I'm sure it escapes your inferior mind and your reasoning contaminated of religious bullshit.
Also, Nobody sold me anything. I decide I don't want any rights. I decide I'm not giving away my powers, I don't accept the stupid rules of this society, I despise your society, and won't be part of it. So, the ethical position is to reject the rights it gives me too.
But the way: Fuck you, your god, your fictional jesus, and your holy spirit bullshit.
1st: God Doesn't exist. It's an illusion t of your inferior christian mind.
2nd: A Right is something someone promises to give you if you surrender a power. To gain the right of "security" you gave the power to defend yourself. To gain the right to a fair job, you loosed the power to work. I Don't want any right, thank you very much. I will keep my powers. I Don't pay taxes, I Don't use any of the government provisions. I Don't have any rights, but I Keep all my powers. The concept of "Right" Is against Evolution.
English is my third language actually. My first one is Spanish, my second one is a dog-like language that basically uses the words suck, drink, spread and bitch, I use it mostly to communicate with your mother.
And no, no dick in my brain. I have only one dick and it's always inside your mother.
I'm the Ubermensch version of a slashdoter. Kind of a Uberslashdoter. That is, I go one step further: Slashdoters don't read the posts, I go ahead and don't even read the comments!!!
Believe me, if you go into slashdot and just ignore the articles and the comments, you will enjoy it a lot more!!!... hey... wait a second...
There are certain socially accepted stereotypes that I'm sick of.
There is a difference between making a living and bing RICH. Why artists have to be rich?? Work for it if you want more money. Nobody can ask for the right to be RICH. A different thing is asking for the right to make a living. And I think that the money the society is giving back to the *AA is MORE THAN ENOUGH to pay a decent salary to all artists. If there is an artists that is making less than whatever is required to make a decent living, or thinks he's not getting he's share of the cake, go complain to the fucking *AAs!. You created them, you supported them, well, you are the father of the monster. It now turned against you? You should have thought about it before. Millions of developers create the best software ever FOR FREE, and still make a living. They do it because they LOVE what they do. The Stallmans of this world has a lot more moral ground to call themselves artists for coding than the Hetfields for singing.
It's normal to feel sympathy for an artist we like, but that shouldn't stop us from seeing the reality: The artists keep supporting the *AAs by working with them, so The artists have the fault. They are responsible for the actions of the *AAs, so FUCK the *AA supporting artists.
Off course. You know what's the worse part? Certain parts of the community have become "politically correct", like the Mozilla Foundation, so they wouldn't join a boycott like the one I'm about to propose, but imagine this:
What would happen if the Free Software Community started to fight them with the same weapons they use?
A lot of people is already using Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin, etc.
And the counterpart of those desktop apps on the server side is even bigger, how many are running Apache, PHP, MySQL, etc? How many are using Joomla or Awstats?
If the community suddenly started to tweek the server-side apps to provide better support for Firefox for example, intentionally breaking IE, we would see TONS of people switching to Firefox.
Also, how many developers use PHP+MySQL but develop on Windows? What if the community decided to move on developing new versions of PHP only for Unix? How many would switch?
I know that means war. So what?
But it's not going to happen. It's sad when you see things like MySQL (now a property of Sun), a company that is where it is right now thanks to the GNU Project, releasing it's workbench as a windows only app dependant on.NET!!!!!
What you are proposing is beautifully utopic, but shows a serious lack of knowledge of how an operating system or an executable format works. Take any two ELF executables compiled on a modern GNU/Linux system. Even more, this two executables are the same software, exactly the same code compiled one on Slackware and the other on Debian. Most likely, one won't work on the other one. The reasons are many, but even if you have mostly the same libraries, just the fact that the version of gcc used to compile the libc on both systems isn't the same prevent each file from running on the other system.
It's impossible to have native code running on two different operating systems for many reasons (Because it's commercially and politically impossible to get all OSs to cooperate, Because technically it's by itself a challenge, and because it would mean to rewrite most of the code we use right now)
But if a given codebase compiles cleanly on two different platforms, providing binaries for each, even for closed source software, is a non-issue. Once you have a software that runs on GNU/Linux, if it's well written, is usually trivial to port it to any other Unix system. The problem is Operating System design. This is no different from the IE Vs. Mozilla situation. Consider any compatibility issue: Usually ALL OF THE CHOICES are compatible with each other except for microsoft.
POSIX is not something Unix-specific. It's a BLOODY IEEE STANDARD. Actually, it's predecessor, IEEE-X, fucking predates Windows.
Take the case of HTML, We have 4 main engines: Opera, Gecko, Konqueror, and IE. The only incompatible bitch is IE. And there is an actual Industry standard, ms just chooses not to follow it.
The same happens in virtually every field of computing.
So, EVERY modern operating system is POSIX compliant, except for windows. It's usually trivial to port applications between different systems if they comply with standards. And the standard IS POSIX.
So, stop talking about m$. This is not a case of part of the industry wants this and another part wants that. It's a case of THERE ARE INDUSTRY STANDARDS, and MICROSOFT doesn't follow them.
Solution: Stop Using Microsoft Products. If you really think about it, we are not that far away, the transition will be hard, but people is starting to be aware of this, and people is starting to defend their rights (Take, for example, the big NO to their XML Document format).
This is not the first time that a company rules the market and tries to fight competitors with technical measures, but history shows that they eventually open up the market or disappear.
Being a hardcore MySQL user, having used it and promoted it to every customer I ever had, and every company I worked for, even when it didn't had all the advanced features that it has now (I'm talking about pre V3 versions) And Being also a longtime user of DBDesigner and longtime user too of the MySQL GUI Tools (I use them since they were in the first beta stages) I have to say I'm very disappointed with the work MySQL has done with the binding of MySQL GUI Tools with DBDesigner creating the first branch of the workbench, that never worked well in Unix, and was a nightmare to compile. Then, accepting that it was an ugly hack that couldn't be fixed and starting a new Branch that is windows-only and depends on Microsoft technologies!!, promising a Unix version with no specific date of release, almost 2 years after the windows version is working just fine, and just ignoring users on the forums asking about trying WINE to run it on Unix. A Software that got where it's right now thanks to the GNU Project. MySQL fully depends on GNU to exist, even on Windows (Starting with GCC, but it goes way beyond just the compiler). They also where they are because of the support that the community gave them, promoting and contributing code and bug fixes/reports. Providing binding to other Free Software like PHP/Perl etc. They are what they are thanks to GNU. And now, since a lot of windows-dependant pseudo coders that only know VB and can write crappy PHP or use proprietary code generators in their XP boxes upload their low quality code to Unix-based hosting providers, They decide that it's a priority to support this tools on Windows, so they won't loose the big RAD market arround PHP/MySQL (And I'm not talking about serious RAD for Real programmers that are sick of wasting time on simple backends, websites, and other simple, repetitive DB driven app, I'm talking about all the guys out there with no knowledge, but a lot of marketing and cheap prices that keep lowering the bar for code quality, and that Can't write code without their graphic DB Designers, their GUI-driven code generators like codecharge, and that keep flooding the web with crap like flash, ASP, activex, IE specific code, frontpage or dreamweaver pages, and other kind of crap that eventually force the real coders and real admins to fight and hack arround it to keep them working because management believes in the cheap well-sold pseudo-programmers because their IQ and knowledge is closer to the management stuff) So they go sell whatever the market is asking for and forgot of the guys that are actually supporting their business. Imagine, MySQL, what would happend if all Free Software applications decided to drop MySQL support and start backing up PostgreSQL instead? Imagine no PHP, no PHPMyAadmin, no asterisk, no CMS systems like Mambo, etc, etc. Even worse, Distros not including packages of mysql anymore. No free code contributed by the community. No bug fixes. And to top it all, if someone found a bug would release a 0 day exploit instead of a bug fix. You would be out of business in no time. Instead, you forget about the people that helped you, and release your tools only for a platform that belongs to a company that is the number 1 enemy of FreeSoftware, and also competes with MySQL (or at least tries) with they shitty SQL Server?
Bad move guys.
I'm more worried about the insiders than about our enemies.
Note to self: Use preview when posted drunk or stoned (or half stoned, half drunk like right now)
I wanted to point out before going into this little rant that the atheros drivers work out of the box if you know the standard procedures of unix. The ndiswrapper option, or any of the two existing kernel modules, just modprobe and install and configure wpa_supplicant, and use the usual iwconfig or the specific wlanconfig from the madwifi package to configure the interface created.
You learned wifi on Unix, what you learned has nothing specific to the ath.
Please don't take this as an insult, I actually congratulate you for don't giving up and learning about your OS while solving an actual issue.
Anyway, my point is: If you know Unix, and have at least some specific knowledge of GNU/Linux, the atheros cards work out of the box. There are two drivers, one proprietary, the other free, both of them work like a charm if you are connecting as a client (I Haven't tried them in other modes since I have an ath chipset in the built-in wlan of my Toshiba laptop, which being a laptop is allmost allways used as a station) I know there are limitations in other modes, specially access point mode, but that's beyond the normal use of a cheap wireless card. I think you can even try to load the windows driver with ndiswrapper to get certain functionality that might not be available in the GNU/Linux drivers ( I haven't tried ath with ndiswrapper, but most drivers work with it anyway ).
So, this is the beauty of Unix: If you understand the paradigm behind the design of the system, you can use any Unix application. Even if you haven't used it before, all it takes is a quick man page read to get the specifics, the rest, you already know it all.
If to this you add certain specific knowledge about the particular implementation you are going to use, add practice and if you have a general common sense and are a logical person, with at least a normal IQ, you will feel like a fish in the water and be able to do virtually anything with your system after a year or so of using it.
If you don't have this two prerequisites, and try to start using it expecting to get things actually done the first time you try, you will be very dissapointed. If OTOH, you accept you are learning and try harder, again and again, until you get it right, you will learn A LOT, and become skilled on this stuff very quickly, like you did.
If you pretend to use the system as an end-user without learning ANYTHING about it, You can do that too, and have a great user experience, if you follow the rules that would apply in this situation to any other system.
This means:
- An end user of windows or mac buys a computer with the OS preinstalled and configured or get some tech guy to do it for them.
- An end user of windows or mac uses the functionality that is officially supported by the OS, doesn't download and install beta or experimental software, doesn't try to add complex hardware himself, and calls a tech guy to fix the computer once in a while.
The problem with this kind of endusers that refuse to learn (which is ok) is that they don't apply this rules to GNU/Linux, and so they install themselves, add beta and experimental stuff, try to get not supported hardware working, and essentially do a lot of things they don't have the lesser idea how to do properly, and then complain that things doesn't work.
I'm not saying this is your case, I'm just making a point about how something that starts with a user trying GNU/Linux and doing things beyond their current knowledge and beyond what's safe for a beginner can go the right way, proving the power of Unix and it's not so steppy learning curve (like your experience) or can end up with an asshole bitching arround in forums about things not working and then calling his son to get windows loaded on the machine again.
If you have a laptop or other device where you might use different connections, this is a good way to make sure your DNSs are not changed by different apps (I might connect using either wvdial or kppp, through EDGE/3G, or using KDE's wlan manager, simple DHCP on ethernet, etc)
Just set the immutable flag on your resolv.conf file:
There's a difference between a benevolent dictatorship and a malevolent dictatorship.
No there Isn't. A Dictatorship is SHIT. Whether it's capitalist or communist, running a country or running a family.
Good or bad are not absolute concepts. The Idea behind a dictatorship is "father knows better". If you say a good dictatorship is better than any other kind, you are just saying you are a dictator, and agree with other dictators with the same ideas you have.
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I'm sure it escapes your inferior mind and your reasoning contaminated of religious bullshit.
Also, Nobody sold me anything. I decide I don't want any rights. I decide I'm not giving away my powers, I don't accept the stupid rules of this society, I despise your society, and won't be part of it. So, the ethical position is to reject the rights it gives me too.
But the way: Fuck you, your god, your fictional jesus, and your holy spirit bullshit.
Bullshit.
1st: God Doesn't exist. It's an illusion t of your inferior christian mind.
2nd: A Right is something someone promises to give you if you surrender a power. To gain the right of "security" you gave the power to defend yourself. To gain the right to a fair job, you loosed the power to work. I Don't want any right, thank you very much. I will keep my powers. I Don't pay taxes, I Don't use any of the government provisions. I Don't have any rights, but I Keep all my powers.
The concept of "Right" Is against Evolution.
English is my third language actually. My first one is Spanish, my second one is a dog-like language that basically uses the words suck, drink, spread and bitch, I use it mostly to communicate with your mother.
And no, no dick in my brain. I have only one dick and it's always inside your mother.
Considering Your ID is even Higher than His ID, Your account is not enabled to say who is one of "us" (whatever that means).
Also, that groupthink of us and them is pure bullshit, this is a public forum and anyone can post in here.
But the fact that you post in here, doesn't turn you into a geek. BTW: There ain't not such thing as a "law geek".
Considering my UID is way lower than yours, and the amount of comments I have posted over the years, You are noone to call me 'new'.
I'm the Ubermensch version of a slashdoter. Kind of a Uberslashdoter. That is, I go one step further: Slashdoters don't read the posts, I go ahead and don't even read the comments!!!
Believe me, if you go into slashdot and just ignore the articles and the comments, you will enjoy it a lot more!!! ... hey ... wait a second ...
You are actually agreeing with what I said.
Running an old system chrooted is not an idea that can be applied for software distribution.
You can hack around it, but it's not a solution for the end user.
>>--
>>Best regards
>>Ray Beckerman
>>http://beckermanlegal.com
Are you posting this from your exchange-connected outlook or from your law office suite on your brand new vista?
Try to loose the tie before posting here, it's preventing blood from getting to your brain.
Someone has the balls to post as NewYorkCountryLawyer on Slashdot?
There are certain socially accepted stereotypes that I'm sick of.
There is a difference between making a living and bing RICH. Why artists have to be rich??
Work for it if you want more money. Nobody can ask for the right to be RICH. A different thing is asking for the right to make a living. And I think that the money the society is giving back to the *AA is MORE THAN ENOUGH to pay a decent salary to all artists. If there is an artists that is making less than whatever is required to make a decent living, or thinks he's not getting he's share of the cake, go complain to the fucking *AAs!. You created them, you supported them, well, you are the father of the monster. It now turned against you? You should have thought about it before.
Millions of developers create the best software ever FOR FREE, and still make a living. They do it because they LOVE what they do. The Stallmans of this world has a lot more moral ground to call themselves artists for coding than the Hetfields for singing.
It's normal to feel sympathy for an artist we like, but that shouldn't stop us from seeing the reality: The artists keep supporting the *AAs by working with them, so The artists have the fault. They are responsible for the actions of the *AAs, so FUCK the *AA supporting artists.
That's because you are running a binary that's either statically linked or because you are copying a lot of compatibility libraries.
Off course. You know what's the worse part?
Certain parts of the community have become "politically correct", like the Mozilla Foundation, so they wouldn't join a boycott like the one I'm about to propose, but imagine this:
What would happen if the Free Software Community started to fight them with the same weapons they use?
A lot of people is already using Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin, etc.
And the counterpart of those desktop apps on the server side is even bigger, how many are running Apache, PHP, MySQL, etc? How many are using Joomla or Awstats?
If the community suddenly started to tweek the server-side apps to provide better support for Firefox for example, intentionally breaking IE, we would see TONS of people switching to Firefox.
Also, how many developers use PHP+MySQL but develop on Windows? What if the community decided to move on developing new versions of PHP only for Unix? How many would switch?
I know that means war. So what?
But it's not going to happen. It's sad when you see things like MySQL (now a property of Sun), a company that is where it is right now thanks to the GNU Project, releasing it's workbench as a windows only app dependant on .NET!!!!!
What you are proposing is beautifully utopic, but shows a serious lack of knowledge of how an operating system or an executable format works. Take any two ELF executables compiled on a modern GNU/Linux system. Even more, this two executables are the same software, exactly the same code compiled one on Slackware and the other on Debian. Most likely, one won't work on the other one. The reasons are many, but even if you have mostly the same libraries, just the fact that the version of gcc used to compile the libc on both systems isn't the same prevent each file from running on the other system.
It's impossible to have native code running on two different operating systems for many reasons (Because it's commercially and politically impossible to get all OSs to cooperate, Because technically it's by itself a challenge, and because it would mean to rewrite most of the code we use right now)
But if a given codebase compiles cleanly on two different platforms, providing binaries for each, even for closed source software, is a non-issue. Once you have a software that runs on GNU/Linux, if it's well written, is usually trivial to port it to any other Unix system.
The problem is Operating System design.
This is no different from the IE Vs. Mozilla situation. Consider any compatibility issue: Usually ALL OF THE CHOICES are compatible with each other except for microsoft.
POSIX is not something Unix-specific. It's a BLOODY IEEE STANDARD. Actually, it's predecessor, IEEE-X, fucking predates Windows.
Take the case of HTML, We have 4 main engines: Opera, Gecko, Konqueror, and IE. The only incompatible bitch is IE. And there is an actual Industry standard, ms just chooses not to follow it.
The same happens in virtually every field of computing.
So, EVERY modern operating system is POSIX compliant, except for windows. It's usually trivial to port applications between different systems if they comply with standards. And the standard IS POSIX.
So, stop talking about m$. This is not a case of part of the industry wants this and another part wants that. It's a case of THERE ARE INDUSTRY STANDARDS, and MICROSOFT doesn't follow them.
Solution: Stop Using Microsoft Products. If you really think about it, we are not that far away, the transition will be hard, but people is starting to be aware of this, and people is starting to defend their rights (Take, for example, the big NO to their XML Document format).
This is not the first time that a company rules the market and tries to fight competitors with technical measures, but history shows that they eventually open up the market or disappear.
They'll have to either adapt, or die.
Being a hardcore MySQL user, having used it and promoted it to every customer I ever had, and every company I worked for, even when it didn't had all the advanced features that it has now (I'm talking about pre V3 versions) And Being also a longtime user of DBDesigner and longtime user too of the MySQL GUI Tools (I use them since they were in the first beta stages)
I have to say I'm very disappointed with the work MySQL has done with the binding of MySQL GUI Tools with DBDesigner creating the first branch of the workbench, that never worked well in Unix, and was a nightmare to compile. Then, accepting that it was an ugly hack that couldn't be fixed and starting a new Branch that is windows-only and depends on Microsoft technologies!!, promising a Unix version with no specific date of release, almost 2 years after the windows version is working just fine, and just ignoring users on the forums asking about trying WINE to run it on Unix. A Software that got where it's right now thanks to the GNU Project. MySQL fully depends on GNU to exist, even on Windows (Starting with GCC, but it goes way beyond just the compiler). They also where they are because of the support that the community gave them, promoting and contributing code and bug fixes/reports. Providing binding to other Free Software like PHP/Perl etc.
They are what they are thanks to GNU.
And now, since a lot of windows-dependant pseudo coders that only know VB and can write crappy PHP or use proprietary code generators in their XP boxes upload their low quality code to Unix-based hosting providers, They decide that it's a priority to support this tools on Windows, so they won't loose the big RAD market arround PHP/MySQL (And I'm not talking about serious RAD for Real programmers that are sick of wasting time on simple backends, websites, and other simple, repetitive DB driven app, I'm talking about all the guys out there with no knowledge, but a lot of marketing and cheap prices that keep lowering the bar for code quality, and that Can't write code without their graphic DB Designers, their GUI-driven code generators like codecharge, and that keep flooding the web with crap like flash, ASP, activex, IE specific code, frontpage or dreamweaver pages, and other kind of crap that eventually force the real coders and real admins to fight and hack arround it to keep them working because management believes in the cheap well-sold pseudo-programmers because their IQ and knowledge is closer to the management stuff)
So they go sell whatever the market is asking for and forgot of the guys that are actually supporting their business.
Imagine, MySQL, what would happend if all Free Software applications decided to drop MySQL support and start backing up PostgreSQL instead?
Imagine no PHP, no PHPMyAadmin, no asterisk, no CMS systems like Mambo, etc, etc.
Even worse, Distros not including packages of mysql anymore.
No free code contributed by the community.
No bug fixes.
And to top it all, if someone found a bug would release a 0 day exploit instead of a bug fix.
You would be out of business in no time.
Instead, you forget about the people that helped you, and release your tools only for a platform that belongs to a company that is the number 1 enemy of FreeSoftware, and also competes with MySQL (or at least tries) with they shitty SQL Server?
Bad move guys.
I'm more worried about the insiders than about our enemies.
Note to self: Use preview when posted drunk or stoned (or half stoned, half drunk like right now)
I wanted to point out before going into this little rant that the atheros drivers work out of the box if you know the standard procedures of unix. The ndiswrapper option, or any of the two existing kernel modules, just modprobe and install and configure wpa_supplicant, and use the usual iwconfig or the specific wlanconfig from the madwifi package to configure the interface created.
You learned wifi on Unix, what you learned has nothing specific to the ath.
Please don't take this as an insult, I actually congratulate you for don't giving up and learning about your OS while solving an actual issue.
Anyway, my point is: If you know Unix, and have at least some specific knowledge of GNU/Linux, the atheros cards work out of the box. There are two drivers, one proprietary, the other free, both of them work like a charm if you are connecting as a client (I Haven't tried them in other modes since I have an ath chipset in the built-in wlan of my Toshiba laptop, which being a laptop is allmost allways used as a station) I know there are limitations in other modes, specially access point mode, but that's beyond the normal use of a cheap wireless card.
I think you can even try to load the windows driver with ndiswrapper to get certain functionality that might not be available in the GNU/Linux drivers ( I haven't tried ath with ndiswrapper, but most drivers work with it anyway ).
So, this is the beauty of Unix: If you understand the paradigm behind the design of the system, you can use any Unix application. Even if you haven't used it before, all it takes is a quick man page read to get the specifics, the rest, you already know it all.
If to this you add certain specific knowledge about the particular implementation you are going to use, add practice and if you have a general common sense and are a logical person, with at least a normal IQ, you will feel like a fish in the water and be able to do virtually anything with your system after a year or so of using it.
If you don't have this two prerequisites, and try to start using it expecting to get things actually done the first time you try, you will be very dissapointed. If OTOH, you accept you are learning and try harder, again and again, until you get it right, you will learn A LOT, and become skilled on this stuff very quickly, like you did.
If you pretend to use the system as an end-user without learning ANYTHING about it, You can do that too, and have a great user experience, if you follow the rules that would apply in this situation to any other system.
This means:
- An end user of windows or mac buys a computer with the OS preinstalled and configured or get some tech guy to do it for them.
- An end user of windows or mac uses the functionality that is officially supported by the OS, doesn't download and install beta or experimental software, doesn't try to add complex hardware himself, and calls a tech guy to fix the computer once in a while.
The problem with this kind of endusers that refuse to learn (which is ok) is that they don't apply this rules to GNU/Linux, and so they install themselves, add beta and experimental stuff, try to get not supported hardware working, and essentially do a lot of things they don't have the lesser idea how to do properly, and then complain that things doesn't work.
I'm not saying this is your case, I'm just making a point about how something that starts with a user trying GNU/Linux and doing things beyond their current knowledge and beyond what's safe for a beginner can go the right way, proving the power of Unix and it's not so steppy learning curve (like your experience) or can end up with an asshole bitching arround in forums about things not working and then calling his son to get windows loaded on the machine again.
Off course, Like any other Christian.
Besides, there is nothing wrong with laughing at a good joke, even if it's about someones dead.
The most horrible things in life are the ones we have to learn to laugh at.
This is the best way:
on resolv.conf:
nameserver 4.2.2.1
nameserver 4.2.2.2
If you have a laptop or other device where you might use different connections, this is a good way to make sure your DNSs are not changed by different apps (I might connect using either wvdial or kppp, through EDGE/3G, or using KDE's wlan manager, simple DHCP on ethernet, etc)
Just set the immutable flag on your resolv.conf file:
chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf
If you want to make it writable again run:
chattr -i /etc/resolv.conf
I Would love to see the group of crackers follow a Lawsuit against Ubisoft!!
Now, THAT, would be Poetic Justice.
I mean, an actual population would much rather be governed by a corrupt dictator like Saddam than by a corrupt dictator like Bush.
Nothing to add to your comment, you already made my point.
There's a difference between a benevolent dictatorship and a malevolent dictatorship.
No there Isn't. A Dictatorship is SHIT. Whether it's capitalist or communist, running a country or running a family.
Good or bad are not absolute concepts. The Idea behind a dictatorship is "father knows better". If you say a good dictatorship is better than any other kind, you are just saying you are a dictator, and agree with other dictators with the same ideas you have.
Well, the original Lojacker posted that he "treated them like humans". Yes, "Like".
Considering his annal retention issues, he codes in Pascal, but only let their kids write Logos.
Man, I hate your kind.
"I treat them like humans and I talk to them like that."
You treat them like humans?? How kind of you.