What do you think is the motivation of the sunset?
You said A exists because B. I pointed out your premise about B was false. I accept your somewhat ungracious withdrawal of your claim that the world is NOT free.
What do you think is the motivation of creating software?
Is this the bit where you try to insist I have malicious intentions when I release free software?
It is funny in every post by a European there is a different number of days "required by law". So far I have heard 20 days, 25 days, 30 days. Is it based on level of smugness?
Well, gee it's almost like Europe is a bunch of countries with different laws on top of those legislated by the EU. A tough concept, I know. Maybe you should study it on your day off.
FFS no, why do people insist on misreading what Stallman says so aggressively? It's like you're determined for him to be wrong no matter what he actually says.
He said companies, not websites. He doesn't want to take the form off your crappy former-geocities page, don't worry.
He wants (among other things) laws put in place to limit the power of companies in this regard.
How about you stop with the kneejrek reaction, engage your brain and address what he said, not what you wanted him to have said?
Possibly. You don't singlemindedly devote yourself to a cause for your entire life and be a go along/get along kind of guy, pretty much by definition.
We tried to invite him at a conference we were organizing in 2004, and submitted a two pages list of requirements, from hotel connectivity to tea brands.
I guess that's the price; he doesn't ask for big appearance fees or anything. Is that assholey? I don't know, but if I was spending several months (or more) every year away from home, I'd get pretty picky about where I'm staying.
And I'm not even getting started about the way he behaves in the FSF, he made a lot of damages in their projects...
I don't know about a lot, but the decision over GCC plugins definitely qualifies as damaging.
Promotion should happen based on what seems to be relevant for the viewer.
Sure, but you said merit before, which is much more nebulous. As it is, youtube keeps giving machining videos and people squashing shit in a hydraulic press which seems about right to me.
If you look at the deadliest terrorist attacks, they're mostly bombings of one sort or another.
Well, maybe we should ban people from buying bombs.
Oh wait we already do, this makes them hard to get hold of and many of them end up as duds because making bombs effectively is actually quite hard. There's huge selection bias in that you only hear about the successful ones.
Good luck trying to prohibit people from getting access to vehicles.
Vehicles have an incredibly important and useful primary purpose which isn't to do with killing people. Removing vehicles from a conutry would have a vast negative impact day to day on almost every aspect of life for the majority of the population.
So yes totally equivalent to guns by reason of being completely the same.
Funny isn't it? I think it was news worthy what...maybe 2 days tops?
Hahaha yes, funny!
I mean it must be a liberal consipracy to do something. Of course if it was in the news for longer it would be a liberal conspiracy to take your guns. Either way it must be a liberal conspiracy.
In fact, in the US, classical liberalism is at home in the Republican party
Yes I know what classical liberalism is and I know what the Republican party is. I mean sure it may be (ha) what the Republican party likes to say it's about. However, words are not actions. The actions of the party have nothing at all to do with liberalism.
Well, that's obviously your life motto.
And I see you've dropped the whole cities thing. I guess you realised I was right, huh.
lolnope. You don't get to spout Republican fake facts and dutifully trot out right talking points and get to be a liberal.
Your narrative, on the other hand,
No it's not, you're thick for thinking that. City living happens anyway: just look, oh I don't know, literally anywhere in the world. Literally the point of the government is to support the population, not follow some right wing quest to bring power back to the farms.
Or that they can expropriate whatever they need from whoever they want to in order to save themselves?
Who needs facts when you can be angry! NYC is a large net contributor to federal coffers. Your vaunted flyover states are the ones who expropriate money to support their lifestyle, not cities.
And that's why attempting to change NYC's future through government intervention is futile. It's like trying to stop a sixteen wheeler with police tape before it goes off a cliff.
Well, you'd love that, wouldn't you? I mean it would fit with your right wing narrative that city dewllers are useless and evil and whatnot. Won't work though. The top 5 cities comprise over 20% of the entire GDP of the US. Cities are what drives your country.
They get to care about themselves. NN not going to be a thing at a federal level because of all the states voting R. If they want to have it at a state level it's up to them. The D's tried to vote someone in who wouldn't fuck everything up and didn't succeed. Now they're concentrating on looking after themselves at a state level. If R's want those protections, perhaps they should oh I don't know, vote against people who want tear them down to make way for corporate oligopilys.
So yeah, if the flyover states won't care about themselves why should Californians care about them?
...as if somehow they are meaningfully employed. Call me old-fashioned, but I certainly would have a problem with my daughter getting into this line of work, and I would HOPE every parent would feel the same way.
I could say the same about coal mining, especialy as the safety regulations have recently been slashed. I presume many people would not want their kids to get black lung, excep for the fact they voted in a chap to slash regulations.
What should be bothering anyone old enough to remember Jack Thompson is that the left sjw/feminists have their own in Anita Sarkeesian,
This shit got +5 informative? Good to see that blatant sexism is still A-OK on slashdot. The only thing Anita Sarkeesian did was publish a series of videos with her rather mild (and occasionally snarky) opinions on video games. Oh that and being female with intent.
Literallt none of the bullshit lies you've tried to spread about her over the years have been true. Not one single one. Mod parent down.
What NYC and what it will become is determined by its geography, by available technology, and by population movements. If New York can only function with more subways but New Yorkers can't pay for it, then the city will slowly decay.
The city alone would sit comfortably as the #3 state in terms of GDP, so they can and apparently now are deciding to afford it. So fret not, those un american city types will continue to exist and expand for the forseeable future.
I'm also a scientist, and like several others here, have serious problems with the prestige publishing culture of science
It's a problem with science funding, more than science per-se. Want a career? You have to have "impact", whcih means publish in the most well known places etc. Seriously who likes slogging through reviews at a venue with a 3% acceptance rate?
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What do you think is the motivation of the sunset?
You said A exists because B. I pointed out your premise about B was false. I accept your somewhat ungracious withdrawal of your claim that the world is NOT free.
What do you think is the motivation of creating software?
Is this the bit where you try to insist I have malicious intentions when I release free software?
It is funny in every post by a European there is a different number of days "required by law". So far I have heard 20 days, 25 days, 30 days. Is it based on level of smugness?
Well, gee it's almost like Europe is a bunch of countries with different laws on top of those legislated by the EU. A tough concept, I know. Maybe you should study it on your day off.
Do you think faculty has to work during Spring Break?
yes. Certainly if they're in the grant grind (i.e. almost all of them these days).
the tiny car you drive
I think this of all things most strongly illustrates the root of your misconception.
If it is "free" software it is much more likely to have "malicious functionalities" because the world is NOT free.
A nice sunset is malicious too. The world isn't free, after all.
So Richard Stallman wants to ban websites
FFS no, why do people insist on misreading what Stallman says so aggressively? It's like you're determined for him to be wrong no matter what he actually says.
He said companies, not websites. He doesn't want to take the form off your crappy former-geocities page, don't worry.
He wants (among other things) laws put in place to limit the power of companies in this regard.
How about you stop with the kneejrek reaction, engage your brain and address what he said, not what you wanted him to have said?
Mad, unlikely, an asshole, most likely.
Possibly. You don't singlemindedly devote yourself to a cause for your entire life and be a go along/get along kind of guy, pretty much by definition.
We tried to invite him at a conference we were organizing in 2004, and submitted a two pages list of requirements, from hotel connectivity to tea brands.
I guess that's the price; he doesn't ask for big appearance fees or anything. Is that assholey? I don't know, but if I was spending several months (or more) every year away from home, I'd get pretty picky about where I'm staying.
And I'm not even getting started about the way he behaves in the FSF, he made a lot of damages in their projects...
I don't know about a lot, but the decision over GCC plugins definitely qualifies as damaging.
Promotion should happen based on what seems to be relevant for the viewer.
Sure, but you said merit before, which is much more nebulous. As it is, youtube keeps giving machining videos and people squashing shit in a hydraulic press which seems about right to me.
Republicans talk like classical liberals
Huh TIL fake facts are a classicla liberal thing.
No, it's simply a realization that it is impossible to have a rational discussion
It's a bitch when pesky facts get in the way of your rational thoughts, isn't it?
Right so you have no suggestions at all other than promoting should be on "merit".
Presumably merit is defined as videos promoting whatever whackjob theories you subscribe to...
It's not censorship to not promote right wing nutcase videos to me because I'm not going to watch them.
that promotes content fairly,
And your definition of fair is...?
It's easier to get a gun than build a bomb, but both are within reach of an average human being.
I doubt the latter. Making effective bombs requires some degree of specialist skill. I don't think the average person could reliably build a bomb.
If you look at the deadliest terrorist attacks, they're mostly bombings of one sort or another.
Well, maybe we should ban people from buying bombs.
Oh wait we already do, this makes them hard to get hold of and many of them end up as duds because making bombs effectively is actually quite hard. There's huge selection bias in that you only hear about the successful ones.
Good luck trying to prohibit people from getting access to vehicles.
Vehicles have an incredibly important and useful primary purpose which isn't to do with killing people. Removing vehicles from a conutry would have a vast negative impact day to day on almost every aspect of life for the majority of the population.
So yes totally equivalent to guns by reason of being completely the same.
Funny isn't it? I think it was news worthy what...maybe 2 days tops?
Hahaha yes, funny!
I mean it must be a liberal consipracy to do something. Of course if it was in the news for longer it would be a liberal conspiracy to take your guns. Either way it must be a liberal conspiracy.
In fact, in the US, classical liberalism is at home in the Republican party
Yes I know what classical liberalism is and I know what the Republican party is. I mean sure it may be (ha) what the Republican party likes to say it's about. However, words are not actions. The actions of the party have nothing at all to do with liberalism.
Well, that's obviously your life motto.
And I see you've dropped the whole cities thing. I guess you realised I was right, huh.
My classically liberal
lolnope. You don't get to spout Republican fake facts and dutifully trot out right talking points and get to be a liberal.
Your narrative, on the other hand,
No it's not, you're thick for thinking that. City living happens anyway: just look, oh I don't know, literally anywhere in the world. Literally the point of the government is to support the population, not follow some right wing quest to bring power back to the farms.
Or that they can expropriate whatever they need from whoever they want to in order to save themselves?
Who needs facts when you can be angry! NYC is a large net contributor to federal coffers. Your vaunted flyover states are the ones who expropriate money to support their lifestyle, not cities.
And that's why attempting to change NYC's future through government intervention is futile. It's like trying to stop a sixteen wheeler with police tape before it goes off a cliff.
Well, you'd love that, wouldn't you? I mean it would fit with your right wing narrative that city dewllers are useless and evil and whatnot. Won't work though. The top 5 cities comprise over 20% of the entire GDP of the US. Cities are what drives your country.
Excellent!
I noticed you neither apologised for nor retracted nor denied the lies you made up about me. Very classy!
Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out
You don't read too good do ya?
Nobody cares about the flyover states, right?
They get to care about themselves. NN not going to be a thing at a federal level because of all the states voting R. If they want to have it at a state level it's up to them. The D's tried to vote someone in who wouldn't fuck everything up and didn't succeed. Now they're concentrating on looking after themselves at a state level. If R's want those protections, perhaps they should oh I don't know, vote against people who want tear them down to make way for corporate oligopilys.
So yeah, if the flyover states won't care about themselves why should Californians care about them?
...as if somehow they are meaningfully employed. Call me old-fashioned, but I certainly would have a problem with my daughter getting into this line of work, and I would HOPE every parent would feel the same way.
I could say the same about coal mining, especialy as the safety regulations have recently been slashed. I presume many people would not want their kids to get black lung, excep for the fact they voted in a chap to slash regulations.
And I for one will never forgive the SJWs for what they did to Garrison Keillor.
Wll congratulations! You've found a huge way to hate and never forgive a large block of people with politics starting slightly ot the left of you.
Out of idle curiosity does this mean you won't ever forgive me for what I did to Farrison Keillor (many people call me an SJW)?
Also, who the fuck is Garrison Keillor?
What should be bothering anyone old enough to remember Jack Thompson is that the left sjw/feminists have their own in Anita Sarkeesian,
This shit got +5 informative? Good to see that blatant sexism is still A-OK on slashdot. The only thing Anita Sarkeesian did was publish a series of videos with her rather mild (and occasionally snarky) opinions on video games. Oh that and being female with intent.
Literallt none of the bullshit lies you've tried to spread about her over the years have been true. Not one single one. Mod parent down.
Why does there have to be an alternative?
Well, I guess there's always* a worse option...
What NYC and what it will become is determined by its geography, by available technology, and by population movements. If New York can only function with more subways but New Yorkers can't pay for it, then the city will slowly decay.
The city alone would sit comfortably as the #3 state in terms of GDP, so they can and apparently now are deciding to afford it. So fret not, those un american city types will continue to exist and expand for the forseeable future.
In different words, subways are too expensive to build and maintain
Uh huh. So tell me what's the alternative? Roads? If you think so, then grap a copy of google maps and show us where you'd build new roads in NYC.
I'm also a scientist, and like several others here, have serious problems with the prestige publishing culture of science
It's a problem with science funding, more than science per-se. Want a career? You have to have "impact", whcih means publish in the most well known places etc. Seriously who likes slogging through reviews at a venue with a 3% acceptance rate?