Umm, why would a home user want an accounting or stock exchange applications? These are business apps, not home ones.
Not denying that some way want them installed, but I'm a home user, and I don't need/want those applications. Everything I want to do, I can do with Linux.
I'm not sure, while this didn't seem intentionally funny, it did make me laugh quite a bit. Perhaps a -1, Funny?
The 'hail satan' bit really cinched it for me.
Perhaps, or perhaps I'm just a red commie liberal - actually, I am a liberal - and from the UK standard of that political position, which is far more left than the US version. Our conservative = your liberal. And guess what? Nobody in the UK considers theirselves to be 'enslaved', having to pay national insurance payments, or to support the NHS, or any one of half a dozen public services. You don't want to pay for public services? Go live in a country without them. No military, no police, no government, no public healthcare, none of the many things provided by your government, by your money.
I support publice services, because the alternative could be real slavery.
You can't work without working for someone else. I.e., you cannot provide for your family without being forced to provide for other's families. Isn't this true anyway? Say you're self employed. You build furniture. You build a table and a set of chairs for family X. You've provided for family X (a table and a set of chairs is hardly nothing, after all.). As you hopefully got paid, you will be able to provide for your family as well.
Unless your work is stealing. Then you will be able to provide for your family without providing for others. But that's the only occupation I can think of where in providing for yourself, you provide nothing for others.I have a right to work AND not be enslaved.
I have a right to work AND not be enslaved. Have a nice life stealing then. I'm told it can be quite a lucrative lifestyle.
Exactly. Hell, using a pair of cheap computers, two large capacity drives, and Linux, I can create a highly available NFS server, with seamless failover, so clients don't notice is the primary dies. Import that NFS share onto your webserver, map it to/downloads on your server, and voila! http://server/downloads gives you access to all the stuff stored on your nfs server, over the internet. Slap SSL into that equation, and nobody will be able to tell what you're doing on the server.
Just as soon at the mainstream browsers start trusting CAcert signed certificates. I run a home server, with SSL enabled for secure logins, etc. Signed by CAcert, because I literally cannot afford to purchase a certificate from someone like Thawte or VeriSign.
So, what happens to my SSL enabled site with Firefox 3/IE whatever/'secure' browser of the future?
Actually, Netscape has been producing browsers longer than Microsoft. True, they sold it, but still, they were in the business longer than Microsoft.
Guess what that Netscape browser eventually became? Hint, it begins with Fire, and ends with Fox, and runs on a hell of a lot more systems than Internet Explorer.
And yes, the W3C doesn't have an official browser. Whoop-de-fucking doo. It's still an open standard, which anyone can code towards, and meet. Konqueror is W3C compliant, after all (my usual browser). Hell, it tells me when I'm not viewing W3C compliant code:) So yes, I've locked myself into a vendor lock in - I'm locked into the W3C. Which any browser can support, if the wanted to.
X over compressed SSH (try the -XC switch)? I use that on my laptop, often on free hotspots. Very useful, and all you need for it to be passwordless is keybased auth.
Very true. Given that I'd release music under Creative Commons, and software unger the GPL, I would indeed be upset if someone distributed without passing on the right to freely redistribute it and derivative works.
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You mean like the PS3? :)
Umm, why would a home user want an accounting or stock exchange applications? These are business apps, not home ones.
Not denying that some way want them installed, but I'm a home user, and I don't need/want those applications. Everything I want to do, I can do with Linux.
Quick answer: No.
I'm not sure, while this didn't seem intentionally funny, it did make me laugh quite a bit. Perhaps a -1, Funny? The 'hail satan' bit really cinched it for me.
WTF is wrong with GLASS?
It can be broken in peoples faces. I'd say that's a fairly large problem with it.
Except.. that QT is on Windows, under the GPL, now?
BSD is goatse? But it comes with no open ports by default ;)
Windows, on the other hand..
Perhaps, or perhaps I'm just a red commie liberal - actually, I am a liberal - and from the UK standard of that political position, which is far more left than the US version. Our conservative = your liberal. And guess what? Nobody in the UK considers theirselves to be 'enslaved', having to pay national insurance payments, or to support the NHS, or any one of half a dozen public services. You don't want to pay for public services? Go live in a country without them. No military, no police, no government, no public healthcare, none of the many things provided by your government, by your money.
I support publice services, because the alternative could be real slavery.
You can't work without working for someone else. I.e., you cannot provide for your family without being forced to provide for other's families.
Isn't this true anyway? Say you're self employed. You build furniture. You build a table and a set of chairs for family X. You've provided for family X (a table and a set of chairs is hardly nothing, after all.). As you hopefully got paid, you will be able to provide for your family as well.
Unless your work is stealing. Then you will be able to provide for your family without providing for others. But that's the only occupation I can think of where in providing for yourself, you provide nothing for others.I have a right to work AND not be enslaved.
I have a right to work AND not be enslaved.
Have a nice life stealing then. I'm told it can be quite a lucrative lifestyle.
Yeah, I'm sure that will stop them. Well, perhaps for a single nanosecond.
I'm sorry, that would require recognising the fact that true artists will create, regardless of if they get paid to do so.
Obviously, you do not exist, and nor to the people on Jamendo either. Or Machinae Supremacy, or...
Oh no! I'm English, with public healthcare!
Wait, if I'm enslaved, where are my chains? Or my forced labour?
Wait, the Government is privatising IP enforcement?
You communists!
And after this:
WAR ON TAXPAYERS
Because after the last three, the US government will know it can do anything to it's citizens.
Come on people, start protesting! Bring your country to a standstill!
Exactly. Hell, using a pair of cheap computers, two large capacity drives, and Linux, I can create a highly available NFS server, with seamless failover, so clients don't notice is the primary dies. Import that NFS share onto your webserver, map it to /downloads on your server, and voila! http://server/downloads gives you access to all the stuff stored on your nfs server, over the internet. Slap SSL into that equation, and nobody will be able to tell what you're doing on the server.
I support all browsers :) Not all browsers support me.
Bravo. Very well put.
So do I :D Very customisable!
(Is running with middle-click-to-close tab, and tabs at the bottom)
You'll be glad to visit my site then :) I support all browsers - by writing W3C compliant HTML.
:D I'm going to have to add my voice in support, and raise you one further:
:)
I've never had a problem with any version of IE.
On the other hand...
Just as soon at the mainstream browsers start trusting CAcert signed certificates. I run a home server, with SSL enabled for secure logins, etc. Signed by CAcert, because I literally cannot afford to purchase a certificate from someone like Thawte or VeriSign.
So, what happens to my SSL enabled site with Firefox 3/IE whatever/'secure' browser of the future?
Actually, Netscape has been producing browsers longer than Microsoft. True, they sold it, but still, they were in the business longer than Microsoft.
:) So yes, I've locked myself into a vendor lock in - I'm locked into the W3C. Which any browser can support, if the wanted to.
Guess what that Netscape browser eventually became? Hint, it begins with Fire, and ends with Fox, and runs on a hell of a lot more systems than Internet Explorer.
And yes, the W3C doesn't have an official browser. Whoop-de-fucking doo. It's still an open standard, which anyone can code towards, and meet. Konqueror is W3C compliant, after all (my usual browser). Hell, it tells me when I'm not viewing W3C compliant code
X over compressed SSH (try the -XC switch)? I use that on my laptop, often on free hotspots. Very useful, and all you need for it to be passwordless is keybased auth.
Very true. Given that I'd release music under Creative Commons, and software unger the GPL, I would indeed be upset if someone distributed without passing on the right to freely redistribute it and derivative works.
Because obviously, we're much closer to God than you poor benighted non-English.