Be careful what you say and how you say it! "no. not at all"?? Am I completely off?
art is creation through creativity of the mind
EVERYTHING can be said to be creation through creativity, if you don't believe in a bigger thought than man-mind, you might restrict this to "everything man-made".
However, alot of creation is accidental, or not something done out of love and estetique. Lots of creativity can go into the creation of office-spaces, but that is the "Art of creating lots of office-spaces", not the kind of art we're talking about.
So the very term "Art" is relative, as everything in this world seems to be. So discussing it can really be a pointless excercise in ignorance, because the language is not rich enough to express the totality to make it absolute.
Also, Art does not exist without the observer. So Art is relative to the observer too. To minds usually have different opinions of what is Art, what is important in art, and they also have different defintions of art! But still they argue as if they talk about the same subject!!
Check out the link in my sig. A course should be located near you, it's international. I recommend it heartily, and you seem to be ready for it now. There's so much in life that is supposed to be fun, but the real fun is genuine and not artificial.
None of this is contrary to the GPL. However appalling it seems to us, remember that their board of directors have an obligation to their shareholders to maximise profits (or risk due diligence lawsuits).
Obligated to being immoral, lying, slandering and trying to create havoc in the industry? If that is so, then the whole stockmarket is corrupt and should cease to exist at once. We simply can't afford a system where people have an obligation to be crooks.
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The roots is in eastern spirituality, but they are not identical to Falun Gong. Nor do Art of Living preach AGAINST any other people, corporation, organisation, country, religion. It is an organisation dedicated to UNITING people. There are jews, hinduists, buddhists, jainists, muslims, christians, american indians, black, white, yellow, red, blue, corporation-type people, IOW people from ALL walks of life have taken the course.
That the original post is moderated Funny, makes me laugh IRL:-D
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There is a beautiful course that certainly has HELPED and/or cured alot of people suffering from various mental illnesses, ranging from depression, autism, ADHD to criminality and suicidal tendencies. It is called the Art of Living course, which features a unique breathing-technique called the Sudarshan Kriya. It has been researched and tested in medical studies conducted in India, the findings proving that it actually helps people.
The course will also help any individual wanting help. The way we live in the world today, with stressful situations and a fast-paced lifestyle, it is a course for everybody who wants to catch up with their breath and calm down. It is simple and perfectly safe, yet very profound, effective and powerful. It is a course anybody can follow and benefit from.
Art of Living is a global international organisation. You may locate the nearest course-location to you in this link: http://www.artofliving.org/contacts.asp. Even if you have to travel a bit to reach the location, the course is definately worth it. It is a course for life, on how to live life in joy, peace and harmony.
Personally, this course has helped me tremendously and is continuing to do so (I practice the techniques taught at the course daily). I personally know many other people from every corner of the world, it has also helped them in many different ways. I will recommend it to everybody, any day.
The truly ironic thing, though, is that the technical sophistication and security features of the PPC chipset and OS/400 systems architecture are really starting to impress me as being quite a bit better than what either linux or unix on any hardware platform ever had to offer. *nix is just starting to get serious database-tuned journaling file systems, stable security implemented, VM's (or LPARs) to your heart's content, and use of an instruction set that can directly manipulate tables of 64-bit hash keys (on the PPC anyway). The AS/400 has had these things for a looooong time. So...maybe we were wrong back in the 80's, and IBM had it right the first time.
It's very ironic indeed, but it just shows that the path of development is more important than reaching the goal from the very beginning. The software business is first and foremost a business. If people can't use it, it doesn't matter if you build the most impressive solutions, you'll still lose customers.
The software business is first and foremost a business, and "the customer is always right", even when they really aren't;-)
I buy ecological milk and when I very rarely buy eggs, I buy only those that come from hens walking freely on farms.
It's a start. Why criticise me when you have not even begun? I don't claim to be superior in any way, I just state what I observe and live what I preach to the extent I am able to in the moment.
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Being imprisoned with noise, smell and dirt being heaven to animals?
You know, if you really believe that, I feel very sorry for you. Animals love to live free. Just look at any cat that has tasted the life outside, they always try to escape outside.
Do not even try to justify it, because that's doomed from the very beginning.
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It is probably one of the worst jobs in North America. It stinks like ammonia all day in the barn, it's hot, hard to breathe, and they leave the lights off to calm the birds. (picture rolling yourself up in a thick blanket that 30 people have urinated on, and stay in their all day with the heat cranked up in the house). When you get home from work, you have to strip naked before you go in your home, and hose off in the yard, or the smell gets everywhere. (I took to burning clothes at one point outside.)
At least you can go home and wash off, the chickens live this hell every minute of their lives!
I did chicken catching once when visiting relatives out in the country. I must say that chickens are very stupid.
I'm sure the breeder-chickens are very stupid. Who do you think did that to them? They're bred that way. How would you like to be bred stupid and put on a docile hormone diet?
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The worst job I've ever heard of is a friend of mine who works at a pig farm. His job is to "plug in" the male pigs to the female pigs because the male pigs are too lazy to do it themselves.
Sounds like animal cruelty. The pigs are raised by humans, they are not "lazy" all by themselves. The humans breeding them should take responsibility for a natural breeding that doesn't make animals into walking meat.
In our worst sci-fi horror movies we depict aliens breeding human for flesh in big machines. Entertainment picturing what kind of society we live in now.. Too bad most people don't have the imagination and empathy to put themselves in the other's place.
Reading the article about how arrogant humans can allow themselves to treat animals, confirms my choice of becoming strictly lakto-ovo vegetarian two years ago.
Reading the so-called "Funny" posts and comments here on/. makes me thoroughly sick in my stomach and it amazes me how ignorant people are here regarding respect for life.
Just because we can, doesn't always mean we should.
You forgot that it is also dependent on the listener. A microphone doesn't "care", but it could produce similar and different results in humans dependent on the instrument and tone. This is logical since certain wavelengths can actually melt your brain or make you poop!
Maybe you're right, maybe I'm right. I certainly feel no anger, I just wanted to point what I thought was plainly obvious. As for license, I could use all of BSD, GPL or proprietary, depending on what I want to achieve, so I'm on no zealot either way.
However, I may be wrong, as may you. Licenses really are meat for lawyers, so many silly details.. We could spend the afternoon discussing this, based on partial reality. Most discussions are really misunderstandings about definitions.
You do have a good point at the end, but it really depends on wether it IS coming from anger and hatred, or just anger. Creative anger is a spur that can get you in the right direction, nothing wrong with just anger, as long as you know it's just a spur and don't take things personal or become fundamentalist.
However, I DO sense alot of anger and jealousy from many opponents of RMS. It's as if Copyright is all right, but Copyleft is some sort of slap in the face to some people. For me I think it's great, it shows the hipocricy of copyright.
No, just because you got fooled into misunderstanding the purpose of FSF, doesn't imply that I fell for something you did. In any case, you set the snare for yourself because you believed something without researching it properly beforehand. To blame someone else for your own limitations, is foolish. If GPL doesn't suit you, feel free to steer clear away from it. However, I retain the right to make MY own choice, thank you.
You talk about "people-freedom", a naive concept that has been struck down from the advent of "civilized society". If we live together, we need certain rules or obligations towards eachother. Because with total anarchy, we have chaos, revenge and local terror-powers reigning where we now have peace and order, however boring..
It is childish to wish for total freedom for everyone in a limited material world, because I can't let YOU have the freedom of taking my life and all my posessions. The reason why we have laws, however flawed and inaccurate, they try to prevent behaviour which history has shown to be best avoided. Society has developed as it has because of such bad events showing us the way we can live peacefully together.
Regarding GPL, it is simply copyright turned over to forcing people to share their changes to sourcecode they didn't write in the first place, IF they want to distribute binaries. No further restrictions on use or anything else is really added here, besides nobody is forcing you to use it either, so.. Where do your hostility come from?
You speak from a heart full of anger and hatred about this subject. At the same time you're blaming RMS for misguiding the reader.
If the reader is yourself, you're attempting to portray yourself as a victim. If you want to be a victim, fine, blame all you want, but it's your own responsibility to educate yourself and reach your own conclusions no matter what other people say or "trick" you into believing. In a final sense you can't blame anybody else but yourself.
If the reader is everybody else, you're simply stating that these readers are fools that can't reach a sound conclusion themselves, so you must do it for them. I leave the question of truth in this as an excercise to the reader.:-)
If the GFDL's Invariant Sections could be removed, then they would be fine with me. I don't feel any urge to modify them.
If you could remove them, it would defeat their entire purpose. Have you thought about that?
You could basically enter your name instead of the real author, maybe even changing copyright-text so that the licensing of the document is changed rendering the GFDL non-free.
Even the BSD-license have an "invariant section". Maybe they need to be more properly defined for the GFDL such as to limit their scope, but they CAN'T become removable for the very obvious reason I now stated.
Free Software is about FREE SOFTWARE, not your freedom to lessen its freeness.
I do, however, think that the GPL restricts developers while "freeing the source".
That's the whole point: When the software is Free, nobody can take the source under their rug and release proprietary versions. It is the software which should remain free, not the developers, since FSF people like RMS is interested in the development of good, open, quality software which anybody is allowed to fix - not to get filthy rich on proprietary secrets and hold the world hostage. The philosophy behind it states that to create the best software, the optimal solution in a copyright-world is the rules of Free Software which bends the existing laws in favour for openness of source. It is a very Software-centric idea, not people-centric at all. However, it tries to give as much power to people too, without degrading software freeness.
If you want more freedoms as a developer, just use the BSD license. It ain't evil, but don't complain if a big company uses your code as Microsoft did with FTP.exe. They have permission from you through your choice of license. At that point, it's sharing, not "stealing".
You don't however, have the permission to use the GPL in a non-free way. The authors chose to use the GPL because they want YOU to contribute BACK to their project and the world at large, not steal the code and get filthy rich on THEIR efforts.
This might inconvinience you, but that is also a goal, because it means you have to rethink your priorities.
Nobody is forcing you to support either side in this war, but it's important to stick with the truth and good reasoning. No matter which side of the fence one is on..
As long as people regards sharing information as "stealing", I'm glad there are efforts today that favour sharing. We can thank RMS for being a head-figure for this, if not a tad eccentrical.
I think it's also perfectly reasonable (if not a beauracratic morass) to allow for different CLASSES of copyrighted works.
Personally, I find classes of copyrighted works to be stupid, moronic and MEGA-beauraucratic. Who's to set these fantastic guidelines and restrict the future in such a way? Nobody I know can predict the future with any accuracy.
I'm not interested in "improving" an MP3 I download, but I would like to get rid of an annoying bug in software and share it with others. Etc.
Just because you don't have a use for it, doesn't mean thousands of DJs don't have use for it to create something new. Without it, the genre of rave and techno would simply not be the way it became.
Any fool must understand that for software to be Free, people must be unfree to make modifications that can make it unfree. Since Copyleft uses Copyright-laws, this just must be so. Thus, if the GPL-license text is itself modifiable, it defeats the whole purpose of a license altogether. But of course you can alter the text and attribute it to yourself, create a derivative license. You just can't call it a "GPL" license, attribute it to Richard Stallmann or make other false claims..
With Free Software, the software is free, nobody can make changes and hide it away from the world while distributing the executable code. This implies that the people's freedom must be restricted, as is fact with Copyright. Armed police will hunt you down and confiscate your computer while accusing you for "Terrorism!".
Yes, it isn't easy getting everybody to understand this.. You can start now.
I stopped watching TV, not sure to say exactly when, but at least 1-2 years ago before stopping altogether. I must admit, I'm prone to sit by the computer playing chess when I'm home (mental masturbation), but my surfing habit's also gone down compared to what I did before; surfing, playing Evercrack or whatnot. Now I'm very active and social compared to before, so I'm rarely home. Going out to yoga-class, be with friends or other truly alternative mindboggling activities like singing (satsang), meditation, etc, doing some charity for Red Cross or just watch a nice thought-provoking movie (they rarely come from Hollywood) like "Bowling for Columbine".
Yesterday, I had the benefit of watching the "news" here in Norway about what's up in the world, at my new girlfriends parent-house.. Unmistakedly I felt the fear and confusion spread across the entire room as new moving horror-scenes from Iraq demanded all attention. Scenes and stories, that could easily be planted and certainly didn't paint the whole picture, were portrayed as truth, and the fear of course, and then the confusion of what is truth or not, then some dictator in USA justifying crippling children for life in a new-spun "War against Terror".
No real knowledge were presented, just cynical views, fear, confusion and conflict. When you're balanced and accustomed to beauty and knowledge, you notice this, and disconnect, unless you become confused and fearful yourself. Being disconnected through dispassion, which is were hindsight gains its clear vision from, makes you free of the tyranny of today's agenda someone else wants to force on you.
So I don't regret stopping watching TV. Now I'll just have to make up for all the time already lost to it, and see what I can do for others when opportunities presents themselves.
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no. not at all..
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Be careful what you say and how you say it! "no. not at all"?? Am I completely off?
art is creation through creativity of the mind
EVERYTHING can be said to be creation through creativity, if you don't believe in a bigger thought than man-mind, you might restrict this to "everything man-made".
However, alot of creation is accidental, or not something done out of love and estetique. Lots of creativity can go into the creation of office-spaces, but that is the "Art of creating lots of office-spaces", not the kind of art we're talking about.
So the very term "Art" is relative, as everything in this world seems to be. So discussing it can really be a pointless excercise in ignorance, because the language is not rich enough to express the totality to make it absolute.
Also, Art does not exist without the observer. So Art is relative to the observer too. To minds usually have different opinions of what is Art, what is important in art, and they also have different defintions of art! But still they argue as if they talk about the same subject!!
Mind-boggling?
Check out the link in my sig. A course should be located near you, it's international. I recommend it heartily, and you seem to be ready for it now. There's so much in life that is supposed to be fun, but the real fun is genuine and not artificial.
Good luck!
Art
is what stops
your
thoughts,
makes you see
the world
in a different light
and perspective.
Nobody can own
Art belongs to everybody.
None of this is contrary to the GPL. However appalling it seems to us, remember that their board of directors have an obligation to their shareholders to maximise profits (or risk due diligence lawsuits).
Obligated to being immoral, lying, slandering and trying to create havoc in the industry? If that is so, then the whole stockmarket is corrupt and should cease to exist at once. We simply can't afford a system where people have an obligation to be crooks.
The roots is in eastern spirituality, but they are not identical to Falun Gong. Nor do Art of Living preach AGAINST any other people, corporation, organisation, country, religion. It is an organisation dedicated to UNITING people. There are jews, hinduists, buddhists, jainists, muslims, christians, american indians, black, white, yellow, red, blue, corporation-type people, IOW people from ALL walks of life have taken the course.
:-D
That the original post is moderated Funny, makes me laugh IRL
There is a beautiful course that certainly has HELPED and/or cured alot of people suffering from various mental illnesses, ranging from depression, autism, ADHD to criminality and suicidal tendencies. It is called the Art of Living course, which features a unique breathing-technique called the Sudarshan Kriya. It has been researched and tested in medical studies conducted in India, the findings proving that it actually helps people.
Follow the link in my sig if you're interested. Or click on this one to read about the Art of Living course: http://www.artofliving.org/c-basic.html
Here is a link to interesting summaries of medical research-papers:
http://www.artofliving.org/apex/research.htm
The course will also help any individual wanting help. The way we live in the world today, with stressful situations and a fast-paced lifestyle, it is a course for everybody who wants to catch up with their breath and calm down. It is simple and perfectly safe, yet very profound, effective and powerful. It is a course anybody can follow and benefit from.
Art of Living is a global international organisation. You may locate the nearest course-location to you in this link: http://www.artofliving.org/contacts.asp. Even if you have to travel a bit to reach the location, the course is definately worth it. It is a course for life, on how to live life in joy, peace and harmony.
Personally, this course has helped me tremendously and is continuing to do so (I practice the techniques taught at the course daily). I personally know many other people from every corner of the world, it has also helped them in many different ways. I will recommend it to everybody, any day.
The truly ironic thing, though, is that the technical sophistication and security features of the PPC chipset and OS/400 systems architecture are really starting to impress me as being quite a bit better than what either linux or unix on any hardware platform ever had to offer. *nix is just starting to get serious database-tuned journaling file systems, stable security implemented, VM's (or LPARs) to your heart's content, and use of an instruction set that can directly manipulate tables of 64-bit hash keys (on the PPC anyway). The AS/400 has had these things for a looooong time. So...maybe we were wrong back in the 80's, and IBM had it right the first time.
;-)
It's very ironic indeed, but it just shows that the path of development is more important than reaching the goal from the very beginning. The software business is first and foremost a business. If people can't use it, it doesn't matter if you build the most impressive solutions, you'll still lose customers.
The software business is first and foremost a business, and "the customer is always right", even when they really aren't
They appear to be talking about a snippet of code that sprung from the other end.
;-)
Must be REALLY well coded, to be worth a BIILLIIOONNN DOOLLLAAARRRR$$$$$!
Maybe the chickens are REALLY smart? They *know* there's no escape ;-)
I buy ecological milk and when I very rarely buy eggs, I buy only those that come from hens walking freely on farms.
It's a start. Why criticise me when you have not even begun? I don't claim to be superior in any way, I just state what I observe and live what I preach to the extent I am able to in the moment.
Being imprisoned with noise, smell and dirt being heaven to animals?
You know, if you really believe that, I feel very sorry for you. Animals love to live free. Just look at any cat that has tasted the life outside, they always try to escape outside.
Do not even try to justify it, because that's doomed from the very beginning.
It is probably one of the worst jobs in North America. It stinks like ammonia all day in the barn, it's hot, hard to breathe, and they leave the lights off to calm the birds. (picture rolling yourself up in a thick blanket that 30 people have urinated on, and stay in their all day with the heat cranked up in the house). When you get home from work, you have to strip naked before you go in your home, and hose off in the yard, or the smell gets everywhere. (I took to burning clothes at one point outside.)
At least you can go home and wash off, the chickens live this hell every minute of their lives!
I did chicken catching once when visiting relatives out in the country. I must say that chickens are very stupid.
I'm sure the breeder-chickens are very stupid. Who do you think did that to them? They're bred that way. How would you like to be bred stupid and put on a docile hormone diet?
The worst job I've ever heard of is a friend of mine who works at a pig farm. His job is to "plug in" the male pigs to the female pigs because the male pigs are too lazy to do it themselves.
Sounds like animal cruelty. The pigs are raised by humans, they are not "lazy" all by themselves. The humans breeding them should take responsibility for a natural breeding that doesn't make animals into walking meat.
In our worst sci-fi horror movies we depict aliens breeding human for flesh in big machines. Entertainment picturing what kind of society we live in now.. Too bad most people don't have the imagination and empathy to put themselves in the other's place.
Reading the article about how arrogant humans can allow themselves to treat animals, confirms my choice of becoming strictly lakto-ovo vegetarian two years ago.
/. makes me thoroughly sick in my stomach and it amazes me how ignorant people are here regarding respect for life.
Reading the so-called "Funny" posts and comments here on
Just because we can, doesn't always mean we should.
You forgot that it is also dependent on the listener. A microphone doesn't "care", but it could produce similar and different results in humans dependent on the instrument and tone. This is logical since certain wavelengths can actually melt your brain or make you poop!
Have you ever thought about WHY you like offending people?
Maybe you're right, maybe I'm right. I certainly feel no anger, I just wanted to point what I thought was plainly obvious. As for license, I could use all of BSD, GPL or proprietary, depending on what I want to achieve, so I'm on no zealot either way.
However, I may be wrong, as may you. Licenses really are meat for lawyers, so many silly details.. We could spend the afternoon discussing this, based on partial reality. Most discussions are really misunderstandings about definitions.
You do have a good point at the end, but it really depends on wether it IS coming from anger and hatred, or just anger. Creative anger is a spur that can get you in the right direction, nothing wrong with just anger, as long as you know it's just a spur and don't take things personal or become fundamentalist.
However, I DO sense alot of anger and jealousy from many opponents of RMS. It's as if Copyright is all right, but Copyleft is some sort of slap in the face to some people. For me I think it's great, it shows the hipocricy of copyright.
In short, you've been "had."
:-)
No, just because you got fooled into misunderstanding the purpose of FSF, doesn't imply that I fell for something you did. In any case, you set the snare for yourself because you believed something without researching it properly beforehand. To blame someone else for your own limitations, is foolish. If GPL doesn't suit you, feel free to steer clear away from it. However, I retain the right to make MY own choice, thank you.
You talk about "people-freedom", a naive concept that has been struck down from the advent of "civilized society". If we live together, we need certain rules or obligations towards eachother. Because with total anarchy, we have chaos, revenge and local terror-powers reigning where we now have peace and order, however boring..
It is childish to wish for total freedom for everyone in a limited material world, because I can't let YOU have the freedom of taking my life and all my posessions. The reason why we have laws, however flawed and inaccurate, they try to prevent behaviour which history has shown to be best avoided. Society has developed as it has because of such bad events showing us the way we can live peacefully together.
Regarding GPL, it is simply copyright turned over to forcing people to share their changes to sourcecode they didn't write in the first place, IF they want to distribute binaries. No further restrictions on use or anything else is really added here, besides nobody is forcing you to use it either, so.. Where do your hostility come from?
You speak from a heart full of anger and hatred about this subject. At the same time you're blaming RMS for misguiding the reader.
If the reader is yourself, you're attempting to portray yourself as a victim. If you want to be a victim, fine, blame all you want, but it's your own responsibility to educate yourself and reach your own conclusions no matter what other people say or "trick" you into believing. In a final sense you can't blame anybody else but yourself.
If the reader is everybody else, you're simply stating that these readers are fools that can't reach a sound conclusion themselves, so you must do it for them. I leave the question of truth in this as an excercise to the reader.
Thank you for pointing that out! I didn't realize I am a prick. :-)
If the GFDL's Invariant Sections could be removed, then they would be fine with me. I don't feel any urge to modify them.
If you could remove them, it would defeat their entire purpose. Have you thought about that?
You could basically enter your name instead of the real author, maybe even changing copyright-text so that the licensing of the document is changed rendering the GFDL non-free.
Even the BSD-license have an "invariant section". Maybe they need to be more properly defined for the GFDL such as to limit their scope, but they CAN'T become removable for the very obvious reason I now stated.
Free Software is about FREE SOFTWARE, not your freedom to lessen its freeness.
I do, however, think that the GPL restricts developers while "freeing the source".
That's the whole point: When the software is Free, nobody can take the source under their rug and release proprietary versions. It is the software which should remain free, not the developers, since FSF people like RMS is interested in the development of good, open, quality software which anybody is allowed to fix - not to get filthy rich on proprietary secrets and hold the world hostage. The philosophy behind it states that to create the best software, the optimal solution in a copyright-world is the rules of Free Software which bends the existing laws in favour for openness of source. It is a very Software-centric idea, not people-centric at all. However, it tries to give as much power to people too, without degrading software freeness.
If you want more freedoms as a developer, just use the BSD license. It ain't evil, but don't complain if a big company uses your code as Microsoft did with FTP.exe. They have permission from you through your choice of license. At that point, it's sharing, not "stealing".
You don't however, have the permission to use the GPL in a non-free way. The authors chose to use the GPL because they want YOU to contribute BACK to their project and the world at large, not steal the code and get filthy rich on THEIR efforts.
This might inconvinience you, but that is also a goal, because it means you have to rethink your priorities.
Nobody is forcing you to support either side in this war, but it's important to stick with the truth and good reasoning. No matter which side of the fence one is on..
As long as people regards sharing information as "stealing", I'm glad there are efforts today that favour sharing. We can thank RMS for being a head-figure for this, if not a tad eccentrical.
I think it's also perfectly reasonable (if not a beauracratic morass) to allow for different CLASSES of copyrighted works.
Personally, I find classes of copyrighted works to be stupid, moronic and MEGA-beauraucratic. Who's to set these fantastic guidelines and restrict the future in such a way? Nobody I know can predict the future with any accuracy.
I'm not interested in "improving" an MP3 I download, but I would like to get rid of an annoying bug in software and share it with others. Etc.
Just because you don't have a use for it, doesn't mean thousands of DJs don't have use for it to create something new. Without it, the genre of rave and techno would simply not be the way it became.
Any fool must understand that for software to be Free, people must be unfree to make modifications that can make it unfree. Since Copyleft uses Copyright-laws, this just must be so. Thus, if the GPL-license text is itself modifiable, it defeats the whole purpose of a license altogether. But of course you can alter the text and attribute it to yourself, create a derivative license. You just can't call it a "GPL" license, attribute it to Richard Stallmann or make other false claims..
With Free Software, the software is free, nobody can make changes and hide it away from the world while distributing the executable code. This implies that the people's freedom must be restricted, as is fact with Copyright. Armed police will hunt you down and confiscate your computer while accusing you for "Terrorism!".
Yes, it isn't easy getting everybody to understand this.. You can start now.
I stopped watching TV, not sure to say exactly when, but at least 1-2 years ago before stopping altogether. I must admit, I'm prone to sit by the computer playing chess when I'm home (mental masturbation), but my surfing habit's also gone down compared to what I did before; surfing, playing Evercrack or whatnot. Now I'm very active and social compared to before, so I'm rarely home. Going out to yoga-class, be with friends or other truly alternative mindboggling activities like singing (satsang), meditation, etc, doing some charity for Red Cross or just watch a nice thought-provoking movie (they rarely come from Hollywood) like "Bowling for Columbine".
Yesterday, I had the benefit of watching the "news" here in Norway about what's up in the world, at my new girlfriends parent-house.. Unmistakedly I felt the fear and confusion spread across the entire room as new moving horror-scenes from Iraq demanded all attention. Scenes and stories, that could easily be planted and certainly didn't paint the whole picture, were portrayed as truth, and the fear of course, and then the confusion of what is truth or not, then some dictator in USA justifying crippling children for life in a new-spun "War against Terror".
No real knowledge were presented, just cynical views, fear, confusion and conflict. When you're balanced and accustomed to beauty and knowledge, you notice this, and disconnect, unless you become confused and fearful yourself. Being disconnected through dispassion, which is were hindsight gains its clear vision from, makes you free of the tyranny of today's agenda someone else wants to force on you.
So I don't regret stopping watching TV. Now I'll just have to make up for all the time already lost to it, and see what I can do for others when opportunities presents themselves.