You have no idea what you're talking about, do you? What makes something science is whether or not it is disprovable - or to put it another way, testable.
No, it's because you don't live in a free society (few of us do) and you're not willing to stand up and demand your right to one. We live in societies where we sacrafice our freedom for a feeling of security. But the only way to have security is to give up all freedom. And you can never have 100% security.
It is not the job of the police to prevent crime. That is no-one's job because as soon as you start entolling the importance of preventing crime (and we have, terrorism == crime) you are creating a power against freedom that is uncheckable. Everyone has the right to commit crime. No society can be free without that right. If you are caught committing crime you will be judged and you will lose your freedom - all your freedom - but that is after the fact; it doesn't deminish your freedom. All freedom has consequences. I have the right to free speech. I can say whatever I like to whoever I like - no-one will try to stop me, and if they do I am free to ignore them - but that does not mean that my speech will not have consequences. If I tell my boss he is an idiot he might fire me, or give me really shit work to do, or (more likely) steam off in a hissy fit and make me feel bad. If I tell people to go out and kill others I may be arrested and lose my freedom.
The police are not the Access Control Lists of society. They're not there to prevent you from doing things. They're there to aid in repremanding or removing you from society if you fail to abide by its laws. The fact that this results in some sense of the word "protection" is just an unfortunate coincidence. I say unfortunate because people have come to believe that this is what the police are for; to ensure no harm ever comes to them. The result is this learned helplessness that has led us down this garden path of voting people into power who promise to "smoke out the terrorists". They're openingly promising to pass laws that deminish our freedom and people are eating it up. It sickens me.
I'd say exactly the opposite. Here in Australia we have laws that require people to wear helmets when riding bicycles. Yes, bicycles. They couldn't even get a law passed in the vast majority of the states in the US to require people to wear helmets on motocycles. The government "protecting" you is the exact opposite of liberty. I have the right to be in danger.
So who is supposed to protect you? You? Obviously not. Clearly the people who are supposed to protect you are the super heros. Of course, we don't have any super heros handy at the moment, so let's set up a few more government agencies to do it. Who will protect you? Super Bureaucrat will protect you! I hope this has been a lesson in obsurdity. 1. you don't need protection, just live your god damn life and stop worrying about what might happen if someone decides to hurt you. 2. stop being so vain as to believe you are remotely important, that society will fail to go on if you don't.
That's exactly what I'm saying. Of course the police shouldn't intervene in a bank robbery. No-one should intervene in a bank robbery. That's how people get shot in bank robberies. If the hostages can be taken out of harm's way by giving the hostage takers what they want then obviously they should be given what they want. Once the event is over and done with the police can track down those people and arrest them for their crimes.
Sorry, no sale. I'd rather the police intervene BEFORE I'm dead, rather than simply trying feebly to avenge my death.
First, it's not the job of the police to avenge your death. Second, if the police were not to intervene in this bank robbery and were to meet the demands of these hostage takers, you wouldn't be dead. Third, who gives a shit what you would 'rather'. The police don't exist to serve your personal preferences. I'd rather a big gold house and a nice shiny jet plane.
I don't ask anyone to protect me. It's not the job of the police to "protect and serve" no matter what their slogan says. It's the job of the police to investigate crime and arrest suspects so that the courts can accurately determine their guilt or innocence.
1. It does not include any indication of the convoluted Sony/Nintendo/DirectX/XBox 360/Bluray/HD-DVD/Windows Media Center conflict;
It doesn't include anything about the war in Iraq either, there's a scope to this.
the DirectX vs OpenGL battle is listed as a "front" but OpenGL is depicted as coming from SGI, an irrelivant company who is literally currently in the process of filing for bankruptcy
Personally I think that conflict is over. DirectX has won and OpenGL has gone home (i.e., back to unix land).
2. In general lacks any sign of WMA/WMP, or the European legal issues currently related to them
Who are they battling? Ogg? Pah!
3. In no way indicates Sun's bizarre pseudostalinesque trying-to-simultaneously-ally-with-and-fight-both- sides, -and-failing strategy as regards the GPL and Open Source
You must be aware of something the rest of us are not. Who is Sun allying with? They're the most open company on the planet and they actively contribute more code to open source than any other.
4. "Trusted Computing" references fail to note that Apple, who is listed as Microsoft's enemy on this chart, is now using Trusted Platform Module chips
Oh come on. There's no relationship between these chips and Microsoft's desire to lock down their OS for the media cartel.
5. ODF/OASIS not included
JBoss and Oracle aint included either. Not to mention the few million other conflicts that are going on. Hell, if they showed all the infighting on the Open Source side of the fence you wouldn't be able to see the map.
Am I missing something or did you just say this bug effects OpenBSD? How the hell is that possible? The flaw was found in proprietary wireless drivers.
Man, it must really piss you off to see people using VS5/6 eh? I'm a 7.11 user and they piss me off. I wonder if any 8.0 users feel the same way about 7.11 users. One day we'll be forced to upgrade to 8.0 and on that day I'll cry. Then I'll probably get used to it.
koolaid (yes, I mispelt it) and dogfood are two different concepts. Ironicly, you to drink the koolaid is to be dogmatic whereas to eat the dogfood is to be pragmatic. You drink the koolaid to show you believe in the superiority of your product. You eat the dogfood because you recognise that your product is not perfect and hope that by using it daily you will see where improvements can be made. Either way, it seems Microsoft employees neither think their product is superior, nor recognise it as imperfect.. the former is surprising, the later is just what we've come to expect from them.
The courts don't care. They leave it up to the person being sued to prove they created it. Other than Microsoft, no-one registers copyright, and even when people do register copyright they register so little of the actual work that it's not possible to tell what work it is they are registering. In the case of computer programs, it is typical to register the first and last 3 pages of the source code.. Yes, that's right, pages.. wtf is a page of source code? Who knows.
No. You are wrong. All rights are reserved by default. If I create a work that can be covered by copyright, it is covered by copyright, and you have no rights under the law to copy the work without my express written permission (excluding fair use). This is one of the many ways copyright law is draconian.
It's worse than that. Say you come to this site and see an advertisement that you have no interest in (not hard to imagine). Two weeks later you're talking to a friend and they mention they are interested in buying some product but don't know where to look. You mention that you say an advertisement to that effect two weeks ago. They go to the company you have told them and spend up big. Where's the compensation for this site? Pay per click is a great idea, but the site should get paid for impressions too. It seems that if your audience does not consist of impulse buyers it isn't worth advertising to them.
Ya know, some people use the exact same excuse for voting republican. "I'd vote for someone else but there's no good alternative!" As for having your information locked into proprietary formats, that just proves they're addicted.
People who are forced to use a particular operating system because they feel a need to use applications that are not available on any other operating system are addicts.
I think it's pretty clear what I'm saying. Sheeple are addicted to Windows and they're too weak to switch to Linux, and in many cases, the same can be said of Macintosh.
Friends of mine just switched. They have fiddled around with Bootcamp and Parallels. Personally I think this stuff sucks. If you're trying to give up drinking you don't take an occasional belt from your hip flask, even if everyone else around you is still drunk off their ass. I've seen this kind of behaviour with Linux users. They try the live CD, decide they like it and set up a dual boot system. After using nothing but Linux for a month they find they miss some app they only have on Windows (typically a game) and reboot to use it. Then they surf the web a bit with Firefox and may or may not notice how much better it runs under Windows. Reluctantly they reboot into Linux and feel the withdrawl symptoms. Soon they're installing VMware or Cedega but it's just not as good as the raw experience. A month later their Linux partition is just a big waste of harddrive space, so they delete it.
I was more thinking that Sun had the best people in the world, but apparently Microsoft buys a lot of good researchers to think up the next-great-thing and patent it so the public never gets to see it.
If you're a programmer who doesn't enjoy programming you have no fuckin' right working in this industry. And that's not just some broad theoretical statement. You will be chased out by programmers who do enjoy programming if you havn't already been "promoted" to a managerial role.
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You have no idea what you're talking about, do you? What makes something science is whether or not it is disprovable - or to put it another way, testable.
I think its about time this straw man was debunked. Culture is as essential to humanity as air, food, shelter and water
Oh do fuck off.
No, it's because you don't live in a free society (few of us do) and you're not willing to stand up and demand your right to one. We live in societies where we sacrafice our freedom for a feeling of security. But the only way to have security is to give up all freedom. And you can never have 100% security.
It is not the job of the police to prevent crime. That is no-one's job because as soon as you start entolling the importance of preventing crime (and we have, terrorism == crime) you are creating a power against freedom that is uncheckable. Everyone has the right to commit crime. No society can be free without that right. If you are caught committing crime you will be judged and you will lose your freedom - all your freedom - but that is after the fact; it doesn't deminish your freedom. All freedom has consequences. I have the right to free speech. I can say whatever I like to whoever I like - no-one will try to stop me, and if they do I am free to ignore them - but that does not mean that my speech will not have consequences. If I tell my boss he is an idiot he might fire me, or give me really shit work to do, or (more likely) steam off in a hissy fit and make me feel bad. If I tell people to go out and kill others I may be arrested and lose my freedom.
The police are not the Access Control Lists of society. They're not there to prevent you from doing things. They're there to aid in repremanding or removing you from society if you fail to abide by its laws. The fact that this results in some sense of the word "protection" is just an unfortunate coincidence. I say unfortunate because people have come to believe that this is what the police are for; to ensure no harm ever comes to them. The result is this learned helplessness that has led us down this garden path of voting people into power who promise to "smoke out the terrorists". They're openingly promising to pass laws that deminish our freedom and people are eating it up. It sickens me.
I'd say exactly the opposite. Here in Australia we have laws that require people to wear helmets when riding bicycles. Yes, bicycles. They couldn't even get a law passed in the vast majority of the states in the US to require people to wear helmets on motocycles. The government "protecting" you is the exact opposite of liberty. I have the right to be in danger.
So who is supposed to protect you? You? Obviously not. Clearly the people who are supposed to protect you are the super heros. Of course, we don't have any super heros handy at the moment, so let's set up a few more government agencies to do it. Who will protect you? Super Bureaucrat will protect you! I hope this has been a lesson in obsurdity. 1. you don't need protection, just live your god damn life and stop worrying about what might happen if someone decides to hurt you. 2. stop being so vain as to believe you are remotely important, that society will fail to go on if you don't.
That's exactly what I'm saying. Of course the police shouldn't intervene in a bank robbery. No-one should intervene in a bank robbery. That's how people get shot in bank robberies. If the hostages can be taken out of harm's way by giving the hostage takers what they want then obviously they should be given what they want. Once the event is over and done with the police can track down those people and arrest them for their crimes.
Sorry, no sale. I'd rather the police intervene BEFORE I'm dead, rather than simply trying feebly to avenge my death.
First, it's not the job of the police to avenge your death. Second, if the police were not to intervene in this bank robbery and were to meet the demands of these hostage takers, you wouldn't be dead. Third, who gives a shit what you would 'rather'. The police don't exist to serve your personal preferences. I'd rather a big gold house and a nice shiny jet plane.
I don't ask anyone to protect me. It's not the job of the police to "protect and serve" no matter what their slogan says. It's the job of the police to investigate crime and arrest suspects so that the courts can accurately determine their guilt or innocence.
1. It does not include any indication of the convoluted Sony/Nintendo/DirectX/XBox 360/Bluray/HD-DVD/Windows Media Center conflict;
- sides, -and-failing strategy as regards the GPL and Open Source
It doesn't include anything about the war in Iraq either, there's a scope to this.
the DirectX vs OpenGL battle is listed as a "front" but OpenGL is depicted as coming from SGI, an irrelivant company who is literally currently in the process of filing for bankruptcy
Personally I think that conflict is over. DirectX has won and OpenGL has gone home (i.e., back to unix land).
2. In general lacks any sign of WMA/WMP, or the European legal issues currently related to them
Who are they battling? Ogg? Pah!
3. In no way indicates Sun's bizarre pseudostalinesque trying-to-simultaneously-ally-with-and-fight-both
You must be aware of something the rest of us are not. Who is Sun allying with? They're the most open company on the planet and they actively contribute more code to open source than any other.
4. "Trusted Computing" references fail to note that Apple, who is listed as Microsoft's enemy on this chart, is now using Trusted Platform Module chips
Oh come on. There's no relationship between these chips and Microsoft's desire to lock down their OS for the media cartel.
5. ODF/OASIS not included
JBoss and Oracle aint included either. Not to mention the few million other conflicts that are going on. Hell, if they showed all the infighting on the Open Source side of the fence you wouldn't be able to see the map.
Am I missing something or did you just say this bug effects OpenBSD? How the hell is that possible? The flaw was found in proprietary wireless drivers.
Man, it must really piss you off to see people using VS5/6 eh? I'm a 7.11 user and they piss me off. I wonder if any 8.0 users feel the same way about 7.11 users. One day we'll be forced to upgrade to 8.0 and on that day I'll cry. Then I'll probably get used to it.
yes.............. and they're commiting suicide for what? To show that they have dogmatic belief in their leader.
koolaid (yes, I mispelt it) and dogfood are two different concepts. Ironicly, you to drink the koolaid is to be dogmatic whereas to eat the dogfood is to be pragmatic. You drink the koolaid to show you believe in the superiority of your product. You eat the dogfood because you recognise that your product is not perfect and hope that by using it daily you will see where improvements can be made. Either way, it seems Microsoft employees neither think their product is superior, nor recognise it as imperfect.. the former is surprising, the later is just what we've come to expect from them.
Usually it's Microsoft employees who are drinking the coolaid.
The courts don't care. They leave it up to the person being sued to prove they created it. Other than Microsoft, no-one registers copyright, and even when people do register copyright they register so little of the actual work that it's not possible to tell what work it is they are registering. In the case of computer programs, it is typical to register the first and last 3 pages of the source code.. Yes, that's right, pages.. wtf is a page of source code? Who knows.
No. You are wrong. All rights are reserved by default. If I create a work that can be covered by copyright, it is covered by copyright, and you have no rights under the law to copy the work without my express written permission (excluding fair use). This is one of the many ways copyright law is draconian.
It's worse than that. Say you come to this site and see an advertisement that you have no interest in (not hard to imagine). Two weeks later you're talking to a friend and they mention they are interested in buying some product but don't know where to look. You mention that you say an advertisement to that effect two weeks ago. They go to the company you have told them and spend up big. Where's the compensation for this site? Pay per click is a great idea, but the site should get paid for impressions too. It seems that if your audience does not consist of impulse buyers it isn't worth advertising to them.
Ya know, some people use the exact same excuse for voting republican. "I'd vote for someone else but there's no good alternative!" As for having your information locked into proprietary formats, that just proves they're addicted.
People who are forced to use a particular operating system because they feel a need to use applications that are not available on any other operating system are addicts.
I think it's pretty clear what I'm saying. Sheeple are addicted to Windows and they're too weak to switch to Linux, and in many cases, the same can be said of Macintosh.
Friends of mine just switched. They have fiddled around with Bootcamp and Parallels. Personally I think this stuff sucks. If you're trying to give up drinking you don't take an occasional belt from your hip flask, even if everyone else around you is still drunk off their ass. I've seen this kind of behaviour with Linux users. They try the live CD, decide they like it and set up a dual boot system. After using nothing but Linux for a month they find they miss some app they only have on Windows (typically a game) and reboot to use it. Then they surf the web a bit with Firefox and may or may not notice how much better it runs under Windows. Reluctantly they reboot into Linux and feel the withdrawl symptoms. Soon they're installing VMware or Cedega but it's just not as good as the raw experience. A month later their Linux partition is just a big waste of harddrive space, so they delete it.
I was more thinking that Sun had the best people in the world, but apparently Microsoft buys a lot of good researchers to think up the next-great-thing and patent it so the public never gets to see it.
"field propulsion". What a careful troll.
If you're a programmer who doesn't enjoy programming you have no fuckin' right working in this industry. And that's not just some broad theoretical statement. You will be chased out by programmers who do enjoy programming if you havn't already been "promoted" to a managerial role.
Even more amusing.
Take it outside you two.