Or just victims of the M0 plague; dopamine self-addicted, permanently neuroinhibited and hence uncapable of any soft of thought, just addicted to performing rituals.
I still use xterm. Why? It doesn't have problems. All the other terminals do; either they're slow, or lack unicode support, or render ugly (I don't need antialiased terminal fonts!), or behave weird with some terminal apps.
At the end, xterm works fine, so there's no reason to use anything else. Combine it with borderless fullscreen (alt-f11 by default in xfce4's) for added niceness:).
Again and again, smart kids who refuse to lose their time in meaningless repetitive tasks are diagnosed with a fake illness, then drugged to complete dumbness.
Everything2 has a fatal flaw: Authors retain copyright and only offer a license to e2, which means that a person who wants to use content from there will have to go through the hassle of asking all the authors of the desired content, and there's no guarantee that they'll accept whatever they're asked.
George Orwell couldn't imagine the present situation.
On the propaganda side, not only there's a "telescreen", but it isn't needed to force people to watch it: They're stupid enough to watch it even if they're not forced to do so. Not only that, but for the greatest part of the society, life is completelly centered around TV. When people return from work, most of the times worktime and conmuting adding up more than half their time awake, and pay being of course pathetic, they do so in the cars TV shown them as good. Then, once they're home, they turn on the TV first thing, in order to watch pure mindless reality shows or just plain and pure propaganda. At the times they're not working or watching TV, you'll find them in the supermarket buying the crappiest and most expensive choices; the ones the TV made them buy. Maybe sometimes they get together and, say, talk about those crappy series from TV, or go shopping together to buy crappy pop music... things like that. Of course, nobody is interested in politics anymore, or in personal research of any kind, or learning anything that's not strictly needed, just for fun, or creating cultural works (they've all been told creators are a different race that is, of course, starving thanks to "piracy"); their lives are completelly busy already with TV and what surrounds it; a few channels, controled by a small amount of people. They can guide the thoughts of the masses. We know about those studies where not even the university-educated circles of people are capable of understanding a text, detecting obvious and simple patterns when analyzing tables of data, and of course, any critical thinking. Uncapable of working out the simplest logical deductions. They've archieved this much power.
On the surveillance side, of course, it's even worse. Not only privacity doesn't exist anymore because communications are under indiscriminate surveillance; It's seems like _everybody_ but me carries a tracking device known as a cellphone with them, and what's worse, most of them have no idea of that, or the implications.
To sum it up, it's a working modern totalitarian regime where people are completelly caged while they stupidly believe they're completelly free, to the extend that some countries, namely the USA, got rid of democracy through unverified (no paper trail) electronic voting; going unnoticed by the illiterate masses.
And this is the world we're living on. We are screwed.
Here, I haven't bought a DVD ever. I do not support anti-user measures like CSS or zones, therefore I don't buy DVDs.
About CDs, it's been about 6 years, exactly the same amount of time since I have internet at home (before, it was just impossible to connect in Spain with a reasonable cost); like for most, p2p changed my musical preferences a lot; before, I listened to what I now think of as crap. Many authors of good music saw me on their concerts or buying their merchandise, which of course should have given them more money than buying zillions of those stupid CDs. Nowadays, I've heard, CDs even come with evil antiuser technology of them, what a shame.
Millions of people, they say. Maybe it's time to start listening to the will of those millions instead of listening to just a few industry-paid lobbysts.
Actually living a polyphasic sleep cycle, once you've started it, is extremely difficult. The cycle continues itself fine, without problems, but it is extremely inflexible to the callings of real normal life. It is an unstable equilibrium, waiting for the first moment of deviation to go spiralling out of control. Accidentally oversleeping can have devestating effects, missing a regular rest interval will crush you. When its working, it works fine, there are really no self evident mental defects, no externally discernable oddities (besides the disappearing every four hours)... but keeping it up is exceedingly hard to manage in a relatively busy world. Thats the biggest problem with polyphasic sleep, with normal sleep you can skip nights here&there, timeshift your sleep (do a late nighter and put of sleep for an hour and sleep it off in the morning) but with polyphasic sleep you must stay on schedule or the whlole thing comes crashing down. Thats why people dont polyphasic sleep regularly, thats why it's something a couple people do for two or three, maybe five months. The physical end of it seems to work out ok, but the constraints it imposes are nearly impossible to live up to. Your awake far more, but you end up being twice the slave to sleep as before.
I've been doing this for years and cannot help but agree completelly.
Are you married and with a baby on the way... in the game?
Most trouble with MMORPG come from people who are sadly uncapable of roleplaying, that is, of becoming a character of the game which is not the same one as outside it.
In Spain, the author's and editors associations (yes, associations which include both authors and editors on them... try to figure out by yourself who does have the votes... yes, the editors), even tho the law clearly states otherwise, mantain that copying a CD for a friend is ilegal, and not only that, but very bad, causing authors to starve and other crazyness. And, in the same time, they're pressuring the governement to make it really ilegal (seesh!). It would still be against our constitution, by the way, but the governement seems to be willing to.
In my opinion, this horror they call intelectual property is very bad for everybody and should just not exist. For some insight on this:
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Both those are free software in compliance with the GNU's "4 freedoms". You could have chosen some better example like, say, microsoft's "shared source".
I seriously think your statement "So the fact that open source projects tend to prefer GPL to BSD means that even open source advocates appreciate the value of copyright." is wrong.
Personally, I prefer GPL because copyright exists and so, in order to protect the freedom of our code from copyright itself (being relicensed to not so free licenses), we need the GPL. If copyright didn't exist, we would not need the GPL at all, either. This is not just what I think, but the GNU/FSF, where the GPL is from, seems to think the same.
If you care about preservation of freedom and want wikipedia news to be copylefted, with its very desireable virical consequences, don't forget to vote either. Voting starts by September 6. Let your voice be heard!.
... I was going to buy some game from blizzard. Had the money in my pocket and was going to leave, even. Then read slashdot or some other geekish blog and saw something about bnetd or freecraft or... (don't really remember).
That meant... it got cancelled. (their fault).
Zero tolerance on IP enforcement! (excepting copyleft... which is the only temporal paradise we have till people realize IP is crazy, I can't be P!.)
If it's so free and will always be free and does have no spyware or adware or anything on it... where is the source code? No, I have no reason to just blindly trust them.
Disabling Orwellian monitoring crap is not evil; it's an heroic act; the use of this kind of crap should be outlawed and no, don't give me this protecting kids crap. Kids shouldn't grow accostumed to surveillance. They should grow up as sovereign individuals who value their freedoms, and question power.
They offer the laptops into such conditions that revolutions are bound to happen. What's this "can only use school's laptop and not your own" shit? and "You take care of the laptop" shit? and this "cannot install programs" shit? and this orwellian monitoring crap?
Death to them. They've done it exactly the wrong way, and it's only natural for students to protest and disobey the dictatorship. Under this conditions, it's alright to set up a resistance armed with AK-47s.
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A document I've found which explains it on terms of Economics and Games Theory: A Case Against Intellectual Property
Or just victims of the M0 plague; dopamine self-addicted, permanently neuroinhibited and hence uncapable of any soft of thought, just addicted to performing rituals.
Got the DVD version here... so it's just the DVD + a CD (the expansion).
At the end, xterm works fine, so there's no reason to use anything else. Combine it with borderless fullscreen (alt-f11 by default in xfce4's) for added niceness :).
Reciprocality.
Everything2 has a fatal flaw: Authors retain copyright and only offer a license to e2, which means that a person who wants to use content from there will have to go through the hassle of asking all the authors of the desired content, and there's no guarantee that they'll accept whatever they're asked.
On the propaganda side, not only there's a "telescreen", but it isn't needed to force people to watch it: They're stupid enough to watch it even if they're not forced to do so. Not only that, but for the greatest part of the society, life is completelly centered around TV. When people return from work, most of the times worktime and conmuting adding up more than half their time awake, and pay being of course pathetic, they do so in the cars TV shown them as good. Then, once they're home, they turn on the TV first thing, in order to watch pure mindless reality shows or just plain and pure propaganda. At the times they're not working or watching TV, you'll find them in the supermarket buying the crappiest and most expensive choices; the ones the TV made them buy. Maybe sometimes they get together and, say, talk about those crappy series from TV, or go shopping together to buy crappy pop music... things like that. Of course, nobody is interested in politics anymore, or in personal research of any kind, or learning anything that's not strictly needed, just for fun, or creating cultural works (they've all been told creators are a different race that is, of course, starving thanks to "piracy"); their lives are completelly busy already with TV and what surrounds it; a few channels, controled by a small amount of people. They can guide the thoughts of the masses. We know about those studies where not even the university-educated circles of people are capable of understanding a text, detecting obvious and simple patterns when analyzing tables of data, and of course, any critical thinking. Uncapable of working out the simplest logical deductions. They've archieved this much power.
On the surveillance side, of course, it's even worse. Not only privacity doesn't exist anymore because communications are under indiscriminate surveillance; It's seems like _everybody_ but me carries a tracking device known as a cellphone with them, and what's worse, most of them have no idea of that, or the implications.
To sum it up, it's a working modern totalitarian regime where people are completelly caged while they stupidly believe they're completelly free, to the extend that some countries, namely the USA, got rid of democracy through unverified (no paper trail) electronic voting; going unnoticed by the illiterate masses.
And this is the world we're living on. We are screwed.
About CDs, it's been about 6 years, exactly the same amount of time since I have internet at home (before, it was just impossible to connect in Spain with a reasonable cost); like for most, p2p changed my musical preferences a lot; before, I listened to what I now think of as crap. Many authors of good music saw me on their concerts or buying their merchandise, which of course should have given them more money than buying zillions of those stupid CDs. Nowadays, I've heard, CDs even come with evil antiuser technology of them, what a shame.
Of course, I came to learn, with the years, that copyright and patents are bad.
Freedom for the Culture!!!
Just use Mono.
It has happened to me once and it is scary, indeed.
I've been doing this for years and cannot help but agree completelly.
Are you married and with a baby on the way... in the game?
Most trouble with MMORPG come from people who are sadly uncapable of roleplaying, that is, of becoming a character of the game which is not the same one as outside it.
Limit your client upload to 2/3 of capability, and you'll see what happens.
Beat that.
In my opinion, this horror they call intelectual property is very bad for everybody and should just not exist. For some insight on this:
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual /intellectual.htm
http://www.cortell.net/category/english/
Both those are free software in compliance with the GNU's "4 freedoms". You could have chosen some better example like, say, microsoft's "shared source".
Down with the patents!
Personally, I prefer GPL because copyright exists and so, in order to protect the freedom of our code from copyright itself (being relicensed to not so free licenses), we need the GPL. If copyright didn't exist, we would not need the GPL at all, either. This is not just what I think, but the GNU/FSF, where the GPL is from, seems to think the same.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-copyleft.html
If you care about preservation of freedom and want wikipedia news to be copylefted, with its very desireable virical consequences, don't forget to vote either. Voting starts by September 6. Let your voice be heard!.
That meant... it got cancelled. (their fault).
Zero tolerance on IP enforcement! (excepting copyleft... which is the only temporal paradise we have till people realize IP is crazy, I can't be P!.)
If it's so free and will always be free and does have no spyware or adware or anything on it... where is the source code? No, I have no reason to just blindly trust them.
For whatever remote desktop they're using, to be ethically acceptable, it would have to popup a request for authorization on the laptop.
Disabling Orwellian monitoring crap is not evil; it's an heroic act; the use of this kind of crap should be outlawed and no, don't give me this protecting kids crap. Kids shouldn't grow accostumed to surveillance. They should grow up as sovereign individuals who value their freedoms, and question power.
Death to them. They've done it exactly the wrong way, and it's only natural for students to protest and disobey the dictatorship. Under this conditions, it's alright to set up a resistance armed with AK-47s.