That guy had so much of that bad-for-you sugar in his system that it was medically reasonable for him to be temporarily insane because it fucked with his nervous receptors. I know it sounds lame, but it's halfway credible. That, and intense homophobia (even in San Fran back then), kept him out of prison. There's a Straight Dope article about it that I don't feel like linking. (www.thestraightdope.com)
FB: What do you think about proprietary software? Does it have low quality? Is it unsecure? Does it restrict freedom too much? Is it unethical?
RMS: Proprietary software is unethical, because it denies the user the basic freedom to control her own computer and to cooperate.
Here's the problem. Not many people care about controlling their computer in the sense that he's blabbing on about. They want to use it. Stallman and others find it more fun to ignore that fact. If a person wants to control their computer, they can bang out code and get the results they want. The computer isn't some mystical realm in which we must adhere to philosophies and Lockeian ideals of natural rights because it's simply irrelevent. People freely choose what goes on their hard drive and it shouldn't be put upon programmers to freely release their code if they don't want to. Even entertaining the idea of forcing code to be opened is disgusting. Should we then ban secrets? Along with freedom of speech is the right to remain silent and the right to maintain your livelihood as long as it doesn't harm others. That right is stronger than the right to know about buffer overflows in your email program.
What? I dual boot Linux and XP. I should always be able to do that, or just have Linux, or just have XP. If hardware is modified so that can't happen, that's wrong.
With most publications, the marketing and the editorial departments are separate and don't have any contact with each other. The New York Times is notorious for not letting one talk to the other.
Yeah. I know. I didn't say anything about security. To be crude, Microsoft is less secure than a freshman girl's virginity on prom night. A lot of those aren't bugs, though, because people voluntarily installed those programs and they don't have to do with Windows except for that the programs are Windows-compatible.
Do you use only the Linux kernel? No. You run Slackware, or Fedora, or SuSE (my personal choice), or Gentoo, or something. A fresh copy of the latest version of a distribution is what should have been analyzed. All of the other stuff that's piled onto the kernel is what you use, such as the GUI, time-killing games, and all the other shit that a standard XP install disc contains. You don't click on line 11359 of the Linux kernel to open up Konqueror. You click on an icon, which starts a process that you use. The stuff piled onto the kernel is far more buggy than the kernel would be. I'd bet that a distribution of Linux is still far less buggy than Windows is, but it's certainly not 985 vs. 800,000. For example, when I minimize my windows on XP, there isn't hard drive activity for the next five minutes, as can happen with SuSE with not very much open. I'm sure something's misconfigured, but if a distribution, in 2004, is that poorly configured by default, then that's a bug.
Those percentages usually come from a study in which hundreds of young married couples had sex at their regular frequency for a year while using the method in question. 99% of the couples using oral birth control did not conceive a child in that year. (I don't have the study with me...we learned about it in high school health class.) The methods may actually be more reliable than the study would lead us to believe. Married couples have less of an incentive to prevent a child since most young couples wouldn't mind having a kid, so they may have been less strict about its use.
Okay, so then what is it? I could be wrong, but tell me what really is the case. Why are most applied science/tech/math innovations happening in the USA, not in the European Union? (Yes, I realize that a decent number of people doing the innovations here are immigrants from Europe, but why would they want to come here if we're all a bunch of slackjawed imbeciles?)
True, but I just generally have a problem with how our high schools are rated. Tests are not the only measure of intelligence. I would say that lifetime results are the best measure of intelligence. Yes, we have plenty of shady economic deals with parts of the world, but looking at how our country has been over time, we must be doing something right.
Agreed. The example I was given in my philosophy class is that European schools teach memorization of facts while American schools teach more by doing (homework matters more than tests in high school, for example). I don't know how accurate he was, but it would explain why we suck at math but most scientific and technological innovations happen here.
People will say that that's because we have more income to throw at such projects. However, that's crap. Most of Europe isn't exactly begging for scraps, and the "almost there" countries in Asia and Eastern Europe would have the most incentive to invest in innovation because they would be more able to expand economically.
Also, this isn't meant to be "Go America!" rah-rah cheerleading bullshit. I'm merely saying that European educations make people better at pure knowledge and American educations make people better at applied knowledge.
Oops, sorry, I just saw that you were asking for someone that was denied medical care. No, jackass, because hardly anyone ever gets rabies in America, but you get the point. Replace rabies with a disease that people do get, like the super-strong strain of whooping cough going around now.
Conversely, if someone's at work checking his/her email, and this person is cleaning the inbox (rather than simply reading the actual work-related mail), he/she is probably doing this during the fuck-around part of the work day, usually right after lunch or early in the morning. The person would be considerably unlikely to be doing any real work anyway, so if there were no spam to delete he/she would probably be hanging out at the water cooler or getting a cup of coffee anyway. Your numbers are still relevant but they should be greatly trimmed down.
"Oh, and in the military you may have to kill people, or might die, as part of the job. Something to think about."
Yeah, but it pads your resume.
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Because the suspicion (Do you honestly not suspect so?) is that it probably was a Linux user, since those are the only people that SCO would be pissing off to such a great extent. And if people suspect things, then pretty much by definition they believe those things. And those people probably won't be directly questioned by people like you, so their suspicion/belief goes untouched, and so it harms the image of Linux users.
If I remember it correctly, part of the problem was the combination of tires and vehicle. Ford shared a large share of the blame because the Explorer is horrible when it comes to keeping the bottom side down. Those tires, on that vehicle, was a very bad idea.
Well, the problem is that the manufacturers of the Firestone tires made the change (it made the tires a few cents cheaper, which wasn't passed onto the consumer) even though there was significant evidence there'd be a disaster. Also:
When your tire explodes as you're going 55-75 miles per hour, eliminating your traction, you're in a different situation than a burn to your thigh, and
Most of the time the cell phones weren't on the owner when it happened. The phone simply needs to be on. Tires blow when you're driving a vehicle, which means you're in it.
As for ephedra, of course there's no reason for it to be banned. In most cases, the people had pre-existing conditions or took far too much of it. Congress loves to ban pretty harmless drugs though. I can think of a couple examples that are in my roommate's room right now.
I don't see anything stating that Microsoft was who filed this. I'm not saying they DIDN'T, I just don't see where it says that they did. I did a search on the page for "Microsoft" and the only things that came up were examples of programs that would use isnot.
Also, since Microsoft wrote the most popular BASIC interpreter, is it possible that they actually were the ones that made the isnot function?
Don't get me wrong, I think patenting a programming tool is stupid and along the same line as patenting gravity.
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That guy had so much of that bad-for-you sugar in his system that it was medically reasonable for him to be temporarily insane because it fucked with his nervous receptors. I know it sounds lame, but it's halfway credible. That, and intense homophobia (even in San Fran back then), kept him out of prison. There's a Straight Dope article about it that I don't feel like linking. (www.thestraightdope.com)
RMS: Proprietary software is unethical, because it denies the user the basic freedom to control her own computer and to cooperate.
Here's the problem. Not many people care about controlling their computer in the sense that he's blabbing on about. They want to use it. Stallman and others find it more fun to ignore that fact. If a person wants to control their computer, they can bang out code and get the results they want. The computer isn't some mystical realm in which we must adhere to philosophies and Lockeian ideals of natural rights because it's simply irrelevent. People freely choose what goes on their hard drive and it shouldn't be put upon programmers to freely release their code if they don't want to. Even entertaining the idea of forcing code to be opened is disgusting. Should we then ban secrets? Along with freedom of speech is the right to remain silent and the right to maintain your livelihood as long as it doesn't harm others. That right is stronger than the right to know about buffer overflows in your email program.
What? I dual boot Linux and XP. I should always be able to do that, or just have Linux, or just have XP. If hardware is modified so that can't happen, that's wrong.
Please tell us everything about the enemas.
No, he means crippled. If someone chooses to install Windows, let them.
Revenues vs. profits. Your numbers are probably profits (revenue minus cost).
With most publications, the marketing and the editorial departments are separate and don't have any contact with each other. The New York Times is notorious for not letting one talk to the other.
Yeah. I know. I didn't say anything about security. To be crude, Microsoft is less secure than a freshman girl's virginity on prom night. A lot of those aren't bugs, though, because people voluntarily installed those programs and they don't have to do with Windows except for that the programs are Windows-compatible.
Do you use only the Linux kernel? No. You run Slackware, or Fedora, or SuSE (my personal choice), or Gentoo, or something. A fresh copy of the latest version of a distribution is what should have been analyzed. All of the other stuff that's piled onto the kernel is what you use, such as the GUI, time-killing games, and all the other shit that a standard XP install disc contains. You don't click on line 11359 of the Linux kernel to open up Konqueror. You click on an icon, which starts a process that you use. The stuff piled onto the kernel is far more buggy than the kernel would be. I'd bet that a distribution of Linux is still far less buggy than Windows is, but it's certainly not 985 vs. 800,000. For example, when I minimize my windows on XP, there isn't hard drive activity for the next five minutes, as can happen with SuSE with not very much open. I'm sure something's misconfigured, but if a distribution, in 2004, is that poorly configured by default, then that's a bug.
Yeah, you're right.
Those percentages usually come from a study in which hundreds of young married couples had sex at their regular frequency for a year while using the method in question. 99% of the couples using oral birth control did not conceive a child in that year. (I don't have the study with me...we learned about it in high school health class.) The methods may actually be more reliable than the study would lead us to believe. Married couples have less of an incentive to prevent a child since most young couples wouldn't mind having a kid, so they may have been less strict about its use.
Okay, so then what is it? I could be wrong, but tell me what really is the case. Why are most applied science/tech/math innovations happening in the USA, not in the European Union? (Yes, I realize that a decent number of people doing the innovations here are immigrants from Europe, but why would they want to come here if we're all a bunch of slackjawed imbeciles?)
True, but I just generally have a problem with how our high schools are rated. Tests are not the only measure of intelligence. I would say that lifetime results are the best measure of intelligence. Yes, we have plenty of shady economic deals with parts of the world, but looking at how our country has been over time, we must be doing something right.
People will say that that's because we have more income to throw at such projects. However, that's crap. Most of Europe isn't exactly begging for scraps, and the "almost there" countries in Asia and Eastern Europe would have the most incentive to invest in innovation because they would be more able to expand economically.
Also, this isn't meant to be "Go America!" rah-rah cheerleading bullshit. I'm merely saying that European educations make people better at pure knowledge and American educations make people better at applied knowledge.
Oops, sorry, I just saw that you were asking for someone that was denied medical care. No, jackass, because hardly anyone ever gets rabies in America, but you get the point. Replace rabies with a disease that people do get, like the super-strong strain of whooping cough going around now.
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Conversely, if someone's at work checking his/her email, and this person is cleaning the inbox (rather than simply reading the actual work-related mail), he/she is probably doing this during the fuck-around part of the work day, usually right after lunch or early in the morning. The person would be considerably unlikely to be doing any real work anyway, so if there were no spam to delete he/she would probably be hanging out at the water cooler or getting a cup of coffee anyway. Your numbers are still relevant but they should be greatly trimmed down.
Yeah, but it pads your resume.
Because the suspicion (Do you honestly not suspect so?) is that it probably was a Linux user, since those are the only people that SCO would be pissing off to such a great extent. And if people suspect things, then pretty much by definition they believe those things. And those people probably won't be directly questioned by people like you, so their suspicion/belief goes untouched, and so it harms the image of Linux users.
If I remember it correctly, part of the problem was the combination of tires and vehicle. Ford shared a large share of the blame because the Explorer is horrible when it comes to keeping the bottom side down. Those tires, on that vehicle, was a very bad idea.
When your tire explodes as you're going 55-75 miles per hour, eliminating your traction, you're in a different situation than a burn to your thigh, and
Most of the time the cell phones weren't on the owner when it happened. The phone simply needs to be on. Tires blow when you're driving a vehicle, which means you're in it.
As for ephedra, of course there's no reason for it to be banned. In most cases, the people had pre-existing conditions or took far too much of it. Congress loves to ban pretty harmless drugs though. I can think of a couple examples that are in my roommate's room right now.
Also, since Microsoft wrote the most popular BASIC interpreter, is it possible that they actually were the ones that made the isnot function?
Don't get me wrong, I think patenting a programming tool is stupid and along the same line as patenting gravity.
That was definitely reported. Look at the front page.
Please, no more name changes :(
Fine. Will you do my calculus homework then?