Well, I've read the constitution, and it is amazing that it's held this long. And I didn't say it was at the rate of tyranny yet--but it does seem to be coming dangerously close with things like the PATRIOT act(which needs to be taken to court, to prevent such a thing from going any further--let's just hope that Bush doesn't take over the courts too). Censorship seems to be winning out in America--just look at any/. story about violent video games or porn. The CDA(which was overturned, thank $DEITY) contained a provision to ban debates on abortion.(see http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/CDA.html) I wouldn't be surprised if the Republican government tried that again--now that Republicans in specific, and pro-censorship politicians in general, control all three branches of government(making a judicial overturn much harder), freedom-lovers need to be twice as vigilant as before. Yes, there are many, many governments much worse, but acting like the US is immune to becoming like that is helping the US become like that. I know it's cliché, but "The only thing needed for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
I'd suspect that the Muslim practice of considering Arabic Qur'ans holy didn't do anything. Because the meanings of words can change within a language. Ancient Arabic is probably about as close to Modern Arabic as Latin is to Italian.
Getting stuff free may be a major boon of Open Source, but it isn't the main goal. The main goal is freedom. And for your next question:
Which will I still be able to read in 50 years? Most certainly the latter, because the spec will always be here, and even if it isn't, we'll still have the source for the code which, although probably not as good as a real spec, could possibly be some sort of good documentation. Where's the open spec for Word Documents? Here's what I'd imagine for reading a modern Word Document in 50 years:
"You want to open a Word 2000 document? Sorry, support for that was removed in Word 2025. And good luck finding any emulator that can run any old versions of Word!"
If the states around you seceded, you'd probably secede. Especially during or before a possible war. Read: North Carolina(which is actually where I live) during the Civil War(which is a misnomer, but that's another story).
Although I think CyricZ's scenario is actually referring to the entire US collapsing, since that's what would happen if the liberal states plus the South left. The remaining states would probably not be able to hold themselves together.
Oh, and I'd say that the US government is quickly turning into what the Founding Fathers said to overthrow.
You know, when MSN blocked "freedom" and "democracy" on their Spaces or whatever it's called, it reminded me in an event in a game called NationStates. Although a full discussion of the events is beyond the scope of the post(Here is a discussion on what happened, in a NationStates-related wiki), the basic gist of the situation is that the dictator used Invision's word replacement to replace, for example, "democracy" with "subversive oligarchy". To get around this, things like "d e m o c r a c y" or "demokracy"(I remember an earlier post on/. about some set of Chinese characters that look almost exactly like their word for "democracy" and could probably be used similarly to the slightly-more-phonetic "demokracy") were used in the forum with those wordfilters on(although, I had detected but never used a way to get around the word filters by sticking a URL tag in there--something similar could probably be done for the Spaces site). Although a search for "d e m o c r a c y" might not be very useful, "demokracy"(or its Chinese equivelant) would. Do you get what I'm saying?
This is the US Government Test for seeing if a nation is our friend or not:
Is the nation's leader anti-communist?
If yes, the nation is probably our friend.
If no, go to next question.
Does the nation allow US Corporations to help them exploit their citizens?
If yes, it is definitely our friend.
If no, then they are our evil commie terrorist enemy, and must be destroyed in the name of FREEDOM(of US corporations to make as much money as possible) and DEMOCRACY(of US corporations to decide on what the government should do).
If you want good i18n, use Python. Ruby will never support Unicode, because Matz is Japanese and the Japanese are on a holy war against Unicode or something.
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Well, I've read the constitution, and it is amazing that it's held this long. And I didn't say it was at the rate of tyranny yet--but it does seem to be coming dangerously close with things like the PATRIOT act(which needs to be taken to court, to prevent such a thing from going any further--let's just hope that Bush doesn't take over the courts too). Censorship seems to be winning out in America--just look at any /. story about violent video games or porn. The CDA(which was overturned, thank $DEITY) contained a provision to ban debates on abortion.(see http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/CDA.html) I wouldn't be surprised if the Republican government tried that again--now that Republicans in specific, and pro-censorship politicians in general, control all three branches of government(making a judicial overturn much harder), freedom-lovers need to be twice as vigilant as before. Yes, there are many, many governments much worse, but acting like the US is immune to becoming like that is helping the US become like that. I know it's cliché, but "The only thing needed for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
I'd suspect that the Muslim practice of considering Arabic Qur'ans holy didn't do anything. Because the meanings of words can change within a language. Ancient Arabic is probably about as close to Modern Arabic as Latin is to Italian.
Getting stuff free may be a major boon of Open Source, but it isn't the main goal. The main goal is freedom. And for your next question:
Which will I still be able to read in 50 years? Most certainly the latter, because the spec will always be here, and even if it isn't, we'll still have the source for the code which, although probably not as good as a real spec, could possibly be some sort of good documentation. Where's the open spec for Word Documents? Here's what I'd imagine for reading a modern Word Document in 50 years:
"You want to open a Word 2000 document? Sorry, support for that was removed in Word 2025. And good luck finding any emulator that can run any old versions of Word!"
If the states around you seceded, you'd probably secede. Especially during or before a possible war. Read: North Carolina(which is actually where I live) during the Civil War(which is a misnomer, but that's another story).
Although I think CyricZ's scenario is actually referring to the entire US collapsing, since that's what would happen if the liberal states plus the South left. The remaining states would probably not be able to hold themselves together.
Oh, and I'd say that the US government is quickly turning into what the Founding Fathers said to overthrow.
I'd vote for him if he told me how he gets +4 or +5 on just about every one of his posts.
You know, when MSN blocked "freedom" and "democracy" on their Spaces or whatever it's called, it reminded me in an event in a game called NationStates. Although a full discussion of the events is beyond the scope of the post(Here is a discussion on what happened, in a NationStates-related wiki), the basic gist of the situation is that the dictator used Invision's word replacement to replace, for example, "democracy" with "subversive oligarchy". To get around this, things like "d e m o c r a c y" or "demokracy"(I remember an earlier post on /. about some set of Chinese characters that look almost exactly like their word for "democracy" and could probably be used similarly to the slightly-more-phonetic "demokracy") were used in the forum with those wordfilters on(although, I had detected but never used a way to get around the word filters by sticking a URL tag in there--something similar could probably be done for the Spaces site). Although a search for "d e m o c r a c y" might not be very useful, "demokracy"(or its Chinese equivelant) would. Do you get what I'm saying?
No, here we kowtow to the media.
I agree with you completely. I also know a language which has kept the core clean since its creation decades ago: Scheme.
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This is the US Government Test for seeing if a nation is our friend or not:
Is the nation's leader anti-communist?
If yes, the nation is probably our friend.
If no, go to next question.
Does the nation allow US Corporations to help them exploit their citizens?
If yes, it is definitely our friend.
If no, then they are our evil commie terrorist enemy, and must be destroyed in the name of FREEDOM(of US corporations to make as much money as possible) and DEMOCRACY(of US corporations to decide on what the government should do).
If you want good i18n, use Python. Ruby will never support Unicode, because Matz is Japanese and the Japanese are on a holy war against Unicode or something.
I moved quite easily from Redhat to Gentoo. Probably easier than moving between BSDs.
It's just as accurate as GGP's description of doing it on Linux...
John Dvorak has nothing to do with August Dvorak or that other Dvorak. So stop slandering the other two--and by the way, Dvorak was Czech.
That would be if you ported the Windows GUI to OSX...oh wait, it's already been done? Nevermind.
That sounds like a good idea, but as you said, there's probably problems with how that would work in the Real World.
Dude, that was just a pic of a snake in a toilet...
I'd suggest looking on the c2 wiki for info:
This should be it
Now, now, just because Ruby's block syntax looks like VB's doesn't mean it deserves to be compared to VB...
Does The Chekt use Skypke?
I said use less, not AOL... :P
The only secure web browser is less...
Google's bought quite a bit. Read: Keyhole, Blogger.
I was thinking of the exact same song. Although it probably won't be long enough for the trip...
She broke the radio with the board of education...