This isn't just the Bush administration. If you vote for either of the Big Two, the person you voted for has been bought and paid for by the MAFIAA, and they are in full support of sending the copyright Gestapo after law-breakers worldwide.
Well, we were getting all confused, what with all the tanks you guys were sending into Hungary to shoot the locals. Say that to a Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian or Pole, and see if they agree with you. I guess this is a Soviet's unique version of "holocaust denial."
Even back when we were guarding their borders, we had zero involvement in BRD's government after its establishment. Comparing our presence in West Germany to the the Soviet presence in East Germany ludicrous.
I wish I had mod points for you. GP is either a pedantic ass-hat, or a clueless moron. Political borders on a highschool textbook map don't tell the whole story. When I lived in West Germany back in the day, there was a tacit understanding that the GDR border guards were an extension of the Soviet military. You could buy their hats off of them (I got two!), and they have a very familiar hammer n' sickle on them.
If previous public publication of an invention can still invalidate a patent, then I completely retract my comment. I'll need to read the text of the draft first, though. Comments made within the article seem to connote that this law will empower opportunistic patent filers and ignore prior art. We'll have to see.
I don't expect, for example, people of other cultures to disrupt my life, point out where I'm being morally degenerate, force me to change.
I do. I suppose that the crux of our difference of opinion. Everyone has a fit of insanity every now and then, and needs an intervention. It's true on a macro-level, as well.
As it stands, I prefer to try to convince you purely with rhetoric.
But you won't shut up. That's why I respect you.;)
How so?
Well, I don't want to invoke Godwin's Law, or anything, but the phrase "peace in our time" comes to mind. Even followers of civil disobedience, like MLKJ and Ghandi were incredibly disruptive to their foes and very aggressive with their rhetoric (even though they were never violent).
You can't simply enforce your morality on all those around you in this day and age.
A lot of people said that in the 1850's about slavery in the South. And yes, interfering caused a hell of a war (because, surprise, people don't like being interfered with). I don't think you'll find anyone north of the Mason-Dixon that would tell you forcing the south to abolish slavery was a bad idea, and very few below(*).
That's sort of thing that starts nuclear wars, encourages terrorism (hell, it's the cause of terrorism), and breaks diplomatic and economic links between you and neighbouring nations.
If your goal is to be universally liked and loved, by all means keep quiet and keep your nose in your own business. If you want to stop oppression and extend your own freedoms universally, you will make enemies, guaranteed or your money back. We've tried the first option (hell, EVERYONE has) and it just doesn't work.
*Disclaimer: Yes, I know it isn't that simple, abolition wasn't until 1865, North wasn't clean, yadda yadda yadda, but when you get down to it was still all about slavery.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
If there is so much as one Turk who chafes at the yolk of censorship, then they are wrong and we do not have to respect them (same goes for our own government, or any other form of majority-rule).
Of course, Thomas Jefferson doesn't go for much around here, any more, so take that as you will.
In my apartment, we use the parental controls on a Linksys wireless router. It's pretty incredible how few false positives it finds (few != zero iff Ebaumsworld == "false" positive), to such an extent that I don't even remember that there is a filter most of the time. It's pretty hard to bypass, because the only CAT5 cable in the apartment is three inches long, and runs from the wireless router to the cable modem.
The only problem is that you have to either (1) sign in every time you access the internet or (2) tie your MAC address directly to a profile on the router (which you HAVE to do for your XBox, or you won't be able to connect to XBox Live).
These belief systems threaten the security of everyone on the planet when coupled with military weapons technology.
And what happens when a rational atheist, holding no irrational fantasies about any mystical nature of man's existence, is in charge of the military weapons technology instead?
I'd answer that for you, but I'd be invoking Godwin's Law.
Don't put atheists, deists, or anyone else on a pedestal. They are all susceptible to the same foibles as the early crusaders. In your own post, for instance, you suggest that the solution to "the greatest threat to peace on this planet ever known in the history of this planet" is, in essence, genocide itself. If that's rational, you can keep it. It's not even human.
I wasn't joking. I don't understand who modded me funny, or why. If you have a job or social life, you do not have the time devoted to hang with the "hardcore gamers" in their level-70 40-man raids, and you're not getting T2 gear.
It is not a stereotype, it is a fact of logistics.
And "instance" is a dungeon, populated with monsters and quest goals, generated specifically for your party. No one else is there. If some other group tries to enter the same dungeon, they get a difference "instance". It's a good way of getting away from the farmers and channel chatter.
Instances also have bosses with mad l3wt, which is always fun.
you wouldn't use it in a cross-platform (i.e., Solaris, AIX, Tru64, HP-UX, etc.) install script
I've used it for just such a purpose, quite successfully. But I suppose it depends on the shop you're working with. In ours, we had the same version of Perl on all the Unix and Linux machines, so moving the scripts around was cake.
however it should not be the job of distributions to subjugate and sacrifice the freedoms of users.
"OH, DEAR GOD, THERE'S A BINARY ON THIS CD!!! IT'S TAINTED THE WHOLE DAMN DISTRO!!!"
nVidia's binary licensing isn't going to kill the GPL, and putting the blob on a CD just in case isn't going to bring the F/OSS world to its knees. I think all this anti-free-but-not-free-enough stuff is irrational histrionics. I use computers and software to get stuff done, and I'll pick my philosophical fights only so far as that primary purpose is served.
Actually, it's sad that you feel representative enough of the community to feel you can take away the freedom of others for the sake of the 'success' of GNU/Linux on the desktop.
What about my freedom to run the graphics driver I want to?
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This isn't just the Bush administration. If you vote for either of the Big Two, the person you voted for has been bought and paid for by the MAFIAA, and they are in full support of sending the copyright Gestapo after law-breakers worldwide.
Well, we were getting all confused, what with all the tanks you guys were sending into Hungary to shoot the locals. Say that to a Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian or Pole, and see if they agree with you. I guess this is a Soviet's unique version of "holocaust denial."
Even back when we were guarding their borders, we had zero involvement in BRD's government after its establishment. Comparing our presence in West Germany to the the Soviet presence in East Germany ludicrous.
I wish I had mod points for you. GP is either a pedantic ass-hat, or a clueless moron. Political borders on a highschool textbook map don't tell the whole story. When I lived in West Germany back in the day, there was a tacit understanding that the GDR border guards were an extension of the Soviet military. You could buy their hats off of them (I got two!), and they have a very familiar hammer n' sickle on them.
If previous public publication of an invention can still invalidate a patent, then I completely retract my comment. I'll need to read the text of the draft first, though. Comments made within the article seem to connote that this law will empower opportunistic patent filers and ignore prior art. We'll have to see.
No, no more prior art. If you filed first, screw prior art. It's yours.
I think this is going to break it worse than it already is.
A lot of people said that in the 1850's about slavery in the South. And yes, interfering caused a hell of a war (because, surprise, people don't like being interfered with). I don't think you'll find anyone north of the Mason-Dixon that would tell you forcing the south to abolish slavery was a bad idea, and very few below(*).
If your goal is to be universally liked and loved, by all means keep quiet and keep your nose in your own business. If you want to stop oppression and extend your own freedoms universally, you will make enemies, guaranteed or your money back. We've tried the first option (hell, EVERYONE has) and it just doesn't work.
*Disclaimer: Yes, I know it isn't that simple, abolition wasn't until 1865, North wasn't clean, yadda yadda yadda, but when you get down to it was still all about slavery.
If there is so much as one Turk who chafes at the yolk of censorship, then they are wrong and we do not have to respect them (same goes for our own government, or any other form of majority-rule).
Of course, Thomas Jefferson doesn't go for much around here, any more, so take that as you will.
In my apartment, we use the parental controls on a Linksys wireless router. It's pretty incredible how few false positives it finds (few != zero iff Ebaumsworld == "false" positive), to such an extent that I don't even remember that there is a filter most of the time. It's pretty hard to bypass, because the only CAT5 cable in the apartment is three inches long, and runs from the wireless router to the cable modem.
The only problem is that you have to either (1) sign in every time you access the internet or (2) tie your MAC address directly to a profile on the router (which you HAVE to do for your XBox, or you won't be able to connect to XBox Live).
I am intrigued by your idea, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Oh, no you didn't. I heard Macs were for artists. In fact, as I understand it, Mac OSX source looks like Picasso wrote it.
/ftw me
Work? Yeah, I heard trying to figure out Gnome's printer dialog is a full-time job, these days.
Uh. You been served.
Hey, do the Gnome devs know you managed to find your way to the web browser? Don't tell them or they'll take it away from you.
Ooooh, snap!
Are you talking about New Mexico, or IAU? The fact that the nomenclature was voted on to begin with tells me it's not "science," it's aesthetics.
Heh... the first colonists arrive only to find a "No Vacancy" sign.
And what happens when a rational atheist, holding no irrational fantasies about any mystical nature of man's existence, is in charge of the military weapons technology instead?
I'd answer that for you, but I'd be invoking Godwin's Law.
Don't put atheists, deists, or anyone else on a pedestal. They are all susceptible to the same foibles as the early crusaders. In your own post, for instance, you suggest that the solution to "the greatest threat to peace on this planet ever known in the history of this planet" is, in essence, genocide itself. If that's rational, you can keep it. It's not even human.
I wasn't joking. I don't understand who modded me funny, or why. If you have a job or social life, you do not have the time devoted to hang with the "hardcore gamers" in their level-70 40-man raids, and you're not getting T2 gear.
It is not a stereotype, it is a fact of logistics.
They mean people with jobs and\or social lives.
And "instance" is a dungeon, populated with monsters and quest goals, generated specifically for your party. No one else is there. If some other group tries to enter the same dungeon, they get a difference "instance". It's a good way of getting away from the farmers and channel chatter.
Instances also have bosses with mad l3wt, which is always fun.
I've used it for just such a purpose, quite successfully. But I suppose it depends on the shop you're working with. In ours, we had the same version of Perl on all the Unix and Linux machines, so moving the scripts around was cake.
The shell scripts, on the other hand...
Them's fightin' words! If I PEEK and POKE enough, I could probably hack your box and fry your monitor!
And I'll do it without line numbers! Fear me!
The next person to pull that one out is going to be taking a space-walk of their own.
Sans the suit.
"OH, DEAR GOD, THERE'S A BINARY ON THIS CD!!! IT'S TAINTED THE WHOLE DAMN DISTRO!!!"
nVidia's binary licensing isn't going to kill the GPL, and putting the blob on a CD just in case isn't going to bring the F/OSS world to its knees. I think all this anti-free-but-not-free-enough stuff is irrational histrionics. I use computers and software to get stuff done, and I'll pick my philosophical fights only so far as that primary purpose is served.
What about my freedom to run the graphics driver I want to?