While it's cool and everything. And, while the socially-aware, community-minded geek in me LOVES stuff like this, I also have to look at it from the greedy fucktard angle too. That's where I begin to see problems that positively SCREAM "abuse me" into a bullhorn.
Stallman's gone off into senility here. The whole point about his damn license was freedom of use. If he starts adding punitive clauses into the license just to pound on his cause of the moment, he just decreased audience to whom his license is going to remain viable.
Moreover, he's going to kick off other rounds of punitive licensing schemes which would prohibit users from tying other products to his.
Sorry, can't put a signature on a Protocol for a place that doesn't exist. There is no Kioto Protocol. Except maybe in your imagination (see "doesn't exist").
Now, as for the KYOTO Protocol, there's exactly ZERO proof that the changes it induces will actually have a real effect on the environment. It's more along the lines of "pie in the sky".
MOREOVER, there's significant evidence that a large number of signatory nations on the Kyoto Protocol are NOT abiding by it. Can we say "useless gesture?" I thought you could.
Now, nobody is saying we shouldn't do SOMETHING about the trends in our environment. But nobody who is anything CLOSE to honest knows what effect, if any, any of these steps would have. Maybe some, maybe nothing, maybe something bad.
Seriously, we're talking about 5 QUADRILLION (5,000 Trillion, 5,000,000 Billion) tons of gaseous mass here.
Every year we supposedly pump a few million tons of CO2 and other waste products into the air. Much of it settles out immediately, some doesn't.
However, even assuming we pumped as much as 100 million tons of waste and it ALL stayed up, we're talking about exactly 0.000002 (2/10,000ths) of the total mass of the atmosphere.
Spiffy skinjobs on the browser are nice and all, but they've been done before. The fact is, you're STILL running the fugly IE6 engine underneath, with all it's nasties and security issues.
Stuff like this on message boards, Usenet and in e-mail is one thing. I've occasionally fat-fingered stuff myself.
But in actual site-content articles, this stuff is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
And it's not a usage error (lead vs led). It's something a simple spellcheck could catch.
Even so, a very nice mod.
According to Wikipedia, he's GNU/53. And ego-mania aside, he's a moderately intelligent individual. So why the hell is he involved in a stupid stunt worthy of an adolescent who just discovered girls are nice and wants to impress them?
I can understand wanting to see a head of state. But what kind of self-centered lack-a-wit, KNOWING he doesn't have an appointment, having gotten ZERO feedback from the official's office, decides he's just gonna barge on in and get an audience? I mean COME ON! Use some common effin' sense!
our diatribe about users blaming you for Microsoft bugs is actually the opposite of my experience.
Then you've been SUPREMELY lucky. With our apps, every burp in the OS, every virus, every piece of spyware, even improper AV settings, and it's all OUR fault. And we get commentary about how second-rate our product is, how it shouldn't work that way, how everything worked BEFORE they buttfucked their system. And it's never the OS' fault, or their fault, or their goofy porn/spyware's fault.
They have a T1 and someone's running 2 0-day warez sites and a streaming 256Kbit audio station off the network. But it's OUR fault the network is so slow.
They install a new AV product that auto-filters all POP3 traffic except Outlook and Outlook Express to prevent worms and mass-mailing. But it's OUR fault our app didn't go in and manually add itself into the allowed list.
They're in an RF-noisy enviroment with 2.4Ghz phones, and running our database app on a wireless network (because they can't bring themselves to wire the place). So they keep bombing out when the phones are in use and since they're bombing out with their "fingers" in the database, they're getting data corruption as well. Oh yeah, and backups? What are those?
They're too cheap to buy a backup solution that can close/copy open processes and files. And they're too lazy to shut the client-side application down at night so they can actually back up. But it's OUR fault when (see previous example) their data corrupts and they're without backups for the last three years. And it's our fault that data's all lost. Even though we weren't the ones responsible for their backups.
Or when the client gets a hold of a bad AV patch that memory-leaks like crazy and eats all the system memory and 99.99% of the paging file. But it's OUR app's fault when the system runs like a slide show.
And when the company cheaps out and gets an ADSL line with a dynamic IP address and and uptimes measured in minutes, it's our app's fault when their internet connection goes down more than a whore on free blowjob night.
And I repeat, if you've never run into this situation, you've been supremely lucky. Or you're lying through your teeth...
Way to miss the point. If Lenovo did such a thing, one of their American employees (y'know, the people responsible for the who fscking product line) would bitch.
Remember, the PC division was sold, lock, stock, and smoking employees, to Lenovo. The people responsible for the design of the systems are still the same people who designed them for IBM. Most of them are here in the US. And you can be certain that SOMEONE would bitch if Lenovo was slapping spychips onto the system in defiance of the design parameters of the designers.
Sorry, but this is just brain-dead protection with a thick layer of xenophobic scaremongering.
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Why should I trade one tyrant a thousand miles away for a thousand tyrants one mile away?
While it's cool and everything. And, while the socially-aware, community-minded geek in me LOVES stuff like this, I also have to look at it from the greedy fucktard angle too. That's where I begin to see problems that positively SCREAM "abuse me" into a bullhorn.
Stallman's gone off into senility here. The whole point about his damn license was freedom of use. If he starts adding punitive clauses into the license just to pound on his cause of the moment, he just decreased audience to whom his license is going to remain viable.
Moreover, he's going to kick off other rounds of punitive licensing schemes which would prohibit users from tying other products to his.
Common fucking sense here.
Oh wait, this is Dick Stallman.
Why should we be the only ones with extremely small social circles!
Sorry, can't put a signature on a Protocol for a place that doesn't exist. There is no Kioto Protocol. Except maybe in your imagination (see "doesn't exist").
Now, as for the KYOTO Protocol, there's exactly ZERO proof that the changes it induces will actually have a real effect on the environment. It's more along the lines of "pie in the sky".
MOREOVER, there's significant evidence that a large number of signatory nations on the Kyoto Protocol are NOT abiding by it. Can we say "useless gesture?" I thought you could.
Now, nobody is saying we shouldn't do SOMETHING about the trends in our environment. But nobody who is anything CLOSE to honest knows what effect, if any, any of these steps would have. Maybe some, maybe nothing, maybe something bad.
Seriously, we're talking about 5 QUADRILLION (5,000 Trillion, 5,000,000 Billion) tons of gaseous mass here.
Every year we supposedly pump a few million tons of CO2 and other waste products into the air. Much of it settles out immediately, some doesn't.
However, even assuming we pumped as much as 100 million tons of waste and it ALL stayed up, we're talking about exactly 0.000002 (2/10,000ths) of the total mass of the atmosphere.
Spiffy skinjobs on the browser are nice and all, but they've been done before. The fact is, you're STILL running the fugly IE6 engine underneath, with all it's nasties and security issues.
NO EFFING THANK YOU!
Now with SSSSSSSSSSSSSSMILEX!
And now look at who's at the forefront of the fight against net neutrality.
1: Drop prices
2: Oversubscribe
3: Bitch and moan about content providers "stealing" your bandwidth.
4: Try to double-tap the content providers.
Whoops! Did I say double-tap? I meant EXTORT.
Okay kiddies! Let's play "BREAK THE INTERNET!"
You can't host, can't link, can't surf, can't, can't, can't.
Your computer's on? Can't have that! ARREST HIM!
Fuck, Yakov Smirnov's going to be moving back to Russia pretty soon.
In Russia, you go to parties to fuck.
In America, the parties fuck YOU!
Falling Out Laughing
I'll believe it when I see it...
"I think he just wanted to attract attention..."
Stop right there and you're pretty much dead on.
That's EXACTLY what he wanted.
Unfortunately the attention he garners reflects quite poorly on the Free Software movement as a whole.
According to Wikipedia, he's GNU/53. And ego-mania aside, he's a moderately intelligent individual. So why the hell is he involved in a stupid stunt worthy of an adolescent who just discovered girls are nice and wants to impress them?
I can understand wanting to see a head of state. But what kind of self-centered lack-a-wit, KNOWING he doesn't have an appointment, having gotten ZERO feedback from the official's office, decides he's just gonna barge on in and get an audience? I mean COME ON! Use some common effin' sense!
Just my GNU/Cents.
Awwww crap! The deal's off! I'm the one person in the omniverse that actually uses it!
[Doctor Evil] No. Not really.
I want my effin' easter eggs!
For WHOSE lap? Carol Yager?
Okay, it wasn't funded by the MS OS division. It was funded by the MS PR department. How disingenious...
Face facts people, research companies don't do research for free.
Nosing around the money trail behind this research leads directly into highly placed Microsoftian shit-holes.
I stand in awe of Laura D's nearly capacity to shovel bullshit with such a tiny maw.
"Culture" has been marketing-driven longer than you've been alive.
If you think art, music, etc in current "cultural" circles gets there solely on it's own merit...
Well, let's just say you should be doing stand-up...
Then you've been SUPREMELY lucky. With our apps, every burp in the OS, every virus, every piece of spyware, even improper AV settings, and it's all OUR fault. And we get commentary about how second-rate our product is, how it shouldn't work that way, how everything worked BEFORE they buttfucked their system. And it's never the OS' fault, or their fault, or their goofy porn/spyware's fault.
They have a T1 and someone's running 2 0-day warez sites and a streaming 256Kbit audio station off the network. But it's OUR fault the network is so slow.
They install a new AV product that auto-filters all POP3 traffic except Outlook and Outlook Express to prevent worms and mass-mailing. But it's OUR fault our app didn't go in and manually add itself into the allowed list.
They're in an RF-noisy enviroment with 2.4Ghz phones, and running our database app on a wireless network (because they can't bring themselves to wire the place). So they keep bombing out when the phones are in use and since they're bombing out with their "fingers" in the database, they're getting data corruption as well. Oh yeah, and backups? What are those?
They're too cheap to buy a backup solution that can close/copy open processes and files. And they're too lazy to shut the client-side application down at night so they can actually back up. But it's OUR fault when (see previous example) their data corrupts and they're without backups for the last three years. And it's our fault that data's all lost. Even though we weren't the ones responsible for their backups.
Or when the client gets a hold of a bad AV patch that memory-leaks like crazy and eats all the system memory and 99.99% of the paging file. But it's OUR app's fault when the system runs like a slide show.
And when the company cheaps out and gets an ADSL line with a dynamic IP address and and uptimes measured in minutes, it's our app's fault when their internet connection goes down more than a whore on free blowjob night.
And I repeat, if you've never run into this situation, you've been supremely lucky. Or you're lying through your teeth...
I'm STILL not buying one though.
SteveJobs: What happen ?
AppleDrone1: Somebody set up us the bomb.
AppleDrone2: We get signal.
SteveJobs: What !
AppleDrone2: Main screen turn on.
SteveJobs: It's you !!
O'Grady: How are you gentlemen !!
O'Grady: All your secret are belong to us.
O'Grady: You are on the way to destruction.
SteveJobs: What you say !!
O'Grady: You have no chance to survive make your time.
O'Grady: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
AppleDrone2: Steve !! *
SteveJobs: Take off every 'Mac' !!
SteveJobs: You know what you doing.
SteveJobs: Move 'Mac'.
SteveJobs: For great justice.
Way to miss the point. If Lenovo did such a thing, one of their American employees (y'know, the people responsible for the who fscking product line) would bitch.
[NSA Agent 2] AUUUUGH!
Remember, the PC division was sold, lock, stock, and smoking employees, to Lenovo. The people responsible for the design of the systems are still the same people who designed them for IBM. Most of them are here in the US. And you can be certain that SOMEONE would bitch if Lenovo was slapping spychips onto the system in defiance of the design parameters of the designers.
Sorry, but this is just brain-dead protection with a thick layer of xenophobic scaremongering.