I didn't say he went around advocating that no one else use web browsers.
Oh, you are one of those people like Bush - "I never claimed Sadam had WMDs" (I just mentioned WMDs in the sentence following every mention of Saddam).
if i said i didn't believe in blood transfusions, would that color your impression of any medical ethics opinions i might have?
The equivalent of what RMS said would be: "I don't take blood transfusions for personal reasons" - maybe he doesn't take them because he's concerned about getting a blood born disease (virus), maybe he's got allergies that most doctors aren't even aware of (celebrity status), etc.
lets be intellectually honest here: anyone who doesn't browse the web is completely out of touch with the main thrust of anything and everything computer related in the last 15 years
Honest? Just because the guy doesn't take the well-worn path he's out of touch? You always have been an intellectual conformist.
In fact, as he wrote, he does use the web, his browser just has a mail interface instead of a a GUI interface.
Does he like C# or not? If he doesn't, why does the FSF have their own.NET implementation? What makes theirs so special?
The FSF provides a C# compiler for people who already fucked up and wrote their code in C#, but they do not encourage people to do so from the start. As he wrote in TFA:
The problem is not in the C# implementations, but rather in Tomboy and other applications written in C#. If we lose the use of C#, we will lose them too. That doesn't make them unethical, but it means that writing them and using them is taking a gratuitous risk.
That's the point. He doesn't "have to." Every techie (possibly except him, though I doubt it) understood this years ago. By saying this now, though, he gets attention.
Apparently not EVERY techie else it wouldn't have been included into Debian in the first place.
He's saying it now because they are doing it NOW. Not because he is an attention whore.
No he doesn't. As the linked post says, he doesn't browse the web for PERSONAL REASONS. That's a completely different thing than advocating against using software that is patent bait.
The 4-year tax exemption on foreign income does not apply to income that you earn from foreign sources while you are living in NZ!
I've been trying to figure out how that exemption really works. Of what value is it really? As far as I know, people usually pay income tax on money they earn the same year they earn it. So what circumstances is that exemption really good for anyway?
Unless the crap is something stupid like holding a spinlock while waiting for a web-browser to finish transfering a file. Then what appears to be cpu bound (because of all the spinning) is actually limited by the speed of the clients and to a lesser extent, the size of the pipe to the clients.
Adults. Not children. At 13 she is not capable of reliably determining where the authority of those running the school stops. That's one of the many definitions of being a child.
Oh stop it, you were called out, now be a big boy and grow up.
Really? Lost the argument so now you just wave your hands.
You're kidding me right? Exactly which features do you think phone companies weren't offering before? Maybe you live in east bumblefuck, IA, but in modern places these things have been available for some time.
Show me how to buy even 75% of GV's features from any one of these carriers - AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint. Go ahead. Call me out big boy.
Ever think to double-check before making your claim?
As the OP I'm very confident that I did not 'tout' 'the' feature. I 'touted' plenty of features. My point still stands, you're own logic fails the consistency check.
So please, stop it. All this GV is is google offering some features you could get from a phone company for years. I'm not impressed.
Yeah, all of the features have been available from phone companies, but hardly anyone one customer has had access to all of the features from just one phone company, and never for free.
Maybe its not that they care so much about privacy that they don't care so much about piracy.
The reason the US gets so butt-hurt about piracy is because hollywood dominates the entertainment business worldwide - there are only a handful of countries were domestic movies regularly outsell hollywood productions at the box office (mostly S Korea, France, India and mainland China and some of that is helped by quota restrictions on foreign productions), and my guess is that the number is even smaller when it comes to DVDs.
Now I'm going to make a wild-ass guess that a lot of the locally produced works in Norway receive significant public funding. If true, that's also an incentive to ignore piracy because if tax dollars are paying for the creation then it isn't a big leap of logic to expect that the results are "owned" by the public too.
So, from that perspective, it seems reasonable that anti-piracy would be near the bottom of the list of government priorities in Norway (and many other countries for that matter).
The implication is in the mind of the beholder. Spouting off about "X, Y and Z" is simply pointing them out. What's really funny is that your own argument is not internally consistent. You only went jousting after X in the list. By logic just like your own, that must mean you think all the other features ARE innovative.
Every little bit has a price. Often the price is completely out of proportion to the help.
For example, you are probably itching to point out that preventing people from "watching tv" while driving has almost no cost. That's only superficially true. For one thing it promulgates the nanny culture where people don't need to think about the risks they take and instead expect the system to take care of them. In my book, that is an extremely high price because it invites a continual erosion of freedom in the name of "saving just one child."
What a worthless list. What did anything they talked about have anything to do with IT?
Totally. I want to know which cities have the best (fastest/cheapest/least-restrictive) broadband to the home and have good/free muni-wifi. Which ones have a Fry's or the like, which ones are in states with low/no sales tax and/or don't try to impose "use tax" for mail-ordered toys. Which states don't require fingerprints to get a driver's license. Which cities have a "university culture." Which ones have cheap electricity for the server farm in my basement.
Those sorts of things are a lot more specific to IT people than the weather and sports franchises.
My hope is that some enterprising company steps in and take over Clear's operations. The service is really great.
My hope is that someone knocks a little common-sense into congress and they stop wasting our tax dollars and our time on the TSA so everybody can go back to how things were before they created that cluster-fuck.
So, we should just resign ourselves to endless cycles of "get screwed,... I, for one, would rather have an organization with a government mandate that's transparent and accountable to the people,
False dichotomy. You are comparing nearly the worst case scenario of private regulation to the best case scenario of public regulation.
As someone who works contract, for very good money, that has not been my experience. My experience has been that doing a good job leads to more work, not less. Only the most out of touch management will fail to recognize the value of good work. I've yet to meet such a person despite spending a lot of time in one of the industries most widely scorned for inefficiency - defense contracts.
I would've thought Slashdot of all places wouldn't succumb to the gleeful bloat which has rendered spectacular advances in hardware almost irrelevant to the end user experience.
Indeed, this shit does not bode well for the future of slashdot. These sorts of counter-productive and superfluous web-site "upgrades" are the kind of thing that often precedes the death of a company. It's like the brains have already left the building and the company is just left running on empty until it collapses under the weight of the remaining stupidity.
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I didn't say he went around advocating that no one else use web browsers.
Oh, you are one of those people like Bush - "I never claimed Sadam had WMDs" (I just mentioned WMDs in the sentence following every mention of Saddam).
Your analogy fails.
if i said i didn't believe in blood transfusions, would that color your impression of any medical ethics opinions i might have?
The equivalent of what RMS said would be: "I don't take blood transfusions for personal reasons"
- maybe he doesn't take them because he's concerned about getting a blood born disease (virus), maybe he's got allergies that most doctors aren't even aware of (celebrity status), etc.
lets be intellectually honest here: anyone who doesn't browse the web is completely out of touch with the main thrust of anything and everything computer related in the last 15 years
Honest? Just because the guy doesn't take the well-worn path he's out of touch? You always have been an intellectual conformist.
In fact, as he wrote, he does use the web, his browser just has a mail interface instead of a a GUI interface.
Does he like C# or not? If he doesn't, why does the FSF have their own .NET implementation? What makes theirs so special?
The FSF provides a C# compiler for people who already fucked up and wrote their code in C#, but they do not encourage people to do so from the start.
As he wrote in TFA:
The problem is not in the C# implementations, but rather in Tomboy and other applications written in C#. If we lose the use of C#, we will lose them too. That doesn't make them unethical, but it means that writing them and using them is taking a gratuitous risk.
That's the point. He doesn't "have to." Every techie (possibly except him, though I doubt it) understood this years ago. By saying this now, though, he gets attention.
Apparently not EVERY techie else it wouldn't have been included into Debian in the first place.
He's saying it now because they are doing it NOW. Not because he is an attention whore.
I know it's all sorts of fun and games to bash MS on slashdot, but seriously? Comparing them to rape? Grow up.
I know it all sorts of fun and games to bash people for semantics on slashdot, but seriously? Complaining about a common colloquialism? Grow up.
Stallman also says no to web browsing.
No he doesn't. As the linked post says, he doesn't browse the web for PERSONAL REASONS. That's a completely different thing than advocating against using software that is patent bait.
The 4-year tax exemption on foreign income does not apply to income that you earn from foreign sources while you are living in NZ!
I've been trying to figure out how that exemption really works. Of what value is it really? As far as I know, people usually pay income tax on money they earn the same year they earn it. So what circumstances is that exemption really good for anyway?
Just as I thought. All smoke and no fire.
Unless the crap is something stupid like holding a spinlock while waiting for a web-browser to finish transfering a file. Then what appears to be cpu bound (because of all the spinning) is actually limited by the speed of the clients and to a lesser extent, the size of the pipe to the clients.
Adults. Not children. At 13 she is not capable of reliably determining where the authority of those running the school stops. That's one of the many definitions of being a child.
k you're right, go ahead and help (not solve) using your proxy and high bandwidth circuit. And yes, you are correct,
Wow, so not totally bobo.
I did go back to *your* original topic.
With the same lame-ass response as the first time, though a little smugger, as if yah thought you were bringing brilliance forth to the world. Bobo.
Oh stop it, you were called out, now be a big boy and grow up.
Really? Lost the argument so now you just wave your hands.
You're kidding me right? Exactly which features do you think phone companies weren't offering before? Maybe you live in east bumblefuck, IA, but in modern places these things have been available for some time.
Show me how to buy even 75% of GV's features from any one of these carriers - AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint. Go ahead. Call me out big boy.
I only went after the feature the OP was touting.
Selective memory much?
Ever think to double-check before making your claim?
As the OP I'm very confident that I did not 'tout' 'the' feature. I 'touted' plenty of features. My point still stands, you're own logic fails the consistency check.
So please, stop it. All this GV is is google offering some features you could get from a phone company for years. I'm not impressed.
Yeah, all of the features have been available from phone companies, but hardly anyone one customer has had access to all of the features from just one phone company, and never for free.
It is your ridiculous suggestion to use a proxy and bandwidth to solve a problem of this magnitude.
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I almost laughed if it weren't sad.
Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy.
What part of the word "help" spells the word "solve?"
Furthermore, what part of the phrase "throw over their dictatorship" means "fix all of their problems?"
And finally, good job on returning to your original already fully rebutted argument having lost your secondary argument point-blank.
I went to Philippines twice in 1995 and 1997. The Philippines is a poor country to say the least. The revolution didn't help a thing,
Bullshit. You've got this ridiculous stance that a revolution must automagically make everything better. That's a fool's definition.
You asked for ONE, I gave you many. Have a nice day.
Maybe its not that they care so much about privacy that they don't care so much about piracy.
The reason the US gets so butt-hurt about piracy is because hollywood dominates the entertainment business worldwide - there are only a handful of countries were domestic movies regularly outsell hollywood productions at the box office (mostly S Korea, France, India and mainland China and some of that is helped by quota restrictions on foreign productions), and my guess is that the number is even smaller when it comes to DVDs.
Now I'm going to make a wild-ass guess that a lot of the locally produced works in Norway receive significant public funding. If true, that's also an incentive to ignore piracy because if tax dollars are paying for the creation then it isn't a big leap of logic to expect that the results are "owned" by the public too.
So, from that perspective, it seems reasonable that anti-piracy would be near the bottom of the list of government priorities in Norway (and many other countries for that matter).
The implication is in the mind of the beholder. Spouting off about "X, Y and Z" is simply pointing them out. What's really funny is that your own argument is not internally consistent. You only went jousting after X in the list. By logic just like your own, that must mean you think all the other features ARE innovative.
Every little bit helps.
Every little bit has a price. Often the price is completely out of proportion to the help.
For example, you are probably itching to point out that preventing people from "watching tv" while driving has almost no cost. That's only superficially true. For one thing it promulgates the nanny culture where people don't need to think about the risks they take and instead expect the system to take care of them. In my book, that is an extremely high price because it invites a continual erosion of freedom in the name of "saving just one child."
What a worthless list. What did anything they talked about have anything to do with IT?
Totally. I want to know which cities have the best (fastest/cheapest/least-restrictive) broadband to the home and have good/free muni-wifi. Which ones have a Fry's or the like, which ones are in states with low/no sales tax and/or don't try to impose "use tax" for mail-ordered toys. Which states don't require fingerprints to get a driver's license. Which cities have a "university culture." Which ones have cheap electricity for the server farm in my basement.
Those sorts of things are a lot more specific to IT people than the weather and sports franchises.
My hope is that some enterprising company steps in and take over Clear's operations. The service is really great.
My hope is that someone knocks a little common-sense into congress and they stop wasting our tax dollars and our time on the TSA so everybody can go back to how things were before they created that cluster-fuck.
So, we should just resign ourselves to endless cycles of "get screwed, ...
I, for one, would rather have an organization with a government mandate that's transparent and accountable to the people,
False dichotomy. You are comparing nearly the worst case scenario of private regulation to the best case scenario of public regulation.
Also, if they made one that felt BETTER, we could eliminate women altogether.
Ribbed for his pleasure alone?
Name one revolution that actually helped one people.
Off the top of my head:
Philippines 1986
South Korea 1987
Ukraine 2004
Serbia 2000
Russia 1991
East Germany 1989
Many of these followed blatant vote fraud, all of them followed massive demonstrations.
As someone who works contract, for very good money, that has not been my experience. My experience has been that doing a good job leads to more work, not less. Only the most out of touch management will fail to recognize the value of good work. I've yet to meet such a person despite spending a lot of time in one of the industries most widely scorned for inefficiency - defense contracts.
I would've thought Slashdot of all places wouldn't succumb to the gleeful bloat which has rendered spectacular advances in hardware almost irrelevant to the end user experience.
Indeed, this shit does not bode well for the future of slashdot. These sorts of counter-productive and superfluous web-site "upgrades" are the kind of thing that often precedes the death of a company. It's like the brains have already left the building and the company is just left running on empty until it collapses under the weight of the remaining stupidity.