Fantastic rant. It's logically inconsistent, substitutes opinions for facts, uses examples that don't illustrate your point, and sets up strawmen as its main thrust. Absolutely Slashdottian.
You submitted to it, voluntarily. (Yes, it was voluntary unless someone was forcing you to try for this particular job.) You pretty much forfeited your right to bitch about them using it. You can't argue about your convictions if you don't have the courage to uphold them.
Your original point was completely unrelated to the parent post. You just threw that in there as a half-assed defense. It's a logical fallacy, and as such, I was offended.
Likely for the very same reason, your post reminds me of the cackling elite on IRC screeching 'n00b' to anyone who asks a question about an open source package.
Since you made such a big deal out of the my supposed assumptions, I would like to know where you got them. It certainly wasn't from my post, which said nothing to indicate a central focus on competition. I merely noted that competition produces losers.
It's easy to knock down an argument that wasn't presented.
Well, in a way, you're right, except I have two comments:
1.) There really aren't any rules, per se, just a set of conventions which in practice have proven to be fairly flexible, so there really can't be any rigging. This entails that things aren't fair, and I don't deny that.
2.) In the general case, there isn't much to fear from people who lose. There's a reason it happens. Sure, every now and again, you get an uprising, or a revolution, or whatever you want to call it, but that usually just produces some different winners, while the losers stay mostly the same, and a lot (not all, not by any means) of the old winners join the losers, or possibly die.
It's called a revolution because it keeps coming back to the same point, just like a wheel.
Listening to programmers make analogies is like listening to the sound a knife makes as it pierces your own chest. Sure, the sound may be interesting, but the pain drowns everything out.
Because so many people here have tied their self esteem up in the success of Linux and the consequent failure of Microsoft that they have to bitch about everything.
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How many times are you going to post this? Do you think the repetition will make it correct?
Fantastic rant. It's logically inconsistent, substitutes opinions for facts, uses examples that don't illustrate your point, and sets up strawmen as its main thrust. Absolutely Slashdottian.
People that _I_ shoot? But _I_ didn't do anything, it's the _bullet_ that hurts them.
Jail time? Do you want the judge to send people to prison for pissing on Linux or pissing off geeks?
I wasn't aware that filing a civil suit could result in jail time. I knew I should have gone to law school.
Don't you mean "half our money"?
Only if you redefine 'our' in a way completely incompatible with normal usage in the English language.
Oh, come on mods - having even the tiniest sense of humor should be a prerequisite for getting points.
You submitted to it, voluntarily. (Yes, it was voluntary unless someone was forcing you to try for this particular job.) You pretty much forfeited your right to bitch about them using it. You can't argue about your convictions if you don't have the courage to uphold them.
Your original point was completely unrelated to the parent post. You just threw that in there as a half-assed defense. It's a logical fallacy, and as such, I was offended.
Then it's just a simple matter of the fear industry increasing production.
Likely for the very same reason, your post reminds me of the cackling elite on IRC screeching 'n00b' to anyone who asks a question about an open source package.
Since you made such a big deal out of the my supposed assumptions, I would like to know where you got them. It certainly wasn't from my post, which said nothing to indicate a central focus on competition. I merely noted that competition produces losers.
It's easy to knock down an argument that wasn't presented.
That still works in my favor, since it means a project can be in a superposition of all three states.
It's continuous on our scale anyway, unless you happen to be an intelligent subatomic particle, in which case I apologize.
I didn't say life was only competition. My statement doesn't exclude yours.
Either that or we're equally stupid.
Well, in a way, you're right, except I have two comments:
1.) There really aren't any rules, per se, just a set of conventions which in practice have proven to be fairly flexible, so there really can't be any rigging. This entails that things aren't fair, and I don't deny that.
2.) In the general case, there isn't much to fear from people who lose. There's a reason it happens. Sure, every now and again, you get an uprising, or a revolution, or whatever you want to call it, but that usually just produces some different winners, while the losers stay mostly the same, and a lot (not all, not by any means) of the old winners join the losers, or possibly die.
It's called a revolution because it keeps coming back to the same point, just like a wheel.
Yup, life is competition, which means losers. To believe otherwise is to deny humanity.
Listening to programmers make analogies is like listening to the sound a knife makes as it pierces your own chest. Sure, the sound may be interesting, but the pain drowns everything out.
Funny how you can still sit down after pulling something that big out of your ass.
Perfection is the bane of existance. Nothing will ever attain the state.
Also, that's a false trichotomy. Things are possible in degrees. We do live in a continuous universe, you know.
Do you find law enforcement in general insulting?
They're evil anyway so why does it matter?
Because so many people here have tied their self esteem up in the success of Linux and the consequent failure of Microsoft that they have to bitch about everything.
You win Slashdot's "best new spelling of "ridiculous" award.'
Jeez, I don't see anything that extreme. Are you sure you aren't engaging in a touch of hyperbole?
God, I hate that I'm using this joke formula:
The 1600s called, they want your conception of the makeup of America back.
Hey, for the low low price of 30 million I'll make you any number of things that don't work.
Less wasted space please
Do you pay per pixel?