Considering that the USA's army spends most of its time invading poor countries that pose no threat to the US, and murdering brown people in order to divert money from the public into companies like Lockheed Martin, which then share it with politicians, I don't think you should worry about those people having anything more evolved than an AK47.
When are you people going to realize the truth? Your politicians found the perfect way to steal money from you: They tell you that the boogie man hates your freedom, and therefore they need money to protect you. Then, they buy shitload of guns and ammo and other crap you don't need from their friends at Lockheed Martin, and then go to some poor place and murder a bunch of people, while showing it to you live on national TV and making sure you remember they are doing it for your freedom. Of course, they ran out of places to invade quickly, so they need to keep certain areas as unstable as possible, therefore they feed local wars, set up shitty dictators, destroy the economy by lending money and then charging outrageous interests from corrupt politicians from the third world, etc, etc.
The truth is the world doesn't hate the USA, and they don't hate the Freedom that you don't really have. They only hate the fact that every year go go out there to play in the sand/jungle, and that costs a lot of innocent lives, and causes incredible destruction.
And, yes, each and every single last one of you motherfuckers is responsible for the actions of your government.
I'm also not from the US, and not living in the US (But I am an American, just like all Mexicans, Canadians, Cubans, and any other people living in America, which is a fucking continent).
I know a lot of people from the US, and I can tell you something, you can split them into three categories:
- Those that have no idea - Those that think they have an idea, but they really don't. - Those that have already moved out of the states.
Think about this: In 99% of the world, "Liberal" is a word used to describe those in the far right. In the US, that is the far left. The entire world considers the Red October to be one of the most important revolutions in history, a step in the right direction for Russia, and can differentiate between what Marx and Engels thought and what guys like Lenin did, from the barbaric stuff that people like Stalin did. The US thinks that the Red October was a coup d' etat organized by the evil reds. Around the world Communism means "YASPS" (Yet another Socio Political System). In the US, it means the devil's work. Less than 2% of US citizens are actual Atheists. Around the world, the world "Evangelical" is sort of an insult, the religions that are stock in the US are considered cults around the world, and mostly frowned upon.
Try talking to someone from the US that considers himself "leftist". You'll realize that, hadn't he told you so, you would consider him to be on the far right.
All governments are evil, the difference is that the US has the support of 99% of all its citizens. They have truly drank all of the Kool Aid.
Besides the obvious (Microsoft), there are other ridiculous entries. Like Freescale, who likes to pretend it loves the GPL while violating it daily. Or Patagonia, a company from the US who tries to enforce their trademark, even against companies that are actually based in Patagonia (Argentina), or eBay, who's subsidiary Paypal takes people's money without explanation, and censors free speech by closing accounts of any organization or person they don't like. Cisco, who is also a GPL violator and has engaged in tax evasion. UPS: scammed Canadians with import fees. Westpac: A company that raised mortgage interest twice as much as the Australian national bank and competitors.
Of course, many many truly ethical companies that contribute a lot to society and have strict codes of ethics didn't make it into the list.
The explanation: This is just a paid-for service like carbon offsetting, or ITIL, ISO 9000, and others. Essentially: Pay us money and we'll give you good advertisement covered as independent research.
A lot of barbarians are murdering people around the world like it's the dark ages all over again. Some have sophisticated machinery and cute mottos like the US army, others have crappy AK47's. They are essentially the same crap. They all kill people, and they all have to go. Or truly think that Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't acts of terrorism?
Terrorists have only killed a few thousand people in the last century, and the most advanced weapons they've got are motherfucking airliners.
The US, on the other hand, has murdered millions, and has access to the most advanced weapons in the world. In fact, the only country to ever murder other people using nuclear weapons is the USA. I'd rather put those guns in the hands of terrorists than in those of the US, I'd feel safer.
I know this might be just Paranoia, let me get something straight first: I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm not saying I'm right, I'm just saying I have my doubts.
Have you noticed how Greenpeace seems to be an appendage of the big oil industry? I mean, they attack oil all the time, sure. But how effective are they against oil? Not effective at all. They haven't managed to make a single dent in the oil proliferation. On the other hand, they have attacked every single change we got at alternative energy sources very effectively. They are mostly responsible for keeping the population scared regarding nuclear power. They are the ones that have equaled nuclear power plants with nuclear weapons, even though the two are mostly unrelated (a nuclear reactor is far, far away from a nuclear bomb). Find anyone and tell them "Nuclear Reactor" and they'll think of a mushroom cloud and dead kittens, and other things unrelated to nuclear power. They attack battery production, and all kind of industries that can provide us with real alternatives.
Nuclear power as we know it today is not the final solution, but it's certainly better than Oil, and we could be running 100% on Nuclear Power and electric vehicles powered by said energy if it weren't for this tree huggers. Follow the money.
You attack the FSF for no reason whatsoever. Since when is code-signing GPL-incompatible? What's incompatible is DRM. You don't need DRM to sign your code. All distros sign their code, that's what GPG is for, it's external to the actual app, and it's not in violation of the GPL.
The problem is that Apple wants to control everything. Not any FSF-related issue.
BTW: Nothing in the Android Market is in violation of the GPL. The remote kill switch and the TOS are compliant, and most importantly, you can override them (You can install anything you want, outside the market or otherwise). Some specific manufacturers do break the GPL, but not google.
That is inaccurate, and filled with errors (there's no way you could reach that destination through that gw with that IP/mask, and the port is above 65535). What we get in movies is not inaccurate, it's ridiculous.
What we get in movies is the equivalent of dr house sticking a catheter down someones ass and injecting 120 tons of aspirin directly into the skull with a thermometer to cure cancer, Then replacing 100% of the patient's blood with apple juice using a syringe and a bucket to trick the cancer fungus into transforming into a bacteria, then metaphysically leave the body.
What the fuck are you talking about?, and why does everyone consider torvalds so relevant? He just wrote a small part of a kernel. A few tens of megabytes of code, out of a system that is orders of magnitude larger.
I just checked, You are right. I watched that Hicks routine again, his actual words where: ""If guys were all flexible enough to blow themselves all you ladies here tonight would be here by yourselves... watching an empty stage."
Carlin said: "If I could do that, I'd never leave the house!" In his Cats and Dogs routine (Talking about his dog licking his own cock).
I'm sure Stanhope said something about this too, but it was probably a lot more graphical and it somehow included midgets;)
Dude, I hate Apple. I hate their business practices, their monopolistic intentions, their use and abuse of Free Software while pretending to be friendly with it, it's censorship, and the religious following of its fans. Probably the last factor is the worst, I sincerely agree with your signature, and, while I'm an Atheist and anti-religion, I'm not only against religions with invisible guys in the sky. Religious-like behavior is just as dangerous as organized religion. Apple's followers have faith, and that is disturbing. Faith is the poor cousing of reasoning, and drives people to do some really awful things.
That aside, you are underestimating Apple. Sadly, hardware manufacturers just plain don't get it. I spent all night working on a custom firmware for a tc8902-based android tablet. I own a small software development company in Argentina, and we are importing a decent amount of tablets from China. I've seen them all. I estimate there are at least 40 different tablets being made in China right now (I know thousands are reported, but many are just identical designs being made by different manufacturers with slightly different cases. I've tried them all. Each has its upsides, but none of them quite nail it. You have a beautiful aluminum tablet like the wopad, with an awesome capacitive multitouch screen, and a crippled chipset like the rk2808 that only runs android up to Froyo because the company refuses to release OMX driver's source so we can port Ginger or HC onto it. Then you have this Telechips I'm currently working on, that is awesome in every sense, but I can't port anything better than Eclair onto it because Telechips has been ignoring the GPL for years, and they seemed to comply in Dec 2010, but the source they released doesn't generate a working kernel, and it's missing big chunks of code, they also refuse to release OMX drivers. Then you have an incredible 10'' tablet with an awesome capacitive screen, 512 of RAM, a samsung chipset that runs at 1.1Ghz, and overally hardware very similar but actually better than the ipad1, but it comes in a cheap plastic casing with a crippled froyo install and the battery sucks badly. How can they manage to fuck up an awesome product like that? Well, they are all screwing it. The Xoom is awesome, also, more expensive than the ipand, and I haven't seen any source code from motorola either. So, don't underestimate Apple. They are getting right everything the rest are getting wrong, while having the very same closed attitude the rest of the manufacturers have. I care about freedom, so I don't buy their products. Most people don't care at all, and if they don't buy apple is because they can't afford it.
>>> We should ideally just pass a law that compiled code isn't protected under copyright law unless the source code is available to anyone who purchases the product of course, i.e. mandate open source licenses. Good luck! lol
I've been saying that for years. The default position is no copyright protection. Do you want copyright protection? Ok, you have to release source code. You can have either drm-like protection on closed source, or legal protection from the state. Choose one. If you want, you can opt-out of copyright protection, and then you are free to do whatever you want. If you want legal protection, be a good citizen and release your source under certain licenses, and after a reasonable period (5 years) it goes straight into the gpl. Of course, it ain't gonna happen.
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Considering that the USA's army spends most of its time invading poor countries that pose no threat to the US, and murdering brown people in order to divert money from the public into companies like Lockheed Martin, which then share it with politicians, I don't think you should worry about those people having anything more evolved than an AK47.
When are you people going to realize the truth? Your politicians found the perfect way to steal money from you: They tell you that the boogie man hates your freedom, and therefore they need money to protect you. Then, they buy shitload of guns and ammo and other crap you don't need from their friends at Lockheed Martin, and then go to some poor place and murder a bunch of people, while showing it to you live on national TV and making sure you remember they are doing it for your freedom. Of course, they ran out of places to invade quickly, so they need to keep certain areas as unstable as possible, therefore they feed local wars, set up shitty dictators, destroy the economy by lending money and then charging outrageous interests from corrupt politicians from the third world, etc, etc.
The truth is the world doesn't hate the USA, and they don't hate the Freedom that you don't really have. They only hate the fact that every year go go out there to play in the sand/jungle, and that costs a lot of innocent lives, and causes incredible destruction.
And, yes, each and every single last one of you motherfuckers is responsible for the actions of your government.
Sounds like Satire to me. Reads like an awesome, very elaborate Hoax.
Either that or I'm really out of touch with them invisible-friend-in-the-sky people.
I'm also not from the US, and not living in the US (But I am an American, just like all Mexicans, Canadians, Cubans, and any other people living in America, which is a fucking continent).
I know a lot of people from the US, and I can tell you something, you can split them into three categories:
- Those that have no idea
- Those that think they have an idea, but they really don't.
- Those that have already moved out of the states.
Think about this: In 99% of the world, "Liberal" is a word used to describe those in the far right. In the US, that is the far left. The entire world considers the Red October to be one of the most important revolutions in history, a step in the right direction for Russia, and can differentiate between what Marx and Engels thought and what guys like Lenin did, from the barbaric stuff that people like Stalin did. The US thinks that the Red October was a coup d' etat organized by the evil reds. Around the world Communism means "YASPS" (Yet another Socio Political System). In the US, it means the devil's work. Less than 2% of US citizens are actual Atheists. Around the world, the world "Evangelical" is sort of an insult, the religions that are stock in the US are considered cults around the world, and mostly frowned upon.
Try talking to someone from the US that considers himself "leftist". You'll realize that, hadn't he told you so, you would consider him to be on the far right.
All governments are evil, the difference is that the US has the support of 99% of all its citizens. They have truly drank all of the Kool Aid.
Besides the obvious (Microsoft), there are other ridiculous entries. Like Freescale, who likes to pretend it loves the GPL while violating it daily. Or Patagonia, a company from the US who tries to enforce their trademark, even against companies that are actually based in Patagonia (Argentina), or eBay, who's subsidiary Paypal takes people's money without explanation, and censors free speech by closing accounts of any organization or person they don't like. Cisco, who is also a GPL violator and has engaged in tax evasion. UPS: scammed Canadians with import fees. Westpac: A company that raised mortgage interest twice as much as the Australian national bank and competitors.
Of course, many many truly ethical companies that contribute a lot to society and have strict codes of ethics didn't make it into the list.
The explanation: This is just a paid-for service like carbon offsetting, or ITIL, ISO 9000, and others.
Essentially: Pay us money and we'll give you good advertisement covered as independent research.
Yeah, I know it was outdated, but it's still funny if you proxy all your browsing through the internet archive.
FTFA:
Fauquier might be 45 miles from the White House, but many residents can't look at WhiteHouse.gov in their homes.
They mean Whitehouse.com, right?
Apple is the main patent holder in the MPEGLA group, and has been trolling webm and theora directly. I believe they love standards wars.
You are fucking stupid. RTFA.
That is incredible. You actually did drink all of the koolaid.
You are right, I forgot some facts in there.
Like, for example, the fact that most terrorist organizations have been funded and armed by the USA.
But I couldn't say it better than him ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOOF5e5F6gI
I have dead family from the last US-backed military dictatorship (I live in Argentina).
And yes, government scares me more than anything else in this world.
Why make the distinction at all?
A lot of barbarians are murdering people around the world like it's the dark ages all over again. Some have sophisticated machinery and cute mottos like the US army, others have crappy AK47's. They are essentially the same crap. They all kill people, and they all have to go. Or truly think that Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't acts of terrorism?
Why is everyone worried about terrorist so much?
Terrorists have only killed a few thousand people in the last century, and the most advanced weapons they've got are motherfucking airliners.
The US, on the other hand, has murdered millions, and has access to the most advanced weapons in the world. In fact, the only country to ever murder other people using nuclear weapons is the USA. I'd rather put those guns in the hands of terrorists than in those of the US, I'd feel safer.
I know this might be just Paranoia, let me get something straight first: I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm not saying I'm right, I'm just saying I have my doubts.
Have you noticed how Greenpeace seems to be an appendage of the big oil industry? I mean, they attack oil all the time, sure. But how effective are they against oil? Not effective at all. They haven't managed to make a single dent in the oil proliferation. On the other hand, they have attacked every single change we got at alternative energy sources very effectively. They are mostly responsible for keeping the population scared regarding nuclear power. They are the ones that have equaled nuclear power plants with nuclear weapons, even though the two are mostly unrelated (a nuclear reactor is far, far away from a nuclear bomb). Find anyone and tell them "Nuclear Reactor" and they'll think of a mushroom cloud and dead kittens, and other things unrelated to nuclear power. They attack battery production, and all kind of industries that can provide us with real alternatives.
Nuclear power as we know it today is not the final solution, but it's certainly better than Oil, and we could be running 100% on Nuclear Power and electric vehicles powered by said energy if it weren't for this tree huggers. Follow the money.
Damn, Damn, damn. Posting to undo the redundant mod. I meant to mod you Insightful.
Sorry, I need to get some sleep.
Your comment is absolutely stupid.
You attack the FSF for no reason whatsoever. Since when is code-signing GPL-incompatible? What's incompatible is DRM. You don't need DRM to sign your code. All distros sign their code, that's what GPG is for, it's external to the actual app, and it's not in violation of the GPL.
The problem is that Apple wants to control everything. Not any FSF-related issue.
BTW: Nothing in the Android Market is in violation of the GPL. The remote kill switch and the TOS are compliant, and most importantly, you can override them (You can install anything you want, outside the market or otherwise). Some specific manufacturers do break the GPL, but not google.
There's a difference between "not accurate" and ridiculous bullshit.
In computer scenes, inaccurate would be someone doing:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 200.147.31.255
route add default gw 10.0.0.1
ssh -p128234 root@200.43.20.125
That is inaccurate, and filled with errors (there's no way you could reach that destination through that gw with that IP/mask, and the port is above 65535). What we get in movies is not inaccurate, it's ridiculous.
What we get in movies is the equivalent of dr house sticking a catheter down someones ass and injecting 120 tons of aspirin directly into the skull with a thermometer to cure cancer, Then replacing 100% of the patient's blood with apple juice using a syringe and a bucket to trick the cancer fungus into transforming into a bacteria, then metaphysically leave the body.
I'll tell you what's useful in disaster situations:
Food, and water. You exchange some food and water for the third essential element in life: Blowjobs.
Wow, that's one early piece of malware ;)
Responsibility?
It's 22 idiots fighting over a piece of leather. It's the definition of irrelevant. Using a computer for it would be a waste.
Not only are you a douchebag, you also like shitty music. I'm not surprised.
Well, answering with a little more style than your stupid teenagers band, here's how I feel about you: http://www.lyricsdepot.com/slayer/threshold.html
What the fuck are you talking about?, and why does everyone consider torvalds so relevant? He just wrote a small part of a kernel. A few tens of megabytes of code, out of a system that is orders of magnitude larger.
I just checked, You are right. I watched that Hicks routine again, his actual words where: ""If guys were all flexible enough to blow themselves all you ladies here tonight would be here by yourselves... watching an empty stage."
Carlin said: "If I could do that, I'd never leave the house!" In his Cats and Dogs routine (Talking about his dog licking his own cock).
I'm sure Stanhope said something about this too, but it was probably a lot more graphical and it somehow included midgets ;)
Congratulations sir, this is the awesomest post ever.
Take into account too the fact that the father of GNU and the entire Free Software movement is a raging Atheist.
Dude, I hate Apple. I hate their business practices, their monopolistic intentions, their use and abuse of Free Software while pretending to be friendly with it, it's censorship, and the religious following of its fans. Probably the last factor is the worst, I sincerely agree with your signature, and, while I'm an Atheist and anti-religion, I'm not only against religions with invisible guys in the sky. Religious-like behavior is just as dangerous as organized religion. Apple's followers have faith, and that is disturbing. Faith is the poor cousing of reasoning, and drives people to do some really awful things.
That aside, you are underestimating Apple. Sadly, hardware manufacturers just plain don't get it. I spent all night working on a custom firmware for a tc8902-based android tablet. I own a small software development company in Argentina, and we are importing a decent amount of tablets from China. I've seen them all. I estimate there are at least 40 different tablets being made in China right now (I know thousands are reported, but many are just identical designs being made by different manufacturers with slightly different cases. I've tried them all. Each has its upsides, but none of them quite nail it. You have a beautiful aluminum tablet like the wopad, with an awesome capacitive multitouch screen, and a crippled chipset like the rk2808 that only runs android up to Froyo because the company refuses to release OMX driver's source so we can port Ginger or HC onto it. Then you have this Telechips I'm currently working on, that is awesome in every sense, but I can't port anything better than Eclair onto it because Telechips has been ignoring the GPL for years, and they seemed to comply in Dec 2010, but the source they released doesn't generate a working kernel, and it's missing big chunks of code, they also refuse to release OMX drivers. Then you have an incredible 10'' tablet with an awesome capacitive screen, 512 of RAM, a samsung chipset that runs at 1.1Ghz, and overally hardware very similar but actually better than the ipad1, but it comes in a cheap plastic casing with a crippled froyo install and the battery sucks badly. How can they manage to fuck up an awesome product like that? Well, they are all screwing it. The Xoom is awesome, also, more expensive than the ipand, and I haven't seen any source code from motorola either. So, don't underestimate Apple. They are getting right everything the rest are getting wrong, while having the very same closed attitude the rest of the manufacturers have. I care about freedom, so I don't buy their products. Most people don't care at all, and if they don't buy apple is because they can't afford it.
>>> We should ideally just pass a law that compiled code isn't protected under copyright law unless the source code is available to anyone who purchases the product of course, i.e. mandate open source licenses. Good luck! lol
I've been saying that for years. The default position is no copyright protection. Do you want copyright protection? Ok, you have to release source code. You can have either drm-like protection on closed source, or legal protection from the state. Choose one. If you want, you can opt-out of copyright protection, and then you are free to do whatever you want. If you want legal protection, be a good citizen and release your source under certain licenses, and after a reasonable period (5 years) it goes straight into the gpl. Of course, it ain't gonna happen.