly need to use compatible software. Hence your post is a farce.
That's a really nice troll, and I find it interesting that it got moderated up to 4. I guess that moderation shows how ignorant the average slashdot reader is. Anyway ... As for your question, when is the last time something you bought had the label "made in france" ... well that's a really good question and I suggest for example that you open up your ADSL modem, your DirecTV MPEG decoder chip (my uncle designed it ...), or examine closely some flash ram chips (all made by ST Micro). More generally, french economy is much more oriented towards export than the US economy. And oh yeah, our trade balance is positive ... you could compare this to the abyssal US trade deficit.
It does? Consider what, say, Microsoft can do to you, personally, if it decides it doesn't like you at all. Now consider what the government can do to you if it decides it dislikes you.
s/Microsoft/Scientology/, and there you go. Microsoft is NOT *that* powerful ... what most microsoft-haters fail to take into account is that it's *not* the biggest or most powerful corporation around ... and by far. Their market valuation is enormous, but as far as revenues go, and employees and political influence, typically Oil companies or pharmaceutical companies are much, much more powerful and probably much more crooked in general.
But they could be that big in no time, that being said.
Hmmm ... kiddie porn is not about some 15 yo being photographed by her boyfriend. Look, what's the problem if her b/f takes pictures of her? Ok, people might see it, she might be ashamed, ridiculed at worse, and that's it. That's not a crime. What people are talking about here is 10yo or something being raped in front of a camera; quite a different matter. The problem is not so much that there be pictures of the act or not, but instead that the existence of customers for that kind of stuff might encourage the production of it. Quite a different issue.
And the reason, of course is ... that the US insist on being allowed to legally slaughter minors (electrocution qualifies as slaughter to me). Or at least minors when the crime was commited.
Yeah; I know. But I amended myself. I'll be good. Let's call this redemption.
You made me see the light. I now worship Jesus. Thanks a bunch.
For all we know, he's probably not even a programmer. 'nuff said.
Someone's got to explain me how this is supposed to be any better than passing references to scalars. I really really don't see the point.
And here's how (I quote:)
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People are the problem, and that's precisely my point. I don't want to trust any dumb luser around. I'm just not suicidal. The same way that my servers hopefully don't go down as often as stupid lusers remove important files "by mistake". Thank you for your attention.
Isn't Terraserver running on Microsoft "technology"? Wasn't it (falsely) advertised by them as the biggest database on the Web? (falsely, as IBM's patent server was bigger anyway).
Microsoft kind of had a monopoly as of late WRT performance-wise USABLE XSLT parsers. Now this is about to change with Apache's Xalan-C. IT should be quite fast. See Apache-XML's site.
... the general public?
Ok, I had the chance to hear your talk at Linux-Expo in Paris, and even had the chance to ask you a question, and I miserrably stumbled on my words so it did'nt get very far. Let me restate here slightly differently, because I think this is a very important issue.
You've managed to win over a significant part of the programming community; however, as the DeCSS case (and Mattel etc ...) show, this is something that appeal everybody's freedom at large. But how should we reach the public? Do you have any plans for action? How do we the public and the medias to know that "Intellectual Property" is not that absolute right that big corporations have on us?
Then, a more provocative question: do you hate californians? I mean: in your talk, you never mentioned BSD even _once_. Though it seems to fit Free Software's definition pretty much. Why?
Tell him about the NSA backdoors and the "Netscape engineer are weenies" ... even if it's 100% bollocks, it worked for me! Hey, Microsoft does'nt have to have a monopoly on false advertisement ...
There is no need for an international TLD.
There is one: .int
Who is Voltaire?
Nevermind. I'll fire up emacs and talk with the shrink, he's smarter than you.
And a paranoid luddite? You seem to have a lot going on for you. I pity your children. BTW, ever read Voltaire? Or even just heard about him? That'd be a good start for you if you're really interested in seeing the truth.
I guess the only country you'd be happy in would be a place like Afghanistan. They are true god fearers. Also, FYI, there is nothing new to this phenomenon in Europe. During the French revolution for instance, churches were transformed into "Temple of Reason", and the churches' belongings seized and given back to the state.
And BTW it's interesting to notice how courageous you are by posting as an AC.