Hey I have a better idea! Let's make the PEOPLE pass a test in order to be granted the right to vote! Those who fail the test lose their voting rights.
BTW I am serious.
LOL
Time and time again I read rants, here on/., on how backward the USA are, how underdeveloped; how here in Europe ISPs pay YOU to use the net (I hear that happens in Soviet Europe...) and so on. I think that the situation is quite simply better in some respects and worse in other. E.g. opening times for shops and malls are ridiculous here, when compared to what you have in the USA. On the other hand, many EU countries have very good public transport, whereas I understand this to be close to non-existant in the USA. Then again, business ventures are much more likely to be buried under first EU, then national, then regional regulation (and then some union will come and tell them they're not "playing fair" with their workers), while you USians seem to have it quite easier in such circumstances.
I guess such differences exist and apply to the whole ISP market, too. You must have focused on something different while we spent time laying down tons of cables and giving birth to lots of ISPs.
I don't know much about Asia, maybe there the situation is different than both EU and USA.
Slashdot cut out the Euro symbol from my post so I'm not sure if it was clear that I was talking about a non-US entity. Anyway the ISP is Tiscali, they've got a few million users in Europe.
Well, I for one will stick to my current ISP even if G comes around and tempts me. 30/month get me unlimited traffic, as in "download the frigging net for all we care", 6mbps which actually *are* 6mbps, soon switching over to 12 for the same price (too bad my router panics before that). No traffic shaping that I know of and even if they do, well, more power to them, my Emule and Bittorrent traffic are very healthy indeed. I have run all kinds of servers and it appears that no ports are blocked. And it's not even a small local ISP, actually it's one of the biggest in my country. Oh well, good luck to Google. Anyway it'll need time before they open up in Europe.
Ignoring a packet is not regulated by law. DDoSing someone's net, on the contrary, is. Anyway I don't see how compliance to US law is relevant in this case. Finally my brain refuses to accept that the Great Unbreakable TryToGetThroughAndYouWinAHolidayInJail WeAreSOOOO1337 Firewall of China(tm) can be beaten by such basic technique. Shame on them for being so uncool. Oh wait... maybe shame on them for having such firewall in the first place.
Oh come on, you know full well half if not more of software value is created by support and updates and upgrades and other services that extend over time. Killing MS would hurt a lot. Besides, I don't want some government regulating my usage of software. Who the heck do they think they are? Hands off the market, thank you very much. THEN I can chose whether to use MS or RH or whatever else I like to fiddle with. There's only one thing worse then a monopolistic business and that's a state-regulated business.
1. I can right-click or double-click any word on any page on the webs and I get a nice "Dictionary" item in my context menu. That's because I use a sensible browser, so I don't depend on your service.
2. My right-click menu is *sacred*. Really, I kill kittens on its altar every morning. Thou shalt not dare to touch it. For he will not slay thee in thy turn, etc etc. Seriously, don't mess with people's interface. Luckily my fancy browser denies such requests as yours.
Did I mention I use a cool browser?
In that case... publicity stunts are not a serious way to further your cause. Yeah you will get coverage and whatnot, but just look at all the people here on/. who approve of his ideals but cannot and will not side with him because of such idiotic behaviour. If only Linus were interested in being our champion! But he is a tech and a geek and we all know he does not like politics. And I can't blame him... I am sure "the other side" has their RMS's too, somewhere, and who would want to deal with them?
You are very free to "fight for your rights", as you put it. I'm very free to consider both you and RMS nutcases.
Besides, I do not favor political correctness at all. Actually I have upset many people by calling blind people "blind", and people like you "stupid" instead of "mentally challenged". What I and many other people dislike about RMS is 1. his sense of self-importance, 2. his inability to get a grip and cope with the real world instead of the funny one that exists in his mind only, where head of states welcome you with arms wide open just because the insects in your beard are saying "hello".
That's about the worst thing you could have said. Come back when you have thrown $37 billion ("scraps") at some school system or whatever you think is the best thing to save humanity from its own stupidity. THEN and only then can you talk.
Really you should realize that what "this kind of people" wants has got *nothing* to do with you, they won't even acknowledge your presence because you're a worthless piece of... scrap. Do you really think they *care* about keeping you in line or any of the bullshit you were spewing? Geez, the arrogance. Oh and take the time to do your research before your next idiotic post on/.; the M&B Gates Foundation does not finance alcoholics and good-at-nothings - actually they are one of the few charities that DO follow up on what they finance and they withdraw funding if not satisfied with the results.
And what kind of test would that be? First of all, the moment you need to test someone like that, you know he's not a true friend or you wouldn't be doubting him. Secondly, what reaction would make him pass/fail the test? "OMG WTF are you sure?" might indicate total acceptance just as well as mere disinterest ("go on, like I care"). "What the hell do you think you're doing, you freak?!" might indicate deep interest and worry just as well as mere homophobia.
The real "test" for friendhsip is called LIFE and if anyone needs this explained, I feel sorry for him.
This implies that the legislators (or other some group) would feel the need to *fix* something which they perceive to be wrong with society. This would lead to discussions, then elections and a political system, many laws, then a police and judges etc etc and you would have modern society all over again. The only hope for anarchism to prosper is to be able to provide people with a *good life*, otherwise society would react and revert to whatever there is now. I think such good life could be achieved if everybody obeyed a rather strict set of rules, BUT by his own will. In other words, if people actually woke up and realized it's better to be sensible and, you know, keep your word, not steal stuff, generally behave like a good person, then anarchy would work.
I know full well this is not realistic and that's why I give in to compromises (such as, more political independence from the central government, more autonomy and in more areas).
Lots of Operating Systems which run perfectly well on real hardware crash when run under virtualisation.
BS. Anyway my "total failure" to report that does not ma-- wait a sec, how did you find out? Oh, because I put a frigging SCREENSHOT up on ImageShack? OMG I am teh stealthy, apparently. Karma whore? How about... HAVING FUN? I made a *joke*. You know what... I didn't even mention that on the second run it did work quite well. So I guess that makes me some fundie child-molesting nazist, or something?
This shouldn't be a question of law, it ought to be a question of common decency
You're exactly right, unfortuntely in today's world you have to turn everything into law, as people will simply disregard common decency (and then they'll probably break the law for good measure). I always think anarchy would be bliss, but at the same time I don't want it NOW because people would simply not be ready for it. Now watch this anarchist shake his head at people's stupidity and almost approve of law - watch his head explode:D
If you like the Intarwebs and want to see a neutral web, the best way NOT to have either is to promote their regulation. Legislation solves nothing - a free market would sort it out quite nicely. That's why I disapprove of the EFF campaigns.
The problem stems from the definition of "gamer". You think a gamer is anyone who likes playing videogames. Well no, that is simply a user. A "gamer" is much more than that. Add in: 1337n355, LAN parties, SLI systemz, pimped-up rigs etc and you get a gamer. SUCH real gamer will NOT be satisfied with the solutions you mention. I, for one, need beefy b0x3n 2 p3wn j00 w/ my g4m1n6 powas":D
I'm taking Serious Sam II - oh you meant chemicals, my bad:D Seriously though, I tossed it away so I can't corroborate, but I seem to recall some xwin.exe binary and some other things that led me to believe X was running. Then again it uses GTK so it shouldn't need an X server... Oh teh mystery!
do you also trust common, curable diseases (natural selection) killing your children over medication (a profit driven corporation) saving them? oh i am sorry that would be a corpEration and those are quite vicious beasts all right.
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Hey I have a better idea! Let's make the PEOPLE pass a test in order to be granted the right to vote! Those who fail the test lose their voting rights.
BTW I am serious.
LOL /., on how backward the USA are, how underdeveloped; how here in Europe ISPs pay YOU to use the net (I hear that happens in Soviet Europe...) and so on. I think that the situation is quite simply better in some respects and worse in other. E.g. opening times for shops and malls are ridiculous here, when compared to what you have in the USA. On the other hand, many EU countries have very good public transport, whereas I understand this to be close to non-existant in the USA. Then again, business ventures are much more likely to be buried under first EU, then national, then regional regulation (and then some union will come and tell them they're not "playing fair" with their workers), while you USians seem to have it quite easier in such circumstances.
Time and time again I read rants, here on
I guess such differences exist and apply to the whole ISP market, too. You must have focused on something different while we spent time laying down tons of cables and giving birth to lots of ISPs.
I don't know much about Asia, maybe there the situation is different than both EU and USA.
Slashdot cut out the Euro symbol from my post so I'm not sure if it was clear that I was talking about a non-US entity. Anyway the ISP is Tiscali, they've got a few million users in Europe.
Well, I for one will stick to my current ISP even if G comes around and tempts me. 30/month get me unlimited traffic, as in "download the frigging net for all we care", 6mbps which actually *are* 6mbps, soon switching over to 12 for the same price (too bad my router panics before that). No traffic shaping that I know of and even if they do, well, more power to them, my Emule and Bittorrent traffic are very healthy indeed. I have run all kinds of servers and it appears that no ports are blocked. And it's not even a small local ISP, actually it's one of the biggest in my country. Oh well, good luck to Google. Anyway it'll need time before they open up in Europe.
Monopoly? I can accept payments in about 3615 different ways on eBay. What are you talking about?
I don't know what these "funny people" you speak of want. *I* want a pony!!!!!111oneone1
Ignoring a packet is not regulated by law. DDoSing someone's net, on the contrary, is. Anyway I don't see how compliance to US law is relevant in this case. Finally my brain refuses to accept that the Great Unbreakable TryToGetThroughAndYouWinAHolidayInJail WeAreSOOOO1337 Firewall of China(tm) can be beaten by such basic technique. Shame on them for being so uncool. Oh wait... maybe shame on them for having such firewall in the first place.
Oh come on, you know full well half if not more of software value is created by support and updates and upgrades and other services that extend over time. Killing MS would hurt a lot.
Besides, I don't want some government regulating my usage of software. Who the heck do they think they are? Hands off the market, thank you very much. THEN I can chose whether to use MS or RH or whatever else I like to fiddle with. There's only one thing worse then a monopolistic business and that's a state-regulated business.
It would bring MS down to its knees in maybe 20 years, laying waste to all of Europe in the process. Do you think it would be that easy?
1. I can right-click or double-click any word on any page on the webs and I get a nice "Dictionary" item in my context menu. That's because I use a sensible browser, so I don't depend on your service.
2. My right-click menu is *sacred*. Really, I kill kittens on its altar every morning. Thou shalt not dare to touch it. For he will not slay thee in thy turn, etc etc. Seriously, don't mess with people's interface. Luckily my fancy browser denies such requests as yours.
Did I mention I use a cool browser?
In that case... publicity stunts are not a serious way to further your cause. Yeah you will get coverage and whatnot, but just look at all the people here on /. who approve of his ideals but cannot and will not side with him because of such idiotic behaviour. If only Linus were interested in being our champion! But he is a tech and a geek and we all know he does not like politics. And I can't blame him... I am sure "the other side" has their RMS's too, somewhere, and who would want to deal with them?
You are very free to "fight for your rights", as you put it. I'm very free to consider both you and RMS nutcases.
Besides, I do not favor political correctness at all. Actually I have upset many people by calling blind people "blind", and people like you "stupid" instead of "mentally challenged". What I and many other people dislike about RMS is 1. his sense of self-importance, 2. his inability to get a grip and cope with the real world instead of the funny one that exists in his mind only, where head of states welcome you with arms wide open just because the insects in your beard are saying "hello".
That's about the worst thing you could have said. Come back when you have thrown $37 billion ("scraps") at some school system or whatever you think is the best thing to save humanity from its own stupidity. THEN and only then can you talk. /.; the M&B Gates Foundation does not finance alcoholics and good-at-nothings - actually they are one of the few charities that DO follow up on what they finance and they withdraw funding if not satisfied with the results.
Really you should realize that what "this kind of people" wants has got *nothing* to do with you, they won't even acknowledge your presence because you're a worthless piece of... scrap. Do you really think they *care* about keeping you in line or any of the bullshit you were spewing? Geez, the arrogance. Oh and take the time to do your research before your next idiotic post on
the bloat war has. :D)
(bloat war/bloatware? get it? get it?! ah I am teh funny
And what kind of test would that be? First of all, the moment you need to test someone like that, you know he's not a true friend or you wouldn't be doubting him. Secondly, what reaction would make him pass/fail the test? "OMG WTF are you sure?" might indicate total acceptance just as well as mere disinterest ("go on, like I care"). "What the hell do you think you're doing, you freak?!" might indicate deep interest and worry just as well as mere homophobia.
The real "test" for friendhsip is called LIFE and if anyone needs this explained, I feel sorry for him.
What's that you say? Looks like you have to pay for that.
This implies that the legislators (or other some group) would feel the need to *fix* something which they perceive to be wrong with society. This would lead to discussions, then elections and a political system, many laws, then a police and judges etc etc and you would have modern society all over again. The only hope for anarchism to prosper is to be able to provide people with a *good life*, otherwise society would react and revert to whatever there is now. I think such good life could be achieved if everybody obeyed a rather strict set of rules, BUT by his own will. In other words, if people actually woke up and realized it's better to be sensible and, you know, keep your word, not steal stuff, generally behave like a good person, then anarchy would work.
I know full well this is not realistic and that's why I give in to compromises (such as, more political independence from the central government, more autonomy and in more areas).
Lots of Operating Systems which run perfectly well on real hardware crash when run under virtualisation.
BS. Anyway my "total failure" to report that does not ma-- wait a sec, how did you find out? Oh, because I put a frigging SCREENSHOT up on ImageShack? OMG I am teh stealthy, apparently. Karma whore? How about... HAVING FUN? I made a *joke*. You know what... I didn't even mention that on the second run it did work quite well. So I guess that makes me some fundie child-molesting nazist, or something?
This shouldn't be a question of law, it ought to be a question of common decency
:D
You're exactly right, unfortuntely in today's world you have to turn everything into law, as people will simply disregard common decency (and then they'll probably break the law for good measure). I always think anarchy would be bliss, but at the same time I don't want it NOW because people would simply not be ready for it. Now watch this anarchist shake his head at people's stupidity and almost approve of law - watch his head explode
First thing it did was BLUE SCREEN on me. Oh teh hilarity! I am not kidding, look here: http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/8862/reactos5ba .png
280 million americans have no weapons to use against the government-owned army, thanks to the laws you like so much.
If you like the Intarwebs and want to see a neutral web, the best way NOT to have either is to promote their regulation. Legislation solves nothing - a free market would sort it out quite nicely. That's why I disapprove of the EFF campaigns.
The problem stems from the definition of "gamer". You think a gamer is anyone who likes playing videogames. Well no, that is simply a user. A "gamer" is much more than that. Add in: 1337n355, LAN parties, SLI systemz, pimped-up rigs etc and you get a gamer. SUCH real gamer will NOT be satisfied with the solutions you mention. I, for one, need beefy b0x3n 2 p3wn j00 w/ my g4m1n6 powas" :D
I'm taking Serious Sam II - oh you meant chemicals, my bad :D Seriously though, I tossed it away so I can't corroborate, but I seem to recall some xwin.exe binary and some other things that led me to believe X was running. Then again it uses GTK so it shouldn't need an X server... Oh teh mystery!
do you also trust common, curable diseases (natural selection) killing your children over medication (a profit driven corporation) saving them? oh i am sorry that would be a corpEration and those are quite vicious beasts all right.