Almost as good as when The Sex Pistols walked off stage in the middle of a gig on their American tour, AFAIR Johnny Rotten said something like "Do yet the feeling you've been conned?"
Yes and that would be easily edited or just commented on in the media in a dinky little peice in the paper, its much harder to ignore or to distort this so obvious and unwavering stance, I suppose it proves more is accomplished by doing than by talking.
Because there are few people that know how to use CORBA, how many people know the interface for the CORBA transaction service for example? Not many, so you have few people working with a complex tool, hardly useful for mass-market adoption. DCOM, SOAP etc are simpler, but still don't have that mass adoption required,
<i>Personally, I feel what the kid did in the article did was laudable, and the only reason that the school suspended him was because he made a point.</i>
As Johnny Rotten once said "I'm not here for your amusement - you are here for mine."
<i>No parent can call themselves responsible, and not sit their children down for a talk when they are even remotely suspicous of inner turmoil.</i>
Given that the general concensus in society is being a good parent is being a good provider many parents never have any idea of what their kids are really like or what they have gone through. "Fields where children are no longer born, they are grown" - Morpheus, The Matrix
I recommend everyone read both 1984 and A Brave New World.
Then watch "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the media" followed by "The Matrix" and listen to Pink Floyds "The Wall", same undercurrent, different outcomes.
Really? Whats the difference between following a totalitarian government regime and following a (psychologically) totalitarian cultural regime? Same outcome, turning out lots of sheeple ready for the mechanised, homoginised world that is Nike, Coke etc. "As long as The Matrix exists the human race will never be free" -Morpheus, The Matrix
Print them out and leave them in libraries, music stores, WalMarts fresh food section, make sure it says at the top "Take one",slip them inside copies of Cosmo at the newsagent, replace copies of Gideons in hotel rooms with it, call it a random act of education.
Yes I like it so far, I would suggest using at least part of The Mentors Last Words, perhaps on the backcover, the words still hit home after all these years.
Its a fake, how can I tell? BillG can use the word "sophists" in the article correctly, oh and in it the "voice" is far too relaxed and too self aware, take "I wonder if I would be writing a different letter right now if all those developers could focus on one system", that is absolutely definately NOT BillG, in BillGs mind he is always right, Also why bother recounting the history of KDE and Gnome? Why not just note that there are competing desktops and this is a weakness, the only possible reason anyone would send such an email within M$ would be if all the developers where leaving to work on OSS. If BillG were to write an email to the whole staff (note the all@microsoft.com alegedly sent to) he would probably say something like "Heres a report by Mr. X who has been watching Linux for us, I'm sure you'll agree with his conclusions.". Not an utterly lame fake, but close.
While I understand your concern, there are things that you can do. Note the millenial craze for "branding", your music is a BRAND, do you have to make the money from SELLING your music, would you be happy if you could make the same or more by giving away your music and making money off branded T-shirts, live gigs (public or private), TV spots, why not be the first "Spokes-musician" for a company? You see the guy selling shoes can only sell his shoes, you are a brand, a lifestyle, a movement, a politics, a philosophy, and so is every other artist and musician. Now get off your ass and lets see what you can do, success and failure are unimportant, just do something interesting, something to spark that within us, do it now.
Just for those who have never encountered a pre-pay mobile phone, they use cards that are worth some amount of money (£5, £10, £20 here in GB). It means that you can have a phone without every being identified, its what all the smart terrorists use, of course we don't here the government going on about them, they want to snoop on my CC and bank details instead, what a bunch of morons they are.
The Right to Privacy is enshrined in the UN charter on Human Rights, personally I think any country not signing up to and obeying that most fundemental charter should be excluded from the UN.
Hey. I'm kind of new here, but I don't see the problem with all of this. What if they catch a terrorist or pedophile? Governments NEED to be able to do things like this for the protection of the citizens.
The question is what are the REAL intentions. Take the UK for example, we now have the Regulation of Investagatory Powers Act in force (also known as the RIP Bill). Its provisions include the interception of any Net traffic flowing through the UK as deemed by any senior police officer, without a warrant from a judge or magistrate, which is an open invitation to snoop for non-police matters by the police, nasty. Not only that, the interception facility which is to be built wil lbe run by the internal security forces (MI5, or The Box as we know them), which means there is no chain of evidence, and you'll not be able to question those that allegedly did the intercepting, therefore the government can fabricate as much evidence as it wants, now this starts to sound paranoid, unless you recall the British student who was arrested and her computer confiscated for allegedly having an email from David Shayler an ex-MI5 officer, as it was she had only mentioned him in a conversation and was overheard, now if a person can be arrested for merely mentioning someones name, do you think they can be trusted with access to your Net traffic?
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M$ had talked about making Windows Open Source, maybe this could be someone just helping them out, then we can just mirror it all ove the Net a la DeCSS and the mighty empire will burn, although sadly BillG will be minus a fiddle.
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Almost as good as when The Sex Pistols walked off stage in the middle of a gig on their American tour, AFAIR Johnny Rotten said something like "Do yet the feeling you've been conned?"
Yes and that would be easily edited or just commented on in the media in a dinky little peice in the paper, its much harder to ignore or to distort this so obvious and unwavering stance, I suppose it proves more is accomplished by doing than by talking.
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M$ ad for SOAP... "Now bend over..."
Because there are few people that know how to use CORBA, how many people know the interface for the CORBA transaction service for example? Not many, so you have few people working with a complex tool, hardly useful for mass-market adoption. DCOM, SOAP etc are simpler, but still don't have that mass adoption required,
Solution = JRE.. Suns Java Runtime Environment, then you know its going to work on all the platforms the same way.
The point is this: "education" in its modern incarnation is created to limit thought, not expand it.
As long as The Matrix exists, the human race will never be free - Morpheus, The Matrix
You obviously don't spend nearly enough time drooling over Buffy...
<i>Personally, I feel what the kid did in the article did was laudable, and the only reason that the school suspended him was because he made a point.</i>
As Johnny Rotten once said "I'm not here for your amusement - you are here for mine."
<i>No parent can call themselves responsible, and not sit their children down for a talk when they are even remotely suspicous of inner turmoil.</i>
Given that the general concensus in society is being a good parent is being a good provider many parents never have any idea of what their kids are really like or what they have gone through. "Fields where children are no longer born, they are grown" - Morpheus, The Matrix
I recommend everyone read both 1984 and A Brave New World.
Then watch "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the media" followed by "The Matrix" and listen to Pink Floyds "The Wall", same undercurrent, different outcomes.
Really? Whats the difference between following a totalitarian government regime and following a (psychologically) totalitarian cultural regime? Same outcome, turning out lots of sheeple ready for the mechanised, homoginised world that is Nike, Coke etc. "As long as The Matrix exists the human race will never be free" -Morpheus, The Matrix
The credit goes to "The Slashdot Community" (?) feat. Jon Katz on a keyboard.
Print them out and leave them in libraries, music stores, WalMarts fresh food section, make sure it says at the top "Take one",slip them inside copies of Cosmo at the newsagent, replace copies of Gideons in hotel rooms with it, call it a random act of education.
Yes I like it so far, I would suggest using at least part of The Mentors Last Words, perhaps on the backcover, the words still hit home after all these years.
Its a fake, how can I tell? BillG can use the word "sophists" in the article correctly, oh and in it the "voice" is far too relaxed and too self aware, take "I wonder if I would be writing a different letter right now if all those developers could focus on one system", that is absolutely definately NOT BillG, in BillGs mind he is always right, Also why bother recounting the history of KDE and Gnome? Why not just note that there are competing desktops and this is a weakness, the only possible reason anyone would send such an email within M$ would be if all the developers where leaving to work on OSS. If BillG were to write an email to the whole staff (note the all@microsoft.com alegedly sent to) he would probably say something like "Heres a report by Mr. X who has been watching Linux for us, I'm sure you'll agree with his conclusions.". Not an utterly lame fake, but close.
While I understand your concern, there are things that you can do. Note the millenial craze for "branding", your music is a BRAND, do you have to make the money from SELLING your music, would you be happy if you could make the same or more by giving away your music and making money off branded T-shirts, live gigs (public or private), TV spots, why not be the first "Spokes-musician" for a company? You see the guy selling shoes can only sell his shoes, you are a brand, a lifestyle, a movement, a politics, a philosophy, and so is every other artist and musician. Now get off your ass and lets see what you can do, success and failure are unimportant, just do something interesting, something to spark that within us, do it now.
Try rubberhose
Just for those who have never encountered a pre-pay mobile phone, they use cards that are worth some amount of money (£5, £10, £20 here in GB). It means that you can have a phone without every being identified, its what all the smart terrorists use, of course we don't here the government going on about them, they want to snoop on my CC and bank details instead, what a bunch of morons they are.
The Right to Privacy is enshrined in the UN charter on Human Rights, personally I think any country not signing up to and obeying that most fundemental charter should be excluded from the UN.
Hey. I'm kind of new here, but I don't see the problem with all of this. What if they catch a terrorist or pedophile? Governments NEED to be able to do things like this for the protection of the citizens.
The question is what are the REAL intentions. Take the UK for example, we now have the Regulation of Investagatory Powers Act in force (also known as the RIP Bill). Its provisions include the interception of any Net traffic flowing through the UK as deemed by any senior police officer, without a warrant from a judge or magistrate, which is an open invitation to snoop for non-police matters by the police, nasty. Not only that, the interception facility which is to be built wil lbe run by the internal security forces (MI5, or The Box as we know them), which means there is no chain of evidence, and you'll not be able to question those that allegedly did the intercepting, therefore the government can fabricate as much evidence as it wants, now this starts to sound paranoid, unless you recall the British student who was arrested and her computer confiscated for allegedly having an email from David Shayler an ex-MI5 officer, as it was she had only mentioned him in a conversation and was overheard, now if a person can be arrested for merely mentioning someones name, do you think they can be trusted with access to your Net traffic?
I thought Lockheed Martin only ran Skunkix..
M$ had talked about making Windows Open Source, maybe this could be someone just helping them out, then we can just mirror it all ove the Net a la DeCSS and the mighty empire will burn, although sadly BillG will be minus a fiddle.
Roman Empire? Two words - Marcus Aurelius
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