Your mind certainly works in an interesting way. Let's see. I disagree with your point. Therefore I am your enemy. Therefore I MUST be some disgusting piece of scum. Therefore I am certainly a pirate. How cool.
If you don't think this analysis is correct, please point out where in my post I said I am a pirate.
Besides, go cry me a river, you and your bullshit with happy people's lifes ruined by big meanies like I'm supposed to be. If there's a shooting war then pick up a rifle and shoot.
So, what's YOUR problem, selfless guy? You are so respectful of the law and pay your dues, you have certainly nothing to hide or to fear. The most draconian DRM will be no problem for you.
... that we have to have our theories defended by a judge in court rather than by their own merits. Are we so unsure of ourselves that we need to be reassured by courts? I don't feel offended when I see all kinds of symbols painted on the streets of my city: because I know better than to trust the first fool who comes around.
I remember people on/. claiming that "those who need the state to protect their faith must lack faith in it themselves": this is so true, so now that it applies to us, what is our reaction? We do exactly the same as the ones we oppose! We whine and cry bloody murder and somebody please THINK OF THE CHILDREN! How comes that now this is a good reason to complain, but in other circumstances it's not? I am ashamed of/.
Finally. I like freedom. Even yours, even when you don't agree with me. I don't want a judje to tell you what you can or cannot do or teach, because tomorrow it will be me who will have to comply with some other stupid regulation. I say, let the market decide. If you don't want your children to learn bullshit send them to a different school or - schocking! - EXPLAIN to them something about the subject of whatever vs. evolution.
Tomorrow another law will be passed, or a sentence made, that outlaws the teaching of something we respect. And we won't be able to complain because today we are effectively maintaining that we don't know better and we need a court to guide us.
You know what you fuckwit, I just need to cross a border to see what it was like until up to 10 years ago in Slovakia, Poland and many other countries behind the iron curtain, and that's because I live in Europe. Guess what, I don't need Fox News to teach me anything, and that's because I apparently read many more books than YOU rednecks do. Have you ever TALKED to someone from those countries? Do you happen to realize WHY they used to come flocking to the Western countries during the cold war? MAYBE they found it better to live here? In a country where, you know, you can set up business or maybe just even a normal lilfe without THE party tellling you you cannot?
I just cannot stand ignorant pricks who think they know everything. Go to school, please. Read up. And more important than anything else, use your fucking mind. Idiot.
Well, until you come up with real quantum encryption, that's the best we can do. Besides, you can't make decryption impossible but you can make it extremely time-consuming.
Maybe we should realize that we are just a minority. And minorities just do not count. If everyone else is happy, we can't change anything. Sometimes, you just can't win. If I dislike something in society so much, maybe I can go somewhere else with people who share my ideas. Not suprisingly, in recent years more and more individuals or small groups have been looking at creating new societies in places so far unruled by anyone else.
No, it's the kind that will get you ridiculed. Saying that they are catching the ball to seize more power is reasonable. Saying they took down the towers and bombed Madrid and London (+ many other lesser known attacks) is nonsense. Congratulations!
You misunderstand a lot, young padawan. No one thinks that "no question or problem or desire they have will EVER conflict with anyone else's"; that's crystal clear. You see, the problem lies in your assumptions. Your argument boils down to "gvt is good because it works in our interest, for our good - for the Greater Good"; this is, guess what, idiocy. First, because it doesn't. Second, because that's not what it should do. I MAKE MY DECISIONS, you make yours. No Greater Good is more important than the individual.
So how exactly did you come to the conclusion that the only players are the huge ones? Delicious was a player.
Lokk at that "was" you used and you'll find some food for thought. I didin't mean they were forced or anything. I meant they have to be huge in order to be succesful.
but your post seems to imply that being bought out is somehow akin to selling out
No, not really, that's not what I meant. I just thought it would become harder to start a new business as a small player if everybody else is huge. And yes, it might be better to sell and retire at 40, but I don't know for sure... I guess it depends on what your goals are.
EBay buys Skype. Yahoo buys del.icio.us and konfabulator before that. Adobe buys Macromedia.
Is this the end of the good times? Are we witnessing the beginning of the "real" internet business, where there is no space for startups and the only players have to be the huge ones? I don't say this in a damn-the-megacorps way. I am just worried that this kind of business is finally becoming... well pretty much like EVERY business out there.
Any thoughts?
Finally, someone who understands what's going on. Korea looks like a winner because they're doing something against the big bad corp, MS looks like a winner because they're complying and submitting and forgiving Korea for their past piracy too. People are OK because they just don't give a damn about bundling or paying licenses and keep living their lives, utterly untouched by this bullshit. FOSS zealots whine because, well, because that's they always do.
I wonder if it's so difficult to support good ideas like FOSS without becoming a zealot and ridiculing yourself while alienating potential "customers". FOSS zealots who cry bloody murder and advocate censorship always get on my nerves, while I certainly appreciate Ubuntu's initiative to ship CDs for free to my house. See... It's not that difficult to provide some benefit for your "customer" and further your cause without looking like an idiot... If only RMS' cheerleaders would learn this!
Bullshit. MSN Messenger is not even included in Windows. You're possibly talking about Windows Messenger, which is crap and no one uses, because, guess what, they just GO TO THE FRIGGIN MSN WEBSITE and download and install the software. But I guess you're all against freedom when it's free to do something YOU happen not to like...
It would be like saying that coke must allow drinks other then coke to be stocked in coke fridges.
As far as I know I can install lots of media players on my box. Actually, I *already* have quite a few on it, vlc, mplayer, windows media player, quicktime, a couple of dvd thingies, and possibily other ones. Besides, is your take on this that everything Linux is bad because, you know, it gives stuff away for free? Lo and behold, the rampant hypocrisy...
Wow. A life-changing lesson, taught by an AC to boot it! How about YOU grow up and learn how to discern the humorous part of my message from the not-so-hidden real meaning?
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Your mind certainly works in an interesting way. Let's see. I disagree with your point. Therefore I am your enemy. Therefore I MUST be some disgusting piece of scum. Therefore I am certainly a pirate. How cool.
If you don't think this analysis is correct, please point out where in my post I said I am a pirate.
Besides, go cry me a river, you and your bullshit with happy people's lifes ruined by big meanies like I'm supposed to be. If there's a shooting war then pick up a rifle and shoot.
So, what's YOUR problem, selfless guy? You are so respectful of the law and pay your dues, you have certainly nothing to hide or to fear. The most draconian DRM will be no problem for you.
We're the ones who are going to have to foot the higher tax bill to support these numnuts on welfare
But then your real problem is with welfare, not with ID, am I right?
... that we have to have our theories defended by a judge in court rather than by their own merits. Are we so unsure of ourselves that we need to be reassured by courts? I don't feel offended when I see all kinds of symbols painted on the streets of my city: because I know better than to trust the first fool who comes around. /. claiming that "those who need the state to protect their faith must lack faith in it themselves": this is so true, so now that it applies to us, what is our reaction? We do exactly the same as the ones we oppose! We whine and cry bloody murder and somebody please THINK OF THE CHILDREN! How comes that now this is a good reason to complain, but in other circumstances it's not? I am ashamed of /.
I remember people on
Finally. I like freedom. Even yours, even when you don't agree with me. I don't want a judje to tell you what you can or cannot do or teach, because tomorrow it will be me who will have to comply with some other stupid regulation. I say, let the market decide. If you don't want your children to learn bullshit send them to a different school or - schocking! - EXPLAIN to them something about the subject of whatever vs. evolution.
Tomorrow another law will be passed, or a sentence made, that outlaws the teaching of something we respect. And we won't be able to complain because today we are effectively maintaining that we don't know better and we need a court to guide us.
You know what you fuckwit, I just need to cross a border to see what it was like until up to 10 years ago in Slovakia, Poland and many other countries behind the iron curtain, and that's because I live in Europe. Guess what, I don't need Fox News to teach me anything, and that's because I apparently read many more books than YOU rednecks do. Have you ever TALKED to someone from those countries? Do you happen to realize WHY they used to come flocking to the Western countries during the cold war? MAYBE they found it better to live here? In a country where, you know, you can set up business or maybe just even a normal lilfe without THE party tellling you you cannot? I just cannot stand ignorant pricks who think they know everything. Go to school, please. Read up. And more important than anything else, use your fucking mind. Idiot.
Excessive Regulation also sucks. Just ask... ummm can't think of many really good examples. Maybe England? Pre Thatcher?
I'll help you: the whole communist block in Europe until the 90's, Russia, Cambodia.
Is that enough?
Well, until you come up with real quantum encryption, that's the best we can do. Besides, you can't make decryption impossible but you can make it extremely time-consuming.
Maybe we should realize that we are just a minority. And minorities just do not count. If everyone else is happy, we can't change anything.
Sometimes, you just can't win. If I dislike something in society so much, maybe I can go somewhere else with people who share my ideas. Not suprisingly, in recent years more and more individuals or small groups have been looking at creating new societies in places so far unruled by anyone else.
^_^ I surrender. Your BIOS-fu is stronger than my Knoppix-fu. Will you be my sensei?
No, it's the kind that will get you ridiculed. Saying that they are catching the ball to seize more power is reasonable. Saying they took down the towers and bombed Madrid and London (+ many other lesser known attacks) is nonsense. Congratulations!
China must be very fascistic (sic) then... oh too bad it's communist! What a tool...
And you DID NOT know this? Have you been living under a rock for the last 10 years? Wake up!
Luckily I am well-versed in the ancient art of JAPing over Tor, and I have studied the lost techniques of Knoppix burning.
Because that's not in the contract you sign.
Quite easy, really.
WTF. Burning the book/disc/whatever is censorship. Saying "People, there's sex and, like, stuff in there" is NOT. Get your facts straight.
You misunderstand a lot, young padawan. No one thinks that "no question or problem or desire they have will EVER conflict with anyone else's"; that's crystal clear. You see, the problem lies in your assumptions. Your argument boils down to "gvt is good because it works in our interest, for our good - for the Greater Good"; this is, guess what, idiocy. First, because it doesn't. Second, because that's not what it should do. I MAKE MY DECISIONS, you make yours. No Greater Good is more important than the individual.
Yes, but you have to develop them before you sell them for millions, and it's gonna be tough if everybody you're up against is a heavyweight.
So how exactly did you come to the conclusion that the only players are the huge ones? Delicious was a player.
Lokk at that "was" you used and you'll find some food for thought. I didin't mean they were forced or anything. I meant they have to be huge in order to be succesful.
but your post seems to imply that being bought out is somehow akin to selling out
No, not really, that's not what I meant. I just thought it would become harder to start a new business as a small player if everybody else is huge. And yes, it might be better to sell and retire at 40, but I don't know for sure... I guess it depends on what your goals are.
EBay buys Skype. Yahoo buys del.icio.us and konfabulator before that. Adobe buys Macromedia.
Is this the end of the good times? Are we witnessing the beginning of the "real" internet business, where there is no space for startups and the only players have to be the huge ones? I don't say this in a damn-the-megacorps way. I am just worried that this kind of business is finally becoming... well pretty much like EVERY business out there.
Any thoughts?
Oh really. I must have been quite drunk for not noticing the man who held a gun to my head last time I installed a Windows box.
Finally, someone who understands what's going on. Korea looks like a winner because they're doing something against the big bad corp, MS looks like a winner because they're complying and submitting and forgiving Korea for their past piracy too. People are OK because they just don't give a damn about bundling or paying licenses and keep living their lives, utterly untouched by this bullshit. FOSS zealots whine because, well, because that's they always do.
I wonder if it's so difficult to support good ideas like FOSS without becoming a zealot and ridiculing yourself while alienating potential "customers". FOSS zealots who cry bloody murder and advocate censorship always get on my nerves, while I certainly appreciate Ubuntu's initiative to ship CDs for free to my house. See... It's not that difficult to provide some benefit for your "customer" and further your cause without looking like an idiot... If only RMS' cheerleaders would learn this!
Bullshit. MSN Messenger is not even included in Windows. You're possibly talking about Windows Messenger, which is crap and no one uses, because, guess what, they just GO TO THE FRIGGIN MSN WEBSITE and download and install the software. But I guess you're all against freedom when it's free to do something YOU happen not to like...
It would be like saying that coke must allow drinks other then coke to be stocked in coke fridges.
As far as I know I can install lots of media players on my box. Actually, I *already* have quite a few on it, vlc, mplayer, windows media player, quicktime, a couple of dvd thingies, and possibily other ones.
Besides, is your take on this that everything Linux is bad because, you know, it gives stuff away for free? Lo and behold, the rampant hypocrisy...
Wow. A life-changing lesson, taught by an AC to boot it! How about YOU grow up and learn how to discern the humorous part of my message from the not-so-hidden real meaning?