I am not a Marxist but there are a couple of important background points here. First, Marx hated Marxism for good reason--Marx was a capitalist. His angry missive of the Communist Manifesto was an amazing display of self-masochism and simply at odds with his real beliefs. Marx, like most academics, described the process of his view on the future of capitalism. Once economic and physical security are attained, we can move on to greater needs that benefit everyone. Case in point, the interstate highway system, safe parks, clean water & air, education for all, etc. I think this guy Marshall Brain is on to something. Marx might very well have agreed with his hypothesis.
Oh really? This has nothing to do with the Good Sam laws. Those are intended to prevent lawsuits from helping injured people. Misprison is about the Feds getting everyone related to a federal investigation. Don't get mad at me because it doesn't make sense. I didn't write the law. Here you go: Misprison of a felony
No need to be a jackass. It's among the craziest crimes on the books but it's real. I know somebody that went down for it. Here you go: Misprison of a felony
Look it up, amigo. If you know about a felony and you don't report it, you are guilty of cover-up and can serve time for your avoidance of doing the right thing.
You have an amazingly rosy view of how the law works in this country. You must be those law-abiding citizens with nothing to fear that I keep hearing about. When we have laws that will revoke habeas corpus for the bizarre and impossible crime of loitering with space aliens (1982, Department of defense appropriations bill) and the hard-hitting "conspiracy of one", you can and will go down for anything if they want you.
Do you think it's an accident that we have the largest prison population, in absolute and relative terms, in the world?
Children that read/. learn the difference between literate and illiterate posts... up to two years of skill can be earned in just a few weeks. An unfortunate side effect comes from seeing insane AC comments and mind numbing redundancy. The impact is that children become permanently cynical Libertarian geeks.
This dude must be new to the whole concept of the Internet. Either that or a woefully pessimistic bastard. Maybe he's connected to angry Prodigy clones that never got over their banishment from the market. Nobody is going back to proprietary online services ever.
Just about every afternoon, I stop by the beachside pool for an hour of laps. Entrance costs $1.50. I always hand over a $5. I always get $4.50 back. Explaining the situation doesn't help since there's the language, age and progressive barriers with the clerk. I'm in a wheelchair and the few times I've tried to mention that I got too much change, she smiles and says, "ok." So whatever...GRACIAS!
Actually, considering the subject matter, people dying probably won't make a difference. Once people agree that destroying property is ok (see Senator Hatch) then we're not far from destroying people.
Pay or die... a message from the RIAA.
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By pointing out that you are "not a troll" then proceeding to dare readers to find a hole in your golden logic, I have the opinion that you are not just a troll but Troll Of The Day.
The RIAA represents the labels in distribution issues. If they must resort to litigation and FUD to survive then they deserve to die by the invisible hand of capitalism. By choosing litigation and FUD instead of the market, they have essentially spit on a cornerstone of freedom and I have no pity for their demise.
Hopefully, *Apple* makes billions from online distribution because they have embraced the market and the consumers within it. The RIAA deserves nothing.
So why don't we treat RIAA the same way? Oh, they're headquartered in the US and contribute a lot more to political campaigns...
Because, troll child, the record industry hasn't assassinated anybody or enslaved entire towns. It's much harder to convince the government to prosecute a company when everyone is making money and nobody is dying. Until people start dying, you can expect corporations to routinely beat any charges brought against them. See Enron for the latest example.
Nonsense. Interviews where the interviewee gets to review the questions in advance and decide what to answer are not journalism, they're public relations.
That's pretty much what I was getting at. The original poster has good ideas but bad questions. The confrontational interview is basically extinct because of our litigation nation.
Point taken. I thought his questions were exactly what most of us think but, having done many interviews, his perspective got under my skin a bit. Interviewers have a tricky position. Subjects are not required to stick around under any circumstance, especially when the interviewer is being a prick. I'm not necessarily defending cnet as much as attacking a simplistic view of interview journalism.
Grow up. Your questions are completely loaded so you would never get the interview. They are not "hard hitting" as you would like to believe. They are immature and counter-productive to dialogue.
Your post is evidence that some kind of severe Darwinism needs to blight the Linux community before it becomes better. You can't honestly advocate free software if you turn around like a brat and yell at people who are trying to use free software but criticize the selection. If businesses are having trouble finding basic business applications, Microsoft retains its power. End of discussion. Mr. Ball mentioned that he had some proprietary applications developed. I can only speculate that means the missing applications he's talking about. On the other side, I'd be interested to know why he hasn't GPL'd his proprietary applications or at least donated a generalized GPL version of whatever he made. That's worth yelling about.
SCO has basically decided to take this matter to the edge of violence. While the vast majority of open source zealots are peaceful and merely annoying, how many are in the Ted Kaczynski Unabomber Club?
Emotionally unstable, socially detached, angry and brilliant people are going to start having trouble holding it together. Kaczynski didn't have the benefit of the net to get better information or gravitate towards like minds.
What if SCO/Microsoft knows this and is purposely creating an environment where a small group snaps and discredits everything about the "eccentric" hobbies of geeks?
The whole concept of doing geek stuff outside of university walls is a very young concept. Read up on the history of astronomy. Rulers and the church had no problem with what these guys were doing as long as it stayed within the walls.
If we move all knowledge back to universities, corporations will call all the shots on progress. That's exactly what will happen after the first zealots decide that "Bombs not reason" is a good name for a political action committee.
How many idiots have issued death threats against spammers? The clock is winding down.
It's easy to think ham radio is obsolete, UNTIL the power goes out or the cellular network goes byebye. If cell phones relied on Windows, the first hundred or so viruses that came along would make ham radio VERY popular.
Don't forget to add "among/.ers" because everyone else will take comfort in being a victim of a great catastrophe.
I'm totally with you. I've grown fond of silence and scenery over the last couple years. Going to the beach and reading is quite enjoyable. Driving in silence makes traffic congestion irrelevant. Games are sufficient for escaping reality. Even the occasional movie. The rest is entirely unnecessary.
People don't realize that the noise they allow to constantly invade their minds is always garbage. You generally don't throw garbage around your room but the mind seems to be an acceptable place to toss crap. People profit from that strange social acceptance. But not from me.
But you are missing the point. People are ignorant and wouldn't know a good movie from a hole in the ground. Directors are artists and sometimes create things that people "don't get." It should be considered defamation to say that a movie sucks. They have poured their heart and souls into their films.
??AA Sometimes acts like they want a version of Islamic fundamentalist--corporate fundamentalism?
Maybe that's it. Slashdot and everybody else should add "corporate fundamentalism" as a phrase in their complaints like the "Chewbacca Defense."
They basically asked for people to kick shit at them. If they had any subtlety, the industry would pick a *popular* idea like banning phones altogether from the theater.
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I am not a Marxist but there are a couple of important background points here. First, Marx hated Marxism for good reason--Marx was a capitalist. His angry missive of the Communist Manifesto was an amazing display of self-masochism and simply at odds with his real beliefs. Marx, like most academics, described the process of his view on the future of capitalism. Once economic and physical security are attained, we can move on to greater needs that benefit everyone. Case in point, the interstate highway system, safe parks, clean water & air, education for all, etc. I think this guy Marshall Brain is on to something. Marx might very well have agreed with his hypothesis.
Oh really? This has nothing to do with the Good Sam laws. Those are intended to prevent lawsuits from helping injured people. Misprison is about the Feds getting everyone related to a federal investigation. Don't get mad at me because it doesn't make sense. I didn't write the law. Here you go: Misprison of a felony
No need to be a jackass. It's among the craziest crimes on the books but it's real. I know somebody that went down for it. Here you go: Misprison of a felony
No it isn't. I know someone that went down for this among other charges. You need a reference? Here you go: Misprison of a felony
Here you go: Misprison of a felony
Point taken. You are correct.
Look it up, amigo. If you know about a felony and you don't report it, you are guilty of cover-up and can serve time for your avoidance of doing the right thing.
You have an amazingly rosy view of how the law works in this country. You must be those law-abiding citizens with nothing to fear that I keep hearing about. When we have laws that will revoke habeas corpus for the bizarre and impossible crime of loitering with space aliens (1982, Department of defense appropriations bill) and the hard-hitting "conspiracy of one", you can and will go down for anything if they want you.
Do you think it's an accident that we have the largest prison population, in absolute and relative terms, in the world?
Children that read /. learn the difference between literate and illiterate posts... up to two years of skill can be earned in just a few weeks. An unfortunate side effect comes from seeing insane AC comments and mind numbing redundancy. The impact is that children become permanently cynical Libertarian geeks.
This dude must be new to the whole concept of the Internet. Either that or a woefully pessimistic bastard. Maybe he's connected to angry Prodigy clones that never got over their banishment from the market. Nobody is going back to proprietary online services ever.
Just about every afternoon, I stop by the beachside pool for an hour of laps. Entrance costs $1.50. I always hand over a $5. I always get $4.50 back. Explaining the situation doesn't help since there's the language, age and progressive barriers with the clerk. I'm in a wheelchair and the few times I've tried to mention that I got too much change, she smiles and says, "ok." So whatever...GRACIAS!
I laughed out loud :D
Actually, considering the subject matter, people dying probably won't make a difference. Once people agree that destroying property is ok (see Senator Hatch) then we're not far from destroying people.
Pay or die... a message from the RIAA.
By pointing out that you are "not a troll" then proceeding to dare readers to find a hole in your golden logic, I have the opinion that you are not just a troll but Troll Of The Day.
The RIAA represents the labels in distribution issues. If they must resort to litigation and FUD to survive then they deserve to die by the invisible hand of capitalism. By choosing litigation and FUD instead of the market, they have essentially spit on a cornerstone of freedom and I have no pity for their demise.
Hopefully, *Apple* makes billions from online distribution because they have embraced the market and the consumers within it. The RIAA deserves nothing.
Because, troll child, the record industry hasn't assassinated anybody or enslaved entire towns. It's much harder to convince the government to prosecute a company when everyone is making money and nobody is dying. Until people start dying, you can expect corporations to routinely beat any charges brought against them. See Enron for the latest example.
That's pretty much what I was getting at. The original poster has good ideas but bad questions. The confrontational interview is basically extinct because of our litigation nation.
Point taken. I thought his questions were exactly what most of us think but, having done many interviews, his perspective got under my skin a bit. Interviewers have a tricky position. Subjects are not required to stick around under any circumstance, especially when the interviewer is being a prick. I'm not necessarily defending cnet as much as attacking a simplistic view of interview journalism.
Grow up. Your questions are completely loaded so you would never get the interview. They are not "hard hitting" as you would like to believe. They are immature and counter-productive to dialogue.
Your post is evidence that some kind of severe Darwinism needs to blight the Linux community before it becomes better. You can't honestly advocate free software if you turn around like a brat and yell at people who are trying to use free software but criticize the selection. If businesses are having trouble finding basic business applications, Microsoft retains its power. End of discussion. Mr. Ball mentioned that he had some proprietary applications developed. I can only speculate that means the missing applications he's talking about. On the other side, I'd be interested to know why he hasn't GPL'd his proprietary applications or at least donated a generalized GPL version of whatever he made. That's worth yelling about.
Yeah, that AC made me laugh out loud.
With the way you spell "paraplegic", perhaps California needs a "fucktard" candidate as well...
At least you spelled "lose" correctly.
SCO has basically decided to take this matter to the edge of violence. While the vast majority of open source zealots are peaceful and merely annoying, how many are in the Ted Kaczynski Unabomber Club?
Emotionally unstable, socially detached, angry and brilliant people are going to start having trouble holding it together. Kaczynski didn't have the benefit of the net to get better information or gravitate towards like minds.
What if SCO/Microsoft knows this and is purposely creating an environment where a small group snaps and discredits everything about the "eccentric" hobbies of geeks?
The whole concept of doing geek stuff outside of university walls is a very young concept. Read up on the history of astronomy. Rulers and the church had no problem with what these guys were doing as long as it stayed within the walls.
If we move all knowledge back to universities, corporations will call all the shots on progress. That's exactly what will happen after the first zealots decide that "Bombs not reason" is a good name for a political action committee.
How many idiots have issued death threats against spammers? The clock is winding down.
Don't forget to add "among /.ers" because everyone else will take comfort in being a victim of a great catastrophe.
I'm totally with you. I've grown fond of silence and scenery over the last couple years. Going to the beach and reading is quite enjoyable. Driving in silence makes traffic congestion irrelevant. Games are sufficient for escaping reality. Even the occasional movie. The rest is entirely unnecessary.
People don't realize that the noise they allow to constantly invade their minds is always garbage. You generally don't throw garbage around your room but the mind seems to be an acceptable place to toss crap. People profit from that strange social acceptance. But not from me.
Peace.
But you are missing the point. People are ignorant and wouldn't know a good movie from a hole in the ground. Directors are artists and sometimes create things that people "don't get." It should be considered defamation to say that a movie sucks. They have poured their heart and souls into their films.
??AA Sometimes acts like they want a version of Islamic fundamentalist--corporate fundamentalism?
Maybe that's it. Slashdot and everybody else should add "corporate fundamentalism" as a phrase in their complaints like the "Chewbacca Defense."
They basically asked for people to kick shit at them. If they had any subtlety, the industry would pick a *popular* idea like banning phones altogether from the theater.
Point well taken.
Thanks for the tip. But if you had any balls, you wouldn't be AC.