Richard M. Stallman: "Some who favored this term (open source) aimed to avoid the confusion of 'free' with 'gratis' - a valid goal. Others, however, aimed to set aside the spirit of principle that had motivated the free software movement and the GNU project, and to appeal instead to executives and business users, many of whom hold an ideology that places profit above freedom, above community, above principle. Thus, the rhetoric of 'open source' focuses on the potential to make high-quality, powerful software, but shuns the ideas of freedom, community, and principle."
Evidently Stallman considers "executives and business users" to be despicable creatures.
This kind of rhetoric is exactly what prevented "free" software from being accepted by the non-technical bureaucrats who, unfortunately, make most of the IT decisions in corporations and governments.
The name change to "open source" software has helped distance it from Stallman's social engineering aspirations, which is why open source is finally making inroads into traditional commercial software venues.
The term "free software," thanks to RMS's rhetoric, hase been viewed by many as the digitial equivalent of the Communist Manifesto.
The term "open source software" sheds that baggage.
Now that it takes less than 5 minutes connected to the Internet for a Windows box to be hijacked, I have gone back to dual-booting Linux with Windows 98 SE.
I would presume that virtual machines implemented on the hardware would be faster than virtual machines implemented in software but, other than the speed issue, is there anything different about this than running multiple operating systems with VMWare?
You don't buy computer hardware because of its architecture. You buy it for the software it will run.
Linux runs just about any sort of application you could desire, it's free (as in speech, not as in beer), but businesses have to buy hardware and hire IT people to run it.
IBM used to give the software away for free to get people to buy the iron.
I don't recall ANY stories about widespread election machine problems when Clinton won, or Bush 41, or The Great Communicator, or Jimmy, or Nixon... but gosh, here come the electronic closed systems, and all of a sudden there are large reports of irregularities?
Calling people douchebags is a sign of intelligence.
"Look, I know you've already conceded, but I've been talking to some folks in Florida and they think they can find enough extra votes down there to give you the state in a recount."
"Just a recount in Volusia, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties, though."
"If it goes statewide our people will be spread too thin to keep things under control."
"Do you want to give it a try? At this point you've got nothing to lose."
"That's great, Al. I'll give 'em a call and we'll get this show on the road."
"Call Bush right away to let him know you've changed your mind."
"On second thought, call a press conference first."
Doesn't the fact that everybody is so concerned that Kerry lost show that maybe the wrong person won. Or there is enough doubt that the election was fairly won that serious investigaitons are not without merrit.
No, all it shows is that the losers are sore losers.
"Look,
I know you've already conceded, but I've been talking to some folks in
Florida and they think they can find enough extra votes down there to
give you the state in a recount."
"Just a recount in Volusia, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties, though."
"If it goes statewide our people will be spread too thin to keep things under control."
"Do you want to give it a try? At this point you've got nothing to lose."
"That's great, Al. I'll give 'em a call and we'll get this show on the road."
"Call Bush right away to let him know you've changed your mind."
"On second thought, call a press conference first."
When one controls for these factors, the association between electronic voting and increased support for President Bush is impossible to overlook. The data show with 99.0% certainty that a county s use of electronic voting is associated with a disproportionate increase in votes for President Bush.
Would we be concerned about any of this if John Fraud Kerry had won?
I have no doubt that it is advantageous to you as a vendor, but I utterly fail to see the advantage to me as a buyer, and I see lots of disadvanteges, primarily the disadvantage that you can defraud me and I have little recourse other than to beg PayPal to give me my money back.
With credit cards the burden of proof is on the vendor. With PayPal the burden of proof is on the purchaser.
...the need for PayPal, other than as a means for vendors that VISA/MC won't have to sell things to customers in a manner that prevents those customers from having any recourse for fraud and defective merchandise.
If a company won't take my credit card, I don't purchase their merchandise, period.
In general, I'm reasonably impressed with the UN -- I'd say that it's one of the greater diplomatic achievements the world has ever seen.
In general, I'm reasonably convinced that the UN is a den of corrupt thieves - theirs is one of the greater abuses of diplomatic immunity the world has ever seen.
Saddam Hussein would have fallen from power long ago and Gulf War II never occurred had Kofi and Company not taken billions of dollars in bribes in return for helping Saddam circumvent the trade sanctions imposed by the UN itself against Iraq after Gulf War I.
...resolved (or at least acknowledged by the mainstream press), giving the UN any more power or legitimacy is out of the question.
Saddam Hussein would have fallen from power long ago and the Iraq war never occurred had Kofi and Company not taken billions of dollars in bribes in return for helping Saddam circumvent the trade sanctions levied against Iraq after Gulf War I.
Just because their intentions at a certain point in time were justified and important does not mean that they have to be held up today... Just because their intentions at a certain point in time were justified and important does not mean that they have to be held up today.
Evolution is one thing, rigging the rules in your favor is another.
The situation is as follows: the political party that ran this country for forty years but is now on the losing side wants to change the rules so they can win.
The political part that is now on the winning side lived by the old rules all the years it was out of power without trying to change them.
I don't want a party of whining crybabies back in charge. I don't want the rules changed just because the other side wants to rig the game in their favor.
HOW GEORGE BUSH STOLE THE ELECTION
"Al, this is David Boies. I apologize for calling so late, but this won't wait."
"Look,
I know you've already conceded, but I've been talking to some folks in
Florida and they think they can find enough extra votes down there to
give you the state in a recount."
"Just a recount in Volusia, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties, though."
"If it goes statewide our people will be spread too thin to keep things under control."
"Do you want to give it a try? At this point you've got nothing to lose."
"That's great, Al. I'll give 'em a call and we'll get this show on the road."
"Call Bush right away to let him know you've changed your mind."
"On second thought, call a press conference first."
Democracy is exactly what the founders sought to avoid when they framed the Constitution.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
A democracy is eternally threatened by the power of stupid people in large numbers.
Our form of government is a "representative republic," in which all of the citizens choose a few of their fellow citizens to represent them in the legislature. These representatives are able to make more informed decisions than the mob rule that is democracy.
The name of our country is the "United States." When the United States was formed from the original thirteen colonies, each of these colonies intended to maintain their own autonomy and internal governments.
Each state in the union was intended to be a sovereign governmental entity. The centralized powers of the common federal government binding these united states was intended to be limited to powers specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
In other words, the citizens of the United States federal government are the individual states. It is they who are voting for a President, not the individual citizens of the federation.
That's why most states have a "winner take all" policy for their electoral votes.
The last thing on earth the founders intended was "one voter, one vote," because that is democratic mob rule.
"Al, this is David Boies. I apologize for calling so late, but this won't wait."
"Look,
I know you've already conceded, but I've been talking to some folks in
Florida and they think they can find enough extra votes down there to
give you the state in a recount."
"Just a recount in Volusia, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties, though."
"If it goes statewide our people will be spread too thin to keep things under control."
"Do you want to give it a try? At this point you've got nothing to lose."
"That's great, Al. I'll give 'em a call and we'll get this show on the road."
"Call Bush right away to let him know you've changed your mind."
"On second thought, call a press conference first."
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Evidently Stallman considers "executives and business users" to be despicable creatures.
This kind of rhetoric is exactly what prevented "free" software from being accepted by the non-technical bureaucrats who, unfortunately, make most of the IT decisions in corporations and governments.
The name change to "open source" software has helped distance it from Stallman's social engineering aspirations, which is why open source is finally making inroads into traditional commercial software venues.
The term "free software," thanks to RMS's rhetoric, hase been viewed by many as the digitial equivalent of the Communist Manifesto.
The term "open source software" sheds that baggage.
That's all I need to know.
...should finally live again when I install Knoppix to the hard drive.
I only got the NVidia drivers installed right one time, and I could never do it right again.
It's actually pretty cool to have the acclerated video drivers install this easily.
Now that it takes less than 5 minutes connected to the Internet for a Windows box to be hijacked, I have gone back to dual-booting Linux with Windows 98 SE.
A lot of Windows viruses simply won't run on it.
All I need is Office, so it's good enough.
I would presume that virtual machines implemented on the hardware would be faster than virtual machines implemented in software but, other than the speed issue, is there anything different about this than running multiple operating systems with VMWare?
...if he wastes his epicurean credentials on crap like this.
What's next? Wolfgang Puck potted meat product?
IBM said it first, but it's still true today.
You don't buy computer hardware because of its architecture. You buy it for the software it will run.
Linux runs just about any sort of application you could desire, it's free (as in speech, not as in beer), but businesses have to buy hardware and hire IT people to run it.
IBM used to give the software away for free to get people to buy the iron.
The more things change...
If you flip it 45,500 times there is a 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999% chance.
My math is at least as accurate as the math of this articles' author.
This translates into a 1 in 45,500 chance of humans being wiped out in any given year, or a 100% chance in 45,500 years.
Homo sapiens has been around a lot longer than 45,500 years.
Why aren't we extinct yet?
What about a software-based keyboard logger?
Calling people douchebags is a sign of intelligence.
HOW GEORGE BUSH STOLE ELECTION 2000
"Al, this is David Boies of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, America's richest trial lawyers. I apologize for calling so late, but this won't wait."
"Look,
I know you've already conceded, but I've been talking to some folks in
Florida and they think they can find enough extra votes down there to
give you the state in a recount."
"Just a recount in Volusia, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties, though."
"If it goes statewide our people will be spread too thin to keep things under control."
"Do you want to give it a try? At this point you've got nothing to lose."
"That's great, Al. I'll give 'em a call and we'll get this show on the road."
"Call Bush right away to let him know you've changed your mind."
"On second thought, call a press conference first."
"Talk to you later, Mr. President."
No, all it shows is that the losers are sore losers.
Again
HOW GEORGE BUSH STOLE ELECTION 2000
"Al, this is David Boies of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, America's richest trial lawyers. I apologize for calling so late, but this won't wait."
"Look, I know you've already conceded, but I've been talking to some folks in Florida and they think they can find enough extra votes down there to give you the state in a recount."
"Just a recount in Volusia, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties, though."
"If it goes statewide our people will be spread too thin to keep things under control."
"Do you want to give it a try? At this point you've got nothing to lose."
"That's great, Al. I'll give 'em a call and we'll get this show on the road."
"Call Bush right away to let him know you've changed your mind."
"On second thought, call a press conference first."
"Talk to you later, Mr. President."
Would we be concerned about any of this if John Fraud Kerry had won?
I think not.
...version of this (smart card)?"
The Smart Card Simulator
...have a lot more to do with any perceived "global warming" that might be occurring than greenhouse gases.
The recent 60 years of increased sun activity are the greatest period of such activity in the last 8,000 years.
Furthermore, the data upon which Kyoto is based has been proven to be statistically fraudulent.
The fact that Kyoto is based upon fraudulent data should be troubling to anyone without some unspoken agenda.
"Love the ignorance. Just love it. You are aware that transactions can be made through PayPal actually using credit cards?"
You are aware that credit card companies will not get involved in disputes involving PayPal?
In other words, even if you use your credit card, you have no recourse through the credit card company.
Ignorance appears to be a two-way street.
I have no doubt that it is advantageous to you as a vendor, but I utterly fail to see the advantage to me as a buyer, and I see lots of disadvanteges, primarily the disadvantage that you can defraud me and I have little recourse other than to beg PayPal to give me my money back.
With credit cards the burden of proof is on the vendor. With PayPal the burden of proof is on the purchaser.
I will keep my advantage, thank you.
If a company won't take my credit card, I don't purchase their merchandise, period.
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In general, I'm reasonably convinced that the UN is a den of corrupt thieves - theirs is one of the greater abuses of diplomatic immunity the world has ever seen.
Saddam Hussein would have fallen from power long ago and Gulf War II never occurred had Kofi and Company not taken billions of dollars in bribes in return for helping Saddam circumvent the trade sanctions imposed by the UN itself against Iraq after Gulf War I.
United Nations Oil for Food Scandal [google.com].
Saddam Hussein would have fallen from power long ago and the Iraq war never occurred had Kofi and Company not taken billions of dollars in bribes in return for helping Saddam circumvent the trade sanctions levied against Iraq after Gulf War I.
United Nations Oil for Food Scandal.
Evolution is one thing, rigging the rules in your favor is another.
The situation is as follows: the political party that ran this country for forty years but is now on the losing side wants to change the rules so they can win.
The political part that is now on the winning side lived by the old rules all the years it was out of power without trying to change them.
I don't want a party of whining crybabies back in charge. I don't want the rules changed just because the other side wants to rig the game in their favor.
HOW GEORGE BUSH STOLE THE ELECTION
"Al, this is David Boies. I apologize for calling so late, but this won't wait."
"Look, I know you've already conceded, but I've been talking to some folks in Florida and they think they can find enough extra votes down there to give you the state in a recount."
"Just a recount in Volusia, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties, though."
"If it goes statewide our people will be spread too thin to keep things under control."
"Do you want to give it a try? At this point you've got nothing to lose."
"That's great, Al. I'll give 'em a call and we'll get this show on the road."
"Call Bush right away to let him know you've changed your mind."
"On second thought, call a press conference first."
"Talk to you later, Mr. President."
Democracy is exactly what the founders sought to avoid when they framed the Constitution.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
A democracy is eternally threatened by the power of stupid people in large numbers.
Our form of government is a "representative republic," in which all of the citizens choose a few of their fellow citizens to represent them in the legislature. These representatives are able to make more informed decisions than the mob rule that is democracy.
The name of our country is the "United States." When the United States was formed from the original thirteen colonies, each of these colonies intended to maintain their own autonomy and internal governments.
Each state in the union was intended to be a sovereign governmental entity. The centralized powers of the common federal government binding these united states was intended to be limited to powers specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
In other words, the citizens of the United States federal government are the individual states. It is they who are voting for a President, not the individual citizens of the federation.
That's why most states have a "winner take all" policy for their electoral votes.
The last thing on earth the founders intended was "one voter, one vote," because that is democratic mob rule.
"Al, this is David Boies. I apologize for calling so late, but this won't wait."
"Look, I know you've already conceded, but I've been talking to some folks in Florida and they think they can find enough extra votes down there to give you the state in a recount."
"Just a recount in Volusia, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties, though."
"If it goes statewide our people will be spread too thin to keep things under control."
"Do you want to give it a try? At this point you've got nothing to lose."
"That's great, Al. I'll give 'em a call and we'll get this show on the road."
"Call Bush right away to let him know you've changed your mind."
"On second thought, call a press conference first."
"Talk to you later, Mr. President."