This isn't always the case...If someone looks for, say, ebooks on programming C/C++, downloads twenty results, then reads them one at a time, a corrupted or false one could remain in their shared folder for weeks.
If they don't want to come in through the "golden door" instead of the "golden window", they can stay the hell out. Even when the statue was erected, immigrants had to come in through Ellis Island or another immigration center.
Your post reminds me of a short story I read about the Inquisition...Jesus gets condemned by the Inquisitors because they feel he's doing more harm than good to Christianity. In case you misread this, I'm not equating RMS to Jesus as a person (especially since the former's an atheist). I'm saying that since the "cause" either wouldn't exist or wouldn't have gotten started until much later without him, denouncing RMS so completely is a bit shortsighted.
Actually, "Overrated" and "Underrated" moderations can't be metamoderated. A lot of people with mod points have recognized this and are exploiting it...I think making a rule that a post had to be at a score of two or less to be "Underrated" and two or more to be "Overrated" would help fix this.
I also think it would be nifty if a moderator could add a comment, visible to the original poster and metamoderators, to explain why a particular post was marked a certain way. Allowing, or even requiring, this would force people to really think things through before they turn down someone's volume or give them an amplifier.
Some do it for moral reasons (they believe X company 's practices are immoral or, in some cases, that proprietary software itself is), some do it for an ego trip, and some are just pained by seeing what they regard as inefficiency.
People thought they were sticking it to the evil conservative Man or something. Or they were just really, really bored. Most gays I know fucking hated it.
Not really. There wouldn't have been much of a need for those to exist in their present incarnations, so the fact that they wouldn't exist doesn't really matter.
You missed his whole point. He was claiming that the value of a nation isn't decided by its government, but by its people, and that the people of a nation generally (with a small number of exceptions) prefer the people and customs of their home nation to others.
You've cited reasons that the US government wouldn't be the best for some people, and you're right. The US nation/people, however, is something else entirely.
"The most dangerous user isn't the uninformed one though. The most dangerous user is the one who knows just enough to be dangerous. They will give themselves Admin rights using a disk freely available on the internet and then try to change things that they shouldn't. By the time I get the computer it is a real mess and they know enough to plead ignorance. Those ones really torque me."
It's even worse when they try to give you "advice". Someone's told them that they can get spyware when they download things for free, so they keep warning you that those "Firefox" and "Gaim" things you run are probably messing up your computer.
Better yet, you recommend Firefox to them and they come to you later bitching that it gave them spyware... only to admit under pressure that, yes, they did download some games recently for their kids off of that KaZaA thing...
This is more like car owners being confused by "steering wheel", "engine", and "bird shit on the windshield". The so-called "geek terms" in the article are being used by a huge number of casual internet users (seriously, they don't recognize SPAM?!).
It gets pretty close to that fairly often, sadly. People get so set in the idea that they "can't learn anything about computers" that they forcibly reject and refuse to learn even some of the most basic terms...
What really annoys me about this article is that it claims words like "spam" and "spyware" are esoteric, geek-only terms. Joes and Jills are going to read that, and start automatically associating anything involving those words with things that are "too complicated" for them. So much for actually educating them, then.
"However, even the GPL uses the copyright law to give RMSs terms and conditions teeth. And if you defend RMSs right to use the law to protect his own right as a copyright holder, then you have to defend Metallica's same right."
The GPL is meant to use copyright law's own powers to attack it. If copyright law, or at least copyright law as it pertains to software, were gone, it wouldn't need those "teeth".
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This isn't always the case...If someone looks for, say, ebooks on programming C/C++, downloads twenty results, then reads them one at a time, a corrupted or false one could remain in their shared folder for weeks.
The GPL is a WEAPON to DESTROY copyright law as it relates to software. Once that is done, it WON'T BE NEEDED.
And grammar Nazis, and hypocrites!
Speaking of which, you misspelled "zealots".
If they don't want to come in through the "golden door" instead of the "golden window", they can stay the hell out. Even when the statue was erected, immigrants had to come in through Ellis Island or another immigration center.
400 bucks buys a used car...I won't really consider these affordable until they're down to 200 or less.
Your post reminds me of a short story I read about the Inquisition...Jesus gets condemned by the Inquisitors because they feel he's doing more harm than good to Christianity. In case you misread this, I'm not equating RMS to Jesus as a person (especially since the former's an atheist). I'm saying that since the "cause" either wouldn't exist or wouldn't have gotten started until much later without him, denouncing RMS so completely is a bit shortsighted.
Actually, "Overrated" and "Underrated" moderations can't be metamoderated. A lot of people with mod points have recognized this and are exploiting it...I think making a rule that a post had to be at a score of two or less to be "Underrated" and two or more to be "Overrated" would help fix this.
I also think it would be nifty if a moderator could add a comment, visible to the original poster and metamoderators, to explain why a particular post was marked a certain way. Allowing, or even requiring, this would force people to really think things through before they turn down someone's volume or give them an amplifier.
No, Mr President, I don't think this has anything to do with the American family. Just say Movie Protection or something.
Some do it for moral reasons (they believe X company 's practices are immoral or, in some cases, that proprietary software itself is), some do it for an ego trip, and some are just pained by seeing what they regard as inefficiency.
I generally do it for a mix of the three.
People thought they were sticking it to the evil conservative Man or something. Or they were just really, really bored. Most gays I know fucking hated it.
Not really. There wouldn't have been much of a need for those to exist in their present incarnations, so the fact that they wouldn't exist doesn't really matter.
Most likely India, though the same amount of money would feed a family in Mexico for about the same length of time.
No, they were Russian...#1 in corruptski!
You missed his whole point. He was claiming that the value of a nation isn't decided by its government, but by its people, and that the people of a nation generally (with a small number of exceptions) prefer the people and customs of their home nation to others.
You've cited reasons that the US government wouldn't be the best for some people, and you're right. The US nation/people, however, is something else entirely.
I think some of them have to go through proxies (due to political censorship) to do it, but yes, many of them do.
"The most dangerous user isn't the uninformed one though. The most dangerous user is the one who knows just enough to be dangerous. They will give themselves Admin rights using a disk freely available on the internet and then try to change things that they shouldn't. By the time I get the computer it is a real mess and they know enough to plead ignorance. Those ones really torque me."
It's even worse when they try to give you "advice". Someone's told them that they can get spyware when they download things for free, so they keep warning you that those "Firefox" and "Gaim" things you run are probably messing up your computer.
Better yet, you recommend Firefox to them and they come to you later bitching that it gave them spyware... only to admit under pressure that, yes, they did download some games recently for their kids off of that KaZaA thing...
This is more like car owners being confused by "steering wheel", "engine", and "bird shit on the windshield". The so-called "geek terms" in the article are being used by a huge number of casual internet users (seriously, they don't recognize SPAM?!).
It gets pretty close to that fairly often, sadly. People get so set in the idea that they "can't learn anything about computers" that they forcibly reject and refuse to learn even some of the most basic terms...
What really annoys me about this article is that it claims words like "spam" and "spyware" are esoteric, geek-only terms. Joes and Jills are going to read that, and start automatically associating anything involving those words with things that are "too complicated" for them. So much for actually educating them, then.
I hope you're glad to be a child, taken care of by his loving parents, the State.
"As for freetype and fontconfig -- are you fucking cracked? Those are part of X.org."
x /pango.html
They're also dependencies for Pango:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/
"However, even the GPL uses the copyright law to give RMSs terms and conditions teeth. And if you defend RMSs right to use the law to protect his own right as a copyright holder, then you have to defend Metallica's same right."
The GPL is meant to use copyright law's own powers to attack it. If copyright law, or at least copyright law as it pertains to software, were gone, it wouldn't need those "teeth".
I'm familiar with that, and not just because it's in Cryptonomicon. The people I was talking to weren't Finnish...They were British.
Heh, true...but they were Brits, so they don't have an excuse.
If you skip commercials, most of the movie/tv show people already consider you a pirate.
"To ignorant Americans"
Give it a rest already. I've talked to Europeans who thought WW2 was fought against Soviet Russia.