The FSF and RMS don't talk about people with apposing viewpoints when they preach, so that makes them trolls as well?
Really, if the article author doesn't think the ethical arguments are worth mentioning, so what? A troll is someone who write crap with the sole intention of inciting people to argue. I don't see this article as being written with that in mind.
There is no *requirements* anywhere that you must detail the principles of your opponents views.
I've always found the whole anti-semite thing odd. For instance, I have no love of Isreal due to their political practices. However, I would not consider myself an anti-semite.
I can't help it if Jews live in Isreal. I would not like Isreal no matter who lived there. It seems people are very quick to yell anti-semite these days.
Haha, this is funny. You know, many people outside the US feel that the Axis of Evil is the US, Isreal, and a few others. Read up on some Chompsky, a famous US professor.
It's not as if most MMO's don't give a free trial period or as if the amount of time you get out of that period is shorter than how long you'd normally be playing a non-MMO game at the same price before putting it on the shelf and letting it collect dust.
That's rich. Let's see, single player RPGs cost 60 USD on the high end. For that you can get 40 hours or more of play time. Now, for normal folk, 4-5 hours a week is pretty much all the time they will spend on a video game. This equates to two moths of playtime. As I understand, you usually only get a month free with a MMORPG.
Add to that the fact that people often put down a game and then come back to it months later. I know I've done that numerous times. Also, people will play often play other games for that 4-5 hours a week.
Given that, a MMORPG is a rip off for anyone but the hardcore gamer.
Food products are mostly american. And there are many many american corporations to avoid too. Banks, Airlines, computer companies, phone companies.
There are so many american companies here, it's impossible to avoid them all. While much 'production' may be done overseas, often a large percentage of the money goes into the coffers of american companies.
If this were not the case, the US would not be the economic powerhouse that it is.
I don't boycott ALL american products. Only when there is a valid alternative.
I realize this, but I think the current course of things will be far worse. If the US continues to remove freedoms from it's popluation, it will come to a point where they have little control over their government. Arguably, that is already the case.
I would not be surprised to see the US start attacking it's allies in 5-10 years time, starting a world war 3. Fortunately, the way they are currently spending money, they are heading themselves for economic collapse before that happens.
The only *good* option for the future is to have the US reverse it's current direction. Start obeying international law, treating it's allies as allies, reduce it's military operations by massive amounts, and stop trying to controll the entire globe.
If what I am saying sounds implausable. Consider that a large majority of the current government is a part of this group:
Some people consider the Cold War to be WW3 (won through economics instead of guns). The War on Terror is WW4 (with Iraq either being a turning point in our favor, or the dumbest thing Bush could have done).
This is the first I've heard of it. Neither of those wars have any resembelence to the horrors of WW1 and WW2, in my opinion. I suppose people can call them whatever they wish though.
Also, I wouldn't chear for an American collapse if I were you. What do you think will happen to the rest of the world if we suddenly are too poor to buy YOUR goods?
Bad things will happen if the US collapses. The question is, is that worse then the bad things the US is going to do if it doesn't collapse? The trend I've been seeing in the last few years, is that the US is becoming more and more aggressive, breaking numerous international laws, telling it's allies to piss off, and destroying the 'freedom' of it's own people.
I would not be surprised if the US starts using military force on it's allies in 5 to 10 years time. I sincerely hope current trends reverse, but it doesn't look like that is happening.
I'd sooner have US/world economic collapse than a REAL world war 3. A world war with todays weapons would be absolutely devastating.
Wow. I really think you are exagerrating just a wee bit. No, the movies were not 100% the same as the books. But seriously, they were really good as far as movie conversions go.
Your opinion is not the same as the Tolkien fans I know, who all really liked the movies.
I'm a Canadian too, and I don't want the US economy to collapse. Probably because it would mean the loss of my job and most of the jobs of everyone I know.
The sad part is that I can see the downward spiral in action... The American dollar has never been weaker in my lifetime and I already see it hurting the Canadian export business. If the world decides that the US Dollar is no longer the benchmark currency of choice, a lot of shit is going to go down.
I agree with all this, but feel it is nessesary. The US has been abusing it's power over and over. I am personally willing to endure hardship for the benifit of the world. And I really believe at this point that the world would be a better place without the US controlling it.
Nope, we know who has it right and reelected him. The War against Islamic Fundamentalism is the number one priority for our generation and Bush understands that. You and Kerry don't believe that, and were rejected for it. History will prove one our views correct, the question is whether those histories will be written in English or Arabic.
Additionally, you are soon going to be in an economic war with nearly the entire world. History will prove what it always has, the large empires collapse when they get too greedy. Personally, I am working towards that collapse by not buy American products (as much as possible).
Seeing as how your political philosophy has been on the wrong side of the major conflicts the US has been involved in lately (WWII, Vietnam, the Cold War/WWIII) the safe money would be on you being wrong yet again on WWIV on that basis alone.
Umm. WWIII??? Whahahaha. Boy, not only do you parrot back the propaganda from your government perfectly, but you even proove the stereotype that americans are self-centered. There is no WWIII. The US beating up some helpless arabic countries does not constitute a world war.
However, there just might be a WWIII in the near future, with everyone on one side, and the US on the other. You figure out who is the 'wrong' side.
There are a lot of good things US does in the world, but with this administration, it seems, that the good is being done only to improve the US image in the world after something really bad has been done.
And they are failing miserably at this. The just recently, once again, told the WTO and Canada to go fuck themselves.
As a Canadian, I feel like I am in a war with the US. I do not hate all americans, but I want to see your country's economy collapse. Enough is enough. The US is pushing other countries around too much.
I got out of my way, and will pay 'more', to buy non-US made goods these days. And I am not the only one who is doing this.
If the government is concerned about fuel consumption, it would be FAR more effective to ban SUVs and Vans for the general public, and require special licenses for people who really *need* them.
In fact, why not promote alternative energy cars or hybrids? The original reason is clearly not relevant anymore.
You know, computers should default to sleep mode instead of turning off completely. The operating system should be able to handle this gracefully.
Then boot time is a non-issue, and your computer can go from sleep to fully usable in just a few seconds. Plus, with such a system, the users previous 'state' is preserved. Many modern TV's have a 'sleep state', so do stereo systems. It's time computers worked this way too.
I know, Macs already do this. But the PC world needs this too.
I don't even consider speeding a crime. Dangerous driving is what I consider a crime. You can be dangerous going slow, or dangerous going too fast. But speeding in of itself is not nessesarily dangerous.
The majority of speed limits are set low only so police can collect money and harass people daily. After all, harrassing folks is what many cops get off on.
Exactly how does making the browser part of the operating system make Windows more usable?
In the same way that the Apple WebKit + safari makes OS X more usable, or KHTML + konqueror makes KDE more usable... or (mozilla html) + epiphany makes GNOME more usable.
I can't think of a single thing that integrating the browser into the OS buys you, except some code reusability. From my engineering perspective, this wasn't done for any legitimate engineering reason, but because of legal and business reasons.
And code reusability is not valuable? Perhaps KHTML should not be part of KDE then, and Gnome should not distribute a browser and HTML engine in the main distribution either.
You must be a very poor engineer if you think that forcing every application developer who needs to embed an HTML renderer into their program to create one from scratch, or distribute some third party engine, is a good idea.
All of the 4 major desktop systems in use today have included a browser and rendering engine.
Sorry. I hate ads. I don't care if the current internet can't exist without ads. I'd sooner it died than have to be subjected to ads.
I also don't have TV service for the same reason. And I go to movies 20 minutes late to avoid the ads before the movie. I don't listen to radio much, and when I do, I NEVER listen to ads. Instead I channel surf.
If you want to play that game, then I'm fairly certain all the soldiers on both sides of the 1812 war are long dead. So I guess we should just forget it ever happened.
In fact, let's forget all history and only concern ourselves with things people who are alive can remember. Presently, the USA is one of the most despised countries in the world. Even the allies of the US don't much like the US. I take it US citizens are proud of this? They are proud that they have less freedom than their ancesters in 1812? Oh, right, they don't count.
From my experience, AMD chips are much much hotter than the P4. Of course, it is possible the newest AMD chips have improved in this department.
In terms of pentium-m, I'm not 100% certain, but I doubt it was out when this box was designed. This has been around for a while now, despite slashdot claiming it's new.
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The FSF and RMS don't talk about people with apposing viewpoints when they preach, so that makes them trolls as well?
Really, if the article author doesn't think the ethical arguments are worth mentioning, so what? A troll is someone who write crap with the sole intention of inciting people to argue. I don't see this article as being written with that in mind.
There is no *requirements* anywhere that you must detail the principles of your opponents views.
RMS has dealt with this argument time and time again, explaining why he thinks that freedom is the highest goals of all. And I agree with him.
And I don't.
Just because the article gives an apposing viewpoint doesn't make it a 'troll'. Not everyone agrees with you.
Tim Horton's is now owned by a US company, eh?
I've always found the whole anti-semite thing odd. For instance, I have no love of Isreal due to their political practices. However, I would not consider myself an anti-semite.
I can't help it if Jews live in Isreal. I would not like Isreal no matter who lived there. It seems people are very quick to yell anti-semite these days.
member of the Axis of Evil
Haha, this is funny. You know, many people outside the US feel that the Axis of Evil is the US, Isreal, and a few others. Read up on some Chompsky, a famous US professor.
It's not as if most MMO's don't give a free trial period or as if the amount of time you get out of that period is shorter than how long you'd normally be playing a non-MMO game at the same price before putting it on the shelf and letting it collect dust.
That's rich. Let's see, single player RPGs cost 60 USD on the high end. For that you can get 40 hours or more of play time. Now, for normal folk, 4-5 hours a week is pretty much all the time they will spend on a video game. This equates to two moths of playtime. As I understand, you usually only get a month free with a MMORPG.
Add to that the fact that people often put down a game and then come back to it months later. I know I've done that numerous times. Also, people will play often play other games for that 4-5 hours a week.
Given that, a MMORPG is a rip off for anyone but the hardcore gamer.
Food products are mostly american. And there are many many american corporations to avoid too. Banks, Airlines, computer companies, phone companies.
There are so many american companies here, it's impossible to avoid them all. While much 'production' may be done overseas, often a large percentage of the money goes into the coffers of american companies.
If this were not the case, the US would not be the economic powerhouse that it is.
I don't boycott ALL american products. Only when there is a valid alternative.
I realize this, but I think the current course of things will be far worse. If the US continues to remove freedoms from it's popluation, it will come to a point where they have little control over their government. Arguably, that is already the case.
I would not be surprised to see the US start attacking it's allies in 5-10 years time, starting a world war 3. Fortunately, the way they are currently spending money, they are heading themselves for economic collapse before that happens.
The only *good* option for the future is to have the US reverse it's current direction. Start obeying international law, treating it's allies as allies, reduce it's military operations by massive amounts, and stop trying to controll the entire globe.
If what I am saying sounds implausable. Consider that a large majority of the current government is a part of this group:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
Some people consider the Cold War to be WW3 (won through economics instead of guns). The War on Terror is WW4 (with Iraq either being a turning point in our favor, or the dumbest thing Bush could have done).
This is the first I've heard of it. Neither of those wars have any resembelence to the horrors of WW1 and WW2, in my opinion. I suppose people can call them whatever they wish though.
Also, I wouldn't chear for an American collapse if I were you. What do you think will happen to the rest of the world if we suddenly are too poor to buy YOUR goods?
Bad things will happen if the US collapses. The question is, is that worse then the bad things the US is going to do if it doesn't collapse? The trend I've been seeing in the last few years, is that the US is becoming more and more aggressive, breaking numerous international laws, telling it's allies to piss off, and destroying the 'freedom' of it's own people.
I would not be surprised if the US starts using military force on it's allies in 5 to 10 years time. I sincerely hope current trends reverse, but it doesn't look like that is happening.
I'd sooner have US/world economic collapse than a REAL world war 3. A world war with todays weapons would be absolutely devastating.
Food products, and many many many many (most?) companies are US based.
Wow. I really think you are exagerrating just a wee bit. No, the movies were not 100% the same as the books. But seriously, they were really good as far as movie conversions go.
Your opinion is not the same as the Tolkien fans I know, who all really liked the movies.
I'm a Canadian too, and I don't want the US economy to collapse. Probably because it would mean the loss of my job and most of the jobs of everyone I know.
The sad part is that I can see the downward spiral in action... The American dollar has never been weaker in my lifetime and I already see it hurting the Canadian export business. If the world decides that the US Dollar is no longer the benchmark currency of choice, a lot of shit is going to go down.
I agree with all this, but feel it is nessesary. The US has been abusing it's power over and over. I am personally willing to endure hardship for the benifit of the world. And I really believe at this point that the world would be a better place without the US controlling it.
Nope, we know who has it right and reelected him. The War against Islamic Fundamentalism is the number one priority for our generation and Bush understands that. You and Kerry don't believe that, and were rejected for it. History will prove one our views correct, the question is whether those histories will be written in English or Arabic.
Additionally, you are soon going to be in an economic war with nearly the entire world. History will prove what it always has, the large empires collapse when they get too greedy. Personally, I am working towards that collapse by not buy American products (as much as possible).
Seeing as how your political philosophy has been on the wrong side of the major conflicts the US has been involved in lately (WWII, Vietnam, the Cold War/WWIII) the safe money would be on you being wrong yet again on WWIV on that basis alone.
Umm. WWIII??? Whahahaha. Boy, not only do you parrot back the propaganda from your government perfectly, but you even proove the stereotype that americans are self-centered. There is no WWIII. The US beating up some helpless arabic countries does not constitute a world war.
However, there just might be a WWIII in the near future, with everyone on one side, and the US on the other. You figure out who is the 'wrong' side.
There are a lot of good things US does in the world, but with this administration, it seems, that the good is being done only to improve the US image in the world after something really bad has been done.
And they are failing miserably at this. The just recently, once again, told the WTO and Canada to go fuck themselves.
As a Canadian, I feel like I am in a war with the US. I do not hate all americans, but I want to see your country's economy collapse. Enough is enough. The US is pushing other countries around too much.
I got out of my way, and will pay 'more', to buy non-US made goods these days. And I am not the only one who is doing this.
Yup, you're right, that is a dumb reason.
If the government is concerned about fuel consumption, it would be FAR more effective to ban SUVs and Vans for the general public, and require special licenses for people who really *need* them.
In fact, why not promote alternative energy cars or hybrids? The original reason is clearly not relevant anymore.
You know, computers should default to sleep mode instead of turning off completely. The operating system should be able to handle this gracefully.
Then boot time is a non-issue, and your computer can go from sleep to fully usable in just a few seconds. Plus, with such a system, the users previous 'state' is preserved. Many modern TV's have a 'sleep state', so do stereo systems. It's time computers worked this way too.
I know, Macs already do this. But the PC world needs this too.
I don't even consider speeding a crime. Dangerous driving is what I consider a crime. You can be dangerous going slow, or dangerous going too fast. But speeding in of itself is not nessesarily dangerous.
The majority of speed limits are set low only so police can collect money and harass people daily. After all, harrassing folks is what many cops get off on.
Exactly how does making the browser part of the operating system make Windows more usable?
In the same way that the Apple WebKit + safari makes OS X more usable, or KHTML + konqueror makes KDE more usable... or (mozilla html) + epiphany makes GNOME more usable.
I can't think of a single thing that integrating the browser into the OS buys you, except some code reusability. From my engineering perspective, this wasn't done for any legitimate engineering reason, but because of legal and business reasons.
And code reusability is not valuable? Perhaps KHTML should not be part of KDE then, and Gnome should not distribute a browser and HTML engine in the main distribution either.
You must be a very poor engineer if you think that forcing every application developer who needs to embed an HTML renderer into their program to create one from scratch, or distribute some third party engine, is a good idea.
All of the 4 major desktop systems in use today have included a browser and rendering engine.
Sorry. I hate ads. I don't care if the current internet can't exist without ads. I'd sooner it died than have to be subjected to ads.
I also don't have TV service for the same reason. And I go to movies 20 minutes late to avoid the ads before the movie. I don't listen to radio much, and when I do, I NEVER listen to ads. Instead I channel surf.
And I'd like to add that they open sourced all of darwin, including the parts they bought from NeXT and wrote from scratch.
If you want to play that game, then I'm fairly certain all the soldiers on both sides of the 1812 war are long dead. So I guess we should just forget it ever happened.
In fact, let's forget all history and only concern ourselves with things people who are alive can remember. Presently, the USA is one of the most despised countries in the world. Even the allies of the US don't much like the US. I take it US citizens are proud of this? They are proud that they have less freedom than their ancesters in 1812? Oh, right, they don't count.
Technicality. The people who fended off the Americans were living here, and eventually became known as Canadians.
They were British at the time, but they were the same people. (Rather than having the British come over here, beat up people for us, and then leave).
When people say 'we fended off the Americans', they are generally referring to the 'people', our ancestors.
We could use 'it'. After all, we refer to the rest of the animal kingdom that way.
From my experience, AMD chips are much much hotter than the P4. Of course, it is possible the newest AMD chips have improved in this department.
In terms of pentium-m, I'm not 100% certain, but I doubt it was out when this box was designed. This has been around for a while now, despite slashdot claiming it's new.
Interesting. I didn't know such mice existed. I guess it sort of makes sense to sell them along with the pen like that.