Tell me, then, why should we care about Free Speech but not Free Software? I can buy perfectly good outlets for my speech, as long as I'm rich, what's the problem? I don't want to say things to "experience freedom" either, I just want to get my message to other people.
That's already on option. You have number of choices how to spread you ideas. (1) One-on-one convesaion [free & personal] (1) Shout on a street corner [free & local] (2) Pay for time on the local access channel [pay & local] (3) Speak on a radio call-in show [free & local/national] (4) Advertise on national TV/Radio [pay & national]
Obviously, the easiest way to get you message to the most people is to spend money for ad time. It's likely also the best way as well, although if you want to speak to a specific crowd you could call in to the radio show.
Free software is like the radio show. It speaks to a specific segment of people.
To borrow an analogy from another slashdot writer, it was like the weekly trip to the hardware store after you've bought a new house, where one day you get there and you realize that you just don't need anything else, and you turn around and leave.
Wait a minute... you can *leave* the hardware store without buying something? Even if it's possible, why would you?
No, there is another story in Robot Visions that has this basic plotline. The story is "Galley Slave" but I don't hink it involves murder. I'd have to re-read the story to be certain.
I, Robot is a selection of short stories that pretty much tell the story of how robots were created and used for the first 100 or so years.
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Such conceit...
Making the planet uninhabitable for human-kind is not destroying it. It may be the best thing we could do for the earth is to remover ourselves from it.
Mankind lacks the skills and the technology to destroy the earth. The earth will still be "alive" long after we've wiped ourselves out.
If you are a pacisivist, I can understand and respect your belifs. I can not share them, because history has shown me time and time again what happens to people who will not defend themselves.
Why would you think the Predator only hunts in heat? In Predator 2, he fights the government agents and Danny Glover in the giant freezer. Antartica is *the* giant freezer.
Point of fact, there are some countries, France chief among them, who base their entire foreign policy on automatically opposing the United States.
France has been one of the United States biggest allies since, well, the Revolution.
According to this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_eas t/28289 85.stm
Thirteen of France's 18 vetoes have been on resolutions also vetoed by the US and UK.
France has vetoed two resolutions alongside the UK - both on the Suez crisis in 1956.
Only two resolutions have been vetoed by France on its own - one on 1976 on a dispute between France and the Comoros and the other on Indonesia in 1947.
In 1946, France and the USSR vetoed a resolution on the Spanish Civil War.
However:
Seven of the last nine vetoes at the Security Council have been by the United States, and six of these have been of draft resolutions criticising the Israeli Government in some way.
The most recent, in December 2002, was a draft resolution criticising the killing by Israeli forces of several United Nations employees and the destruction of the World Food Programme warehouse in the West Bank.
In total, the US has blocked 35 draft resolutions on Israel.
Washington first used its veto in March 1970. Along with the UK it blocked a draft resolution on what was to become Zimbabwe.
The US has vetoed 10 resolutions criticising South Africa, eight on Namibia, seven on Nicaragua and five on Vietnam.
It has been the lone voice in blocking a resolution 53 times.
There were three entirely adequate reasons for the US to attack Iraq: 1) Its government appeared to be trying to build weapons which it could use against us, and would surely have used them against us if it could.
Then why didn't they?
2) Its government was surely sponsoring terrorism.
Hrm. Based on all the evidence I've seen there were no (zero/none) links between the Government of Iraq and any terrorist group. What information do you have that noone else has?
3) Its government was murdering its citizens to stay in power.
Kinda like our good friends the Saudis? What about all the "democracies" we've helped create in central and south America? Iraq had oil and was an easy target. N. Korea has nothing and would be a long, drawn-out war with lots of casualtioes on both sides. No good for the polls.
> But the users don't think in this way; they > think what is right: namely, the most > important part of the computer is Netscape, > OpenOffice, etc,.
But when you buy/download that software, if doesn't run on GNU. it run's on Linux (or Mac, or Windows, or Solaris,...)
You can't just buy a box of Netscape and install it on any computer you see. GNU could be running on any of these systems as well, but you can't install EMACS for Windows on your Linux box, or your BSD box.
You're confused. Dr. Brown, of the IPCC, is saying that global warming is real, and he does not accept all of the findings of the UK Climate Impacts Programme.
The UK program didn't just use medieval thermometer readings, they used tree rings, ice cores *and* historical accounts.
If the worm is using default passwords to get in, then I would say that it *is* the fault of Microsoft. There should be no default password. When antype of networking is setup, you should be prompted to create a password. If no password is provided, no service is provided.
How much money do you really think an 18 y/o fresh out high school needs?
Base rate for an E-1 w/ under four months service (as of January 2003) is 1,064.70 per mo. That means that as soon as you join, you get get paid over $1,000 a month gross income with no expenses (besides taxes). All that money is yours to sepnd how ever you want. No rent to pay, no food to buy, no utilities to pay.
And very few people ever get enlisted as E-1 anymore. E-2 starts at $1,290.00, E-3 is 1,356.90, and E-4 is 1,502.70.
That's all base rates. Then you can add in cost of living allowances, basic allowance for housing, etc., it adds up to a lot of money. And if you fill out the right paperwork, you won't pay any state income taxes.
> and the 1000-years-previous holy guy Keh'less (or > however you spell it) was bumpy...
According to The Startrek Episode Guide, The Savage Curtain (Production 77, 3/7/1969, Stardate 5906.4):
[...] Kirk, Spock, Lincoln and Surak, founder
of the present Vulcan culture. On the "bad"
side are, Genghis Khan, Colonel Green, Zora,
a vicious killer, and Kahless, father of the
Klingon Empire as it was now known. [...]
In that episode, Kahless was a typical '60s, non-bumpy Klingon.
And Linux® is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. So what? Red Hat said "[...] Red Hat agrees to refrain from enforcing the infringed patent against such party for such exercise [...]" http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html
I want to remind you that Mandrake started from nothing (not even a company) three years ago,
Technically, Mandrake started from Red Hat three years ago, but lets not ge pedantic.
"Why drop fees? People are paying them at the level they are now, and (at least in this country) banking is controlled by a small cartel of banks that strangely enough all raise and lower prices at around the same time."
Hmm... that wouldn't have anything to do with the Prime Rate would it?
Actually, Red Hat 7.2 (and maybe 7.1, but I don't remember,) already does this this. If you install as a Workstation, most server daemons aren't even installed.
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Tell me, then, why should we care about Free Speech but not Free Software? I can buy perfectly good outlets for my speech, as long as I'm rich, what's the problem? I don't want to say things to "experience freedom" either, I just want to get my message to other people.
That's already on option. You have number of choices how to spread you ideas.
(1) One-on-one convesaion [free & personal]
(1) Shout on a street corner [free & local]
(2) Pay for time on the local access channel [pay & local]
(3) Speak on a radio call-in show [free & local/national]
(4) Advertise on national TV/Radio [pay & national]
Obviously, the easiest way to get you message to the most people is to spend money for ad time. It's likely also the best way as well, although if you want to speak to a specific crowd you could call in to the radio show.
Free software is like the radio show. It speaks to a specific segment of people.
To borrow an analogy from another slashdot writer, it was like the weekly trip to the hardware store after you've bought a new house, where one day you get there and you realize that you just don't need anything else, and you turn around and leave.
... you can *leave* the hardware store without buying something? Even if it's possible, why would you?
Wait a minute
No, there is another story in Robot Visions that has this basic plotline. The story is "Galley Slave" but I don't hink it involves murder. I'd have to re-read the story to be certain.
No... that's the plot for Caves of Steel
I, Robot is a selection of short stories that pretty much tell the story of how robots were created and used for the first 100 or so years.
Such conceit...
Making the planet uninhabitable for human-kind is not destroying it. It may be the best thing we could do for the earth is to remover ourselves from it.
Mankind lacks the skills and the technology to destroy the earth. The earth will still be "alive" long after we've wiped ourselves out.
If you are a pacisivist, I can understand and respect your belifs. I can not share them, because history has shown me time and time again what happens to people who will not defend themselves.
So, you've never heard of Ghandi?
I'd guess there is certain "background material" out there like the description of Hobbittown, the doom of the elves, the earlier wars, etc.
You mean the Silmarillion? I seriously doubt that would ever be filmed. Even most hardcore Tolkein fans could barely wade trough that book...
Why would you think the Predator only hunts in heat? In Predator 2, he fights the government agents and Danny Glover in the giant freezer. Antartica is *the* giant freezer.
Here it is:
Courtney Love Does The Math
The IRA (thanks y'all in NYC for paying those guys!)
... It's the people in Boston paying the IRA. The people in NYC are paying the UDF (Loyalist Terrorists).
No
Hey. I could make *exactly* the same argument for Osama and his buddies.
The biggest difference is Osama & Co. are using religious scripture to justify their war. The Irish are not.
Point of fact, there are some countries, France chief among them, who base their entire foreign policy on automatically opposing the United States.
s t/28289 85.stm
... what was your point?
France has been one of the United States biggest allies since, well, the Revolution.
According to this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_ea
Thirteen of France's 18 vetoes have been on resolutions also vetoed by the US and UK.
France has vetoed two resolutions alongside the UK - both on the Suez crisis in 1956.
Only two resolutions have been vetoed by France on its own - one on 1976 on a dispute between France and the Comoros and the other on Indonesia in 1947.
In 1946, France and the USSR vetoed a resolution on the Spanish Civil War.
However:
Seven of the last nine vetoes at the Security Council have been by the United States, and six of these have been of draft resolutions criticising the Israeli Government in some way.
The most recent, in December 2002, was a draft resolution criticising the killing by Israeli forces of several United Nations employees and the destruction of the World Food Programme warehouse in the West Bank.
In total, the US has blocked 35 draft resolutions on Israel.
Washington first used its veto in March 1970. Along with the UK it blocked a draft resolution on what was to become Zimbabwe.
The US has vetoed 10 resolutions criticising South Africa, eight on Namibia, seven on Nicaragua and five on Vietnam.
It has been the lone voice in blocking a resolution 53 times.
So
There were three entirely adequate reasons for the US to attack Iraq:
1) Its government appeared to be trying to build weapons which it could use against us, and would surely have used them against us if it could.
Then why didn't they?
2) Its government was surely sponsoring terrorism.
Hrm. Based on all the evidence I've seen there were no (zero/none) links between the Government of Iraq and any terrorist group. What information do you have that noone else has?
3) Its government was murdering its citizens to stay in power.
Kinda like our good friends the Saudis? What about all the "democracies" we've helped create in central and south America? Iraq had oil and was an easy target. N. Korea has nothing and would be a long, drawn-out war with lots of casualtioes on both sides. No good for the polls.
If it's a rughead
So, if it is sent by William Shatner or Ted Danson it would be terrorism?
> But the users don't think in this way; they
...)
> think what is right: namely, the most
> important part of the computer is Netscape,
> OpenOffice, etc,.
But when you buy/download that software, if doesn't run on GNU. it run's on Linux (or Mac, or Windows, or Solaris,
You can't just buy a box of Netscape and install it on any computer you see. GNU could be running on any of these systems as well, but you can't install EMACS for Windows on your Linux box, or your BSD box.
The kernel *is* what matters.
You're confused. Dr. Brown, of the IPCC, is saying that global warming is real, and he does not accept all of the findings of the UK Climate Impacts Programme.
The UK program didn't just use medieval thermometer readings, they used tree rings, ice cores *and* historical accounts.
If the worm is using default passwords to get in, then I would say that it *is* the fault of Microsoft. There should be no default password. When antype of networking is setup, you should be prompted to create a password. If no password is provided, no service is provided.
>Is it called the "Bing Bang" or the "Big Band"?
Easy! Big Band's allowed for the Bing Bangs.
How much money do you really think an 18 y/o fresh out high school needs?
Base rate for an E-1 w/ under four months service (as of January 2003) is 1,064.70 per mo. That means that as soon as you join, you get get paid over $1,000 a month gross income with no expenses (besides taxes). All that money is yours to sepnd how ever you want. No rent to pay, no food to buy, no utilities to pay.
And very few people ever get enlisted as E-1 anymore. E-2 starts at $1,290.00, E-3 is 1,356.90, and E-4 is 1,502.70.
That's all base rates. Then you can add in cost of living allowances, basic allowance for housing, etc., it adds up to a lot of money. And if you fill out the right paperwork, you won't pay any state income taxes.
> and the 1000-years-previous holy guy Keh'less (or ...
> however you spell it) was bumpy
According to The Startrek Episode Guide, The Savage Curtain (Production 77, 3/7/1969, Stardate 5906.4):
[...] Kirk, Spock, Lincoln and Surak, founder
of the present Vulcan culture. On the "bad"
side are, Genghis Khan, Colonel Green, Zora,
a vicious killer, and Kahless, father of the
Klingon Empire as it was now known. [...]
In that episode, Kahless was a typical '60s, non-bumpy Klingon.
Obviously, you're not.
Your = possessive.
You're = contraction of you are
Example:
"You're post exhibits your lack of grammar."
Call me troll, but the mis-use of "your" bugs the crap out of me.
Red Hat patents...
And Linux® is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. So what? Red Hat said "[...] Red Hat agrees to refrain from enforcing the infringed patent against such party for such exercise [...]" http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html
I want to remind you that Mandrake started from nothing (not even a company) three years ago,
Technically, Mandrake started from Red Hat three years ago, but lets not ge pedantic.
> But if you remove either KDE or GNOME, you will be unable to access your files. :)
Really? Amazing that I have 3 systems without X even installed and I can still access my files...
Another one has fvwm (not fvwm2) and i can still access my files.
I must be special.
"Why drop fees? People are paying them at the level they are now, and (at least in this country) banking is controlled by a small cartel of banks that strangely enough all raise and lower prices at around the same time."
Hmm... that wouldn't have anything to do with the Prime Rate would it?
Actually, Red Hat 7.2 (and maybe 7.1, but I don't remember,) already does this this. If you install as a Workstation, most server daemons aren't even installed.