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His public image has been degraded from toe-jam eating and supposedly outrageous riders for speaking engagements (which I think everything in was pretty level h

His public image has been degraded from toe-jam eating and supposedly outrageous riders for speaking engagements (which I think everything in was pretty level headed but some people think it was 'nuts')

sciurus 6y ago
For anyone who hasn't read the rider: https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms/blob/master/rider.txt https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms/blob/master/rider.txt
- cpeterso 6y ago
  > "GNU" is pronounced as one syllable with a hard g, like "grew" but with n instead of r. TIL I learned "GNU" is somehow pronounced with one syllable ("gnew") and not two ("guh-noo"). (I know lowercase "gnu" is pronounced with one syllable.)
- sl1ck731 6y ago
  He seems really insistent on not being ID'd for buses or trains, but its a requirement for flying which has a whole section. Is there something going on with buses and trains that are under more scrutiny? Also, if he can get around the ID with fake names via buses and trains why would he even accept flying?
  - redis_mlc 6y ago
    Interstate buses and trains post-911 often require ID in the US, and possibly frisking. Seen that at the Las Vegas bus terminal. Additionally, LEO says they can do whatever they want in the border zone, which extends 100 miles inland of any US border: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone/ https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone/
tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago
> everything in was pretty level headed It starts out reasonable, but then has gems like "please buy bus tickets only with cash under a fake name", "find me a parrot", "go to the hotel and figure out if their phone jacks do dial-up because that's most likely the only thing that will work with my machine". The latter may have adjusted with the times, since the document is old; but then again, the demands he places on streaming technology etc. are perfectly reasonable nowadays, but a massive obstacle back then.
- eythian 6y ago
  > please buy bus tickets only with cash under a fake name This is because he's actively against surveillance. It's not a hard requirement, I've lent him an anonymous (i.e. pre-paid) public transport card before, and while he didn't like the requirement to both check on and check off, he did it anyway. > find me a parrot That's a misrepresentation. It's a "it'd be nice if" type thing. There's also the "don't buy one" comment, because you can be sure someone has done that. > go to the hotel and figure out if their phone jacks do dial-up because that's most likely the only thing that will work with my machine That might be really old, his machine definitely has wifi. And if the request is from the pre-wifi with free software drivers days, it's completely reasonable for someone who lives a chunk of their life on the internet to request internet access. It's much, much more reasonable than you're making out, especially if you consider it in the context of why you're probably asking him to speak at some event.
- romanoderoma 6y ago
  > It starts out reasonable, but then has gems like "please buy bus tickets only with cash under a fake name", That's exactly what protesters did in Honk Kong in 2019 to avoid retaliation from China So he was right, again

sciurus 6y ago

For anyone who hasn't read the rider: https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms/blob/master/rider.txt https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms/blob/master/rider.txt

cpeterso 6y ago
> "GNU" is pronounced as one syllable with a hard g, like "grew" but with n instead of r. TIL I learned "GNU" is somehow pronounced with one syllable ("gnew") and not two ("guh-noo"). (I know lowercase "gnu" is pronounced with one syllable.)
sl1ck731 6y ago
He seems really insistent on not being ID'd for buses or trains, but its a requirement for flying which has a whole section. Is there something going on with buses and trains that are under more scrutiny? Also, if he can get around the ID with fake names via buses and trains why would he even accept flying?
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  Interstate buses and trains post-911 often require ID in the US, and possibly frisking. Seen that at the Las Vegas bus terminal. Additionally, LEO says they can do whatever they want in the border zone, which extends 100 miles inland of any US border: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone/ https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone/

tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago

> everything in was pretty level headed It starts out reasonable, but then has gems like "please buy bus tickets only with cash under a fake name", "find me a parrot", "go to the hotel and figure out if their phone jacks do dial-up because that's most likely the only thing that will work with my machine". The latter may have adjusted with the times, since the document is old; but then again, the demands he places on streaming technology etc. are perfectly reasonable nowadays, but a massive obstacle back then.

eythian 6y ago
> please buy bus tickets only with cash under a fake name This is because he's actively against surveillance. It's not a hard requirement, I've lent him an anonymous (i.e. pre-paid) public transport card before, and while he didn't like the requirement to both check on and check off, he did it anyway. > find me a parrot That's a misrepresentation. It's a "it'd be nice if" type thing. There's also the "don't buy one" comment, because you can be sure someone has done that. > go to the hotel and figure out if their phone jacks do dial-up because that's most likely the only thing that will work with my machine That might be really old, his machine definitely has wifi. And if the request is from the pre-wifi with free software drivers days, it's completely reasonable for someone who lives a chunk of their life on the internet to request internet access. It's much, much more reasonable than you're making out, especially if you consider it in the context of why you're probably asking him to speak at some event.
romanoderoma 6y ago
> It starts out reasonable, but then has gems like "please buy bus tickets only with cash under a fake name", That's exactly what protesters did in Honk Kong in 2019 to avoid retaliation from China So he was right, again