1. Please explain how using the connection I bought within the limits set by my contract is "abuse". What do you mean, I don't have any limits? That's because I bought the expensive UNLIMITED connection, duh.
2. Not as big a group? *Everyone* I know who's not afraid of double clicking an icon downloads stuff 24/7.
3. Pirate ISPs? BRILLIANT! All we need is a VPN, and then oh-im-so-sorry-mr-isp, all my traffic is encrypted:)
I might have missed his point (actually I didn't: taxation is most definitely NOT universal) but you missed mine: I was criticizing his self-defeating ideals of granting people freedom by limiting it.
as long as they dont become harmful This is the root of all evil. It is *by definition* impossibile to grant freedom to people and restrict it at the same time. As soon as you put some restriction on people's freedom you have betrayed your ideals, according to what you say. PC idiots simply believe that speaking ill of someone is harmful. Apparently you don't, but this is just a matter of "how much freedom" rather than "freedom/slavery". In fact I'd argue that taxing my income is very harmful to me. But I don't expect you to let me live as I please...
Simply put, the user is too dumb to realize they even have a problem, let alone link it to DRM. Nobody knows what DRM even is, there is no awareness at all. 'nuff said.
As a side note: why don't the famous musicians dump their majors and start selling mp3s independently? I would suppose they'd earn much more.
Your simulation is quite unrealistic, because it assumes that a dumb user browses crackz & warez sites: this is IMHO quite unlikely. Gamers, power users etc would do it but not your typical dumb user. The problem anyway is not that if you click OK your box gets rooted - the situation is much worse, there are many exploits lying around on warez and pr0n sites and they will root your box silently and without user interaction. This happens because MSIE is a suboptimal browsing platform when it comes to security (and functionality too but that's beside the point).
Usage of different browsers is an easy and good remedy to this situation. In fact, I recommend Opera or FF to anybody who is dissatisfacted with IE.
Interesting. I believe personal responsibility is in fact what enables the nice aspects of anarchy to be experienced without too much fear of the ugly ones. "Personal responsibility" as in, self-imposed and freely chosen.
This is however beside the point of the discussion at hand.
One, I assume you are a yank BZZZZT wrong
Two, being for freedom automatically means being against torture. BZZZZZT wrong. Being for freedom means letting people choose what to do with their own lives and get on with yours the way you like it.
oh noes, he's being hypocritical 'cause he just said he supported no censorship, but now he is talking about censoring shit Exactly! Thanks for proving my point.
The first is, no platform for fascists and other scum Strangely enough you have decided YOU should be the one making this decision. Stalin would be proud. Mussolini, too.
Any media *I* control will not allow intolerance Fine, then do not allow it on YOUR TV station. That would however imply the existance of private property, which you are apparently against.
What it comes down to really though is this, I'm not about to tell you what to do with your bit of media (well, unless you are a capitalist scum, in which case I would say Translation: "Freedom means you are free to do whatever you want as long as The Party agrees".
Thanks for playing, troll!
It's not that different in your country. In fact I'm not from the USA either, but please, tell me what country does not censor anything on TV, the press or anywhere else.
I'm curious. On the one hand they claim to be defenders of freedom (freedom of speech too, one would suppose). On the other hand they keep condemning the use of torture. Let's see if they put their money where their mouth is and allow unregulated violence, torture, unregulated *everything* on TV. That's freedom. Anything else is hypocracy.
(Oh and please, right wing, the deregulation bit applies to you too)
You must be joking. This is precisely the reason why no one should be allowed such kind of access to the root servers. Not even you.
Not my problem anyway, as I use a different set of roots already.
Are you aware that, contrary to popular brainwash^W belief, not everybody is equal? Some student DO their homework, some other DO NOT.
There, no self-contradiction.
1 hour of homework per subject every day That's some serious workload, I had no idea you had so much homework in the USA. I don't understand why everybody keeps talking about "per night" in this thread, though. Over here, school time ends very early in the afternoon and those kids who go home do so and do their homework at home, while who stay at school just do their homework there, with teacher's supervision etc. Thus, it's quite unlikely for a child to have to stay up at night to study.
People in your class who, it must be pointed out, were required to do homework. What was your point again? My point was that they were required to but DID NOT.
I have no problem with no homework. I don't bring work home, why should my kids? School is not "children's job". Your work and your child's studies have nothing to do with each other.
In deference to your point, longer class times will still allow for adequate drill. The advantage is that class time spent doing drill material is time that the teacher can spend on one-on-one instruction, grading papers, or working on lesson plans. (And don't think that reducing the after-hours work on teachers won't have an in-class benefit, either.) Adequate drill cannot be achieved in class, because all the time is spent trying to explain stuff to uninterested children. It can however be achieved by giving them homework.
Homework has never been proven to improve grades Yeah and practice has never been proven to improve skills either.
When you "get" a subject and know you understand it, you need to sit down and practice for a while. Understanding how a math problem is solved is very important, but actually sitting down and solving 4 or 5 samples of increasing complexity nails it down for good.
Otherwise you end up like some people in my class who, at the age of 18, did not "remember" how to solve 2ng grade equations while everybody else was discussing calculus.
If there is something I NEVER want to see in my life is one gov't to rule them all. I hate my own gov't and the EU and the UN enough already. The existance of a WG would be the end of me.
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And this disproves my point... HOW, exactly?
1. Please explain how using the connection I bought within the limits set by my contract is "abuse". What do you mean, I don't have any limits? That's because I bought the expensive UNLIMITED connection, duh. 2. Not as big a group? *Everyone* I know who's not afraid of double clicking an icon downloads stuff 24/7. 3. Pirate ISPs? BRILLIANT! All we need is a VPN, and then oh-im-so-sorry-mr-isp, all my traffic is encrypted :)
I wish I were a dunderhead too if that means showering in money.
Thanks for the needless jab, now please substantiate your argument, if you have one, or get lost.
I might have missed his point (actually I didn't: taxation is most definitely NOT universal) but you missed mine: I was criticizing his self-defeating ideals of granting people freedom by limiting it.
I thought that open source was about sharing code.
You might want to reduce your daily koolaid intake and take a closer look at PP's points. He's right, you're wrong.
Simply put, the user is too dumb to realize they even have a problem, let alone link it to DRM. Nobody knows what DRM even is, there is no awareness at all. 'nuff said.
As a side note: why don't the famous musicians dump their majors and start selling mp3s independently? I would suppose they'd earn much more.
Your simulation is quite unrealistic, because it assumes that a dumb user browses crackz & warez sites: this is IMHO quite unlikely. Gamers, power users etc would do it but not your typical dumb user. The problem anyway is not that if you click OK your box gets rooted - the situation is much worse, there are many exploits lying around on warez and pr0n sites and they will root your box silently and without user interaction. This happens because MSIE is a suboptimal browsing platform when it comes to security (and functionality too but that's beside the point).
Usage of different browsers is an easy and good remedy to this situation. In fact, I recommend Opera or FF to anybody who is dissatisfacted with IE.
Interesting. I believe personal responsibility is in fact what enables the nice aspects of anarchy to be experienced without too much fear of the ugly ones. "Personal responsibility" as in, self-imposed and freely chosen.
This is however beside the point of the discussion at hand.
Thanks for playing, troll!
It's not that different in your country. In fact I'm not from the USA either, but please, tell me what country does not censor anything on TV, the press or anywhere else.
I'm curious. On the one hand they claim to be defenders of freedom (freedom of speech too, one would suppose). On the other hand they keep condemning the use of torture. Let's see if they put their money where their mouth is and allow unregulated violence, torture, unregulated *everything* on TV. That's freedom. Anything else is hypocracy.
(Oh and please, right wing, the deregulation bit applies to you too)
All they have to do is erase the logs every day or just not keep them. It doesn't "take an effort". Anonymous proxies have been doing this for years.
You must be joking. This is precisely the reason why no one should be allowed such kind of access to the root servers. Not even you.
Not my problem anyway, as I use a different set of roots already.
Nonsense. My friggin constitution states I'll go to jail if I praise the wrong political party. I think this is even worse than what Turkey is doing.
Actually ancient Rome "gave" us liberty, "libertas". Other than that you're right.
Are you aware that, contrary to popular brainwash^W belief, not everybody is equal? Some student DO their homework, some other DO NOT.
There, no self-contradiction.
When you "get" a subject and know you understand it, you need to sit down and practice for a while. Understanding how a math problem is solved is very important, but actually sitting down and solving 4 or 5 samples of increasing complexity nails it down for good.
Otherwise you end up like some people in my class who, at the age of 18, did not "remember" how to solve 2ng grade equations while everybody else was discussing calculus.
If there is something I NEVER want to see in my life is one gov't to rule them all. I hate my own gov't and the EU and the UN enough already. The existance of a WG would be the end of me.