Ah, Wikipedia, source of all knowledge. I wonder if it can tell me what a 'decomcracy' is?
But anyway, thanks for backing up my central message that the US is not run by the people and for the people but instead by big business for their own purposes, which is why they get to patent and turn into property knowledge and ideas which (as Thomas Jefferson said) should be free to us all.
When you realise that democracy is just a veneer over a system where big business writes the rules and calls the shots.
When this knowledge makes you get out of your complacent "everything for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds" attitude and makes you start organising.
I would be much more sympathetic to Indymedia had they offered a truly uncensored and wide range of views (including extreme Right instead of their own incestuous agenda for world change. That would have made them truly a force to be reckoned with. Sadly it seems Freedom of Speech was never their plan.
Yes, I was just admiring the wide range of communist and anarchist views on Fox News only the other day. It's good that the mass media is there to show us what unbiased and uncensored media looks like.
You are a classic example of the bourgois tendency to look down and say "Well, I'm better then them, I deserve my place in society".
Face it, in reality you are a small techie with a moderate income. You are bossed around by whole heirachies of people, who are not at all interested in allowing you to get to their level.
The CEOs and management look at you and say "Sorry, I'm not interested in a system that will cut me off at the knees because I happen to be a bit more clever than the next fellow."
And the worst part is, you buy into their worldview and parrot their line.
This sort of intellectual mastubation is the geek equivalent of bread and circuses.
The people with real power, the CEOs and the owners, keep you all happy with high tech dreams and high tech illusions - what the US did to the USSR with Reagan's fake Star Wars, they are doing to you.
Vapourware as political tool.
Don't worry about the world decending into chaos, or the billions without power or running water. We'll keep on with our selfish lifestyle, and if it gets too bad we'll put a ring around the world to keep us cool.
Needless to say, the PalmOne team offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee remove the handhelds from the offices and lets just say he's not with us anymore.
And there we have it in a nutshell.
Employee makes reasonable suggestion, management tries it but it doesn't work out, employee sacked.
I notice you didn't resign for allowing the trial.
The Cuban computers I saw were woefully out of date, with truly ancient versions of Windows on display. If my memory serves it was mainly Windows98, and I went in December 2002.
You've obviously never visited my office. We were still using Windows98 last year...
I think it might not be a bad idea to amend the GPL to insist that no Communism or politically misaligned countries / organizations should be able to use it.
Then it would cease to be Open Source... Read point 5.
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If Cuba is using copies of Windows in a legal fashion under Cuban law then they are not pirate copies, even if that use would be illegal under US law.
It's up to Cuban copyright law to decide whether you should have to pay Microsoft to use copies of their software.
This isn't the story that proves it however, given that Cuba is not communist but (at best) an example of Really Existing Socialism and (at worst) a rather nasty dictatorship.
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But anyway, thanks for backing up my central message that the US is not run by the people and for the people but instead by big business for their own purposes, which is why they get to patent and turn into property knowledge and ideas which (as Thomas Jefferson said) should be free to us all.
When you realise that democracy is just a veneer over a system where big business writes the rules and calls the shots.
When this knowledge makes you get out of your complacent "everything for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds" attitude and makes you start organising.
When the revolution comes.
Yes, I was just admiring the wide range of communist and anarchist views on Fox News only the other day. It's good that the mass media is there to show us what unbiased and uncensored media looks like.
I have committed a crime.
Please come and confiscate Slashdot's server.
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Evil Terrorist
Hahahahahahahahah (pauses for breath) ahahahahahahahaha.
That is the funniest assertion I've heard all day!
That you can't tell the difference is a little scary.
The West has become like Microsoft, with neither competition nor government powerful enough to stop it.
And as power corrupts, so we sink into fascism; for our rulers are no longer afraid of the population causing a revolution.
"Revolt?" they say "There is no other path to take. No alternate system to emulate. We are inevitable."
Fascism, here we come.
Face it, in reality you are a small techie with a moderate income. You are bossed around by whole heirachies of people, who are not at all interested in allowing you to get to their level.
The CEOs and management look at you and say "Sorry, I'm not interested in a system that will cut me off at the knees because I happen to be a bit more clever than the next fellow."
And the worst part is, you buy into their worldview and parrot their line.
Maybe a number of people and factors contributed to the collapse of the USSR? Including, but not limited to Star Wars?
Or maybe you just like living in your easy, black and white binary world, full of Good Guys and Bad Guys, Us and Them.
Go back to playing with your Linux distro while slagging off communism. Don't let cognitive dissonance get you down!
If I was waving around $6 trillion dollars, I think that someone would be willing to make some solar cells to sell to me, don't you?
The people with real power, the CEOs and the owners, keep you all happy with high tech dreams and high tech illusions - what the US did to the USSR with Reagan's fake Star Wars, they are doing to you.
Vapourware as political tool.
Don't worry about the world decending into chaos, or the billions without power or running water. We'll keep on with our selfish lifestyle, and if it gets too bad we'll put a ring around the world to keep us cool.
You can buy a lot of solar cells for $6 trillion dollars.
Employee makes reasonable suggestion, management tries it but it doesn't work out, employee sacked.
I notice you didn't resign for allowing the trial.
One law for the boss, another for the workers.
There'll be no more spyware by Christmas, let me tell you.
I'm getting comments randomly mixed into random threads...
Maybe the US could put a trade embargo on Cuba to force it to honour its 'legal' obligations...
Especially one which is relatively close and has a large existing and rich emigre community.
Intellectual property doubly so.
This whole story is just *too* easy.
It's up to Cuban copyright law to decide whether you should have to pay Microsoft to use copies of their software.
This isn't the story that proves it however, given that Cuba is not communist but (at best) an example of Really Existing Socialism and (at worst) a rather nasty dictatorship.
Who? Cuba? Cuba has about as many WMD as Iraq did.
My sister was there for part of that. Lots of nice people but very little money.
When are we going to have a beer?