Absolutely. Violating freedoms "just a little bit" is certainly acceptable when we "think of the children." You are not fixing the problem - you are the problem.
But, there's nothing we can do to force him into any kind of treatment.
You may not like to hear this but, well, I am okay with that. I accept that I, or a loved one, may be harmed by another person who is a danger to themselves and others. After all, they would not be harming if they were not a danger...
I accept this, I even embrace it. Why? Because it is a risk we take in order to be free. Freedoms and liberties are not the same, by the way, so let's not conflate the two. It is acceptable that you may be harmed because that is what is required for freedom. Safety is not now, nor will it ever be, absolute and it never should be. You should, and do, have the freedom to go out and start a new career of child murder. What you do NOT have is the liberty to do so. I am okay with that.
That is why I do not believe in gravity. Nope. Not me... Those other sheeple and their being constrained by unknown forces are just silly. If you believe in gravity then you're delusional! Don't even get me started on the big bang or general relativity.
You have no idea what really happened to it after you were no longer able to physically see the probe. For all you know they launched a dummy into space or, alternatively, faked the launch entirely! They gave you just enough information so that you will believe the whole lie and then help propagate that lie.
No, no I believe it is real. However, I suspect there are deluded folks who would actually think like that.
I sincerely hope Allen Stern personally sneaks up on you and punches you in the nuts hard enough to ensure you are incapable of breeding. I have only the best intentions in mind, really, I do.
I have to be honest here and admit I can not actually see a good reason to have even had Ubuntu as your server OS at a scale that large at all. Servers is not really what they seemed to ever really be interested in - or that market so to speak. They have always wanted to be a viable desktop alternative and have constantly pushed their funding and efforts in that direction or, well, in the direction where it was in the hands of users and not really so important in the hands of admins. That is how I have perceived it at any rate. Maybe I am missing something?
What price is he paying? Do not get me wrong - I like what he has done but, really, it is not like he has been burdened by it really. He is an extremist and he gets push back from that but that is just the way things go when you are an extremist. I am grateful for him, I am glad that he has the vision he has. I just do not see it as a burden. You say "pay the price for that" like it has been hard. No, he has gained more from his position than he would have had he been just a moderately concerned person where software freedoms are concerned.
Oh I have. I love the warmth of a tubed amp. I own a number of them though most are guitar amps. I have refurbed a number of them as well. I love fixing those old boards and replacing tubes and all that silliness. It is a nice feeling when you find the barely swollen capacitor and replace it with a new one and you have an amp from the early 60s working properly again.
I had no idea that quadraphonic was even an option with vinyl! Thanks!
I should have known it. I probably owned a set that would handle it even. I dubbed a copy of A Child's Garden of Grass (excellent by the way) and played it in my car which supported quadraphonic sound. It was absolutely glorious and so much better when you were high. They made perfect use of the channels so sounds would literally wrap around you and people were talking in all four corners. I was astonished. Needless to say, when surround sound came out I really was not that impressed.
I never did get FreeBSD working properly. I did not take any time to bother with it. I installed it and got no desktop. I removed the VM pretty quickly. I am out of patience for that.
Some of us are professionals. We do not even read the summary. Or stay on topic... It's "how we do." (I kind of sort of think that is the jargon. I am not fluent in current vernacular and I'd appreciate it kindly if the kids would stop shitting on my lawn.)
I can say, with some certainty, that shutting these sites down has accomplished nothing. The files are still there and three clicks later you have now set a new torrent up at TPB or another torrent site. I do not mind paying taxes (I do avoid them, as is my obligation - I donate to causes I prefer instead) but I do mind when my taxes are misspent.
Taxes are not like a gift. If you gift something they can give it away or do anything they want with it - you gave it to them and it is now their property. Taxes are paying for services, services that will benefit the taxed and citizens at large. This has done absolutely nothing to assist, promote, or further the American taxpayer. There is no excuse, there is no acceptable level, this is just wrong.
I hate to play this card but, really, how many people would that money have fed, housed, treated medically, educated, or heated in the cold of night? How far could NASA have gone with this? CERN? DARPA? Securing our boarders? Gift and install free solar panels? I do not care... At least the money would have, ostensibly, been kept here, where it belongs, where it benefits the taxpayer.
I hate to say this but they are damned clever. Too clever for their own good. I almost, sort of, wish they were inept and had agents like The Pink Panther. *sighs* Anyhow, I have been poking at Linux a lot lately so I have a bunch of boxed with a variety of distros on them and a VM of pretty much every one of the top 20 (from distro watch) images installed and able to be run. I am no guru, by any means, but I will read the code and do an install later. I have a second DSL line so I can keep it off my home network. I will rattle it and see what shakes out but no promises.
I clicked the link and looked at pictures but I promise - I did not read one single word of the article. I am no heretic. I hope it makes some serious noises going down the street. Anyhow, I want a pair of these and I am not even paralyzed. I would go stomping down the street making robot noises. I don't even do drugs (anymore) and I would still do it. Though I suppose I would prefer a pair that did not also require crutches.
Those are the same style of crutches that I got after I had my knee surgery. They took a little bit to get used to but I found them much more usable than the traditional types after I acclimated. I wonder if they are required or if they are a safety measure because these may fail as they are prototypes.
It is not a comparative thing. I am not sure why you even mention it unless you are trying to prove some sort of strange point. Regardless of what other people have - he still has a buttload of money. What others have is irrelevant.
That makes sense, thank you. My understanding is that Java was actually created to be used by cable companies for client-side interactive media (more specific than what you said) so that makes sense to me.
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Absolutely. Violating freedoms "just a little bit" is certainly acceptable when we "think of the children." You are not fixing the problem - you are the problem.
But, there's nothing we can do to force him into any kind of treatment.
You may not like to hear this but, well, I am okay with that. I accept that I, or a loved one, may be harmed by another person who is a danger to themselves and others. After all, they would not be harming if they were not a danger...
I accept this, I even embrace it. Why? Because it is a risk we take in order to be free. Freedoms and liberties are not the same, by the way, so let's not conflate the two. It is acceptable that you may be harmed because that is what is required for freedom. Safety is not now, nor will it ever be, absolute and it never should be. You should, and do, have the freedom to go out and start a new career of child murder. What you do NOT have is the liberty to do so. I am okay with that.
Seriously abused? So a little abuse is acceptable? I am not sure I follow and I am wondering if that is what you meant...
That is why I do not believe in gravity. Nope. Not me... Those other sheeple and their being constrained by unknown forces are just silly. If you believe in gravity then you're delusional! Don't even get me started on the big bang or general relativity.
You have no idea what really happened to it after you were no longer able to physically see the probe. For all you know they launched a dummy into space or, alternatively, faked the launch entirely! They gave you just enough information so that you will believe the whole lie and then help propagate that lie.
No, no I believe it is real. However, I suspect there are deluded folks who would actually think like that.
I sincerely hope Allen Stern personally sneaks up on you and punches you in the nuts hard enough to ensure you are incapable of breeding. I have only the best intentions in mind, really, I do.
Let us not forget that any disagreement is being postulated by paid shills and astroturfers regardless of merit.
You are mistaken. The second amendment is there to provide protections for the first amendment.
I have to be honest here and admit I can not actually see a good reason to have even had Ubuntu as your server OS at a scale that large at all. Servers is not really what they seemed to ever really be interested in - or that market so to speak. They have always wanted to be a viable desktop alternative and have constantly pushed their funding and efforts in that direction or, well, in the direction where it was in the hands of users and not really so important in the hands of admins. That is how I have perceived it at any rate. Maybe I am missing something?
Umm... I seem to recall a different story than you. Software was free, source and all. You paid for the hardware and the support.
What price is he paying? Do not get me wrong - I like what he has done but, really, it is not like he has been burdened by it really. He is an extremist and he gets push back from that but that is just the way things go when you are an extremist. I am grateful for him, I am glad that he has the vision he has. I just do not see it as a burden. You say "pay the price for that" like it has been hard. No, he has gained more from his position than he would have had he been just a moderately concerned person where software freedoms are concerned.
It is okay (as was the AC above you) and was a good spotting. I should have thought a bit more but I did not.
That sounds reasonable to me. I am not picky. There is almost nowhere/no way they could have spent this money in a more meaningless way.
Oh I have. I love the warmth of a tubed amp. I own a number of them though most are guitar amps. I have refurbed a number of them as well. I love fixing those old boards and replacing tubes and all that silliness. It is a nice feeling when you find the barely swollen capacitor and replace it with a new one and you have an amp from the early 60s working properly again.
I had no idea that quadraphonic was even an option with vinyl! Thanks!
I should have known it. I probably owned a set that would handle it even. I dubbed a copy of A Child's Garden of Grass (excellent by the way) and played it in my car which supported quadraphonic sound. It was absolutely glorious and so much better when you were high. They made perfect use of the channels so sounds would literally wrap around you and people were talking in all four corners. I was astonished. Needless to say, when surround sound came out I really was not that impressed.
I never did get FreeBSD working properly. I did not take any time to bother with it. I installed it and got no desktop. I removed the VM pretty quickly. I am out of patience for that.
Somalia, North Korea, China, Cuba, etc...
Some of us are professionals. We do not even read the summary. Or stay on topic... It's "how we do." (I kind of sort of think that is the jargon. I am not fluent in current vernacular and I'd appreciate it kindly if the kids would stop shitting on my lawn.)
I can say, with some certainty, that shutting these sites down has accomplished nothing. The files are still there and three clicks later you have now set a new torrent up at TPB or another torrent site. I do not mind paying taxes (I do avoid them, as is my obligation - I donate to causes I prefer instead) but I do mind when my taxes are misspent.
Taxes are not like a gift. If you gift something they can give it away or do anything they want with it - you gave it to them and it is now their property. Taxes are paying for services, services that will benefit the taxed and citizens at large. This has done absolutely nothing to assist, promote, or further the American taxpayer. There is no excuse, there is no acceptable level, this is just wrong.
I hate to play this card but, really, how many people would that money have fed, housed, treated medically, educated, or heated in the cold of night? How far could NASA have gone with this? CERN? DARPA? Securing our boarders? Gift and install free solar panels? I do not care... At least the money would have, ostensibly, been kept here, where it belongs, where it benefits the taxpayer.
I hate to say this but they are damned clever. Too clever for their own good. I almost, sort of, wish they were inept and had agents like The Pink Panther. *sighs* Anyhow, I have been poking at Linux a lot lately so I have a bunch of boxed with a variety of distros on them and a VM of pretty much every one of the top 20 (from distro watch) images installed and able to be run. I am no guru, by any means, but I will read the code and do an install later. I have a second DSL line so I can keep it off my home network. I will rattle it and see what shakes out but no promises.
I clicked the link and looked at pictures but I promise - I did not read one single word of the article. I am no heretic. I hope it makes some serious noises going down the street. Anyhow, I want a pair of these and I am not even paralyzed. I would go stomping down the street making robot noises. I don't even do drugs (anymore) and I would still do it. Though I suppose I would prefer a pair that did not also require crutches.
Those are the same style of crutches that I got after I had my knee surgery. They took a little bit to get used to but I found them much more usable than the traditional types after I acclimated. I wonder if they are required or if they are a safety measure because these may fail as they are prototypes.
It is not a comparative thing. I am not sure why you even mention it unless you are trying to prove some sort of strange point. Regardless of what other people have - he still has a buttload of money. What others have is irrelevant.
That was absolutely brilliant and fact-filled. I bet you feel smart and like you actually contributed something, don't you? You're dismissed.
We have seed banks not in America.
That makes sense, thank you. My understanding is that Java was actually created to be used by cable companies for client-side interactive media (more specific than what you said) so that makes sense to me.